Recent QU Speakers

QU hosts a breakfast series with high-power journalists, policymakers, political leaders, authors and other special guests that keeps Qorvis current on the business of the people – politics. These off the record discussions allow for a wide-open dialogue in which employees are able to ask pointed questions.

• Hon. John Dingell, former chairman of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee and the longest-serving member of the House.
• George Stephanopoulos, correspondent for ABC News’ Chief Washington and anchor of the Sunday morning program, This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
• Tucker Carlson, senior campaign correspondent for MSNBC.
• Mark Shields, nationally syndicated columnist and political analyst for PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
• Hon. Tony Coelho, former member of the House of Representatives and the House Democratic Majority Leader.
• Frank Fahrenkopf, head of the National Gaming Association and former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
• Helen Thomas, long-time veteran White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI) and now a Hearst Newspapers columnist.
• Hon Tom Daschle, former Senate Democratic leader (both majority and minority) and an advisor during the recent presidential campaign.
• Hon. Bob Livingston, former Louisiana congressman, advisor to the Center for Security Policy and founding partner of the corporate law firm The Livingston Group.
• Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of the Cook Political Report and a frequent television commentator on politics.
• Tom DeFrank, author of a new book on President Gerald Ford and Washington bureau chief of the New York Daily News.
• Ed Henry, White House correspondent for CNN.
• Tom Boggs, chairman of the executive committee of Patton Boggs law firm and on the list of the National Law Journal’s top 100 lawyers in the United States.
• Judy Shneider, long-time expert on Congress for Congressional Research Service, an adjunct scholar at The Brookings Institute and a former House and Senate Committee staffer with more than 30 years experience.
• Hon. Mickey Edwards, member of Congress for 16 years and a former chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee. Congressman Edwards is now on the faculty of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a vice president of The Aspen Institute.
• Bill Press, host of XM and Sirius Radio’s Bill Press Show, and syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
• Bob Barnett, one of the premier authors' representatives in the world. He has also worked on eight national presidential campaigns, focusing on debate preparation.
• Aaron Miller, author of The Much Too Promised Land – America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace, is also a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
• Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro, during her tenure in Congress, DeLauro has led the fight for affordable, quality health care. She worked aggressively with a bipartisan group of legislators to lower the rising costs of prescription drugs.
• Robert McDowell, FCC Commissioner, one of five FCC Commissioners appointed under President Bush, Commissioner McDowell, has sixteen years of private sector experience in the communications industry.
• Rob Schlesinger, editor and deputy of the U.S. News & World Report and an expert in political and presidential rhetoric, campaigns, elections and Congress.
• Susan Eisenhower,president of the Eisenhower Group, Eisenhower is strategist and international affairs expert, is an award-winning author, frequent television news guest and distinguished lecturer.
• Wendy Rieger, NBC 4 Anchor, has covered news in the Washington area for more than 25 years.