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Regan Hammond and Jay Jenkins Chosen for Metro Atlanta Leadership Programs
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news:
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Regan Hammond and Jay Jenkins Chosen for Metro Atlanta Leadership Programs
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VHB Georgia leaders Regan Hammond, Managing Director, and Jay Jenkins, Operations Manager, have been chosen for distinguished leadership programs that cultivate community and business leaders across the Atlanta region.
Regan was selected for Atlanta Regional Commission's Regional Leadership ... Show Full Article WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news: * * * Regan Hammond and Jay Jenkins Chosen for Metro Atlanta Leadership Programs * VHB Georgia leaders Regan Hammond, Managing Director, and Jay Jenkins, Operations Manager, have been chosen for distinguished leadership programs that cultivate community and business leaders across the Atlanta region. Regan was selected for Atlanta Regional Commission's Regional LeadershipInstitute (RLI), a program designed to bring together leaders to share knowledge, discuss policy and regional impacts, and build relationships. RLI aims to build a network of changemakers dedicated to shaping the future of Atlanta.
"I'm honored to be selected for the RLI and to join a cohort of leaders who are passionate about making a difference in our communities," said Regan. "I'm looking forward to gaining new perspectives and bringing back what I learn to our teams and the clients we serve."
Additionally, Jay was selected to participate in Leadership Gwinnett, a flagship leadership development program that prepares emerging and established leaders to drive positive impact in Gwinnett County. Through immersive learning experiences and community engagement, participants gain a deeper understanding of local challenges and opportunities while enhancing their ability to lead with purpose.
"This is an exciting opportunity to learn alongside other professionals who are committed to becoming more intentional leaders," said Jay. "As a Gwinnett County resident for more than 20 years, I'm eager to collaborate with others who care deeply about this community and to bring new ideas and perspectives back to both our organizations and the region we serve."
Both programs are known for their rigorous selection processes and their emphasis on collaboration, civic engagement, and long-term community impact. Regan and Jay's acceptance into these programs reflects their dedication to leadership, professional growth, and service.
Connect with Regan and Jay on LinkedIn.
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Original text here: https://www.vhb.com/news/georgia-leaders-chosen-for-leadership-programs/
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Regan Hammond and Jay Jenkins Chosen for Metro Atlanta Leadership Programs
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VHB Georgia leaders Regan Hammond, Managing Director, and Jay Jenkins, Operations Manager, have been chosen for distinguished leadership programs that cultivate community and business leaders across the Atlanta region.
Regan was selected for Atlanta Regional Commission's Regional Leadership ... Show Full Article WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news: * * * Regan Hammond and Jay Jenkins Chosen for Metro Atlanta Leadership Programs * VHB Georgia leaders Regan Hammond, Managing Director, and Jay Jenkins, Operations Manager, have been chosen for distinguished leadership programs that cultivate community and business leaders across the Atlanta region. Regan was selected for Atlanta Regional Commission's Regional LeadershipInstitute (RLI), a program designed to bring together leaders to share knowledge, discuss policy and regional impacts, and build relationships. RLI aims to build a network of changemakers dedicated to shaping the future of Atlanta.
"I'm honored to be selected for the RLI and to join a cohort of leaders who are passionate about making a difference in our communities," said Regan. "I'm looking forward to gaining new perspectives and bringing back what I learn to our teams and the clients we serve."
Additionally, Jay was selected to participate in Leadership Gwinnett, a flagship leadership development program that prepares emerging and established leaders to drive positive impact in Gwinnett County. Through immersive learning experiences and community engagement, participants gain a deeper understanding of local challenges and opportunities while enhancing their ability to lead with purpose.
"This is an exciting opportunity to learn alongside other professionals who are committed to becoming more intentional leaders," said Jay. "As a Gwinnett County resident for more than 20 years, I'm eager to collaborate with others who care deeply about this community and to bring new ideas and perspectives back to both our organizations and the region we serve."
Both programs are known for their rigorous selection processes and their emphasis on collaboration, civic engagement, and long-term community impact. Regan and Jay's acceptance into these programs reflects their dedication to leadership, professional growth, and service.
Connect with Regan and Jay on LinkedIn.
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Original text here: https://www.vhb.com/news/georgia-leaders-chosen-for-leadership-programs/
Politico : Full Transcript - Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation With Dasha Burns"
ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 14 -- Politico issued the following transcript of a podcast involving Senator Adam Schiff:
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Full Transcript: Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns"
This is a full unedited transcript of POLITICO's interview with Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns":
Adam Schiff: We're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump.
Dasha Burns: Hello, ... Show Full Article ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 14 -- Politico issued the following transcript of a podcast involving Senator Adam Schiff: * * * Full Transcript: Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns" This is a full unedited transcript of POLITICO's interview with Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns": Adam Schiff: We're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump. Dasha Burns: Hello,hello, and welcome to The Conversation. I'm Dasha Burns, and every week on this show, I sit down with some of the most compelling and sometimes unexpected power players in Washington and beyond. And this week, we are beyond. I am coming to you from Politico's Sacramento Summit here in a hotel room right now, but I sat down earlier with California Senator Adam Schiff for a live taping of The Conversation.
Now Schiff is exactly who I wanted to talk to about the duality of the Democratic Party going into the midterms. On the one hand, he serves California, one of the most progressive states in the nation. Case in point, California has a billionaire wealth tax on the ballot in November. At the same time, Schiff himself comes from a pretty mainstream brand of the Democratic Party. So as the debate between progressive versus establishment Democrats plays out in the primaries, Schiff and I talked about which playbook he thinks will be more successful in the midterms and what it says about the direction of the Democratic Party, what a winning coalition looks like long-term.
If you're curious about those questions, too, we'll have plenty more interviews you'd be interested in this election season so make sure you're subscribed to the show. And now, here's my conversation with Adam Schiff.
Senator Adam Schiff, thank you so much for joining The Conversation live here in Sacramento.
Adam Schiff: Great to be with you.
Dasha Burns: California is actually my home state. I grew up in San Diego. My husband's from LA. We already had plenty of Los Angeles gossip backstage that we will not rehash here, but I do want to...to talk to you about both California and California's place in the big picture for the Democratic Party because there is...there's kind of a lot going on for Democrats right now. We in Washington have been watching very closely some of these primaries. You had progressive Abdul El-Sayed just beat establishment-backed Democrat in Michigan. Dozens of DSA-backed candidates are winning primaries across the country. Today is election day in Wisconsin. Democrats might nominate Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong for governor.
Here in California, though, voters nominated the most establishment credentialed Democrat in a crowded governor's field. You'll hear from Xavier Becerra in a moment here. San Francisco just handed its moderate mayor a clean sweep. Is this one Democratic Party right now? What's going on, Senator?
Adam Schiff: It is one Democratic Party, and I think if we want to be in the majority, we're going to have to be a big tent party. I would much rather have that diversity in our party than have it outside the party. I don't think you can extrapolate too much from the results because they're all over the map. A mainstream...
Dasha Burns: Literally.
Adam Schiff: ...moderate...literally mainstream moderate candidate just won in Hawaii. Others won in Iowa and New Jersey and Virginia, and then you had very progressive and DSA candidates win elsewhere. Very hard to generalize except this, I think the common denominator is people are for a very good reason deeply dissatisfied with the status quo. And they're looking for candidates of middle, left, right that are willing to challenge the status quo, that have bold ideas for how to move the country forward for addressing what I think is the central challenge facing the country, and that is that people are working hard and they still can't get by. And candidates that have an answer to what needs to be done about that are doing very well. Those that don't or seem to be incrementalist in nature are not doing very well. And to me, that is really the common denominator.
Dasha Burns: Well, it's interesting to have this conversation in California because we've seen this insurgent left rise in swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin, of course, New York, which is a blue state, but in California, which I think for a lot of folks, both that live here and that look from the outside in, is such a bastion of progressivism. And yet, in this moment where there is this debate and this turn to the left among parts of the party, that hasn't really happened here. The bluest state in the country seems actually to be running kind of in the opposite direction of the...some of the country's most covered progressive breakthroughs. Do you think that Democratic voters here have been resistant to that for some reason, and why do you think that is?
Adam Schiff: I don't think that Californians have been resistant to that. I do think in all of these races that the quality of the candidate matters.
Dasha Burns: Yeah.
Adam Schiff: And some candidates are really able to inspire people and project an idea of change, and that may look very different. I think Mayor Lurie in San Francisco, Mayor Mahan in San Jose, both doing an excellent job very different styles in other cities. But the quality of those candidates, the quality of the argument that they make for their agenda resonates, and I think you find others that are very charismatic Mayor Mamdani, for example who made a powerful case when he was running for mayor and is a hugely charismatic candidate; doesn't hurt that he's young and good looking. So I'm working on both of those things.
Dasha Burns: Even President Trump agrees with you on that. [Laugh]
Adam Schiff: Well, the President and I agree on so much. Um...
Dasha Burns: You've made that so clear, Senator. But let me ask you, you know, I spoke with Speaker Mike Johnson for The Conversation last week.
Adam Schiff: I'm sorry to hear that.
Dasha Burns: We were in Arizona. And I also followed him around on the campaign trail, and he is making the case to voters using characters like Mamdani, like El-Sayed to say that the Democratic Party has been taken over by Marxists. Do you think those kinds of politicians and candidates in the party do present a liability for...for the midterms?
Adam Schiff: I don't think that argument is going to work. Frank...first of all, it's a retread. They tried this argument several years ago. They had some success with it in places like Florida and South Texas by claiming that all Democrats are socialists.
Dasha Burns: But now you have Democrats that actually self-identify as Democratic Socialists and have, you know, plenty of positions that they've held in the past, some of which they've walked away from now, but that Republicans are able to grab and weaponize.
Adam Schiff: I don't think it's going to be successful for a different reason, though. And that is they are now the status quo, and I don't mean the DSA candidates. Donald Trump, Mike Johnson represent a ugly status quo, a status quo in which people can't afford the price of gasoline. They can't afford the price of housing. They can't afford childcare. We're involved in yet another foreign war that the President doesn't know what to do about. They are the status quo, and much as they try to change the topic and make a handful of Democrats the subject, I don't think it's going to work because people are asking themselves is my life better? Did the President, Republicans, keep their word? And the answer is no. The President promised he would keep us out of foreign wars. He promised he would address rising prices. And what has he done? In addition to getting us involved in this terrible war, he has told the country that the cost of living and affordability is a hoax. He has literally told the country he thinks that housing is so unimportant, he's so offended that a reporter would ask him about inflation when he's got much more pressing business with the ballroom. He's building a golden ballroom while people are struggling to get by. I don't think you can change the topic from that.
So I don't think Mike Johnson's going to be successful. They don't have anything else to offer. They certainly don't have any prescription for what to do about the economy. So they will do the best they can. But it is up to us to always bring it back to the economy.
Dasha Burns: Well, and you have your anti-Trump spiel on lock. I will give you that. But I do think Democrats have some hurdles. I want to ask you about these comments that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made when she was asked about some of the far left rhetoric that dominated the party around 2019 and 2020. You know, she kind of laughed it off and said that that was "woke 1.0 was crazy" she said. The debate is obviously a major tension within the party of how to sort of reckon with those years. What do you make of the woke one was crazy comments?
