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Speaker Information
Daniel M. Flores
Senior Counsel, Committee on Oversight and Accountability, U.S. House of Representatives
Biography
Daniel Flores is a Senior Counsel on the Republican staff of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to his current position, he served in the House as Chief Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law. Before coming to the House, he served as an Acting Associate Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and in other roles in EPA's Office of General Counsel, as a Senior Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and as an attorney in private practice in Washington, D.C. He serves as a House liaison to the Administrative Conference of the United States and has served on the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Attorney-Adviser, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice
Biography
Kristin Shapiro currently serves as an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice. Prior to joining DOJ, Ms. Shapiro served as an Assistant General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. She received her law degree from Northwestern in 2009, where she graduated magna cum laude and was second in her class. After law school, she clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski. Prior to joining the House, Ms. Shapiro was an associate at Williams & Connolly, where she litigated numerous cases in the Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal and district courts. Ms. Shapiro is also a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum, where she has developed a budget-neutral proposal for a federal parental leave policy upon which multiple congressional bills have been based. Ms. Shapiro's commentary has been published by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
