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Cornell Teague provides his clients strategic advice and advocacy around the federal budget and appropriations processes, including insight into the convergence between our Nation’s national security and fiscal policy objectives. Teague joined Alpine Group in 2017, after spending seven years as a Professional Staff Member on the House Appropriations Committee, including the last three with the Subcommittee on Defense, where he was the primary staff member responsible for the Committee’s oversight of the Department of Defense’s operations accounts, an annual expenditure exceeding $250 billion across the Services and Defense-Wide agencies.
Before joining the Defense Subcommittee, Teague worked for the House Appropriations Committee, Homeland Security Subcommittee, focusing primarily on cybersecurity and transportation security budgeting and appropriations. He began working on the Committee as an aide to then Full Committee Chairman Hal Rogers of Kentucky. While on Capitol Hill, he also participated in 114th Congress’ John C. Stennis Fellows Program for Public Service, a bipartisan, bicameral leadership program for senior staff in the U.S. Congress.
The method for funding federal programs through discretionary spending can seem convoluted to the casual observer and Teague is a frequent guest lecturer at universities, and in front of businesses, organizations, civil servants and clients.
Teague has also worked in The White House, serving President George W. Bush at the Homeland Security Council and USA Freedom Corps. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and received his Master of Business Administration at George Mason University. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.