Jim Dyer
Jim Dyer leads the appropriations practice at Clark & Weinstock, representing clients in appropriations matters before the Congress.
Jim served as Staff Director and Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations for nine years. Jim supervised the activities of a 150-person professional staff in discharging the Committee’s responsibility to produce 13 annual appropriations bills.He also was principal committee liaison to the Republican leadership and assisted leadership staff in planning the House of Representatives agenda.
Prior to becoming clerk and staff director, Jim served as a professional staff assistant on the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Foreign Operations where he handled a variety of State and Defense Department issues and on the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch where he worked to fund the activities of Congress and its supporting agencies.
Previously, Jim worked at the White House as the Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs and served as the principal point of contact for President George H.W. Bush with the United States Senate.In the Reagan White House he served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs and worked on House legislative matters, specializing in the defense, foreign policy, and appropriations areas.He was responsible for overall management operation of the legislative affairs office in the West Wing of the White House.
Also during the Reagan Administration, Jim handled legislative affairs for the U.S. Department of State as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs for the House of Representatives, Acting Secretary of State for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Prior to that, Jim worked in the U.S. House of Representatives as a press secretary/legislative assistant to the Honorable Joseph M. McDade (R-PA), later as Congressman McDade’s administrative assistant, and then as the Congressman’s Appropriations Committee’s principal staff assistant, having responsibility for his Interior Subcommittee duties.
He also has held the following positions:budget consultant to the Secretary of the Navy; Director of Washington Relations for Philip Morris Companies, Inc.;Director of Government Affairs, Power Systems Division, United Technologies Corporation; and government affairs consultant for Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, Greaves & Johnson, ETA Associates, Inc.
Jim is a member of the Board of Directors of Ford’s Theatre where he serves on the Executive Committee and as Co- Chairman of its Finance Committee. He is a member of the Army Science Board, the Chairman’s Advisory Board at the U.S. Institute for Peace. He also serves on the Boards of the National Zoo and the National Arboretum. He is a Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Jim is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds the Distinguished Public Service Award from the U.S. Navy. He is a frequent media contributor on the subject of budget and appropriations policy.
Jim holds a B.A. from the University of Scranton and has done graduate work in Legislative Affairs at George Washington University.He holds an honorary Doctor of Human Letters from the University of Scranton.
