This event is at capacity. Thank you for your interest in our programming. We will share conference videos in our media library following the event.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Networking & Registration: 1:15–2:00 p.m. | Program: 2:00–4:15 p.m.
FGS Global Washington, DC Office
The Warner Building | 12th Floor
1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW | Washington, DC 20004
This event is complimentary. Space is limited.
The Capitol Forum and FGS Global will convene senior government officials, congressional policy staff, antitrust experts, and polling and public-opinion specialists for an afternoon examining the evolving state and congressional antitrust landscape.
The program will open with remarks from Eleanor Blume of the California Department of Justice, followed by a State Antitrust Enforcement Roundtable bringing together antitrust officials from California, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia, alongside experts in competition policy.
The afternoon will also feature Election Outlook: Polling, Public Opinion and the Midterms, a conversation with G. Elliott Morris and Graeme Trayner of FGS Global, moderated by Teddy Downey, Executive Editor of The Capitol Forum.
A Congressional Antitrust Enforcement Roundtable moderated by Slade Bond, Chair of Public Policy & Legislative Affairs at Cuneo Gilbert Flannery & LaDuca, LLP will examine the antitrust agenda on Capitol Hill, congressional oversight of competition and enforcement, and the policy issues shaping the broader competition debate.
The program will conclude with a keynote address from Rep. Jamie Raskin.
Guests are welcome to arrive beginning at 1:15 p.m. for registration, networking, and seating. The program will begin promptly at 2:00 p.m.
Coffee, tea, soft drinks, and light snacks will be available throughout the afternoon.
Advance registration is required, and space is limited. Please use the registration button on this page to confirm your attendance.
We respect the privacy of our guests. Registration information will be used to administer the event and communicate relevant event information and updates.
Questions? Contact: events@tcfpress.com.
We look forward to seeing you in Washington.
Rep. Jamie Raskin proudly represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Raskin was sworn into his fifth term at the start of the 119th Congress on January 6, 2025. Rep. Raskin is the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary in the 119th Congress.
Elected to Congress the same night in 2016 Donald Trump was first elected president, Rep. Raskin has battled Trump’s authoritarian policies daily for a decade. He was named the lead impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in 2021 for inciting violent insurrection against the Constitution, a trial which ended in a 57-43 vote to convict, the most sweeping bipartisan margin for conviction in a presidential impeachment trial in American history but still ten votes short of the two-thirds vote threshold.
Rep. Raskin later served on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. He wrote a book about the devastating loss of his son Tommy, which took place at the time of these events, and the horrors of January 6th, as well as Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors and the impeachment process. The book, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy, became a New York Times #1 best-seller.
Eleanor Blume is currently a Special Assistant Attorney General and senior economic advisor to California Attorney General Rob Bonta. She leads the California Attorney General’s work on consumer protection, economic opportunity, antitrust, corporate securities, cybersecurity, and technology policy. She has served on the Attorney General’s Executive team since 2017, joining the California Department of Justice upon returning to California.
As a government executive, Blume has led successful agency action, enforcement initiatives, and program implementation at the federal and state level. Before joining the California Department of Justice, she directed Military Lending Act implementation at the Department of Defense, played a key role in the institutional development of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and served as a senior associate at The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Eleanor attended Wellesley College and UC Berkeley School of Law. She is a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence.
Michael Kades is a Partner at Nachawati Law Group, where he leads the firm’s antitrust practice and works with state and local governments on competition enforcement. He previously served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Enforcement in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, supervising major investigations and litigation across technology, financial services, airlines and agriculture. Earlier, Kades served as Director of Markets and Competition Policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, as antitrust counsel to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and spent 20 years as an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission.
Anthony W. Mariano is Chief of the Antitrust Division at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Before joining the office, he spent more than eight years with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, working in both civil and criminal enforcement, and also served in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Eastern District of Virginia and the District of Columbia. Earlier, he practiced at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, focusing on antitrust matters. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School.
Cole Niggeman is an Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust and Nonprofit Enforcement Section of the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. He previously joined the office as a Charles F.C. Ruff Fellow in the Public Advocacy Division and has worked on antitrust and nonprofit enforcement matters, including the District’s participation in federal antitrust litigation. Niggeman earned his J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, where he served as a Dean’s Fellow and was among the school’s 2023 Pro Bono Honors recipients.
