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Roll Call
(March 12, 2007):

"Tongour Simpson Holslcaw and Potomac Counsel's Manus Cooney, former Judiciary Committee chief counsel during the chairmanship of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) are merging their firms. We've known each other for almost 20 years and we didnÕt have any client conflicts. It made a lot of sense."


National Journal
(August 13, 2005):

"[To enhance their efforts in the recently enacted highway bill] bike advocates,...hired the lobbying firm Tongour Simpson Holsclaw. The firm...helped the bicycling community build and strengthen its ties to Senate Republicans. [The bill will] steer as much as $4 billion into Federal funding of bike paths and bike-related programs over the next five years. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., has called the 2005 highway bill 'the best bicycle bill in history'. "

"You Can Go Your Own Way" by W. John Moore
National Journal
(April 4, 1998):

"Clients are attracted to smaller firms because they can expect a bigger bang for their lobbying buck," added Michael A. Tongour, who quit a larger outfit to start his own several years ago.

Many clients have tired of paying fees that reflect the high overhead that comes with a mega-firm. "If you don't perform and if you lose the business, you lose a heck of a lot higher percentage of business than a bigger firm would have, he said."


"Young Lobbyists" by T.R. Goldman
InfluenceOnline
(March 6, 2000):

"[one of] the city's youngest lobbying stars [is] John "Brad" Holsclaw of Tongour Simpson Holsclaw"...


InfluenceOnline
(November 15, 2000):

"...Brad Holsclaw is a guy who has a strong personal relationship with [Senate Finance Committee Chairman] Grassley. Holsclaw is a jogging buddy of Grassley. And for the past half-dozen years, he has also been coordinator of the so called Foreign Ambassadors' Tour which annually sends 20 to 40 international emissaries to Grassley's home state."


Legal Times
(August 5, 2002):

The catalyst for my legal career in Washington was fear. I began practicing law in South Carolina in 1981, originally in a small firm, and then as a sole practitioner. My in the domestic relations area started to expand. That certainly wasn't one of my life goals. Increasingly, I feared that my epitaph would read: "Here lies a Columbia, South Carolina divorce attorney."

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