Bob Walker is chairman of Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates. As a former Congressman (1977-1997), Chairman of the House Science Committee, Vice Chairman of the Budget Committee, and a long-time member of the House Republican leadership, Walker became a leader in advancing the nation’s space program, especially the arena of commercial space, for which he was the first sitting House Member to be awarded NASA’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal.
Bob Walker is a frequent speaker at conferences and forums. His main issues include the breadth and scope of space regulation today, and how deregulation could unleash the telecommunications, space tourism, broadcast and Internet industries.
In August 2001, Bob Walker was appointed by President Bush to be Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industries
Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates is a Washington-based, full-service government relations firm founded in 1981, one of the oldest lobbying firms in the nation's capital. Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates principals have served in Congress, in the White House and federal agencies, as congressional staff, in state and local governments and in political campaigns. Wexler & Walker is a leader on the technology issues of the twenty-first century |