G. Elliott Morris is a data-driven journalist, pollster and author specializing in elections, public opinion and survey research. He writes the Strength In Numbers newsletter and is the founder of Wave Polling and Morris Predictive Insights. Morris previously served as Editorial Director of Data Analytics at ABC News, where he led FiveThirtyEight’s data journalism and election-modeling work. Earlier, he was a Senior Data Journalist and U.S. Correspondent at The Economist, covering American politics, polling, demographics and elections. He is the author of Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them.
Graeme Trayner is Partner and Global Insight Lead at FGS Global in Washington, DC, where he advises companies, institutions and advocacy organizations on strategy, reputation and public affairs. He has more than 25 years of experience developing research-driven communications and positioning strategies. Before joining FGS Global, Trayner was a Partner at Brunswick Group in London, where he established the firm’s first insight practice. He began his career in political polling and campaigning, working with pollster Stan Greenberg and British political strategists Deborah Mattinson and Philip Gould.
Slade Bond is Chair of Public Policy & Legislative Affairs at Cuneo Gilbert Flannery & LaDuca, LLP, where he advises clients on antitrust, competition policy, consumer protection and congressional matters. He previously served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legislative Affairs. Before joining the Justice Department, Bond served as Chief Counsel of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, where he led the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into competition in digital markets and worked on a range of antitrust legislation. He holds an LL.M. from the George Washington University Law School, a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Mary Washington.
Teddy Downey is the CEO and Executive Editor at The Capitol Forum, guiding its growth into a leading source for investigative reporting on antitrust, trade, and regulatory policy. Named one of Washington, D.C.’s “500 Most Influential People” by Washingtonian magazine for the last five years, he also hosts The Second Request and Private Credit Crisis podcasts, where he speaks with influential voices in policy, law, and industry about competition and enforcement.
Josh Tzuker is Partner and Global Head of Competition at FGS Global, where he advises organizations on competition policy, transactions and engagement with regulators, enforcers and policymakers. He has more than 25 years of government and private-sector experience and most recently served as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Tzuker previously worked at the Federal Trade Commission, served as a senior policy advisor on competition and privacy at Oracle, and spent a decade working in Congress.
The Warner Building | 12th Floor
1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
The event will be held at the FGS Global Washington, DC office on the 12th floor of The Warner Building, located on Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington.
Guests may arrive beginning at 1:15 p.m. for registration, networking, and seating prior to the start of the program at 2:00 p.m.
The Warner Building is located near Metro Center, with convenient access to the Red, Blue, Orange, and Silver Metro lines.
Event Location:
FGS Global Washington, DC Office
The Warner Building | 12th Floor
1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
Questions?
Please contact The Capitol Forum team at events@tcfpress.com.
Presented by The Capitol Forum and FGS Global
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Networking & Registration: 1:15–2:00 p.m. | Program: 2:00–4:15 p.m.
1:15–2:00 p.m.
Registration & Networking
Guest arrival, registration, networking, and seating.
2:00–2:15 p.m.
Opening Keynote with Eleanor Blume
Opening remarks from Eleanor Blume, Special Assistant Attorney General at the California Department of Justice, on the evolving role of state antitrust enforcement and competition policy.
2:15–2:55 p.m.
State Antitrust Enforcement Roundtable
A discussion examining state antitrust enforcement, emerging enforcement priorities, and the expanding role of state attorneys general in competition policy.
Participants will include:
The discussion will be moderated by Michael Kades, Partner – Public Entity & Antitrust at Nachawati Law Group, and will include time for audience Q&A.
2:55–3:15 p.m.
Election Outlook: Polling, Public Opinion and the Midterms
A conversation on the polling and public-opinion landscape ahead of the 2026 midterm elections with G. Elliott Morris, political journalist, pollster and author of Strength in Numbers, and Graeme Trayner, Partner, Global Insight Lead at FGS Global.
Moderated by Teddy Downey, Executive Editor of The Capitol Forum.
3:15–4:00 p.m.
Congressional Antitrust Enforcement Roundtable
A discussion with congressional policy staff examining the antitrust agenda on Capitol Hill, congressional oversight of competition and enforcement, and the policy issues shaping the broader competition debate.
Moderated by Slade Bond, Chair of Public Policy & Legislative Affairs at Cuneo Gilbert Flannery & LaDuca, LLP.
4:00–4:15 p.m.
Closing Keynote with Rep. Jamie Raskin
Closing remarks from Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary.
4:15 p.m.
Program Concludes
Coffee, tea, soft drinks, and light snacks will be available throughout the afternoon.
Agenda, speakers, and program details are subject to change.
Questions?
Please contact The Capitol Forum team at events@tcfpress.com.
