Lawrence J. Halloran

Deputy Staff Director of the House Committee on Government Reform

Lawrence J. Halloran is an attorney with more than twenty-five years of experience in public policy and advocacy. He currently serves as Deputy Staff Director of the House Committee on Government Reform. In the 109th Congress, he also acted as Deputy Special Counsel to the House Select Committee on Hurricane Katrina.

From 1999 through March 2006, he was Staff Director and Counsel to the Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations. The Subcommittee investigated federal terrorism preparedness and response programs, military chemical and biological warfare doctrine, tactics and countermeasures, homeland security strategies and programs, public diplomacy outreach in the Middle East, and veterans health issues. From 1995 through 1998, he was Staff Director and Counsel to the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.  In his civilian career, he has over twenty years experience in sales and marketing in the medical industry, as well as, the communications industry.

A graduate of Fairfield University (1973) and the Catholic University Columbus School of Law (1976), he served on the staff of U.S. Rep. Stewart B. McKinney (R-Conn.) from 1973 to 1980. Mr. Halloran then worked as Legal Counsel and Deputy Executive Director of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), advising candidates and Members of Congress on election matters and campaign finance laws.

Experienced in recounts and election contests, he led the legal team in Indiana’s 8th District (McCloskey v. McIntyre) in 1984. At the request of the NRCC, NRC and Committee on House Administration, Mr. Halloran has participated in recount proceedings in Virginia, California, Ohio, Connecticut, Minnesota and South Dakota. He spent nine days in Florida during the presidential election recount training observers and participating in the complete recount of votes in Volusia County.

Returning to Connecticut in 1987, he served as the Executive Director of the Connecticut
Republican Party. In 1988, he joined the law offices of J. Brian Gaffney in New Britain,
Connecticut. From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Halloran served as Legal Counsel to the Governor of Connecticut. He and his family now reside in Bethesda, Maryland.