Carmen Group has more than 3 decades of lobbying experience gaining relief for effected businesses, non-profits and jurisdictions in their greatest time of need. Carmen Group led a consortium of Washington. DC businesses and non-profits, legislating major tax, health care and business relief during their financial crisis worth more than $10 billion today. Carmen Group assisted major Asian corporations and their US investors during the financial crisis there.  Carmen Group represented the City of New York during its need for federal and technical assistance after the September 11 terrorist attacks and successfully helped craft significant portions of the legislation that provided tens of billions of dollars in federal aid that followed to New York.  Carmen Group was the lead on a $50 million project, ERONE which involved 90 institutions nationwide and helped ready the nation’s medical centers for a biological, chemical or nuclear attack after the anthrax scares following 9/11.  ERONE created the ventilator stockpile that is so critical today. Carmen Group was a major force behind the relief from Hurricane Katrina, assisting with more than $1 billion in relief for affected institutions in New Orleans. During the Great Recession, Carmen Group assisted with housing modification initiatives and many other efforts to assist with affected parties The firm was involved in recovery efforts in the Gulf of Mexico region from  the Deep Water Horizon spill and remediation from floods in Napa, California and West Virginia.

Now with the Coronavirus National Emergency, Carmen Group is representing for-profit and non-profit entities and coalitions that have been devastated by the outbreak. Our mission is to work tirelessly to try to assist as many clients as possible during this time of national trial. We are dedicated to bringing our deep experience and credibility to bear on policy makers as we all struggle to help the nation, its people and its businesses and institutions overcome this latest and greatest test.

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David M. Carmen
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