THE ADVOCACY GROUP

Robert Everett Mills has spent several years as a legislative consultant following a sixteen-year career on professional staffs of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

Mr. Mills began his career in 1973 in the U.S. Congress as a Legislative Assistant to the late Representative Gillis W. Long (D-Louisiana).  In 1974, he accepted a position as Legislative Assistant on budget and appropriation issues with Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin), former Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and former Ranking Member on the Senate Appropriations Committee. 

Mr. Mills assumed the position of Assistant Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs, HUD and Independent Agencies from 1975 to 1981.  In January 1981, Mr. Mills took over the role of Minority Democratic Staff Director of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government under the Ranking Minority Member, Senator Dennis DeConcini (D-Arizona).  Finally, in 1987, Mr. Mills became the Majority Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government under the Chairmanship of Senator DeConcini.

Mr. Mills received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1971 and a Masters Degree in Legislative Affairs from George Washington University in 1979.  In 1988, Mr. Mills received his Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center.