mike quickel

Mike Quickel is a Capitol Hill veteran, with more than 25 years of experience in both the Senate and the House.  Mike most recently served as Policy Director for the Senate Finance Committee, with a focus on leading the operations of the Republican tax team.  In all, Mike served as lead tax policy advisor for Ranking Member Mike Crapo of Idaho for more than 20 years.

During this time, Mike played a key role in navigating Senate procedure to achieve significant legislative success in the tax world.  These successes included working through regular order committee hearings, markup and the reconciliation process to enact the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as well as co-leading the bipartisan Finance Committee task force on Savings and Investment to develop many of the concepts and proposals that were ultimately enacted into law as part of the SECURE Act.

Prior to joining the Finance Committee staff, Mike served for 4 years as Policy Director of the Senate Banking Committee under then-Chairman Crapo.  During that time, Mike was responsible for leading the efforts to enact the longest reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank in its history, and to achieve Senate confirmation of a Chairman and other board members of the bank, restoring the bank to an operating quorum, after a lengthy lapse in operations.

Mike also served more than 15 years as Senator Crapo’s lead advisor on the Senate Budget Committee.  During that time, Mike served as lead advisor to Senator Crapo during his service on the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, also known as the Simpson-Bowles Commission.  With Congress and the Administration at that time failing to take action on the commission’s recommendations, and with the even worsening fiscal picture our nation now faces, future congresses may turn back to the experiences and recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles Commission to guide their future efforts.

Prior to his 23+ year Senate career, Mike worked nearly 2 years for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.  Mike’s first experience on Capitol Hill was as an intern for then-Senator Connie Mack of Florida, following Mike’s graduation with a degree in business from Florida State University.

Both Mike and his wife, Meg, are originally from the Great Lakes area, and they now reside outside of Toledo, Ohio, with their son, David.