Background
Provides counsel and advocacy to clients on a range of legislative and policy issues and congressional investigations. High-level leadership experience on Capitol Hill.
All too often in Washington if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. Aaron Cummings ensures clients are represented in policy discussions on Capitol Hill, in the White House, and throughout the federal government. He advises on policy issues related to international trade, energy, life science, health care, intellectual property, antitrust, artificial intelligence, technology, agriculture, and national security. Drawing on his years of experience in litigation, leading congressional investigations, and high-profile hearings on Capitol Hill, Aaron also counsels clients responding to government investigations.
As the former chief of staff to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the longest-serving Republican senator in history and current president pro tempore of the Senate, Aaron worked closely with other members of the Republican Senate Leadership and their senior staff to advance the priorities of the Republican Caucus and set the agenda for the Senate. He also advised Sen. Grassley during his tenure as chairman of the powerful Judiciary and Finance Committees, the top Republican on the Committee on Budget, and as a senior member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture. During his tenure as chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Aaron advised Sen. Grassley on various policy and constitutional issues, including Supreme Court nominations, and was the lead Republican negotiator of the First Step Act, a signature bipartisan accomplishment of the Trump Administration. Aaron also played key roles in the passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Earlier in his career, he worked as a litigator and as an associate director of presidential speechwriting in the George W. Bush White House.
Aaron was recognized in The Hill’s list of Top Lobbyists in 2023 and 2024.
Credentials
EDUCATION
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
B.A., Brigham Young University
ADMISSIONS
District of Columbia
Virginia
Recognition
RECOGNITION:
Top Lobbyist, The Hill, 2023, 2024
