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JOHN GORE’S EXPERIENCE AND CAREER
John Gore is one of Washington’s most experienced government affairs analysts. In the course of his 35-year career he has provided counsel on politics and strategy for a variety of multinational corporations, including BP, Time Warner, the London Stock Exchange, BAES, Dow, Direct Energy, Goldman Sachs, Kellogg, Royal Caribbean, BHP, Standard Chartered Bank, Henkel, TNK and Xstrata. His commentaries from Washington and special topical reports reach over 1500 readers monthly. John Gore's Washington Overviews and Updates are available to readers worldwide via subscription.
John traveled from New York to Washington DC in 1966 to attend Georgetown School of Foreign Service (BS Economics) and Georgetown Law. After working on Capitol Hill and in the newly-opened Wasington Office of British Petroleum, he became head of BP’s US, European and Worldwide government affairs departments. His career with BP spanned 45 years and he left in 2002 to found his own government affairs consulting firm, Political Solutions International. He continues to work for big companies with big problems.
John’s speciality is understanding how government works and how to make government work. He is professional rather than partisan. He is not particularly passionate about politics. He much prefers good writing, good golf and good judgement.
POLITICAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL, LLC
Political Solutions International LLC, founded in 2002, is an international consulting firm with expertise in five areas:
• Government relations best practice in Washington, DC, the EU and other major global markets;
• Project evaluation from a political and regulatory perspective;
• Crisis management;
• Issue advocacy;
• Timely political analysis and perspective for corporate executives.
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—Alan K. Simpson,
Former US Senator (R-WY)
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—Andrew Mackenzie,
CEO of global resources company BHP
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—Thomas Mack McLarty,
White House Chief of Staff
for President Clinton
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—William Ford
Former President, Amoco Oil Corporation
Firmer Executive Director, BP Amoco PLC
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—Jim Webb,
Former US Senator,
Secretary of the Navy and author
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—Dale Timothy White, PhD
Brigadier General, USAF (ret)
Excerpts
August 1st, 2023. Congress has left town for a six-week August recess. President Biden has headed to the beach. With Congress gone and the President incommunicado oceanside, there’s a whole lot of politicking going on. The conventional wisdom reads something like this: The various criminal charges against former President Trump,
to the extent that they appear politically motivated, will all but assure that he is the Republican nominee in 2024. They are having little effect on his core supporters, other than to anger and/or energize them...
July 15th, 2023. “Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.”—Dave Barry
Official Washington just took a two-week vacation in the hope that a change of scenery might cool some tempers. I went to the Big Island of Hawaii, where even the lava eventually cools off. Now Congress is back, but the eruptions are hotter than ever. “Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and caldron bubble.”
December 27,2022. Read it and weep.
So say budget hawks and conservative Republicans after having had time to read and digest the $1.7 trillion, 4000+ page Omnibus appropriations bill that passed Congress just before adjournment and funds the government through September 30, 2023. Business as usual, say those who have been following the tax and spend maneuvers on Capitol Hill for the last 40 years. The
last time Congress passed appropriations bills in “regular order”—passing all twelve appropriations bills—was 1996....
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