This event is at capacity. Thank you for your interest in our programming. We will share conference videos in our media library following the event.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Networking & Registration: 1:15–2:00 p.m. | Program: 2:00–4:15 p.m.
FGS Global Washington, DC Office
The Warner Building | 12th Floor
1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW | Washington, DC 20004
This event is complimentary. Space is limited.
The Capitol Forum and FGS Global will convene senior government officials, congressional policy staff, antitrust experts, and polling and public-opinion specialists for an afternoon examining the evolving state and congressional antitrust landscape.
The program will open with remarks from Eleanor Blume of the California Department of Justice, followed by a State Antitrust Enforcement Roundtable bringing together antitrust officials from California, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia, alongside experts in competition policy.
The afternoon will also feature Election Outlook: Polling, Public Opinion and the Midterms, a conversation with G. Elliott Morris and Graeme Trayner of FGS Global, moderated by Teddy Downey, Executive Editor of The Capitol Forum.
A Congressional Antitrust Enforcement Roundtable moderated by Slade Bond, Chair of Public Policy & Legislative Affairs at Cuneo Gilbert Flannery & LaDuca, LLP will examine the antitrust agenda on Capitol Hill, congressional oversight of competition and enforcement, and the policy issues shaping the broader competition debate.
The program will conclude with a keynote address from Rep. Jamie Raskin.
Guests are welcome to arrive beginning at 1:15 p.m. for registration, networking, and seating. The program will begin promptly at 2:00 p.m.
Coffee, tea, soft drinks, and light snacks will be available throughout the afternoon.
Advance registration is required, and space is limited. Please use the registration button on this page to confirm your attendance.
We respect the privacy of our guests. Registration information will be used to administer the event and communicate relevant event information and updates.
Questions? Contact: events@tcfpress.com.
We look forward to seeing you in Washington.
Rep. Jamie Raskin proudly represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Raskin was sworn into his fifth term at the start of the 119th Congress on January 6, 2025. Rep. Raskin is the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary in the 119th Congress.
Elected to Congress the same night in 2016 Donald Trump was first elected president, Rep. Raskin has battled Trump’s authoritarian policies daily for a decade. He was named the lead impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in 2021 for inciting violent insurrection against the Constitution, a trial which ended in a 57-43 vote to convict, the most sweeping bipartisan margin for conviction in a presidential impeachment trial in American history but still ten votes short of the two-thirds vote threshold.
Rep. Raskin later served on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. He wrote a book about the devastating loss of his son Tommy, which took place at the time of these events, and the horrors of January 6th, as well as Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors and the impeachment process. The book, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy, became a New York Times #1 best-seller.
Eleanor Blume is currently a Special Assistant Attorney General and senior economic advisor to California Attorney General Rob Bonta. She leads the California Attorney General’s work on consumer protection, economic opportunity, antitrust, corporate securities, cybersecurity, and technology policy. She has served on the Attorney General’s Executive team since 2017, joining the California Department of Justice upon returning to California.
As a government executive, Blume has led successful agency action, enforcement initiatives, and program implementation at the federal and state level. Before joining the California Department of Justice, she directed Military Lending Act implementation at the Department of Defense, played a key role in the institutional development of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and served as a senior associate at The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Eleanor attended Wellesley College and UC Berkeley School of Law. She is a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence.
Michael Kades is a Partner at Nachawati Law Group, where he leads the firm’s antitrust practice and works with state and local governments on competition enforcement. He previously served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Enforcement in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, supervising major investigations and litigation across technology, financial services, airlines and agriculture. Earlier, Kades served as Director of Markets and Competition Policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, as antitrust counsel to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and spent 20 years as an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission.
Anthony W. Mariano is Chief of the Antitrust Division at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Before joining the office, he spent more than eight years with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, working in both civil and criminal enforcement, and also served in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Eastern District of Virginia and the District of Columbia. Earlier, he practiced at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, focusing on antitrust matters. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School.
Cole Niggeman is an Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust and Nonprofit Enforcement Section of the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. He previously joined the office as a Charles F.C. Ruff Fellow in the Public Advocacy Division and has worked on antitrust and nonprofit enforcement matters, including the District’s participation in federal antitrust litigation. Niggeman earned his J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, where he served as a Dean’s Fellow and was among the school’s 2023 Pro Bono Honors recipients.
