Congressman John Delaney (D, MD) was elected in 2012 to serve Maryland’s Sixth District. Delaney is the only former CEO of a publicly traded company in the House of Representatives, and brings to Washington an extensive experience as a successful entrepreneur and as a private sector and non-profit leader. As the son of a union electrician, John grew up in a blue collar household. He spent his business career starting and running successful companies and helping small businesses grow.

Congressman Delaney’s primary focus in office is to restore our nation’s economic competitiveness so that we can have a strong middle class, raise our standard of living, and expand the number of good jobs available to Americans. In 2011 Delaney founded Blueprint Maryland, a non-profit dedicated to invigorating Maryland’s private sector. Blueprint Maryland gathered businesspeople, educators, labor representatives and policy experts together to chart a way towards a high-tech, high-information, economy.

Lori Sanders is the outreach director and a senior fellow at the R Street Institute. In this role, she manages R Street's research on income mobility, coordinating and publishing work on the importance of evidence-based approaches to poverty reduction. She is also responsible for R Street’s coalition efforts, as well as providing public outreach and education about public policy issues to regulators, lawmakers and their staffs.

Lori came to R Street from the American Enterprise Institute, where she most recently served as program manager for AEI’s Road to Freedom project. Prior to her work at AEI, Sanders worked at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center.

Her work has been featured in National Affairs, the Weekly Standard, National Review, and many other outlets, and she is a frequent speaker on income mobility issues on and off Capitol Hill.