Adam Schiff: You know, I'm not sure that I understand the context of it. I will say this about AOC who I consider a friend, I think she's hugely talented, and every time I see the Republicans go after her, she ends up handing them their head on a platter. I think she speaks in a way that millions of young people understand and identify with and we desperately need that in our party. There's a whole generation of Americans that look at the life their parents had and they think it's better than what they have. They wonder if they'll ever own a home. The year that I was born, the average new home buyer was 28 years old. Now it's 40. And I think that they can continue attacking her. I hope that they continue to think that's a good strategy. I think it's not a winning strategy. And I'm glad we have people in our party that are able to speak to a younger generation.
Dasha Burns: But why do you think that the Democratic brand has gotten to this place of toxicity where even in polls where the President's approval ratings are at record lows, Democrats are still even below that?
Adam Schiff: Well, I think there's sadly good reason for that. Because the failure to address some of the fundamental problems in the economy has been a bipartisan failing. It has been something, frankly, that has been in process for probably the last 30 to 35 years. As we have seen the productivity in the country continue to improve the country generate enormous wealth, what we have seen for the first time in our history since the 1970s is that as productivity goes up, historically wages and incomes went up with it. The people who made that prosperity possible also prospered. But beginning in the '70s, those lines started to diverge. They diverged under Democratic presidents and congresses and they did under Republican presidents and congresses. Both parties have failed to do anything meaningful about it. So there's good reason, sadly, for the public to distrust both parties.
And for my party, that means we're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump. If our argument is if you elect Democrats, we will restore ACA premium tax credits and that's all we have to say, that is a losing message. And yes, we should do that, but we should also go well beyond that for things like Medicare For All. And I think we should take some note of what the Republicans have been able to do, and that is they have moved the country far and fast in a terrible direction.
Adam Schiff: But we can move the country far and fast in a good direction.
Dasha Burns: Do you think then maybe more mainstream establishment Democrats might also need to take more note of what these insurgent left candidates are doing and the energy and momentum that's behind them? I mean, when I watch, like I remember what happened around Trump in 2015 and 2016 when a lot of Republicans said no way, like I'm keeping a distance from this guy. There's no way this is going to go anywhere good, and then he dominated the party for the next decade, you know. Do you see some of that grassroots energy, and is that something the Democrats need to work to capitalize on?
Adam Schiff: We certainly need to capitalize and develop and cultivate energy among our grassroots. But I think the common denominator with Trump's victory and Mamdani's victory is the same, and that is both vigorously challenged a deeply unpopular status quo.
Dasha Burns: Yeah.
Adam Schiff: Trump promised to break everything and he did. And that obviously is not the right answer. But nor is it the right answer to say we're just going to go back to the way it was. We have to do new things. I think we need a period like we saw with Franklin Roosevelt where a Democratic administration and Congress is willing to experiment to try new, big things to make the economy work for people again. We should be building vast quantities of housing to bring housing costs down. We did that after World War II for returning GIs. We did it affordably. There's no reason we can't do that again in this country. We need to think big. And I think whether you're a mainstream candidate or you're on the left, if you're thinking small and you're thinking incremental, it's just not going to cut it.
Dasha Burns: Well, it's interesting because California has sort of run the progressive experiment in the past. I'm talking during that sort of 2020 era where you had um, progressive DAs in places like LA in California, progressive mayors. And that experiment didn't go the way I think those folks are hoping for. There were recalls. There was a lot of frustration about increases in crime. I mean, what do you think that this slate of progressive candidates should take away from what California saw and the sort of backlash to a move to the far left?
Adam Schiff: I think all of us in the Democratic Party, wherever we are on the spectrum from left to right and center, need to keep first and foremost what most Americans really have on their minds, and that is they're working their ass off and they're still struggling to get by. They feel very little security in their retirement. They are afraid of getting sick because their health insurance isn't going to cut it. They are terrified.
I remember talking with a young woman in the north of the state who told me she got a good education 'cause she was told she should. She got a lot of good debt along with it. And between her loan payments and her rent and her health insurance, she had nothing set aside and nothing to set aside and she was petrified. And I think she was speaking for millions and millions of young people and people who are not so young.
And it is not, in my view, the fault of changes in technology, and we are in the midst of another transformation. I think it is the fault of policymakers that we have not adapted to a workplace that is so different than the workplace my parents worked in where so many people stayed with the same company their whole career and had healthcare and retirement through their work. And we're going to have to, with the advent of AI, think even more broadly now about how do we...how do we ensure that people have gained full employment, dignified employment, and secure retirement? What does that look like in the era of AI and globalization and automation. So this is, I think, going to be the cardinal challenge for both parties.
Adam Schiff: And I'd like to see the Democratic Party leading the way.
Dasha Burns: Well, you talk about big, new things. California has a billionaire tax on the ballot in November. It would impose a one-time five percent tax on the wealth of Californians worth more than one billion dollars. Now Governor Newsom and gubernatorial candidate Becerra don't support it, but the state party does. Do you support the tax?
Adam Schiff: I haven't gotten involved in that ballot measure, and I don't get involved in most ballot measures.
Dasha Burns: Well, to be fair, you are a California voter so folks want to know how you might vote.
Adam Schiff: I am a California voter, but I am a US Senator and I'm more focused, frankly, on the federal legislation to try to create a more progressive tax...
Dasha Burns: So you won't say how you'll vote?
Adam Schiff: I haven't decided, frankly, how I'm going to vote. And what I am focused on though is in addition to supporting any number of proposals to make sure that people can't simply borrow against their assets and avoid paying taxes or pay...you know, those that are multi, multi billionaires pay a lower tax rate than all the people who work for them. I am trying to put together a comprehensive and progressive tax reform package that I would like to see if I can somehow inject into the Presidential debate that addresses this phenomenal concentration of wealth now.
Dasha Burns: But there are a lot of Democrats that would like to see something like this billionaire tax at the federal level, and I wonder how you'd respond to voters that hear you kind of hedging there and say well, the establishment Democrats are still more worried about protecting the wealthy than taking bold action. When you talk about big, new things, is this just not the direction you think those big, new things should go?
Adam Schiff: No, I support a wealth tax at the federal level. And I support taxing capital gains different than we tax capital gains. So when it comes to...
Dasha Burns: I'm just surprised it's a hard answer for you on this one.
Adam Schiff: On...
Dasha Burns: On the ballot measure here.
Adam Schiff: Well, it has pros and cons. I mean, I don't think it's a easy answer when it comes to each state developing a one-time only tax. And what is the impact on business in the state? What's the impact on people who need healthcare services that are going to be cut otherwise? It's not an easy question.
Adam Schiff: And frankly, I've got enough difficult questions at the federal level. But one thing that is not difficult for me, and that is there should be a wealth tax at the federal level. There should be a much more progressive tax code than the one we have. And one thing that has become so abundantly clear is this concentration of wealth we see now is operating to perpetuate itself. And you have individuals now that have such a massive say in our electoral process that they can pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a single campaign if they choose to. We have a broken campaign finance system that allows them to do that. And I think if we don't bring determination to solving that problem also, this income and equality, wealth and equality gap is just going to get worse.
And it is I also think deeply destabilizing. The combination of the disruption of the workforce through AI, the vast concentration and the arrogant use of wealth by some who have amassed it, is going to be hugely disruptive for society. It's bad economics. I think it's immoral. And I'm working on federal solutions to try to address that.
Dasha Burns: I do want to ask about another debate playing out within the Democratic Party, and we've seen a lot of shifts on this is about Israel and the US relationship with that country. You know, you've sharpened your criticism of Netanyahu considerably since 2024, but you did still vote against blocking offensive arms sales to Israel. What has changed in your view on Israel and what hasn't?
Adam Schiff: Actually I voted for the joint resolutions of disapproval the last time they came up.
Dasha Burns: Okay.
Adam Schiff: It's...and those joint resolutions of disapproval... prevented the sale...or would've prevented the sale if they were successful of 1000 pound bombs as well as giant bulldozers.
Dasha Burns: So you're in support of no more arms sales to Israel?
Adam Schiff: Well, I voted against those sales, and I'm going to take each request individually. I support things like the Iron Dome system that are necessary, I think, for Israel's defense. But I am in vehement disagreement with how Netanyahu has run that country with the conduct of the war in Gaza, with the conduct of the war in Iran and in Lebanon. Uh, and I think we have to use the leverage that we have uh, not only to make sure that we are in the first and foremost doing things that are in the US national interest but also in the interest of a peaceful resolution of the conflict there.
And I start from, you know, one uh, ironclad conviction, and that is the only way this gets solved is by having two states side by side living in peace and security. And so what I ask myself when I'm making these decisions is does this help get us there or is this an impediment? And so much of what this government is doing and saying is an impediment to getting to two states that I can't support those policies. And so I will make these decisions as they come, but it...but it is heartbreaking to see uh, how Netanyahu has so damaged Israel, its standing in the world, and the loss of life as a result.
Dasha Burns: One of the challenges, within this debate is there is also a large concern around antisemitism. Do you believe that there's an antisemitism problem on the left?
Adam Schiff: Well, I think there is an antisemitism problem across the board. And yes, some of it is on the left and some of it is very plainly on the right and some of it is probably in the middle. I called the rabbi at a synagogue recently to express my alarm and upset over the fact that someone had painted swastikas on the synagogue. And the rabbi said do you realize, Senator, this is the second time you've called me for this reason. And he was right. I make those calls so often, I'd forgotten that I had called him once before for the same reason.
And I'm in a chat with a number of Jewish members. We share what's happening in our states, in our districts, and not a day, not a week goes by where we don't see some new horror. I've never seen anything like it in scale and scope. And it's awful, and we need to be able to talk about it. You can agree or disagree with what the Israeli government is doing, and that is a separate conversation. But we have a serious antisemitism problem in this country and around the world that cannot be ignored. So, I obviously feel strongly about that 'cause I experience it myself.
Dasha Burns: Yeah. One of the other parts of this debate is the role of AIPAC in campaign spending. I know you have in the past accepted money from AIPAC and pro-Israel lobby support throughout your career. Will you continue to do so?
Adam Schiff: It will depend. First and foremost, I make my decisions based on what I think is right for the region but mostly for the country, our country. At times, that has bee very different than AIPAC's view. I was a strong supporter of the JCPOA. I disagreed with AIPAC on these recent arms sales. At other times, we're in agreement as we were right after October 7th when Hamas raped, murdered, and butchered over a thousand Israelis, mostly civilians. So, I'm going to continue to make the decisions I make and allow individuals and organizations to decide what to do with that, whether they want to support me or don't want to support me. But these issues are just too important to come at it backwards and say okay, what do I do to gain the support of this or that organization. I'm going to make the decision I think is right, and people can support me. And I've been fortunate in the past to have support from the Jewish community, the Muslim community, the Christian community. And I'm just going to continue to try to make the best call.
Dasha Burns: But you won't say that you don't want to take AIPAC money?
Adam Schiff: I'm not going to exclude any person, faith, organization. I'm going to make the decisions that I think are best and let the chips fall where they may.
