• Led more than two dozen Senate Aging Committee hearings on issues affecting seniors.
• Led Congressional staff on the Senior$afe Act, which produced a 49 percent increase in reports by financial institutions to law enforcement of possible scams targeting seniors.
• Led the legal staff on the Committee’s 2015-2016 drug pricing investigation, which examined one million pages of documents and discovered the four key characteristics that make generic drugs vulnerable to monopoly pricing.
• Led Congressional staff on the Collins Capital Standards Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act, which required federal regulators to raise the minimum capital requirements on our nation’s largest financial institutions.
• Led Senate staff on the “See Something, Say Something Act” which protects individuals from frivolous lawsuits when they make good faith reports of suspicious activities.
• Led Senate staff on the “STOCK Act” which bans insider trading by Members of Congress and senior staff.

As Chief Counsel to the Ranking Member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Mark was the chief advisor on regulatory reform, terrorism reinsurance (TRIA), emergency communications and relevant cabinet-level nominations. 

In private practice, Mark has years of experience before state and federal regulators in insurance, energy, and telecommunications matters. He has also represented small business clients on a wide range of issues, including copyright and trademark. 

Mark has given occasional lectures on public policy, law and economics, and the role of Congress at the U.S. Naval Academy, the Hoover Institution’s Public Interest Fellowship, and Catholic University Law School.

Mark is a graduate of Bowdoin College, Columbia University Law School, and Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.