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Damon Silvers is the Director of Policy & Special Counsel for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

Mr. Silvers is the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP. He was appointed jointly by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He is a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee. Mr. Silvers also was the Chair of the Competition Subcommittee of the United States Treasury Department Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession and a member of the United States Treasury Department Investor’s Practice Committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. Mr. Silvers is also a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Standing Advisory Group and Investor Advisory Group.

Prior to working for the AFL-CIO, Mr. Silvers was a law clerk at the Delaware Court of Chancery for Chancellor William T. Allen and Vice-Chancellor Bernard Balick.

Damon Silvers:

Upward mobility through infra jobs

Skills that last: economic opportunity in infra investment

Global competition

Working people understand infrastructure

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Tags: AFL-CIO, Congressional Oversight Panel, Damon Silvers, Job Creation, TARP

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