Real experience Worcester IT Jobs, the right network, results for your organization.Catherine McCullough is a lawyer-lobbyist who advocates on issues involving consumer products, innovative technologies, and media before Congress and federal agencies. She has lived in Washington, DC all of her life, and has spent the last 18 years working in politics and media. She has developed her political network to include many Congressional, agency, and industry contacts. She founded Meadowbrook in 2007 after leaving the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Commerce Committee), where she served as a Counsel. Since leaving the Committee, Ms. McCullough represented one of the nation’s largest radio brokerages with critical issues before the Federal Communications Commission. In addition, she fought the Copyright Royalty Board’s unprecedented per-song fees for Internet radio and lobbied to extend the Internet tax moratorium.Ms. McCullough served as a Counsel for the current Democratic Chairman and Senators of the Senate Commerce Committee. The Committee governs the communications and technology industries, among others. The Subcommittees she served oversaw the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). As opposed to personal staff members, which serve one Senator or Representative, Committee staff work for the Committee Chair (who leads the majority-holding party members of the Committee) or the Ranking member (the top-ranked minority Committee leader). Committee staff members are responsible for writing and negotiating the bills the powerful Chair or Ranking member wish to be passed, setting and executing the Committee’s hearings, investigating substantive policy matters and making recommendations to the Chair or Ranking member and the rest of the respective party members on the Committee.During her time serving the Committee Ms. McCullough worked on such high-profile issues as post-Katrina oil and gas pricing, the Do Not Call list, steroid use by athletes, and the Jack Abramoff investigation. Ms. McCullough’s experience with First Amendment law and data privacy issues led her to a role as a negotiator on the US SAFE WEB Act, which became law in 2006, and the Commerce Committee’s identity theft prevention bill. Ms. McCullough has extensive experience with product and manufacturing standards issues. Prior to her Committee service, she worked as an Associate Director at a trade association named one of Fortune magazine’s most powerful lobby groups