Michael Brower

Michael Brower

Senior Federal Policy Director
Mosaic Federal Affairs LLC

Michael R. Brower is Mosaic Federal Affairs' Senior Federal Policy Director and is the firm’s principal responsible for the firm's operations and management and all legislative objectives and priorities. Brower is a retired career Naval Officer and Aviator who commanded Sea Strike Squadron Twenty-Two in the first Iraqi War and personally flew 43 aircraft carrier-based combat sorties earning the Bronze Star Medal, the Air Medal and other U.S. and Saudi combat decorations. Brower also served in the Secretary of the Navy’s personal office as Special Assistant for Air Warfare communicating United States Navy legislative policy to the Congress for Secretary of the Navy Lehman, Secretary of the Navy Webb and Secretary of the Navy Ball.

After two decade plus career in naval service, Brower was an agency executive director, bank director, farmer, a federal and New York State legislative affairs consultant and Director, Community and Governmental Relations at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). Throughout his legislative affairs career, Brower has focused on authorizations and appropriations legislation, energy policy and tax matters and federal and state agency project awards including applied research and development. Brower helped establish Mosaic Federal Affairs, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Syracuse, New York, law firm Hiscock & Barclay LLP, in January 2006.

Federally, Brower specializes in Energy & Water Development, Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, Transportation and Science/Environmental authorizations and appropriations, as well as, tax, environmental, energy and defense policy matters. Brower was directly engaged in helping craft the first ever Energy Title (IX) in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 and has since played a direct role shaping biomass definitions and components in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Energy Infrastructure, the Energy Security Act of 2007, and the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. Brower was a front-line advocate for inclusion of Section 1603 “Cash Grants in Lieu of Tax Credits” in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and helped clear the way for a $106,000,000 grants for a geothermal client. Brower recently spoke at the American Council on Renewable Energy Phase II in Washington D.C and recently published a Biomass Definition monograph in Energy Pulse, an Energy Central publication.

Today, with clients from districts in California, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Texas, and New York; Brower enjoys active, recognized effective networks in Washington, throughout client’s state governments, the New York and his client’s House and Senate delegations, Renewable Energy Congressional and Senate Caucuses, the Republican Mainstreet Partnership and most United States House and Senate Committees’ membership, organizations and staffs. A published author and advocate, Brower is a member of the American Council On Renewable Energy’s (ACORE) Leadership Council and serves as an active top-level advisor to ACORE’s Biomass Coordinating Council.