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Government and Corporate Affairs

Washington writes the rules. Help shape them.

For more than 20 years, The Rose Company has turned federal and state policy into competitive advantage for its clients.

A boutique, bipartisan firm, founded in 2005. Most recently, S. 1020, carried by our coalition across two Congresses, became law in May 2026.

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It is evident to me that the people are not in a condition either to approve or disapprove of their government, nor consequently to influence it.

Thomas Jefferson, writing to James Madison, 1794

Distance still costs. We keep our clients informed in time to act.

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The Capitol dome nearing completion, with the Statue of Freedom in place. The statue was set atop the dome on December 2, 1863. Architect of the Capitol.

Selected Results

Effort isn't enough. Results matter.

Each result opened a market, secured funding, or cleared a barrier. Select one to read how it was won.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams, arguing before a Boston jury, 1770
Federal Legislation and Funding

Move a bill, fund a program, defend what you have.

Strategy that moves a bill through Congress and follows it to the agencies that write the rules, and the coalitions that carry it.

Federal Government RelationsTax Policy, Appropriations, and GrantsCoalitions and Associations
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Robert Mills's design for the Washington Monument. The colonnaded base was never built.

2026, S. 1020

Beating a federal deadline

The challenge. A whole group of companies faced the same expiring federal deadline. Alone, none could move Congress.

What we did. We started and grew a coalition of the affected companies, won industry association support, and carried the bill across two Congresses.

The result. S. 1020 became law in May 2026 after passing the House 394 to 14. It authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend construction deadlines for 37 licensed hydropower projects in 15 states, protecting an estimated 2.6 gigawatts and $6.5 billion in private investment.

2025, Tax credits

Defending an incentive under threat

The challenge. A tax provision central to an industry's economics faced repeal in a major tax bill.

What we did. We co-led the industry-wide campaign to keep it.

The result. The technology-neutral clean energy tax credits for hydropower and storage survived in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed July 4, 2025.

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Funding a program Congress created but never paid for

The challenge. Congress authorized an incentive in 2005 and then left it empty for nine years.

What we did. We built a coalition of project developers and asset owners and led the appropriations effort that funded it for the first time.

The result. Congress later provided $125 million. The Department of Energy now pays the incentive every year: more than $36 million to 66 facilities in 2023, and more than $12 million to 39 facilities in 2024.

2021 and 2022

Creating a new federal incentive or program

The challenge. A new technology had no place in federal tax law or federal programs.

What we did. We co-led the industry's push for a new tax credit, and helped lead the companies that pressed Congress to create a new demonstration program.

The result. The Inflation Reduction Act created an investment tax credit for standalone energy storage in 2022. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law created a $350 million long-duration storage demonstration program in 2021, and the Department of Energy has since awarded up to $325 million to 15 projects in 17 states and one tribal nation.

2024, Federal grant

Winning federal funding

The challenge. A client's project needed federal capital to move forward.

What we did. We provided counsel and advocacy through the competitive process.

The result. An $81 million federal grant through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, in 2024.

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The California Capitol Extension Office Building under construction, Sacramento, April 1, 1924. California Blue Book.

State Government Relations

Open the market. Shape the mandate.

State legislative and procurement strategy, with our President directing the in-state teams and lobbying firms that carry it out.

State Government Relations

2026, California

Getting into a market that shut you out

The challenge. State requirements excluded all but one project from a major state-run procurement.

What we did. We set the strategy, did the research, shaped the legislative language, drafted the advocacy materials, and directed the Sacramento lobbyist who carried them.

The result. California AB 2476, law in September 2026, puts a client's projects in line for state-run centralized procurement through the Department of Water Resources.

2026, Virginia

Shaping a mandate before it is written

The challenge. A large state requirement was coming either way. The question was how it would be built.

What we did. We designed a set-aside strategy for the state's coalfield region, wrote the case for it, and directed the Virginia team that carried it.

The result. Virginia HB 895, signed in April 2026, sets aside at least 20 percent of the incumbent utility's 4,000 megawatt long-duration storage requirement, or 800 megawatts, for the coalfield region, where the client's project is planned.

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Regulatory Advocacy and Monitoring

See it coming. Act first.

Daily news monitoring, regulatory tracking, and advocacy before agencies and commissions.

Regulatory AdvocacyMonitoring and ReportingNews Monitoring
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Forecasters at the U.S. Weather Bureau's Washington station send the day's forecast by teletype, 1943. Library of Congress.

For every client

See the rule coming, and shape it before it lands

The challenge. Most companies learn about a damaging rule after it is final. By then the cheapest moment to change it has passed.

What we do. Every day, we check the news for each client, looking for business opportunities, threats, and competitors' moves. We identify the federal and state tax, trade, and regulatory proceedings that touch your business and track them from first notice to final rule. Each month, your leadership gets a short written report: what moved, what it means for you, and what to do next. When a proceeding matters, we draft your comments and build support for them with Congress, the White House, and other stakeholders. When a new law passes, we follow it into the agencies that write the rules.

What it delivers. Your leadership hears about opportunities, threats, and change while there is still time to act, and your company is heard before the decision, not after it.

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Corporate Affairs and Compliance

A steady voice in the decisions that shape your market.

Board advisory, political giving and PAC strategy, and government affairs at home and abroad.

Corporate Affairs and Board AdvisoryPolitical Giving and PAC StrategyInternational Government Affairs
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The Chamber of Commerce telephone room, between 1910 and 1920. Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 70, 1788

For companies building the function

A government affairs function, built to fit your company

The challenge. Many companies reach the point where policy shapes their market, but no one inside owns the relationship with government.

What we do. We build the function from a blank page: strategy, coalitions, and advocacy in Washington, state capitals, and abroad, under one plan with communications and sustainability. We brief your Board on what is coming and why it matters. We set up political giving and PAC programs that comply with federal and state law from day one.

What it delivers. Your company gains a steady voice in the decisions that shape its market, and your Board gets policy advice it can act on.

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Issue areas

Energy and InfrastructureLicensing and PermittingEmerging TechnologyEconomic DevelopmentLocal GovernmentNonprofit and Human ServicesCorporate Sustainability
Client Base

The longer we work together, the more you gain.

Over two decades, we have represented corporations, technology companies, developers, trade associations, local governments, and nonprofits. Clients gain a partner who already knows their business when the next issue arrives.

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Insights

What's moving, and why it matters.

Short takes on federal and state policy and corporate affairs from Luke Rose. Read the latest below, or follow along on LinkedIn.

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The work, at work.

Laws and programs we helped win, now paying off for companies and communities. Reported by the press, not by us.

About

Built on Capitol Hill. Proven since 2005.

We represent clients across industries before Congress, the White House, federal agencies, and state capitals on legislation, appropriations, tax policy, and regulation. We also advise executives and Boards. Our record runs from first-time federal funding to new laws in Congress and state legislatures.

Luke Rose, our founder and President, has worked in legislative and regulatory advocacy at the state, federal, and international levels for nearly three decades.

Clients work directly with someone who has sat on their side of the table. He knows what executives need from Washington and when they need it.

He knows how to build the function, too. He has taken government affairs from a blank page to advocacy in Washington, Canada, and the European Union and its member countries, and has led a company's sustainability work. He sets multistate strategy and directs the in-state teams and lobbyists who carry it out.

He began on Capitol Hill as Legislative Director and Press Secretary to two members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Luke Rose, President of The Rose Company

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