Dasha Burns: Yeah, and I ask because, you know, there are Democrats that have taken very different positions on this. You know, I sat down with Ruben Gallego, your fellow senator, a while back and he was very unequivocal about this issue. It's going to be a continuing debate within your party. But I don't want to let you go without asking about 2028, which is just around the corner, don't you think, Senator? [Laugh]
Adam Schiff: I don't know. I'm still very focused on 2026. We have a...
Dasha Burns: Sure, sure, sure.
Adam Schiff: ...super important midterm coming up.
Dasha Burns: Midterm, schmidterm. No, midterms are very important. But it is funny because California you've got Gavin Newsom and you've got Kamala Harris from here. You have Ro Khanna. I mean, it is a state that has been producing a number of potential candidates. I know you're not going to like come out here and endorse anyone right now, but when you think about the mold for '28, what do you think that candidate will need to bring, will need to do? Do they look more like a Mamdani? Do they look more like a Xavier Becerra? And by look, I mean in the style of politics and campaigning?
Adam Schiff: What I am really hoping for, what I am really counting on, because this is such an existential moment for our country, for our democracy, is to see what happened when Barack Obama burst on the scene. We didn't know that Barack Obama was going to be Barack Obama until he became Barack Obama. I would say we didn't know that Bill Clinton was going to be Bill Clinton until he emerged. I don't know who that person is going to be. But we desperately need someone who catches the interest, excitement, enthusiasm, and hope of the Democratic Party. That's what I'm going to be looking for, who can capture that kind of moment, who rises to the occasion. And even if I thought I knew who that was today, and I don't know who that is today, it may be a very different person six months or a year from now. So I'm going to be looking who is that person.
I do think Democratic voters, much as they can be maligned, are very pragmatic. They want someone who can win. And they know the stakes now more than anything, and even though you didn't invite me to talk about the midterms, I do want to say this.
Dasha Burns: Well, I was just going to ask, do Democrats take the Senate?
Adam Schiff: I think we have multiple pathways now to take the Senate. And this was unthinkable a year ago, but we are tight or ahead in Alaska, Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, Maine, Texas. We are narrowly down in Florida, in Mississippi even, and other states that are emerging. This is, I think, shaping up to be one of those wave elections in which you wake up the day after election day and you're like did you see some guy named Jon Tester won in Montana? Who is Jon Tester? There are going to be, I think, a lot of moments like that, the day after the election when Americans wake up and they find out there are a lot more Democrats in the Senate than we were expecting. And since you've been asking about the Middle East, let me just say inshallah.
Dasha Burns: I think that's a great way to end it. Thank you so much, Senator Adam Schiff. We appreciate your time.
Adam Schiff: Thank you very much.
Dasha Burns: This has been The Conversation with Dasha Burns. Next week I'll be sitting down with Jonathan Haidt. So call or text the number in the description, let me know what you think I should ask him. And to make sure you never miss another episode of The Conversation, click that subscribe button below. Thanks for watching.
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Original text here: https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-press/2026/08/14/full-transcript-sen-adam-schiff-on-the-conversation-with-dasha-burns-01037925
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Full Transcript: Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns"
This is a full unedited transcript of POLITICO's interview with Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns":
Adam Schiff: We're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump.
Dasha Burns: Hello, ... Show Full Article ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 14 -- Politico issued the following transcript of a podcast involving Senator Adam Schiff: * * * Full Transcript: Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns" This is a full unedited transcript of POLITICO's interview with Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns": Adam Schiff: We're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump. Dasha Burns: Hello,hello, and welcome to The Conversation. I'm Dasha Burns, and every week on this show, I sit down with some of the most compelling and sometimes unexpected power players in Washington and beyond. And this week, we are beyond. I am coming to you from Politico's Sacramento Summit here in a hotel room right now, but I sat down earlier with California Senator Adam Schiff for a live taping of The Conversation.
Now Schiff is exactly who I wanted to talk to about the duality of the Democratic Party going into the midterms. On the one hand, he serves California, one of the most progressive states in the nation. Case in point, California has a billionaire wealth tax on the ballot in November. At the same time, Schiff himself comes from a pretty mainstream brand of the Democratic Party. So as the debate between progressive versus establishment Democrats plays out in the primaries, Schiff and I talked about which playbook he thinks will be more successful in the midterms and what it says about the direction of the Democratic Party, what a winning coalition looks like long-term.
If you're curious about those questions, too, we'll have plenty more interviews you'd be interested in this election season so make sure you're subscribed to the show. And now, here's my conversation with Adam Schiff.
Senator Adam Schiff, thank you so much for joining The Conversation live here in Sacramento.
Adam Schiff: Great to be with you.
Dasha Burns: California is actually my home state. I grew up in San Diego. My husband's from LA. We already had plenty of Los Angeles gossip backstage that we will not rehash here, but I do want to...to talk to you about both California and California's place in the big picture for the Democratic Party because there is...there's kind of a lot going on for Democrats right now. We in Washington have been watching very closely some of these primaries. You had progressive Abdul El-Sayed just beat establishment-backed Democrat in Michigan. Dozens of DSA-backed candidates are winning primaries across the country. Today is election day in Wisconsin. Democrats might nominate Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong for governor.
Here in California, though, voters nominated the most establishment credentialed Democrat in a crowded governor's field. You'll hear from Xavier Becerra in a moment here. San Francisco just handed its moderate mayor a clean sweep. Is this one Democratic Party right now? What's going on, Senator?
Adam Schiff: It is one Democratic Party, and I think if we want to be in the majority, we're going to have to be a big tent party. I would much rather have that diversity in our party than have it outside the party. I don't think you can extrapolate too much from the results because they're all over the map. A mainstream...
Dasha Burns: Literally.
Adam Schiff: ...moderate...literally mainstream moderate candidate just won in Hawaii. Others won in Iowa and New Jersey and Virginia, and then you had very progressive and DSA candidates win elsewhere. Very hard to generalize except this, I think the common denominator is people are for a very good reason deeply dissatisfied with the status quo. And they're looking for candidates of middle, left, right that are willing to challenge the status quo, that have bold ideas for how to move the country forward for addressing what I think is the central challenge facing the country, and that is that people are working hard and they still can't get by. And candidates that have an answer to what needs to be done about that are doing very well. Those that don't or seem to be incrementalist in nature are not doing very well. And to me, that is really the common denominator.
Dasha Burns: Well, it's interesting to have this conversation in California because we've seen this insurgent left rise in swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin, of course, New York, which is a blue state, but in California, which I think for a lot of folks, both that live here and that look from the outside in, is such a bastion of progressivism. And yet, in this moment where there is this debate and this turn to the left among parts of the party, that hasn't really happened here. The bluest state in the country seems actually to be running kind of in the opposite direction of the...some of the country's most covered progressive breakthroughs. Do you think that Democratic voters here have been resistant to that for some reason, and why do you think that is?
Adam Schiff: I don't think that Californians have been resistant to that. I do think in all of these races that the quality of the candidate matters.
Dasha Burns: Yeah.
Adam Schiff: And some candidates are really able to inspire people and project an idea of change, and that may look very different. I think Mayor Lurie in San Francisco, Mayor Mahan in San Jose, both doing an excellent job very different styles in other cities. But the quality of those candidates, the quality of the argument that they make for their agenda resonates, and I think you find others that are very charismatic Mayor Mamdani, for example who made a powerful case when he was running for mayor and is a hugely charismatic candidate; doesn't hurt that he's young and good looking. So I'm working on both of those things.
Dasha Burns: Even President Trump agrees with you on that. [Laugh]
Adam Schiff: Well, the President and I agree on so much. Um...
Dasha Burns: You've made that so clear, Senator. But let me ask you, you know, I spoke with Speaker Mike Johnson for The Conversation last week.
Adam Schiff: I'm sorry to hear that.
Dasha Burns: We were in Arizona. And I also followed him around on the campaign trail, and he is making the case to voters using characters like Mamdani, like El-Sayed to say that the Democratic Party has been taken over by Marxists. Do you think those kinds of politicians and candidates in the party do present a liability for...for the midterms?
Adam Schiff: I don't think that argument is going to work. Frank...first of all, it's a retread. They tried this argument several years ago. They had some success with it in places like Florida and South Texas by claiming that all Democrats are socialists.
Dasha Burns: But now you have Democrats that actually self-identify as Democratic Socialists and have, you know, plenty of positions that they've held in the past, some of which they've walked away from now, but that Republicans are able to grab and weaponize.
Adam Schiff: I don't think it's going to be successful for a different reason, though. And that is they are now the status quo, and I don't mean the DSA candidates. Donald Trump, Mike Johnson represent a ugly status quo, a status quo in which people can't afford the price of gasoline. They can't afford the price of housing. They can't afford childcare. We're involved in yet another foreign war that the President doesn't know what to do about. They are the status quo, and much as they try to change the topic and make a handful of Democrats the subject, I don't think it's going to work because people are asking themselves is my life better? Did the President, Republicans, keep their word? And the answer is no. The President promised he would keep us out of foreign wars. He promised he would address rising prices. And what has he done? In addition to getting us involved in this terrible war, he has told the country that the cost of living and affordability is a hoax. He has literally told the country he thinks that housing is so unimportant, he's so offended that a reporter would ask him about inflation when he's got much more pressing business with the ballroom. He's building a golden ballroom while people are struggling to get by. I don't think you can change the topic from that.
So I don't think Mike Johnson's going to be successful. They don't have anything else to offer. They certainly don't have any prescription for what to do about the economy. So they will do the best they can. But it is up to us to always bring it back to the economy.
Dasha Burns: Well, and you have your anti-Trump spiel on lock. I will give you that. But I do think Democrats have some hurdles. I want to ask you about these comments that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made when she was asked about some of the far left rhetoric that dominated the party around 2019 and 2020. You know, she kind of laughed it off and said that that was "woke 1.0 was crazy" she said. The debate is obviously a major tension within the party of how to sort of reckon with those years. What do you make of the woke one was crazy comments?
Adam Schiff: You know, I'm not sure that I understand the context of it. I will say this about AOC who I consider a friend, I think she's hugely talented, and every time I see the Republicans go after her, she ends up handing them their head on a platter. I think she speaks in a way that millions of young people understand and identify with and we desperately need that in our party. There's a whole generation of Americans that look at the life their parents had and they think it's better than what they have. They wonder if they'll ever own a home. The year that I was born, the average new home buyer was 28 years old. Now it's 40. And I think that they can continue attacking her. I hope that they continue to think that's a good strategy. I think it's not a winning strategy. And I'm glad we have people in our party that are able to speak to a younger generation.
Dasha Burns: But why do you think that the Democratic brand has gotten to this place of toxicity where even in polls where the President's approval ratings are at record lows, Democrats are still even below that?
Adam Schiff: Well, I think there's sadly good reason for that. Because the failure to address some of the fundamental problems in the economy has been a bipartisan failing. It has been something, frankly, that has been in process for probably the last 30 to 35 years. As we have seen the productivity in the country continue to improve the country generate enormous wealth, what we have seen for the first time in our history since the 1970s is that as productivity goes up, historically wages and incomes went up with it. The people who made that prosperity possible also prospered. But beginning in the '70s, those lines started to diverge. They diverged under Democratic presidents and congresses and they did under Republican presidents and congresses. Both parties have failed to do anything meaningful about it. So there's good reason, sadly, for the public to distrust both parties.