G. Elliott Morris is a data-driven journalist, pollster and author specializing in elections, public opinion and survey research. He writes the Strength In Numbers newsletter and is the founder of Wave Polling and Morris Predictive Insights. Morris previously served as Editorial Director of Data Analytics at ABC News, where he led FiveThirtyEight’s data journalism and election-modeling work. Earlier, he was a Senior Data Journalist and U.S. Correspondent at The Economist, covering American politics, polling, demographics and elections. He is the author of Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them.
Graeme Trayner is Partner and Global Insight Lead at FGS Global in Washington, DC, where he advises companies, institutions and advocacy organizations on strategy, reputation and public affairs. He has more than 25 years of experience developing research-driven communications and positioning strategies. Before joining FGS Global, Trayner was a Partner at Brunswick Group in London, where he established the firm’s first insight practice. He began his career in political polling and campaigning, working with pollster Stan Greenberg and British political strategists Deborah Mattinson and Philip Gould.
Slade Bond is Chair of Public Policy & Legislative Affairs at Cuneo Gilbert Flannery & LaDuca, LLP, where he advises clients on antitrust, competition policy, consumer protection and congressional matters. He previously served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legislative Affairs. Before joining the Justice Department, Bond served as Chief Counsel of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, where he led the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into competition in digital markets and worked on a range of antitrust legislation. He holds an LL.M. from the George Washington University Law School, a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Mary Washington.
Teddy Downey is the CEO and Executive Editor at The Capitol Forum, guiding its growth into a leading source for investigative reporting on antitrust, trade, and regulatory policy. Named one of Washington, D.C.’s “500 Most Influential People” by Washingtonian magazine for the last five years, he also hosts The Second Request and Private Credit Crisis podcasts, where he speaks with influential voices in policy, law, and industry about competition and enforcement.
Josh Tzuker is Partner and Global Head of Competition at FGS Global, where he advises organizations on competition policy, transactions and engagement with regulators, enforcers and policymakers. He has more than 25 years of government and private-sector experience and most recently served as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Tzuker previously worked at the Federal Trade Commission, served as a senior policy advisor on competition and privacy at Oracle, and spent a decade working in Congress.
The Warner Building | 12th Floor
1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
The event will be held at the FGS Global Washington, DC office on the 12th floor of The Warner Building, located on Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington.
Guests may arrive beginning at 1:15 p.m. for registration, networking, and seating prior to the start of the program at 2:00 p.m.
The Warner Building is located near Metro Center, with convenient access to the Red, Blue, Orange, and Silver Metro lines.
Event Location:
FGS Global Washington, DC Office
The Warner Building | 12th Floor
1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
Questions?
Please contact The Capitol Forum team at events@tcfpress.com.
Presented by The Capitol Forum and FGS Global
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Networking & Registration: 1:15–2:00 p.m. | Program: 2:00–4:15 p.m.
1:15–2:00 p.m.
Registration & Networking
Guest arrival, registration, networking, and seating.
2:00–2:15 p.m.
Opening Keynote with Eleanor Blume
Opening remarks from Eleanor Blume, Special Assistant Attorney General at the California Department of Justice, on the evolving role of state antitrust enforcement and competition policy.
2:15–2:55 p.m.
State Antitrust Enforcement Roundtable
A discussion examining state antitrust enforcement, emerging enforcement priorities, and the expanding role of state attorneys general in competition policy.
Participants will include:
The discussion will be moderated by Michael Kades, Partner – Public Entity & Antitrust at Nachawati Law Group, and will include time for audience Q&A.
2:55–3:15 p.m.
Election Outlook: Polling, Public Opinion and the Midterms
A conversation on the polling and public-opinion landscape ahead of the 2026 midterm elections with G. Elliott Morris, political journalist, pollster and author of Strength in Numbers, and Graeme Trayner, Partner, Global Insight Lead at FGS Global.
Moderated by Teddy Downey, Executive Editor of The Capitol Forum.
3:15–4:00 p.m.
Congressional Antitrust Enforcement Roundtable
A discussion with congressional policy staff examining the antitrust agenda on Capitol Hill, congressional oversight of competition and enforcement, and the policy issues shaping the broader competition debate.
Moderated by Slade Bond, Chair of Public Policy & Legislative Affairs at Cuneo Gilbert Flannery & LaDuca, LLP.
4:00–4:15 p.m.
Closing Keynote with Rep. Jamie Raskin
Closing remarks from Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary.
4:15 p.m.
Program Concludes
Coffee, tea, soft drinks, and light snacks will be available throughout the afternoon.
Agenda, speakers, and program details are subject to change.
Questions?
Please contact The Capitol Forum team at events@tcfpress.com.
