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Groups & Coalitions
Building strong coalitions is a trademark of Valis Associates. Well-targeted coalitions serve to publicize views, lobby effectively, broaden bases of support, and increase and coordinate allied efforts. Wayne Valis and Valis Associates manage or assist coalitions that focus on civil justice reform, education policy, tax issues, international trade strategy, health care reform, and transportation and environmental issues, among others.
New Majority Society (NMS)
The New Majority Society was organized to help advance Republican candidates and promote core Republican principles including: limited government, free/fair international trade policy, market-based solutions to regulations, lower taxes, and responsible stewardship of the environment.
NMS was founded following the historic Congressional elections of 1994, which, for the first time in 40 years, returned the Republican Party to majority status in both the House and Senate. The members of the New Majority Society are former Members of Congress, senior officials from Republican Administrations and prominent political activists that continue to engage in political and legislative matters in Washington.
The Regulatory Improvement Council (RIC)
RIC members endorse the following:
I. Regulation: Environmental, health and safety regulations have led to dramatic improvements in the environment and have significantly reduced human health risk; however, many of the Federal regulations that have led to these improvements have been more costly and less effective than they could have been; too often regulatory priorities have not been based upon a realistic consideration of risk, risk reduction opportunities, and costs.
The public and private resources available to address health, safety, and environmental concerns are not unlimited; those resources need to be allocated to address the greatest needs in the most cost-effective manner so that the incremental costs of regulatory options are reasonably related to be incremental benefits.
To provide more cost-effective and cost-reasonable protection to human health and the environment, regulatory priorities should be based upon realistic consideration of risk; the priority-setting process must include scientifically sound, objective, and unbiased risk assessments, comparative risk analysis, and risk management choices that are grounded in cost-benefit principles.
Risk assessment has proven to be a useful decision making tool; however, improvements are needed in both the quality of assessments and the characterization and communication of findings; scientific and other data must be better collected, organized, and evaluated; most importantly, the critical information resulting from a risk assessment must be effectively communicated in an objective and unbiased manner to decision makers, and from decision makers to the public.
The public stakeholders must be fully involved in the risk decision-making process. They have the right to know about the risks addressed by regulation, the amount of risk to be reduced, the quality of the science used to support decisions, and the cost of implementing and complying with regulations. This knowledge will allow for public scrutiny and promote quality, integrity, and responsiveness of agency decisions.
II: Intellectual Property Protection: Successful innovation promotes technologies and products that fuel economic development and improve the worldwide human condition. Without strong protection and enforcement of intellectual property, much of private investment initiative, research and human invention would be stolen and evaporate. Multinational business and research-intensive industry in particular, depend upon the assurance and predictability of intellectual property protection. The regulatory regime and legal system must defend intellectual property as the cornerstone of creativity, development, and scientific advance. IP protected innovation is the crown jewel of the American economic system.
Trade Association Liaison Council:
TALC members are chief executive officers of 40 premier American trade associations who meet monthly in informal, bipartisan, off-the-record sessions to discuss public policy issues. The membership actively builds coalitions for economic growth, reasonable regulatory policies, international trade and other important policy issues. Virtually every sector of American industry is represented in TALC, as well as tens of millions of American employers and workers.