LegAide AI

Government affairs coverage

Coverage you can put your name on.

LegAide is an AI-first legislative technology company, building the next generation of tools and services for lobbying and government affairs professionals. We cover the public proceedings you need to track, from congressional hearings to city council meetings, and turn each one into a speaker-attributed transcript and the memo your team would have written, in your voice.

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One hearing, covered three ways.

Halloran & Reed LLP
Government Relations Counsel · Washington
Memorandum
To
Meridian Grocery Holdings, Office of Government Affairs
From
Halloran & Reed LLP
Re
House Subcommittee Hearing, Consumer Data Protection Standards Act (Discussion Draft)
Date
June 24, 2026

Summary

The Subcommittee took testimony Wednesday on the discussion draft of the Consumer Data Protection Standards Act. The fight was over preemption and enforcement, not the underlying obligations.

Opening Statements

Chairman Daniel Voss (R-OH) framed the draft as a single national standard to replace the current patchwork of state privacy laws, and said he intends to notice a markup after the August recess.

Ranking Member Ellen Marsh (D-CO) said the draft fails without a private right of action, telling the panel that a standard without an enforcement mechanism is “a suggestion, and consumers have had enough suggestions.”

Witness Testimony

Marcus Ellery, general counsel, Commerce Forward Alliance, urged full preemption of state law and…

Illustrative memo. Fictitious client, hearing, and testimony.

Coverage

If it streams, we can cover it.

Congressional hearings and markups are where we started. Since then, coverage has extended to anything else public and streamed.

Coverage runs in parallel. Three hearings at once means three memos, and the 9 a.m. subcommittee nobody staffed is covered too. When a proceeding runs long, so do we.

And if it does not stream, upload the recording.

Tell us what to cover
  • Congressional hearings and markupsHouse and Senate committees and subcommittees
  • Agency and regulatory proceedingsFederal rulemaking hearings and public meetings
  • State legislaturesFloor sessions and committee hearings
  • City councilsMunicipal meetings and board hearings
  • Think tank panels and industry conferencesPanels, keynotes, and press availabilities
  • Press livestreamsAnnouncements, briefings, and campaign stops
  • Your own recordingsFiles and links you send us

Capacity

A packed calendar is not a problem.

However full the week gets, every proceeding on your list gets covered.

Example week, shown as of Wednesday, late morning.

Federal State Local Non-government
MondayJun 22
House Energy & Commerce
Grid reliability and AI data centers
Federal · Hearing
TranscriptMemo
Senate Banking
Stablecoin oversight
Federal · Markup
TranscriptMemo
TuesdayJun 23
House Financial Services
Digital asset market structure
Federal · Hearing
TranscriptMemo
Texas Senate
Grid winterization
State · Hearing
TranscriptMemo
WednesdayToday · Jun 24
House Ways & Means
Extending the 2017 tax cuts
Federal · Markup
Live
Senate HELP
PBM and drug pricing reform
Federal · Hearing
Live
House Judiciary
Antitrust in digital markets
Federal · Hearing
TranscriptMemo drafting

Two rooms live now. Neither one gets missed.

ThursdayJun 25
House Armed Services
FY27 defense authorization
Federal · Hearing
Upcoming
NYC Council
Congestion pricing review
Local · Hearing
Upcoming
FridayJun 26
House Oversight
Federal AI procurement
Federal · Hearing
Upcoming
CSIS
Semiconductor supply chains
Non-gov · Panel
Upcoming

Attribution

Who said what. Exactly.

Getting attribution right is the hardest part of this work, and it is what we lead on. A memo that credits the wrong person is worse than no memo at all.

Most of a memo is prose, not quotation. Every line is checked against a transcript we build from the recording, with names and titles verified before delivery, because the official record can take months or years.

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Transcript · built from the recording[01:42:17]
MR. ELLERY. Our members would rather build one compliance program than fifty.
MS. MARSH. Then we agree on the easy part. A standard without an enforcement mechanism is a suggestion, and consumers have had enough suggestions.
MR. VOSS. The gentlelady’s time has expired.
…Ranking Member Ellen Marsh (D-CO) pressed the panel on enforcement, arguing that a compliance standard means little without a mechanism to compel it, and that consumers had lost patience with voluntary measures. Chairman Voss moved the panel on without responding…

Fictitious hearing and testimony. This shows how we work when we write a memo; the document you receive is finished prose, not a linked or annotated file.

Your standards

Tailored to how your team works.

The event is the same for everyone. The memo is not. You set the voice, the format, the standing sections, and the issues you track. Every memo arrives written that way.

Your format is set with you in a working session, then updated as your needs change. There is a person on your account, not a queue. Custom topics for a single hearing and special projects are both available.

Build your custom memo with us
  • Your voice and letterheadWe write on your letterhead in your house style, from how you cite members and handle acronyms to your number and date conventions. It reads like your team wrote it.
  • Your formatYou choose which sections go into your memo, and the same structure holds from hearing to hearing.
    Executive summary Member-by-member Vote recap Key themes Witness list Next steps Amendments Regulatory outlook Coalition watch Quotable lines Party split
    Your format picks the sections.
  • Your issuesYou give us your standing focus areas, and every memo flags where they came up, who raised them, and where they did not.
  • A feed to build onStructured transcripts and memos over API and MCP. Some clients take only the transcript and build on it.

Founders

DC experience and AI engineering in one company.

Between us, over a decade in government affairs and years building AI. We made LegAide for teams like the ones we came from.

Ben Turner

Ben Turner

Co-Founder & CEO

A Capitol Hill veteran and financial services lobbyist, Ben co-founded LegAide after experiencing the industry’s core problem firsthand: no fast, affordable way to cover congressional hearings. He also founded 9th Street Strategies, a DC government affairs firm, and uses LegAide to serve his own clients.

Ben Rapaport

Ben Rapaport

Co-Founder & CTO

A former Google senior engineer, Ben was co-founder and CTO of an SEC-regulated fintech company before co-founding LegAide, where he builds its proprietary systems for accurate, firm-quality hearing coverage at scale. He holds an MS in Machine Learning from Columbia.

Who we serve

Trusted by teams that can’t get it wrong.

Our clients run from top-10 government affairs firms to one-person shops, and everything in between. The coverage holds to the same standard for all of them.

Some use the memo, some the transcript, and many use both. Often the memo itself goes out to their own clients, under their name.

  • Top firms with full teams The biggest shops use us to cover every proceeding on their watchlist, in their own format and voice, without adding headcount.
  • Lean and solo shops A one-person shop can cover a full committee schedule and send memos that read like a research team produced them.
  • Trade associations Associations track the hearings that shape their industry and turn each one into a briefing their members can act on.
  • Data platforms and publishers Data platforms build our speaker-attributed transcripts straight into the products their subscribers rely on.

Try it

Start with a hearing you already know.

Pick a recent public hearing. We will draft a sample memo with you in one conversation and send the memo we would have delivered. Put it next to whatever you use today and decide for yourself.

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