Since founding CAPITOL SOLUTIONS® in 1998, David Taylor has served as Chief Executive Officer of this successful, bipartisan lobbying firm.

Over 20 years of high level federal government relations experience in the Executive Branch, Congress and the private sector forged Mr. Taylor's skills as both a legislative strategist and an expert in the federal budget and appropriations process.

Mr. Taylor’s career began in the mail-room for Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS).  His government experience includes:

Six years in the Senate Republican Leader’s Office, where he became the Leader’s principal advisor on budget and economic policy and one of Senator Dole’s chief strategists.  Mr. Taylor played a key role in crafting the Senate GOP's legislative strategy on the 1993 Stimulus Package, the Clinton Health Care plan, and other major legislation.

Four years in the George H.W. Bush Administration as Associate Director for Legislative Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  At OMB, he worked with senior White House staff and Cabinet-level officials in developing and implementing the Bush Administration’s legislative and budget strategy.

Three years as Majority Staff Director of the Senate Commerce-Justice-State (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee.  In that role, Mr. Taylor managed an annual budget of roughly $30 billion and served as the principal advisor to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR), and two Subcommittee Chairmen – initially Phil Gramm (R-TX) and then Judd Gregg (R-NH) – on the funding and operation of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the United Nations, the U.S. Trade Representative, and more than 20 other agencies.  Mr. Taylor helped Chairman Gregg craft a major domestic counterterrorism initiative that laid the foundation for much of what is now the Department of Homeland Security.

Since leaving the government in 1997, Mr. Taylor has represented FORTUNE 500 companies, industry associations, non-profit organizations, and local governments on a variety of high-profile, complex, and often controversial Federal budgetary, fiscal, legislative, and regulatory issues.   He has played a key role in developing and implementing creative, successful, and often non-traditional strategies that have produced results.

Mr. Taylor served on the Board of Directors of The Blues Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable organization headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, where he helped create the “Blues in the Schools” program, and served as the Executive Producer of the 1999 and 2000 Blues Hall of Fame Shows in Washington, DC.

A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Mr. Taylor is a graduate of Duke University and lives with his wife and three children in Alexandria, VA.