CREF Track Session 6: Understanding TRIA’s Impact – Insights from Justin Lumadue

Vice President of Legislative Affairs, Mortgage Bankers Association

George Rogers is a strategic government affairs executive with 25 years of federal and state experience. With deep policy expertise, great government contacts, and expert procedural skills, Rogers specializes in outmaneuvering the opposition. He joined MBA in 2023 after being a multiclient lobbyist for a decade, including work for MBA from 2016-23. Prior to his corporate work, Rogers spent nearly fourteen years in key leadership roles in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, including serving as a senior Policy Advisor and Counsel to the Speaker of the House and to the Minority Leader. He also served as General Counsel of the Committee on Rules, as Oversight and Investigations Counsel for the Government Reform Committee, and as Legislative Counsel to the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Prior to DC, Rogers was the Deputy Chief Counsel for the Indiana State Senate leadership. Before that he was an attorney in private practice. Rogers is a 6th degree blackbelt and has a passion for scuba diving.

Principal, Bockorny Group, Inc.

Justin Lumadue is a widely respected expert on tax, trade, and financial services issues. He joined the Bockorny Group after nearly two decades at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, most recently serving as a Vice President of Government Affairs. In that position, Lumadue utilized his natural skills as a communicator, strategist, and coalition builder to lead the bustiness group’s lobbying efforts on some of the most consequential legislative fights in recent years. His leadership was crucial to securing the 2014 and 2019 reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, and the 2015 and 2019 reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. He was also instrumental in shaping the 2018 modernization of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) through the passage of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act and securing passage of the CHIPS and Science Act. In 2023, Lumadue played a pivotal role in securing Senate approval for the long-awaited U.S.-Chile bilateral tax treaty. Additionally, his extensive work on the expired and expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act helped lead to the overwhelming House passage of the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 and has been instrumental in setting the stage for the 2025 tax debate. Lumadue is a native of Pennsylvania and a 2005 graduate of Penn State, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.