Chairman Walden Announces Mike Bloomquist as House Commerce Committee Staff Director

House Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced Mike Bloomquist, currently the committee’s Deputy Staff Director, will be named Staff Director effective immediately.  The committee’s previous Staff Director Ray Baum passed away Feb 9 after a years-long battle with cancer.

Mike Bloomquist has served as the Deputy Staff Director of the House Commerce Committee under Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR).  Additional government service includes serving as the General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel of Energy and Commerce under then-Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), the General Counsel of the Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, the General Counsel of the Science Committee, and a member of the Solicitor’s office at the Department of the Interior.  Bloomquist’s private sector experience includes being a counsel and partner at Wiley Rein LLP and an associate and counsel at Patton Boggs LLP.  His most recent time in the private sector was with the consulting firm Kountoupes Denham. Bloomquist has a BA from Hamilton College, a JD from Washington University in St. Louis, and an LL.M. in environmental law from the George Washington University Law School.