Bluegrass Region’s Federal Policy Forum

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September 8-9, 2020

Agenda A NiSource Company TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

EVENT NOTE: Those who registered for the Federal Policy Forum will be e-mailed a Zoom link in advance for each day of the virtual event. Participants will use one link to access all sessions on September 8th, and a different link for sessions on September 9th.

9:45 a.m. Welcome Remarks The opening session offers a brief overview of the Central Policy Group’s key priorities for federal advocacy.

Bob Quick Kimra Cole President & CEO President & Chief Operating Officer Commerce Lexington Inc. Columbia Gas of Kentucky

10:00 a.m. Kentuckians in Washington Spotlight Kelly Craft, U.S. Ambassador to the Join the conversation with Ambassador Craft to learn about her unique role in rep- resenting America at the United Nations and the impact of federal policy on the global economy and national security.

BREAK 11:30 a.m. Federal Business Advocacy Update Neil Bradley Executive Vice President & Chief Policy Officer U.S. Chamber of Commerce Neil Bradley provides a recap of federal issues important to the business commu- nity and analysis of the situation in Congress as negotiations continue over the next federal relief package.

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BREAK 1:00 p.m. Congressional Member Update Congressman Andy Barr (KY-6) As a member of the Financial Services Committee, Rep. Barr has been a tire- less advocate for businesses seeking financial relief during the pandemic and a liaison between businesses and key officials at the SBA, Treasury and Federal Reserve. His update will focus on recovery efforts and other priorities issues for the Central Kentucky Policy Group.

BREAK 2:30 p.m. COVID-19 Economic Impact Dr. Michael Clark Associate Professor, UK Gatton College of Business & Economics Director, Center for Business & Economic Research Dr. Clark will provide an economic overview of how the global pandemic has impacted the regional economy, forecasts how policy changes may impact the recovery and offers insight to businesses on what to expect in the months ahead.

BREAK 3:30 p.m. Congressional Member Update U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Don’t miss this update from one of the most influential leaders in Washington, D.C., as he discusses the next COVID-19 federal relief package, appropriations bills and other priority issues for the Central Kentucky Policy Group.

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FEDERAL POLICY FORUM - 5 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 10:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. Closing the Digital Divide Local Issues Spotlight Ajit Pai, Federal Communications This session features a brief high-level review of key issues impacting regional economic recovery from Commission Chairman the local leaders spearheading advocacy efforts at the Chairman Pai discusses the role of the FCC in regu- local, state and federal levels. lating and expanding access to broadband, and the agency’s focus on closing the digital divide. 4:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. Congressional Member Update Congressional Member Update U.S. Senator Rand Paul Senator Paul highlights his efforts to call Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-2) attention to critical issues and provide As a member of the House Energy & Commerce innovative solutions to challenges in Committee and the House Committee on Education health care, education, national security and Labor, Congressman Guthrie is uniquely posi- and economic recovery. tioned to provide Congressional updates related to energy, healthcare, telecommunications, higher edu- cation and workforce investment issues. GOLD SPONSORS

