Tammy F Cameron

Tammy F. Cameron, a Vice President at Van Scoyoc Associates, combines two valuable personal characteristics: the intellect to create legislative vehicles that reach specific goals, along with the negotiating skills to translate concepts into reality. Ms. Cameron developed her skills during more than a decade on Capitol Hill, where she served as Majority Staff Director for two separate Senate appropriations subcommittees. She dealt with such complex areas as energy, water resources and development, homeland security, military construction, and veterans affairs. She met with industry leaders and maintained productive relationships with Members of Congress, Congressional committees, and agency staff as part of her oversight responsibility for water, natural resource, and energy issues within the subcommittee’s $27-billion jurisdiction. Ms. Cameron negotiated annual bipartisan agreements for funding the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository and handled sensitive nuclear weapons issues. As Staff Director of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, Ms. Cameron oversaw the Subcommittee’s $80-billion-plus jurisdiction covering military construction, family housing, base realignment and closure, and veterans affairs. Ms. Cameron developed and executed a strategy that built bipartisan Senate consensus to add $1.5 billion to the President’s fiscal year 2006 budget request for Department of Veterans Affairs medical programs. She drafted the first combined military construction and veterans affairs appropriations bill, handled Subcommittee allocations, priorities, and legislative strategy, and managed bills on the Senate floor. Ms. Cameron worked side-by-side with such influential Members of Congress as Sens. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, Herb Kohl, D-Wis., Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. She started her Congressional work on the staff of former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., in 1995. Since joining Van Scoyoc Associates in 2006, Cameron has managed a varied and active portfolio that includes a major port authority, a leading pharmaceutical, an emerging high-tech company, a large city, and a well-known California aquarium. Cameron holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from American University, Washington, D.C., and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Denver. She is a native of Denver.