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Mike Liptak, Government Affairs Associate
Mike Liptak specializes in monitoring, researching, and analyzing legislative activities on Capitol Hill to constantly produce informational updates for Washington Strategies’ clients. He serves as a point of contact for our clients working closely with them to develop appropriations strategies, identify federal grant opportunities, represent them in meetings with respective Members of Congress, and draft important legislation and effective issue briefings. Liptak specializes in the Congressional appropriations process and works on various legislative policy issues.
Before joining Washington Strategies, Mike Liptak worked in the office of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), currently the Senate Republican Leader. Liptak conducted research and served the Senator in the issue areas of foreign policy, national security, veterans’ affairs, and trade matters. Liptak also worked as part of a team that secured hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks for military projects important to the state of Kentucky as well as the United States Army and Military Special Forces. Since the fall of 2002, he has participated in grass roots campaigning in various Congressional campaigns in Kentucky and served as Volunteer Coordinator for Senate races in Seattle, Washington, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Prior to living in Washington, DC, Liptak was an Admissions Counselor at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania. As a representative of his alma mater, he traveled the country meeting with prospective students and assisting them with their college decisions. Liptak also spent a summer as an Associate Producer for an independent film in Pittsburgh.
A native of Sharon, Pennsylvania, Liptak graduated from Grove City College with a bachelor's degree in Communications.
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