And for my party, that means we're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump. If our argument is if you elect Democrats, we will restore ACA premium tax credits and that's all we have to say, that is a losing message. And yes, we should do that, but we should also go well beyond that for things like Medicare For All. And I think we should take some note of what the Republicans have been able to do, and that is they have moved the country far and fast in a terrible direction.
Adam Schiff: But we can move the country far and fast in a good direction.
Dasha Burns: Do you think then maybe more mainstream establishment Democrats might also need to take more note of what these insurgent left candidates are doing and the energy and momentum that's behind them? I mean, when I watch, like I remember what happened around Trump in 2015 and 2016 when a lot of Republicans said no way, like I'm keeping a distance from this guy. There's no way this is going to go anywhere good, and then he dominated the party for the next decade, you know. Do you see some of that grassroots energy, and is that something the Democrats need to work to capitalize on?
Adam Schiff: We certainly need to capitalize and develop and cultivate energy among our grassroots. But I think the common denominator with Trump's victory and Mamdani's victory is the same, and that is both vigorously challenged a deeply unpopular status quo.
Dasha Burns: Yeah.
Adam Schiff: Trump promised to break everything and he did. And that obviously is not the right answer. But nor is it the right answer to say we're just going to go back to the way it was. We have to do new things. I think we need a period like we saw with Franklin Roosevelt where a Democratic administration and Congress is willing to experiment to try new, big things to make the economy work for people again. We should be building vast quantities of housing to bring housing costs down. We did that after World War II for returning GIs. We did it affordably. There's no reason we can't do that again in this country. We need to think big. And I think whether you're a mainstream candidate or you're on the left, if you're thinking small and you're thinking incremental, it's just not going to cut it.
Dasha Burns: Well, it's interesting because California has sort of run the progressive experiment in the past. I'm talking during that sort of 2020 era where you had um, progressive DAs in places like LA in California, progressive mayors. And that experiment didn't go the way I think those folks are hoping for. There were recalls. There was a lot of frustration about increases in crime. I mean, what do you think that this slate of progressive candidates should take away from what California saw and the sort of backlash to a move to the far left?
Adam Schiff: I think all of us in the Democratic Party, wherever we are on the spectrum from left to right and center, need to keep first and foremost what most Americans really have on their minds, and that is they're working their ass off and they're still struggling to get by. They feel very little security in their retirement. They are afraid of getting sick because their health insurance isn't going to cut it. They are terrified.
I remember talking with a young woman in the north of the state who told me she got a good education 'cause she was told she should. She got a lot of good debt along with it. And between her loan payments and her rent and her health insurance, she had nothing set aside and nothing to set aside and she was petrified. And I think she was speaking for millions and millions of young people and people who are not so young.
And it is not, in my view, the fault of changes in technology, and we are in the midst of another transformation. I think it is the fault of policymakers that we have not adapted to a workplace that is so different than the workplace my parents worked in where so many people stayed with the same company their whole career and had healthcare and retirement through their work. And we're going to have to, with the advent of AI, think even more broadly now about how do we...how do we ensure that people have gained full employment, dignified employment, and secure retirement? What does that look like in the era of AI and globalization and automation. So this is, I think, going to be the cardinal challenge for both parties.
Adam Schiff: And I'd like to see the Democratic Party leading the way.
Dasha Burns: Well, you talk about big, new things. California has a billionaire tax on the ballot in November. It would impose a one-time five percent tax on the wealth of Californians worth more than one billion dollars. Now Governor Newsom and gubernatorial candidate Becerra don't support it, but the state party does. Do you support the tax?
Adam Schiff: I haven't gotten involved in that ballot measure, and I don't get involved in most ballot measures.
Dasha Burns: Well, to be fair, you are a California voter so folks want to know how you might vote.
Adam Schiff: I am a California voter, but I am a US Senator and I'm more focused, frankly, on the federal legislation to try to create a more progressive tax...
Dasha Burns: So you won't say how you'll vote?
Adam Schiff: I haven't decided, frankly, how I'm going to vote. And what I am focused on though is in addition to supporting any number of proposals to make sure that people can't simply borrow against their assets and avoid paying taxes or pay...you know, those that are multi, multi billionaires pay a lower tax rate than all the people who work for them. I am trying to put together a comprehensive and progressive tax reform package that I would like to see if I can somehow inject into the Presidential debate that addresses this phenomenal concentration of wealth now.
Dasha Burns: But there are a lot of Democrats that would like to see something like this billionaire tax at the federal level, and I wonder how you'd respond to voters that hear you kind of hedging there and say well, the establishment Democrats are still more worried about protecting the wealthy than taking bold action. When you talk about big, new things, is this just not the direction you think those big, new things should go?
Adam Schiff: No, I support a wealth tax at the federal level. And I support taxing capital gains different than we tax capital gains. So when it comes to...
Dasha Burns: I'm just surprised it's a hard answer for you on this one.
Adam Schiff: On...
Dasha Burns: On the ballot measure here.
Adam Schiff: Well, it has pros and cons. I mean, I don't think it's a easy answer when it comes to each state developing a one-time only tax. And what is the impact on business in the state? What's the impact on people who need healthcare services that are going to be cut otherwise? It's not an easy question.
Adam Schiff: And frankly, I've got enough difficult questions at the federal level. But one thing that is not difficult for me, and that is there should be a wealth tax at the federal level. There should be a much more progressive tax code than the one we have. And one thing that has become so abundantly clear is this concentration of wealth we see now is operating to perpetuate itself. And you have individuals now that have such a massive say in our electoral process that they can pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a single campaign if they choose to. We have a broken campaign finance system that allows them to do that. And I think if we don't bring determination to solving that problem also, this income and equality, wealth and equality gap is just going to get worse.
And it is I also think deeply destabilizing. The combination of the disruption of the workforce through AI, the vast concentration and the arrogant use of wealth by some who have amassed it, is going to be hugely disruptive for society. It's bad economics. I think it's immoral. And I'm working on federal solutions to try to address that.
Dasha Burns: I do want to ask about another debate playing out within the Democratic Party, and we've seen a lot of shifts on this is about Israel and the US relationship with that country. You know, you've sharpened your criticism of Netanyahu considerably since 2024, but you did still vote against blocking offensive arms sales to Israel. What has changed in your view on Israel and what hasn't?
Adam Schiff: Actually I voted for the joint resolutions of disapproval the last time they came up.
Dasha Burns: Okay.
Adam Schiff: It's...and those joint resolutions of disapproval... prevented the sale...or would've prevented the sale if they were successful of 1000 pound bombs as well as giant bulldozers.
Dasha Burns: So you're in support of no more arms sales to Israel?
Adam Schiff: Well, I voted against those sales, and I'm going to take each request individually. I support things like the Iron Dome system that are necessary, I think, for Israel's defense. But I am in vehement disagreement with how Netanyahu has run that country with the conduct of the war in Gaza, with the conduct of the war in Iran and in Lebanon. Uh, and I think we have to use the leverage that we have uh, not only to make sure that we are in the first and foremost doing things that are in the US national interest but also in the interest of a peaceful resolution of the conflict there.
And I start from, you know, one uh, ironclad conviction, and that is the only way this gets solved is by having two states side by side living in peace and security. And so what I ask myself when I'm making these decisions is does this help get us there or is this an impediment? And so much of what this government is doing and saying is an impediment to getting to two states that I can't support those policies. And so I will make these decisions as they come, but it...but it is heartbreaking to see uh, how Netanyahu has so damaged Israel, its standing in the world, and the loss of life as a result.
Dasha Burns: One of the challenges, within this debate is there is also a large concern around antisemitism. Do you believe that there's an antisemitism problem on the left?
Adam Schiff: Well, I think there is an antisemitism problem across the board. And yes, some of it is on the left and some of it is very plainly on the right and some of it is probably in the middle. I called the rabbi at a synagogue recently to express my alarm and upset over the fact that someone had painted swastikas on the synagogue. And the rabbi said do you realize, Senator, this is the second time you've called me for this reason. And he was right. I make those calls so often, I'd forgotten that I had called him once before for the same reason.
And I'm in a chat with a number of Jewish members. We share what's happening in our states, in our districts, and not a day, not a week goes by where we don't see some new horror. I've never seen anything like it in scale and scope. And it's awful, and we need to be able to talk about it. You can agree or disagree with what the Israeli government is doing, and that is a separate conversation. But we have a serious antisemitism problem in this country and around the world that cannot be ignored. So, I obviously feel strongly about that 'cause I experience it myself.
Dasha Burns: Yeah. One of the other parts of this debate is the role of AIPAC in campaign spending. I know you have in the past accepted money from AIPAC and pro-Israel lobby support throughout your career. Will you continue to do so?
Adam Schiff: It will depend. First and foremost, I make my decisions based on what I think is right for the region but mostly for the country, our country. At times, that has bee very different than AIPAC's view. I was a strong supporter of the JCPOA. I disagreed with AIPAC on these recent arms sales. At other times, we're in agreement as we were right after October 7th when Hamas raped, murdered, and butchered over a thousand Israelis, mostly civilians. So, I'm going to continue to make the decisions I make and allow individuals and organizations to decide what to do with that, whether they want to support me or don't want to support me. But these issues are just too important to come at it backwards and say okay, what do I do to gain the support of this or that organization. I'm going to make the decision I think is right, and people can support me. And I've been fortunate in the past to have support from the Jewish community, the Muslim community, the Christian community. And I'm just going to continue to try to make the best call.
Dasha Burns: But you won't say that you don't want to take AIPAC money?
Adam Schiff: I'm not going to exclude any person, faith, organization. I'm going to make the decisions that I think are best and let the chips fall where they may.
Dasha Burns: Yeah, and I ask because, you know, there are Democrats that have taken very different positions on this. You know, I sat down with Ruben Gallego, your fellow senator, a while back and he was very unequivocal about this issue. It's going to be a continuing debate within your party. But I don't want to let you go without asking about 2028, which is just around the corner, don't you think, Senator? [Laugh]
Adam Schiff: I don't know. I'm still very focused on 2026. We have a...
Dasha Burns: Sure, sure, sure.
Adam Schiff: ...super important midterm coming up.
Dasha Burns: Midterm, schmidterm. No, midterms are very important. But it is funny because California you've got Gavin Newsom and you've got Kamala Harris from here. You have Ro Khanna. I mean, it is a state that has been producing a number of potential candidates. I know you're not going to like come out here and endorse anyone right now, but when you think about the mold for '28, what do you think that candidate will need to bring, will need to do? Do they look more like a Mamdani? Do they look more like a Xavier Becerra? And by look, I mean in the style of politics and campaigning?
