Dawson & Associates Expands Energy, Interior Capabilities with Former Assistant Secretary & Hill Veteran, Tom Weimer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 9, 2009

CONTACT: Peter Arnold
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(Washington, D.C.) – R. Thomas Weimer, former Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget at the U.S. Interior Department, has joined Dawson & Associates as a Senior Advisor, the firm announced today.

Founded in 1997, Dawson & Associates is the nation’s premier government relations and public affairs firm for water and natural resource environmental permitting.  The company includes more than 30 former federal and state officials, including former Members of Congress John Myers and Sonny Callahan.

Weimer’s federal career spans more than 20 years with a focus on energy, natural resources, and science and technology.

As the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget at the U.S. Interior Department from 2005 to 2007, Tom was responsible for budget and policy issues spanning Interior’s eight bureaus.  He led the Department’s development of a manual to address the adaptive management of climate change on Interior’s lands and waters.

Most recently, from 2007 to 2009, he was minority staff director of the House's Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

Previously, Tom served as Interior’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, overseeing policies at the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Tom’s other legislative branch experience includes more than 10 years with the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (now the Natural Resources Committee) and the Committee on Science and Technology. 

 

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