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L. Thomas Block – Washington Policy Strategist
L. Thomas Block is the Washington Policy Strategist at Fundstrat, and also President of Tom Block Consults, a public policy consulting firm. Prior to starting his firm, Tom had a 21-year career at JP Morgan Chase, where he served as Global Head of Government Relations and created a Washington Research product for the firm. For 17 years he served as the senior lobbyist responsible for managing political relationships with the U.S. government, state and local governments, and the EU and its member states. He created the bank’s EU Government Relations program. Prior to joining JP Morgan Chase in 1987, Tom was a vice president at Irving Trust Company where he started the Government Relations program for one of the nation’s 20 largest banks.He has also worked on political campaigns both as a strategist and speechwriter.
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Shutdown Extends, Trump Turns to Foreign Affairs
The government shutdown enters its third week, and the 10 votes so far in the Senate seem like a continuation of Groundhog Day. Each vote ends with the same outcome ─ short of the 60 votes needed to end the Democratic filibuster....
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Washington Policy StrategistShutdown update: For the 9th time, by a vote of 51 to 44, the Senate failed to get the 60 votes needed to pass the House approved Continuing Resolution which would open the government. The military was paid today removing an incentive...
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Washington Policy StrategistChances of US government shutdown increased as President Trump cancels proposed Thursday meeting with Congressional Democratic leaders Schumer and Jeffries. Today no talks are scheduled.
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Small Caps Start to Flex Even as Credit-Market Worries Appear
Trade tensions between the U.S. and China, which intensified last Friday, continued to occupy investors' attention this week. The previous week had seen sentiment, as measured by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) weekly survey, make a...
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Big week in DC: Powell testifies, Super Tuesday, State of the Union (SOTU), Shutdown
Tuesday is the biggest day on the Presidential primary calendar – Super Tuesday. Voters in 15 states will cast their votes in Republican Presidential primaries. Nearly a third of all delegates will be chosen with delegate-heavy states of...
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Washington Policy StrategistCongress faces budget deadline, Israel funding and Fed decides
The November 17 deadline for Congress to act and pass government funding bills to avoid a government shutdown is quickly approaching. The central issue is how newly elected Speaker Johnson threads the needle to get a bill passed...
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Washington Policy StrategistLatest Publications
Shutdown Extends, Trump Turns to Foreign Affairs
The government shutdown enters its third week, and the 10 votes so far in the Senate seem like a continuation of Groundhog Day. Each vote ends with the same outcome ─ short of the 60 votes needed to...
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Washington Policy StrategistShutdown Continues, Trump to Meet Putin
On Thursday, the Senate for the tenth time tried to open the government by passing the House-approved Continuing Resolution (CR) that requires 60 votes in the Senate to overcome the Democratic filibuster and proceed with the bill. The...
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Washington Policy StrategistShutdown, China and Middle East headline week
The continued government shutdown caused by the inability of Congress to agree to a plan to fund the government for the new fiscal year, which started Oct. 1, continues to dominate Washington headlines. The House approved a so-called...
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Washington Policy StrategistGroundhog Day in DC
Yesterday, for the seventh time, the Senate tried to pass the House-approved “clean” Continuing Resolution (CR) and failed on the same vote count, with the same three Democrats voting with all but one Republican.
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