Adam Schiff: What I am really hoping for, what I am really counting on, because this is such an existential moment for our country, for our democracy, is to see what happened when Barack Obama burst on the scene. We didn't know that Barack Obama was going to be Barack Obama until he became Barack Obama. I would say we didn't know that Bill Clinton was going to be Bill Clinton until he emerged. I don't know who that person is going to be. But we desperately need someone who catches the interest, excitement, enthusiasm, and hope of the Democratic Party. That's what I'm going to be looking for, who can capture that kind of moment, who rises to the occasion. And even if I thought I knew who that was today, and I don't know who that is today, it may be a very different person six months or a year from now. So I'm going to be looking who is that person.
I do think Democratic voters, much as they can be maligned, are very pragmatic. They want someone who can win. And they know the stakes now more than anything, and even though you didn't invite me to talk about the midterms, I do want to say this.
Dasha Burns: Well, I was just going to ask, do Democrats take the Senate?
Adam Schiff: I think we have multiple pathways now to take the Senate. And this was unthinkable a year ago, but we are tight or ahead in Alaska, Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, Maine, Texas. We are narrowly down in Florida, in Mississippi even, and other states that are emerging. This is, I think, shaping up to be one of those wave elections in which you wake up the day after election day and you're like did you see some guy named Jon Tester won in Montana? Who is Jon Tester? There are going to be, I think, a lot of moments like that, the day after the election when Americans wake up and they find out there are a lot more Democrats in the Senate than we were expecting. And since you've been asking about the Middle East, let me just say inshallah.
Dasha Burns: I think that's a great way to end it. Thank you so much, Senator Adam Schiff. We appreciate your time.
Adam Schiff: Thank you very much.
Dasha Burns: This has been The Conversation with Dasha Burns. Next week I'll be sitting down with Jonathan Haidt. So call or text the number in the description, let me know what you think I should ask him. And to make sure you never miss another episode of The Conversation, click that subscribe button below. Thanks for watching.
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Oracle and AWS Deepen Strategic Collaboration as Enterprise Adoption of Oracle AI Database@AWS Accelerates
REDWOOD SHORES, California, Aug. 14 -- Oracle, a developer of hardware and software products, issued the following news release on Aug. 13, 2026:
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Oracle and AWS Deepen Strategic Collaboration as Enterprise Adoption of Oracle AI Database@AWS Accelerates
Oracle and AWS expand long-term strategic collaboration agreement to accelerate customer migration, with Oracle AI Database@AWS now available in 22 AWS Regions and offering new expanded capabilities
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Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle AI Database@AWS, bringing Exadata-class performance and pay-per-use economics to Oracle AI Database workloads of any scale. Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) also signed an expanded, long-term strategic collaboration agreement focused on accelerating customer migration to Oracle AI Database@AWS. Together, these developments build on strong momentum for Oracle AI Database@AWS, which expanded to 22 AWS Regions and added new capabilities that give enterprises a lower-cost path to migrate Oracle databases and integrate them with AWS analytics and AI services.
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Drawing on more than 30 years of Oracle experience, Hitachi, Ltd. is adding support for Oracle AI Database@AWS to its "modernization powered by Lumada" initiative.
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Over the past year, Oracle and AWS have delivered capabilities for Oracle AI Database@AWS that help customers simplify deployment, scale efficiently, and connect Oracle AI Database workloads to AWS analytics and AI services. Expanded capabilities include:
* Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless now generally available: Enables customers to quickly build and run fully managed databases without provisioning or managing infrastructure. Learn more here.
* Sub-200 microsecond application-to-database latency: Helps customers confidently run latency-sensitive workloads, including OLTP systems, ERP applications, and AI-enabled operational applications, closer to the database. By using AWS High Performance Networking (EC2 placement groups) and updated deployment guidance, Oracle AI Database@AWS delivers application-to-database round-trip latency as low as 165 microseconds.
* Seamless integration with AWS services: Helps customers unlock new insights and build AI-powered applications by applying AWS AI and analytics services, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick, and Amazon SageMaker, directly to their Oracle data. Customers can also connect Oracle AI Database workloads to the AWS services they already use, including zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, which eliminates the need to build or manage data pipelines; Oracle-managed backups to Amazon S3; monitoring through Amazon CloudWatch; and building event-driven applications with Amazon EventBridge.
* Support for Platinum Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA): Helps customers improve resiliency, accelerate application performance, and reduce manual intervention for mission-critical Oracle AI Database@AWS workloads. Learn more here.
* Oracle AI Database@AWS now live in 22 AWS Regions: Customers have more deployment options with Oracle AI Database@AWS now available in 22 AWS Regions worldwide. Learn more here.
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About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.
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Oracle and AWS Deepen Strategic Collaboration as Enterprise Adoption of Oracle AI Database@AWS Accelerates
Oracle and AWS expand long-term strategic collaboration agreement to accelerate customer migration, with Oracle AI Database@AWS now available in 22 AWS Regions and offering new expanded capabilities
New Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, now generally available, extends Exadata performance and pay-per-use economics ... Show Full Article REDWOOD SHORES, California, Aug. 14 -- Oracle, a developer of hardware and software products, issued the following news release on Aug. 13, 2026: * * * Oracle and AWS Deepen Strategic Collaboration as Enterprise Adoption of Oracle AI Database@AWS Accelerates Oracle and AWS expand long-term strategic collaboration agreement to accelerate customer migration, with Oracle AI Database@AWS now available in 22 AWS Regions and offering new expanded capabilities New Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, now generally available, extends Exadata performance and pay-per-use economicsto organizations of any size
CJ Olive Young, Kobalt Music Group, and Metropolitan Transport Authority of Barcelona are running business-critical workloads on Oracle AI Database@AWS
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Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle AI Database@AWS, bringing Exadata-class performance and pay-per-use economics to Oracle AI Database workloads of any scale. Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) also signed an expanded, long-term strategic collaboration agreement focused on accelerating customer migration to Oracle AI Database@AWS. Together, these developments build on strong momentum for Oracle AI Database@AWS, which expanded to 22 AWS Regions and added new capabilities that give enterprises a lower-cost path to migrate Oracle databases and integrate them with AWS analytics and AI services.
"Just one year after general availability, Oracle AI Database@AWS has reached global scale, with customers running business-critical workloads, and 22 AWS Regions available across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas," said Nathan Thomas, senior vice president, product management, Oracle. "This momentum demonstrates that enterprises want a simpler, lower-cost path to modernize their most important Oracle workloads within AWS environments. With the global reach and innovative new services we have made available over the last year, we are delivering that path and enabling more and more customers to put AI to work on live business data and build new applications without re-architecting or compromising performance."
"The enterprise adoption over the past year reflects the value customers get when their Oracle AI Database workloads run on Oracle AI Database@AWS," said Ganapathy (G2) Krishnamoorthy, vice president, database services, AWS. "With the full breadth of AWS analytics and AI services, available right where their data lives, customers of any size can modernize applications faster, unlock new insights, and build AI-powered applications on the data that runs their business."
Exadata Performance, Now Within Reach of Any Enterprise
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure allows customers to specify the compute and storage capacity they need, while spreading every database across pooled storage servers for high performance and availability, eliminating the need to provision dedicated database and storage servers. That makes Exadata economics practical for a wider range of workloads, from smaller Oracle databases to deploying in multiple regions for high availability and disaster recovery. It also adds instant thin cloning, so customers can rapidly spin up database copies for development and testing with Exadata performance, without duplicating storage. Learn more here.
This more accessible Exadata foundation also supports a broader range of workloads, including AI. Oracle AI Database brings AI directly to customers' most valuable business data, enabling generative and agentic AI without moving or duplicating data. With Oracle AI Vector Search, customers can find and retrieve relevant information from that data based on meaning and context.
Expanded Collaboration Agreement Accelerates Customer Migration
Under the new long-term strategic collaboration agreement, Oracle and AWS commit to continued investment in Oracle AI Database@AWS and to accelerating customer migration and adoption. For customers, this provides a faster, lower-risk path to run their most important workloads on Oracle AI Database@AWS alongside the AWS AI and analytics services they already use.
Leading Global Enterprises Choose Oracle AI Database@AWS
Enterprises across industries, including highly regulated sectors such as financial services and transportation, are already using Oracle AI Database@AWS to migrate critical workloads and put AI to work on the data that runs their business.
CJ Olive Young, a leading Korean beauty and wellness retailer operating over 1,380 stores, is leveraging Oracle AI Database@AWS to migrate its core workloads to the cloud. As a result, CJ Olive Young can integrate data across Oracle and AWS, accelerate AI adoption, and simplify management and operations.
"The availability of Oracle AI Database@AWS in South Korea offers an easy migration path to the cloud for our mission-critical Oracle workloads," said Wonho Park, platform engineering team lead, CJ Olive Young. "We expect the seamless integration with AWS's advanced AI and analytics services, such as Amazon Bedrock, to accelerate our AI innovation, reduce time-to-insight, and deliver measurable business outcomes."
Kobalt Music Group, a leading independent music publisher that handles administration for millions of songs, is using Oracle AI Database@AWS to support its digital collection platform in processing online and offline consumption data and distributing royalties to songwriters, publishers, and rights holders. By running Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure in AWS, Kobalt achieves ultra-low latency with its AWS applications, along with the high performance and scalability required to support growing volumes of music transactions and payments.
"Technology plays a critical role in the management of complex digital music rights, ensuring fast and accurate payments, while delivering greater transparency and value to creators," said Nuno Guerreiro, chief technology officer, Kobalt Music Group. "With Oracle AI Database@AWS, we can continue evolving our digital platform on a high-performance foundation that supports our growth and enables us to empower our clients with greater speed and efficiency."
The Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) of Barcelona is the public agency responsible for the transportation system of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region. It coordinates, plans, and manages the region's integrated public transportation network, which records 1.2 million annual ticket validations.
"Oracle AI Database@AWS helps us deliver new and improved mobility services while enhancing our operational efficiency," said Manuel Valdes, general manager, Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) of Barcelona. "By putting critical mobility data, advanced analytics, and AI to better use, we can make smarter decisions and continually improve the public transportation services people across the Barcelona metropolitan region rely on every day."
Global Partners Give Customers More Choice and Flexibility to Adopt Oracle AI Database@AWS
Global systems integrators are also helping customers adopt Oracle AI Database@AWS, and eligible AWS Partner Network and Oracle Partner Network members can resell Oracle AI Database@AWS through AWS Channel Partner Private Offers. Qualified MSP partners can also provide managed services for Oracle AI Database@AWS on a customer's behalf, offering enterprises a simplified path to adoption. In addition, Oracle Migration Accelerator helps fund migration services and enables customers to offset the cost of migration while partners can scale larger transformation projects.
Deloitte brings together deep industry experience and AI talent across its broader global Oracle and AWS technology practices. Through its strategic relationships with both companies, Deloitte is helping organizations take advantage of Oracle AI Database@AWS to accelerate cloud migrations, optimize operations, and unlock AI-powered insights.
"The growing momentum behind Oracle Database@AWS signals that enterprises are looking to their trusted relationships to help navigate complexity and drive innovation in the cloud," said Kashif Rahamatullah, principal, multi-alliances go-to-market leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP. "Through our deep alliances with Oracle and AWS, we combine our industry domain knowledge with mission-critical Oracle data and AWS AI and analytics to simplify modernization and accelerate business outcomes for our clients."
Drawing on more than 30 years of Oracle experience, Hitachi, Ltd. is adding support for Oracle AI Database@AWS to its "modernization powered by Lumada" initiative.
