Business decisions, no matter how sound, sometimes generate unintended political heat.

We believe it's important to address these aftershocks head on and, whenever possible, diffuse them before they get out of control.

This approach was taken not long ago when a nationwide railroad merger led to unintended, temporary service disruptions. Disturbed at these disruptions, some shippers began calling for dramatic intervention by federal policy makers.

THEPOTOMACGROUP worked to ensure that these short-term service problems did not spawn precipitous or burdensome overreactions by Washington decision-makers.