Jim Dyer

Jim Dyer is a Partner at Clark & Weinstock in Washington, DC, where he specializes in defense appropriations. Previously, he served as Staff Director of the Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives, where he supervised the activities of a 150-person professional staff in discharging the Committee’s responsibility to produce 13 annual appropriations bills. Before that, Mr. Dyer 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. He also worked at the White House as the Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs and served as the principal point of contact for the President with the United States Senate. In this endeavor, he managed the defense, foreign policy, judiciary, intelligence and commerce portfolios for the Senate legislative affairs office and supervised the confirmation process for all Presidential nominees. From 1987 to 1989 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. (This is me - Update Profile)