"Many organizations are looking to migrate their mission-critical core systems to the cloud without compromising performance or reliability, while accelerating their adoption of AI," said Hidetaka Sasaki, president, Managed & Platform Services Division, Hitachi, Ltd. "Through our joint validation with Oracle and AWS, we have confirmed that Oracle AI Database@AWS meets the stringent requirements of mission-critical systems. By working with customers in the financial services sector, Hitachi will continue to help organizations modernize their systems and accelerate AI adoption through our collaboration with Oracle and AWS."
A Year of Expanded Capabilities and Global Reach
Over the past year, Oracle and AWS have delivered capabilities for Oracle AI Database@AWS that help customers simplify deployment, scale efficiently, and connect Oracle AI Database workloads to AWS analytics and AI services. Expanded capabilities include:
* Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless now generally available: Enables customers to quickly build and run fully managed databases without provisioning or managing infrastructure. Learn more here.
* Sub-200 microsecond application-to-database latency: Helps customers confidently run latency-sensitive workloads, including OLTP systems, ERP applications, and AI-enabled operational applications, closer to the database. By using AWS High Performance Networking (EC2 placement groups) and updated deployment guidance, Oracle AI Database@AWS delivers application-to-database round-trip latency as low as 165 microseconds.
* Seamless integration with AWS services: Helps customers unlock new insights and build AI-powered applications by applying AWS AI and analytics services, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick, and Amazon SageMaker, directly to their Oracle data. Customers can also connect Oracle AI Database workloads to the AWS services they already use, including zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, which eliminates the need to build or manage data pipelines; Oracle-managed backups to Amazon S3; monitoring through Amazon CloudWatch; and building event-driven applications with Amazon EventBridge.
* Support for Platinum Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA): Helps customers improve resiliency, accelerate application performance, and reduce manual intervention for mission-critical Oracle AI Database@AWS workloads. Learn more here.
* Oracle AI Database@AWS now live in 22 AWS Regions: Customers have more deployment options with Oracle AI Database@AWS now available in 22 AWS Regions worldwide. Learn more here.
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About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.
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Original text here: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-and-aws-deepen-strategic-collaboration-as-enterprise-adoption-of-oracle-ai-database-at-aws-accelerates-2026-08-13/
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Intellectual Asset Management Recognizes Gary Abelev in the 2026 IAM Strategy 300
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, posted the following news:
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Intellectual Asset Management Recognizes Gary Abelev in the 2026 IAM Strategy 300
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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that Intellectual Asset Management named partner Gary A. Abelev to its 2026 list, "IAM Strategy 300: The World's Leading IP Strategists." This publication honors individuals who "have exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation and management of IP value."
IAM Strategy 300 includes individuals from service ... Show Full Article DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, posted the following news: * * * Intellectual Asset Management Recognizes Gary Abelev in the 2026 IAM Strategy 300 * Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that Intellectual Asset Management named partner Gary A. Abelev to its 2026 list, "IAM Strategy 300: The World's Leading IP Strategists." This publication honors individuals who "have exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation and management of IP value." IAM Strategy 300 includes individuals from serviceproviders (e.g., law firms), corporations, research institutions, and universities. Honorees are identified through a process that requires nominations by at least three people from outside their own organization, as well as analysis by the IAM research team.
With three decades of intellectual property experience, Abelev represents domestic and foreign clients in patent litigation, due diligence studies, worldwide patent portfolio management and procurement, and IP and technology licensing agreements. He focuses his practice on technical subject matter that includes medical and other imaging technology, analysis and therapy technologies, computer software and hardware, semiconductor manufacturing, wired and wireless communications systems, material science and metallurgy, and other electrical and mechanical arts. His breadth of knowledge across prosecution, litigation, and transactions enables him to provide clients with a full suite of IP services.
The full 2026 IAM Strategy 300 list can be found here.
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Intellectual Asset Management Recognizes Gary Abelev in the 2026 IAM Strategy 300
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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that Intellectual Asset Management named partner Gary A. Abelev to its 2026 list, "IAM Strategy 300: The World's Leading IP Strategists." This publication honors individuals who "have exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation and management of IP value."
IAM Strategy 300 includes individuals from service ... Show Full Article DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, posted the following news: * * * Intellectual Asset Management Recognizes Gary Abelev in the 2026 IAM Strategy 300 * Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that Intellectual Asset Management named partner Gary A. Abelev to its 2026 list, "IAM Strategy 300: The World's Leading IP Strategists." This publication honors individuals who "have exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation and management of IP value." IAM Strategy 300 includes individuals from serviceproviders (e.g., law firms), corporations, research institutions, and universities. Honorees are identified through a process that requires nominations by at least three people from outside their own organization, as well as analysis by the IAM research team.
With three decades of intellectual property experience, Abelev represents domestic and foreign clients in patent litigation, due diligence studies, worldwide patent portfolio management and procurement, and IP and technology licensing agreements. He focuses his practice on technical subject matter that includes medical and other imaging technology, analysis and therapy technologies, computer software and hardware, semiconductor manufacturing, wired and wireless communications systems, material science and metallurgy, and other electrical and mechanical arts. His breadth of knowledge across prosecution, litigation, and transactions enables him to provide clients with a full suite of IP services.
The full 2026 IAM Strategy 300 list can be found here.
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Goodwin Advises Dynatrace on $915 Million Agreement to Acquire Arize
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Goodwin, a law firm, posted the following news release:
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Goodwin Advises Dynatrace on $915 Million Agreement to Acquire Arize
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The Technology and M&A team advised Dynatrace on signing a definitive agreement to acquire Arize, the category leader in AI Observability, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $915 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Dynatrace will acquire Arize for $915 million, subject to customary adjustments, consisting of approximately $815 million in cash as well as replacement equity awards for Arize ... Show Full Article BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Goodwin, a law firm, posted the following news release: * * * Goodwin Advises Dynatrace on $915 Million Agreement to Acquire Arize * The Technology and M&A team advised Dynatrace on signing a definitive agreement to acquire Arize, the category leader in AI Observability, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $915 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Dynatrace will acquire Arize for $915 million, subject to customary adjustments, consisting of approximately $815 million in cash as well as replacement equity awards for Arizeemployees joining Dynatrace. Dynatrace plans to fund the transaction through cash on hand and/or its existing credit facility. Together, Dynatrace and Arize will enable customers to evaluate, operate, and continuously improve AI applications from development through production at scale.
Dynatrace is advancing observability for today's digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward.
The Goodwin team was led by Joe Theis, Mike Russell, and Trey O'Callaghan and included Rachel Qi, Ryan Reshke, Sam Jones, James Matarese, Aaron Berman, Matthew Rosencranz, Nikki Miller, Sofia Wyman, Ananth Lakshman, Tanya Choudhary, Sarah Bock, Morgan Frisoli, Lydia Marik, Kevin Lam, Steven Argentieri, Izzy Greenblatt-Gunning, Chalaun Lomax, Filippos Papadatos, Andrew Lacy, Sarah Jordan, Brady Cummins, John Goheen, Kevin Walsh, Andrew Jensen, Samuel Honnywill, Elliot Luke, Danielle Fong, Janet Andolina, Shlomo Gottesman, Jennifer Fay, Austin Jones, Alex Fisher, Alex Nicolaidis, Jacqueline Klosek, Karl Dragosz, Jacob Osborn, Nick Ognibene, Sofia Polishchuk, Dylan Brown, Emily Josef, Natalie Romero, Ai Tajima, Shelby Hecht, Minji Kim, Liza Craig, Joshuah Turner, Alex Vivona, Adam Slutsky, Lauren LaVare, Scott Zilora, and Allison Goldsher.
For more information on the deal, please read the press release.
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The Technology and M&A team advised Dynatrace on signing a definitive agreement to acquire Arize, the category leader in AI Observability, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $915 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Dynatrace will acquire Arize for $915 million, subject to customary adjustments, consisting of approximately $815 million in cash as well as replacement equity awards for Arize ... Show Full Article BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Goodwin, a law firm, posted the following news release: * * * Goodwin Advises Dynatrace on $915 Million Agreement to Acquire Arize * The Technology and M&A team advised Dynatrace on signing a definitive agreement to acquire Arize, the category leader in AI Observability, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $915 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Dynatrace will acquire Arize for $915 million, subject to customary adjustments, consisting of approximately $815 million in cash as well as replacement equity awards for Arizeemployees joining Dynatrace. Dynatrace plans to fund the transaction through cash on hand and/or its existing credit facility. Together, Dynatrace and Arize will enable customers to evaluate, operate, and continuously improve AI applications from development through production at scale.
Dynatrace is advancing observability for today's digital businesses, helping to transform the complexity of modern digital ecosystems into powerful business assets. By leveraging AI-powered insights, Dynatrace enables organizations to analyze, automate, and innovate faster to drive their business forward.
The Goodwin team was led by Joe Theis, Mike Russell, and Trey O'Callaghan and included Rachel Qi, Ryan Reshke, Sam Jones, James Matarese, Aaron Berman, Matthew Rosencranz, Nikki Miller, Sofia Wyman, Ananth Lakshman, Tanya Choudhary, Sarah Bock, Morgan Frisoli, Lydia Marik, Kevin Lam, Steven Argentieri, Izzy Greenblatt-Gunning, Chalaun Lomax, Filippos Papadatos, Andrew Lacy, Sarah Jordan, Brady Cummins, John Goheen, Kevin Walsh, Andrew Jensen, Samuel Honnywill, Elliot Luke, Danielle Fong, Janet Andolina, Shlomo Gottesman, Jennifer Fay, Austin Jones, Alex Fisher, Alex Nicolaidis, Jacqueline Klosek, Karl Dragosz, Jacob Osborn, Nick Ognibene, Sofia Polishchuk, Dylan Brown, Emily Josef, Natalie Romero, Ai Tajima, Shelby Hecht, Minji Kim, Liza Craig, Joshuah Turner, Alex Vivona, Adam Slutsky, Lauren LaVare, Scott Zilora, and Allison Goldsher.
For more information on the deal, please read the press release.
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Fisher Phillips Issues Insight: Site Selection Tips for International Companies Heading to the US - 8 Steps for Choosing the Right Location
ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 14 -- Fisher Phillips, a law firm, issued the following insight on Aug. 14, 2026:
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Site Selection Tips for International Companies Heading to the US: 8 Steps for Choosing the Right Location
Is your company starting or expanding US operations? Given the current trade environment, more multinational companies are weighing US investment now, and choosing the right location for your business is one of the most important decisions you'll make. But it requires careful planning. The wrong choice could lead to high turnover, delayed production, or an ineffective incentive ... Show Full Article ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 14 -- Fisher Phillips, a law firm, issued the following insight on Aug. 14, 2026: * * * Site Selection Tips for International Companies Heading to the US: 8 Steps for Choosing the Right Location Is your company starting or expanding US operations? Given the current trade environment, more multinational companies are weighing US investment now, and choosing the right location for your business is one of the most important decisions you'll make. But it requires careful planning. The wrong choice could lead to high turnover, delayed production, or an ineffective incentivepackage. On the flipside, making an informed site selection decision can position you for success. Here are eight key steps to help you choose the right US location for your business.