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Congressman Andy Barr (KY-6) Neil Bradley 2430 Rayburn House Office Building Executive Vice President & Chief Policy Officer Washington, DC 20515 U.S. Chamber of Commerce Phone: (202) 225-4706 Neil Bradley has spent two decades Lexington District Office: (859) 219-1366 working directly with congressional Andy Barr has served as the U.S. committee chairpersons and other Representative for Kentucky’s Sixth high-ranking policymakers to achieve solutions. At the U.S. Chamber, Congressional District since January, 2013. He is a member of the Bradley is responsible for aligning the Committee on Financial Services, organization’s overall policy priorities and is Ranking Member of the and advocacy efforts. He oversees sev- Oversight and Investigations eral major policy divisions within the Subcommittee. He is also a member Chamber: Economic Policy; Employment Policy; Small Business of the House Committee on Veterans Policy; and Cyber, Intelligence and Security Policy. Health Policy, Affairs. Barr is focused on strength- Transportation Infrastructure Policy and Environmental Affairs ening Kentucky’s signature bourbon, and Sustainability Policy are also under his leadership. Before equine, , agriculture and manufacturing industries, and joining the Chamber, Bradley was president of Chartwell Policy serves as co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Horse Caucus. Solutions, LLC, a research, analysis, and advisory firm focused He is fighting for policies that will save the country from bank- on public policy issues. In addition to his work at Chartwell, he ruptcy, increase government accountability, and that would served as chief strategy officer for the nonprofit Conservative restore the balance of powers as intended by the founders of our Reform Network (CRN), the leading organization supporting the nation. Congressman Barr graduated from Lexington's Henry Conservative Reform Movement. Prior to founding Chartwell and Clay High School in 1992, earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in joining CRN in 2015, Bradley spent nearly 20 years working in the Government and Philosophy from the University of Virginia in House of Representatives, including 11 years working for the 1996, and received his law degree from the University of House Republican leadership. He served as deputy chief of staff Kentucky in 2001. Congressman Barr is a 2007 graduate of for Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) where he developed the Leadership Lexington and has served on the Board of Directors legislative agenda for House Republicans, oversaw policy formu- of the Friends of the Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden and lation in the leader’s office, and coordinated committee activity Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky. COMMITTEES: Committee on in the House. Bradley held the same position for Eric Cantor (VA) Financial Services, which includes the Subcommittee on during his tenure as majority leader. Previously, he was policy Oversight and Investigations (Ranking Member) and the director for House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (MO). Earlier in Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial his career, Bradley served for four-and-a-half years as executive Institutions; House Veterans Affairs Committee, including the director of the Republican Study Committee. He also held Health Subcommittee and Economic Opportunity numerous positions in the office of then-Rep. Tom Coburn (R- Subcommittee; and the Republican Study Committee, which OK). While working on Capitol Hill, Bradley was regularly named includes the Steering Committee and American Worker Task to Roll Call’s list of 50 top congressional staffers. Bradley, a grad- Force (Chair). uate of Georgetown University, is a native of Sapulpa, Oklahoma.

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Michael W. Clark, Ph.D Kelly Craft Associate Professor of Economics at the UK U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Gatton College & Director, Center for Ambassador Kelly Craft was nominat- Business & Economic Research ed by President Donald J. Trump to Michael W. Clark is the Director of the position of Representative of the the Center for Business and United States of America to the Economic Research and an United Nations on February 22, 2019 Associate Professor of Economics at and was confirmed to that position by UK’s Gatton College of Business & the on July 31, Economics. He earned a B.A. in 2019. She was formally sworn in by Management and an M.S. and Ph.D. Vice President on in economics from the University of September 10, 2019. Ambassador Kentucky. Prior to coming to UK, Dr. Craft served as the United States Clark was the Chief Economist for Ambassador to Canada from October the Kentucky Legislative Research 2017 until assumption of her USUN role in 2019. During her Commission. He conducts applied time as Ambassador, she worked through the complex revisiting economic and policy research focusing on labor, health, eco- of the NAFTA treaty, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada nomic development issues. His work has been published in the Agreement or USMCA. As a third-generation Kentuckian, Journal of Labor Research. He has conducted research for various Ambassador Craft served her community by assuming several Kentucky state agencies including the Department of Public leadership roles with of Lexington and the Health, the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, and Center for Rural Development, a non-profit dedicated to the eco- the Department of Income Support. nomic development of rural Kentucky. She also served in similar GOLD SPONSORS

