Guest, Barbara Lang

Law overturned by Congress, Called before Committee, what Next?

In Honor of Women's History Month

BARBARA LANG

Talks Business, Council & Congress

Barbara B. Lang is the Managing Principal & CEO at Lang Strategies, LLC. Lang served as President & CEO of the DC Chamber of Commerce for 12 years. Barbara transformed the organization into the most powerful and respected business group in the region through her aggressive leadership on key public policy business issues.

She also worked diligently on education (Pre-K-12) and workforce development issues and projects, as well as small business/entrepreneurial development initiatives. Prior to that, Barbara worked at Fannie Mae and IBM. She has been voted as one of Washingtonian Magazine’s 150 Most Powerful People in the Washington region -- twice.

Barbara serves on the boards of the Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation and FONZ (Friends of the National Zoo). She is the former chair of the Workforce Investment Council and the former co-chair of the DC Business Coalition.

MESSAGE FROM UNITED STATES SENATOR MICHAEL D. BROWN

It was ill-conceived of our City Council to send up a bill on the revision of DC's criminal code when the Republicans are attacking Democrats all over the country as being soft on crime. For the first time in a generation, both houses of Congress have overturned a District law and the president has vowed to sign it. Republicans have already put in another resolution of disapproval for an existing DC law and called two councilmembers and additional DC government employees before the House Oversight Committee.

What next?