1. Build Your Team and Set Your Timeline
Site selection involves nearly every part of your organization, so your team should include a range of key staff from legal, HR, finance, facilities, engineering, logistics, purchasing, sales and marketing, and government relations. Once you have your teams in place, set your timeline by starting with your target production date at the new site and planning backward from there. Alongside your site selection process, you'll need to simultaneously work on your workforce recruitment, selection, and training, as well as your supplier selection and other critical tasks.
* For a companion checklist covering labor, operations, cost, community, and strategic factors, see our Site Selection Checklist for Companies Expanding Operations or Entering the US.
2. Evaluate the Site Against Your Business Plan
Start with location and land. Is the site in a good location and large enough for future expansion? Companies that focus only on what they need today often struggle when it's time to grow. You'll also want to weigh the pros and cons of selecting an existing building versus a greenfield site. While an existing building may be faster to occupy, you could uncover problems like hazardous waste or structural issues. A greenfield site can be built to your specifications, but you'll have to start the utilities and build the infrastructure from scratch. Be sure to visit the actual site before selecting it to get the full picture. For example, land that looks level on a map can turn out to have hills. You should also confirm the zoning fits your intended use, and check what's in the surrounding area, so a new school or housing development doesn't limit your operations down the road.
* Caution: Environmental and historical constraints can stall a project. Watch for wetlands, poor air-quality "non-attainment" areas that limit emissions, older or abandoned structures on the site that may have historical value, or sites on Indigenous burial grounds.
3. Confirm Utilities and Logistics
Utilities are often the biggest deal-breakers, and electricity is the most common problem with getting a site started. Don't take a general capacity figure at face value. You have to dig deeper to uncover the true daily demands, not just on average over the course of the year, but in peak season. In the summertime in the South, for example, there's a huge demand for air conditioning. Or you may be competing with data centers that are drawing enormous power. Ask about peak load, daily demand, future capacity, and who else is drawing on the grid.
You should also review natural gas and potable water supplies, and then determine whether the local treatment facility can handle your wastewater. For logistics, look at proximity to suppliers and customers, as well as road, rail, and port access - and consider how easily your executives can fly between the site location and home.
* Caution: One factor companies routinely overlook is the availability of local emergency services. Do they have ladders, the right pump trucks, and hazardous response capabilities? You'll want to figure this out in advance.
4. Assess the Available Workforce
The most challenging factor to get right in the process is workforce assessment, especially for a company that's doing business for the first time in the United States. It also has a high impact on your long-term success. As a starting point, review the unemployment rate. Then look closely at whether the specific skills you need are readily available in the local market, whether that's IT, mechanical or electrical engineering, or skilled production labor. Define your educational requirements as well and confirm whether the local workforce meets your hiring needs. Specialized training resources are a key part of this. Notably, many areas of the US have a two-year college system that provides training in welding, machining, robotics, pneumatics, and computer programming, as an alternative to a four-year university.
* Practical Point: Factor in wages and competition. Wage structures vary widely by region, and the same production job might start at $15 to $17 an hour in one area and above $20 in another. Employees in the US will typically drive up to an hour to work, so assess any potential competitors in that radius, along with any new facilities planned for the area.
5. Understand the Regulatory Environment
The US has a federal system of labor laws that apply nationwide, but state and local laws vary significantly from one region to another. Understand which laws are enforced in your target area and assess the impact on your operations. Also research the local judiciary and plaintiffs' bar. How aggressive are they in pursuing businesses? These differences should factor into your decision, particularly when you are choosing among your final two or three sites.
* Caution: Foreign-owned companies, especially in the auto sector, are frequent targets for union organizing. Be sure to evaluate the area's labor history and get your labor relations and community-response strategy in place from the start. Don't wait until an organizing drive is underway. You'll also want a plan early on for environmental, safety, and immigration compliance.
6. Negotiate Incentives Strategically
When choosing your location, don't just set out to obtain the most incentives possible. Incentives do not fix a bad site. If a site has poor logistics, there's not much that incentives can do to fix that in the long-term. But incentives do work really well at the margins. Once you've narrowed your choice down to a site that meets most of your criteria, incentives can close the gap for factors that may need some additional support. A great example would be the electrical supply grid. Will you need to expand the supply grid to the electrical supply? That can be an incentive that is negotiated.
* Practical Point: Statutory incentives are largely tax breaks tied to jobs, investment, and wage levels. You either qualify or you don't, with limited room to negotiate. Discretionary incentives can be negotiated, however, and they can cover a wide range of things that will help get your site up and running.
7. Contact the State Economic Development Agency Early
The state economic development agency can help coordinate the project and bring the right local, utility, and rail representatives to the table. Companies that select a site before contacting the agency have little negotiating leverage and often receive fewer incentives as a result.
* Practical Point: Consider keeping at least two finalist sites throughout the process, both as a backup and to preserve your leverage in negotiations.
8. Look Into Cultural and Community Resources
Even a strong site can fail if the community is not a good fit for your employees. For your international staff that are relocating, look at housing, schools, healthcare, crime rates, recreational and cultural options, and whether the local government is financially stable and growing. Check for direct flights to your international locations, cultural grocery stores and restaurants, societal networks, and Saturday schools that help children maintain their home language skills. The presence of other multinational companies in the area is usually a good sign that the community is prepared to support your team.
* Related Reading: Site Selection Checklist for Companies Expanding Operations or Entering the US.
Conclusion
We will continue to monitor developments related to US site selection and incentives and offer updates as warranted, so make sure you are subscribed to Fisher Phillips' Insight System to keep up with the most up-to-date information. If you have questions, please contact your Fisher Phillips attorney, the authors of this Insight, or any attorney in our International Practice Group or on our Site Selection and Incentives Team.
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Site Selection Tips for International Companies Heading to the US: 8 Steps for Choosing the Right Location
Is your company starting or expanding US operations? Given the current trade environment, more multinational companies are weighing US investment now, and choosing the right location for your business is one of the most important decisions you'll make. But it requires careful planning. The wrong choice could lead to high turnover, delayed production, or an ineffective incentive ... Show Full Article ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 14 -- Fisher Phillips, a law firm, issued the following insight on Aug. 14, 2026: * * * Site Selection Tips for International Companies Heading to the US: 8 Steps for Choosing the Right Location Is your company starting or expanding US operations? Given the current trade environment, more multinational companies are weighing US investment now, and choosing the right location for your business is one of the most important decisions you'll make. But it requires careful planning. The wrong choice could lead to high turnover, delayed production, or an ineffective incentivepackage. On the flipside, making an informed site selection decision can position you for success. Here are eight key steps to help you choose the right US location for your business.
1. Build Your Team and Set Your Timeline
Site selection involves nearly every part of your organization, so your team should include a range of key staff from legal, HR, finance, facilities, engineering, logistics, purchasing, sales and marketing, and government relations. Once you have your teams in place, set your timeline by starting with your target production date at the new site and planning backward from there. Alongside your site selection process, you'll need to simultaneously work on your workforce recruitment, selection, and training, as well as your supplier selection and other critical tasks.
* For a companion checklist covering labor, operations, cost, community, and strategic factors, see our Site Selection Checklist for Companies Expanding Operations or Entering the US.
2. Evaluate the Site Against Your Business Plan
Start with location and land. Is the site in a good location and large enough for future expansion? Companies that focus only on what they need today often struggle when it's time to grow. You'll also want to weigh the pros and cons of selecting an existing building versus a greenfield site. While an existing building may be faster to occupy, you could uncover problems like hazardous waste or structural issues. A greenfield site can be built to your specifications, but you'll have to start the utilities and build the infrastructure from scratch. Be sure to visit the actual site before selecting it to get the full picture. For example, land that looks level on a map can turn out to have hills. You should also confirm the zoning fits your intended use, and check what's in the surrounding area, so a new school or housing development doesn't limit your operations down the road.
* Caution: Environmental and historical constraints can stall a project. Watch for wetlands, poor air-quality "non-attainment" areas that limit emissions, older or abandoned structures on the site that may have historical value, or sites on Indigenous burial grounds.
3. Confirm Utilities and Logistics
Utilities are often the biggest deal-breakers, and electricity is the most common problem with getting a site started. Don't take a general capacity figure at face value. You have to dig deeper to uncover the true daily demands, not just on average over the course of the year, but in peak season. In the summertime in the South, for example, there's a huge demand for air conditioning. Or you may be competing with data centers that are drawing enormous power. Ask about peak load, daily demand, future capacity, and who else is drawing on the grid.
You should also review natural gas and potable water supplies, and then determine whether the local treatment facility can handle your wastewater. For logistics, look at proximity to suppliers and customers, as well as road, rail, and port access - and consider how easily your executives can fly between the site location and home.
* Caution: One factor companies routinely overlook is the availability of local emergency services. Do they have ladders, the right pump trucks, and hazardous response capabilities? You'll want to figure this out in advance.
4. Assess the Available Workforce
The most challenging factor to get right in the process is workforce assessment, especially for a company that's doing business for the first time in the United States. It also has a high impact on your long-term success. As a starting point, review the unemployment rate. Then look closely at whether the specific skills you need are readily available in the local market, whether that's IT, mechanical or electrical engineering, or skilled production labor. Define your educational requirements as well and confirm whether the local workforce meets your hiring needs. Specialized training resources are a key part of this. Notably, many areas of the US have a two-year college system that provides training in welding, machining, robotics, pneumatics, and computer programming, as an alternative to a four-year university.
* Practical Point: Factor in wages and competition. Wage structures vary widely by region, and the same production job might start at $15 to $17 an hour in one area and above $20 in another. Employees in the US will typically drive up to an hour to work, so assess any potential competitors in that radius, along with any new facilities planned for the area.
5. Understand the Regulatory Environment
The US has a federal system of labor laws that apply nationwide, but state and local laws vary significantly from one region to another. Understand which laws are enforced in your target area and assess the impact on your operations. Also research the local judiciary and plaintiffs' bar. How aggressive are they in pursuing businesses? These differences should factor into your decision, particularly when you are choosing among your final two or three sites.
* Caution: Foreign-owned companies, especially in the auto sector, are frequent targets for union organizing. Be sure to evaluate the area's labor history and get your labor relations and community-response strategy in place from the start. Don't wait until an organizing drive is underway. You'll also want a plan early on for environmental, safety, and immigration compliance.
6. Negotiate Incentives Strategically
When choosing your location, don't just set out to obtain the most incentives possible. Incentives do not fix a bad site. If a site has poor logistics, there's not much that incentives can do to fix that in the long-term. But incentives do work really well at the margins. Once you've narrowed your choice down to a site that meets most of your criteria, incentives can close the gap for factors that may need some additional support. A great example would be the electrical supply grid. Will you need to expand the supply grid to the electrical supply? That can be an incentive that is negotiated.
* Practical Point: Statutory incentives are largely tax breaks tied to jobs, investment, and wage levels. You either qualify or you don't, with limited room to negotiate. Discretionary incentives can be negotiated, however, and they can cover a wide range of things that will help get your site up and running.