8 - FEDERAL POLICY FORUM SPEAKERS roles in the cultural leadership of her state, working with the U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell Kentucky Arts Council and the United Way of the Bluegrass. Senate Majority Leader Ambassador Craft is a graduate of the and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Morehead State 317 Russell Senate Office Building University. Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2541 Mitch McConnell is the Senate Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-2) Majority Leader. Elected to that posi- 2434 Rayburn House Office Building tion unanimously by his Republican colleagues first in 2014 and again in Washington, DC 20515 2016 and 2018, he is only the second Phone: (202) 225-3501 Kentuckian to ever serve as Majority Congressman Brett Guthrie repre- Leader in the U.S. Senate. Senator sents Kentucky's Second McConnell has served, again by the Congressional District. The Second unanimous vote of his colleagues, as District is the home of the birthplace the Republican Leader since the of Abraham Lincoln, Mammoth 110th Congress. He is the longest- Cave National Park and Fort Knox. serving Senate Republican Leader in the history of the United Guthrie serves on the House Energy States. McConnell previously served in leadership as the and Commerce Committee and the Majority Whip in the 108th and 109th Congresses and as chair- House Committee on Education man of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during and Labor. The Energy and the 1998 and 2000 election cycles. First elected to the Senate in Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the House with broad jurisdiction over our nation’s energy, healthcare, telecommunications and consumer product safety policies. He is the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce EDUCATION PARTNER Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. He also serves on the Health Subcommittee and the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee. On the Education and Labor Committee, he serves on the Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee. Guthrie was also appointed to serve as a Deputy Whip within the House Republican Conference for the 116th Congress. Guthrie gradu- ated in 1987 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and went on to serve as a Field Artillery Officer in the 101st Airborne Division – Air Assault at Fort Campbell. Guthrie later earned a Master's Degree from Yale University in Public and Private Management. Following his military service, he joined Trace Die Cast, the Bowling Green, Ky., based manufacturing business that was started by his father. First elected to public office in 1998, Guthrie represented the 32nd District in the Kentucky Senate until being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008. COMMITTEES: Energy and Commerce; and Education and Labor. SUBCOMMITTEES: Oversight and Investigations; Health Subcommittee; Consumer Protection and Commerce; and Higher Education and Workforce Investment.

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1984, McConnell is Kentucky’s longest-serving senator. He Senator Rand Paul made history that year as the only Republican challenger in the 167 Russell Senate Office Building country to defeat an incumbent Democrat and as the first Republican to win a statewide Kentucky race since 1968. In Washington DC, 20510 2014, he was elected to a record sixth term. McConnell graduat- Phone: (202) 224-4343 ed with honors from the University of Louisville College of Arts Elected to the United States Senate in and Sciences, where he served as student body president. He 2010, Dr. Rand Paul has proven to be also is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Law, an outspoken champion for constitu- where he was elected president of the Student Bar Association. tional liberties and fiscal responsibili- McConnell worked as an intern on Capitol Hill for Senator John ty. As a fierce advocate against gov- Sherman Cooper before serving as chief legislative assistant to ernment overreach, Dr. Paul has Senator Marlow Cook and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General fought tirelessly to return govern- to President Gerald Ford. Before his election to the Senate, he ment to its limited, constitutional served as judge-executive of Jefferson County, Kentucky, from scope. Dr. Paul is a devoted husband 1978 until he commenced his Senate term on January 3, 1985. and father of three that is currently COMMITTEES: Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; living with his family in Bowling Appropriations; and Rules & Administration. Green, where he owned his own ophthalmology practice and performed eye surgery for 18 years. He grew up in Lake Jackson, Texas, and attended Baylor University. He graduated from Duke Ajit Pai Medical School in 1988. Dr. Paul completed a general surgery internship at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta, Ga., Chairman and completed his residency in ophthalmology at Duke Federal Communications Commission University Medical Center. In 1995, Dr. Paul founded the Ajit Pai is the Chairman of the Federal Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic, an organization that pro- Communications Commission. He vides eye exams and surgery to needy families and individuals. was designated Chairman by President He is a former president and 17-year member of Lions Clubs Donald J. Trump in January 2017. He International, which is dedicated to preserving sight by provid- had previously served as ing eyeglasses and surgery to the less fortunate around the Commissioner at the FCC, appointed world. In recognition of his outstanding and sustained efforts to by then-President Barack Obama and provide vision care to Kentuckians in need, Lions Clubs confirmed unanimously by the United International has awarded Dr. Paul many of its highest com- States Senate in May 2012. Chairman mendations. COMMITTEES: Foreign Relations; Health, Pai’s regulatory philosophy is Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP); Homeland Security informed by a few simple principles. and Government Affairs; Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Rules that reflect these principles will result in more innovation, more investment, better products and services, lower prices, more job creation, and faster economic growth.

• Consumers benefit most from competition, not preemptive regulation. Free markets have delivered more value to American consumers than highly regulated ones. • No regulatory system should indulge arbitrage; regulators should be skeptical of pleas to regulate rivals, dispense favors, or otherwise afford special treatment. • Particularly given how rapidly the communications sector is changing, the FCC should do everything it can to ensure that its rules reflect the realities of the current marketplace and basic principles of economics. • As a creature of Congress, the FCC must respect the law as set forth by the legislature. • The FCC is at its best when it proceeds on the basis of con- sensus; good communications policy knows no partisan affiliation.

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