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Frank C. Guinta

Senior Vice President

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Former US Congressman Frank Guinta, Senior Vice President at ML Strategies in Washington, DC, advises clients on federal policy and legislative strategy, drawing on a distinguished career in public service and private sector leadership. He helps organizations navigate Congress and federal agencies to advance policy priorities and respond to regulatory challenges. 

With extensive experience in legislative affairs, municipal leadership, and constituent advocacy, Frank brings a well-rounded perspective to clients pursuing federal engagement. 

Frank represented New Hampshire’s 1st congressional district in the US House of Representatives for two nonconsecutive terms, from 2011 to 2013 and from 2015 to 2017. During his tenure, he served on the House Financial Services, Budget, Oversight and Government Reform, and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees, and co-founded the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic, contributing to key provisions in the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA). Before serving in Congress, Frank was elected mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire--becoming the city’s youngest mayor in over a century--and held prior roles in state and local government, including the New Hampshire House of Representatives and Manchester’s Board of Aldermen. 

Earlier in his career, Frank was a senior policy advisor to US Congressman Jeb Bradley and worked in the insurance industry, where he ran his own consulting firm. He currently serves on the National Advisory Board of the Addiction Policy Forum.

Education

  • University of New Hampshire (MIP)
  • Assumption College (BA)

Involvement

  • Member, National Advisory Board, Addiction Policy Forum (2017 – Present)
  • Chairman, IBC-NH Independent Business Council (2013 – 2014)

Case Studies

Case Study Hero Karl-Storz Mintz Case Study
On behalf of Karl Storz Endoscopy, ML Strategies has advocated for uniform federal regulation to protect patient safety before the FDA and with members of Congress — and defeated the digital right to repair from being implemented in Massachusetts.

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The second half of 2021 will be a busy stretch for Congress. In addition to the typical must-pass legislation, Democrats controlling both chambers and the White House are committed to several big spending bills, too. This preview is a rundown of these bills, what’s included in them, and how we can expect them to play out.
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Since the Democrats reclaimed control of the House of Representatives in 2018, barrels of ink have been spilled on the topic of “congressionally-directed spending”. Better known as earmarks, this funding mechanism allows Members of Congress to send money directly to projects identified in their districts, largely bypassing the federal bureaucracy and its protracted grant application process. For more than a decade, the Congress has banned the practice of including congressionally-directed funding in spending bills. Now, Democrats in control of both chambers and the White House are poised to bring earmarks back. On March 17th, House Republicans voted to reverse the GOP Conference’s ten year-old ban on congressionally directed spending, paving the way for Members from both parties to make requests in upcoming spending and infrastructure bills.
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Federal Response to COVID-19

March 16, 2020| Alert

Read about the federal government’s response to COVID-19, including $8B in emergency funding and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act pending in the House.
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2020 Congressional Highlights

January 15, 2020| Advisory

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Read about infrastructure-related bills and measures before Congress, including the surface transportation and Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) reauthorizations.
Congress has continued its 57-year tradition of passing an annual defense authorization bill with the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2019 finalized by Congress on August 1 and signed into law by President Trump on August 13. The NDAA makes important reforms and updates to the process by which investments in U.S. businesses by foreign persons are reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and updates and codifies Department of Commerce practices related to export controls.

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ML Strategies has added Frank C. Guinta as Senior Vice President. Mr. Guinta has a long history of government service and has held a number of positions on both the local, state, and national level. He will be based out of the Washington, D.C. office.

Events

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2025

Navigating Congressional Investigations

Higher Education Legal Conference - Boston Bar Association

Aloft Hotel, Boston

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5
2020
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30
2020
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