7. Contact the State Economic Development Agency Early
The state economic development agency can help coordinate the project and bring the right local, utility, and rail representatives to the table. Companies that select a site before contacting the agency have little negotiating leverage and often receive fewer incentives as a result.
* Practical Point: Consider keeping at least two finalist sites throughout the process, both as a backup and to preserve your leverage in negotiations.
8. Look Into Cultural and Community Resources
Even a strong site can fail if the community is not a good fit for your employees. For your international staff that are relocating, look at housing, schools, healthcare, crime rates, recreational and cultural options, and whether the local government is financially stable and growing. Check for direct flights to your international locations, cultural grocery stores and restaurants, societal networks, and Saturday schools that help children maintain their home language skills. The presence of other multinational companies in the area is usually a good sign that the community is prepared to support your team.
* Related Reading: Site Selection Checklist for Companies Expanding Operations or Entering the US.
Conclusion
We will continue to monitor developments related to US site selection and incentives and offer updates as warranted, so make sure you are subscribed to Fisher Phillips' Insight System to keep up with the most up-to-date information. If you have questions, please contact your Fisher Phillips attorney, the authors of this Insight, or any attorney in our International Practice Group or on our Site Selection and Incentives Team.
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FiscalNote Launches PolicyNote MCP in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory, Expanding Access to Its Policy Intelligence Amid Accelerating Enterprise Adoption
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 [Category: BizComputer Technology] -- FiscalNote, a technology company, posted the following news release on Aug. 13, 2026:
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FiscalNote Launches PolicyNote MCP in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory, Expanding Access to Its Policy Intelligence Amid Accelerating Enterprise Adoption
Listing follows recent enterprise expansions with a globally recognized U.S. technology and cloud infrastructure company and a multinational industrial and technology conglomerate, extending PolicyNote's reach
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FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. (OTCID: NOTE), a global leader in AI-driven policy ... Show Full Article WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 [Category: BizComputer Technology] -- FiscalNote, a technology company, posted the following news release on Aug. 13, 2026: * * * FiscalNote Launches PolicyNote MCP in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory, Expanding Access to Its Policy Intelligence Amid Accelerating Enterprise Adoption Listing follows recent enterprise expansions with a globally recognized U.S. technology and cloud infrastructure company and a multinational industrial and technology conglomerate, extending PolicyNote's reach - FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. (OTCID: NOTE), a global leader in AI-driven policyand regulatory intelligence, today announced that the PolicyNote MCP has been published in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory. The listing enables developers, policy analysts, and enterprise teams to access structured legislative and regulatory data from around the world natively within Claude, without additional custom integration, giving FiscalNote a new discovery and distribution channel that builds on its existing listing in the OpenAI App Store.
The listing arrives amid a period of accelerating enterprise momentum for FiscalNote. In recent months, the company signed new licenses for its PolicyNote MCP APIs with Siemens, a multinational industrial and technology conglomerate, and a globally recognized US technology and cloud infrastructure company. These wins reflect growing demand from some of the world's largest organizations for authoritative policy intelligence embedded directly into the platforms their teams already use.
As AI agents become a primary interface for enterprise decision-making, authoritative domain intelligence is emerging as a foundational infrastructure layer, and FiscalNote is positioning itself to power that layer across every major AI platform. With PolicyNote intelligence now embedded inside both ChatGPT and Claude workflows, FiscalNote can reach enterprise teams, developers, and analysts who increasingly do their work inside AI-native environments rather than standalone software platforms. This multi-platform approach expands FiscalNote's addressable market, reinforces its evolution from a destination software product to embedded policy intelligence infrastructure, and supports scalable, consumption-based revenue growth with minimal incremental sales or infrastructure investment.
The Claude listing brings policy intelligence directly into Claude's chat and agent interfaces, allowing users to query, analyze, and monitor legislative and regulatory activity across jurisdictions through natural language. Queries return structured, sourced information about policy developments, government sources, and regulatory changes, enabling enterprise teams to fold policy data into due diligence, compliance monitoring, government affairs reporting, and enterprise risk management workflows.
In this environment, the PolicyNote MCP remains a FiscalNote commercial product. FiscalNote sets and controls all pricing and access terms, and users transact directly with FiscalNote to access the underlying data. FiscalNote's proprietary data is available only within authorized user workflows and is not made available for model training or other platform purposes. The Claude Connectors Directory functions as a global discovery layer, allowing FiscalNote to distribute its intelligence infrastructure to Claude's fast-growing base of enterprise and developer users.
"Enterprises are no longer standardizing on a single AI platform; they're choosing the best model for each workflow, and that means authoritative intelligence has to be available everywhere their teams work," said Key Compton, CEO and President of FiscalNote. "Our listing in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory puts PolicyNote inside Claude alongside ChatGPT Policy and regulatory risk touches every part of the enterprise, and the organizations that manage it best are embedding trusted intelligence directly into their teams' daily workflows."
To access the PolicyNote MCP in the Claude Connectors Directory, please visit: https://claude.ai/directory/connectors/policynote
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About the PolicyNote MCP
The PolicyNote MCP provides programmatic access to FiscalNote's comprehensive legislative and regulatory intelligence spanning Congress, all 50 states, and more than 100 countries. It enables developers, analysts, and policy professionals to retrieve structured policy data, track regulatory changes, and integrate government intelligence directly into internal workflows, AI agents, dashboards, and monitoring systems. Setup takes under 15 minutes, and the MCP is designed for both enterprise teams and individual developers. PolicyNote is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and is available today in the OpenAI App Store and Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory.
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About FiscalNote
FiscalNote (OTCID: NOTE), the global leader in AI-driven policy intelligence, delivers its deep expertise in legislative tracking, regulatory analysis, and stakeholder engagement through PolicyNote, its flagship platform. Built to ensure the most complete, real-time view of the policy landscape, PolicyNote delivers synthesized, expert-driven analysis integrated with AI-powered monitoring, fueled by the trusted analysis and reporting of CQ and Roll Call, and the grassroots mobilization power of VoterVoice. From the committee room to the board room, FiscalNote's PolicyNote Suite ensures every user has the unmatched clarity and speed needed to understand and impact policy.
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Original text here: https://fiscalnote.com/newsroom/fiscalnote-launches-policynote-mcp-in-anthropics-claude-connectors-directory-expanding-access-to-its-policy-intelligence-amid-accelerating-enterprise-adoption
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FiscalNote Launches PolicyNote MCP in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory, Expanding Access to Its Policy Intelligence Amid Accelerating Enterprise Adoption
Listing follows recent enterprise expansions with a globally recognized U.S. technology and cloud infrastructure company and a multinational industrial and technology conglomerate, extending PolicyNote's reach
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FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. (OTCID: NOTE), a global leader in AI-driven policy ... Show Full Article WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 [Category: BizComputer Technology] -- FiscalNote, a technology company, posted the following news release on Aug. 13, 2026: * * * FiscalNote Launches PolicyNote MCP in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory, Expanding Access to Its Policy Intelligence Amid Accelerating Enterprise Adoption Listing follows recent enterprise expansions with a globally recognized U.S. technology and cloud infrastructure company and a multinational industrial and technology conglomerate, extending PolicyNote's reach - FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. (OTCID: NOTE), a global leader in AI-driven policyand regulatory intelligence, today announced that the PolicyNote MCP has been published in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory. The listing enables developers, policy analysts, and enterprise teams to access structured legislative and regulatory data from around the world natively within Claude, without additional custom integration, giving FiscalNote a new discovery and distribution channel that builds on its existing listing in the OpenAI App Store.
The listing arrives amid a period of accelerating enterprise momentum for FiscalNote. In recent months, the company signed new licenses for its PolicyNote MCP APIs with Siemens, a multinational industrial and technology conglomerate, and a globally recognized US technology and cloud infrastructure company. These wins reflect growing demand from some of the world's largest organizations for authoritative policy intelligence embedded directly into the platforms their teams already use.
As AI agents become a primary interface for enterprise decision-making, authoritative domain intelligence is emerging as a foundational infrastructure layer, and FiscalNote is positioning itself to power that layer across every major AI platform. With PolicyNote intelligence now embedded inside both ChatGPT and Claude workflows, FiscalNote can reach enterprise teams, developers, and analysts who increasingly do their work inside AI-native environments rather than standalone software platforms. This multi-platform approach expands FiscalNote's addressable market, reinforces its evolution from a destination software product to embedded policy intelligence infrastructure, and supports scalable, consumption-based revenue growth with minimal incremental sales or infrastructure investment.
The Claude listing brings policy intelligence directly into Claude's chat and agent interfaces, allowing users to query, analyze, and monitor legislative and regulatory activity across jurisdictions through natural language. Queries return structured, sourced information about policy developments, government sources, and regulatory changes, enabling enterprise teams to fold policy data into due diligence, compliance monitoring, government affairs reporting, and enterprise risk management workflows.
In this environment, the PolicyNote MCP remains a FiscalNote commercial product. FiscalNote sets and controls all pricing and access terms, and users transact directly with FiscalNote to access the underlying data. FiscalNote's proprietary data is available only within authorized user workflows and is not made available for model training or other platform purposes. The Claude Connectors Directory functions as a global discovery layer, allowing FiscalNote to distribute its intelligence infrastructure to Claude's fast-growing base of enterprise and developer users.
"Enterprises are no longer standardizing on a single AI platform; they're choosing the best model for each workflow, and that means authoritative intelligence has to be available everywhere their teams work," said Key Compton, CEO and President of FiscalNote. "Our listing in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory puts PolicyNote inside Claude alongside ChatGPT Policy and regulatory risk touches every part of the enterprise, and the organizations that manage it best are embedding trusted intelligence directly into their teams' daily workflows."
To access the PolicyNote MCP in the Claude Connectors Directory, please visit: https://claude.ai/directory/connectors/policynote
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About the PolicyNote MCP
The PolicyNote MCP provides programmatic access to FiscalNote's comprehensive legislative and regulatory intelligence spanning Congress, all 50 states, and more than 100 countries. It enables developers, analysts, and policy professionals to retrieve structured policy data, track regulatory changes, and integrate government intelligence directly into internal workflows, AI agents, dashboards, and monitoring systems. Setup takes under 15 minutes, and the MCP is designed for both enterprise teams and individual developers. PolicyNote is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and is available today in the OpenAI App Store and Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory.
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About FiscalNote
FiscalNote (OTCID: NOTE), the global leader in AI-driven policy intelligence, delivers its deep expertise in legislative tracking, regulatory analysis, and stakeholder engagement through PolicyNote, its flagship platform. Built to ensure the most complete, real-time view of the policy landscape, PolicyNote delivers synthesized, expert-driven analysis integrated with AI-powered monitoring, fueled by the trusted analysis and reporting of CQ and Roll Call, and the grassroots mobilization power of VoterVoice. From the committee room to the board room, FiscalNote's PolicyNote Suite ensures every user has the unmatched clarity and speed needed to understand and impact policy.
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Original text here: https://fiscalnote.com/newsroom/fiscalnote-launches-policynote-mcp-in-anthropics-claude-connectors-directory-expanding-access-to-its-policy-intelligence-amid-accelerating-enterprise-adoption