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Lobbying and Foreign Representation

Has been represented by:

• BearingPoint Inc. (2001)
• Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP (2019 - 2024)
• Capitol Counsel LLC (2009 - 2012)
• CGCN Group LLC (2018 - 2024)
• Cumberland North America LLC (2007)
• EOP Group Inc. (2001 - 2013)
• Ernst & Young LLP (2006 - 2007)
• GDS Strategies LLC (2012 - 2013)
• Goodwin Procter LLP (2005 - 2006)
• Greenberg Traurig LLP (2024)
• Grossman Solutions (2013 - 2017, 2019)
• Hartley, Harry Benjamin (2005 - 2006)
• HBW Resources LLC (2009)
• Heinz, Christopher (2007 - 2013, 2020 - 2022)
• Hunton & Williams LLP (2005 - 2007)
• Impact Texas Communications LLP (2008 - 2009)
• Jim Gould Strategies LLC (2017 - 2018)
• Johnston and Associates LLC (2006 - 2019)
• Lundquist, Nethercutt and Griles LLC (2005 - 2006)
• Majority Group LLC (2021 - 2023)
• McGuireWoods Consulting LLC (2013 - 2018)
• Mehlman Consulting Inc. (2008 - 2014)
• OGR (2002 - 2024)
• O'Keefe, William F. (2001)
• Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz PC (2007 - 2011)
• OMB Professionals Inc. (2007)
• Peter Damon Group LLC (2020 - 2021)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (2002 - 2010)
• Prime Policy Group (2010)
• Public Strategies Inc. (2002 - 2004)
• QGA Public Affairs (2005 - 2006)
• R.B. Murphy and Associates LLC (2006 - 2007)
• S-3 Group LLC (2020 - 2024)
• Shea & Gardner (2002 - 2005)
• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (2007)
• Tiber Creek Group Inc. (2001 - 2007)
• Timmons and Co. Inc. (2001 - 2009)
• Tiner, Michael L. (2007 - 2017)
• United By Interest LLC (2018 - 2020)

Domestic lobbying:

Filed to lobby on its own behalf from 2002-2024

Revolving door lobbyists:

People who lobbied on behalf of American Petroleum Institute and have also worked in a congressional office:

• Amador Dean Aguillen
  Worked for:
• Margaret Smythe Anderson
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• Bruce Huntington Andrews
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• Daniel M. Archer
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• Former Rep. Bill Archer (R-TX)
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• Julian Baer
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• Dena Battle
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• Ryan Mark Bernstein
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• Kelly Rucker Bingel
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• Christopher Boness
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• Matthew Edward Bravo
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• Michelle Bright
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• Cynthia Sue Brown
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• Cameron T. Bruett
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• Michael Dee Buchanan
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Caught Our Eye

• Rep. Pete Stauber fuels office with API lobbyist hire

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 11, 2023
  Senior House Natural Resources Committee member Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) has hired a lobbyist from the oil and gas industry. read more

• Former American Petroleum Institute lobbyist will be Renacci's chief of staff

  Posted by Jenna Ebersole on April 30, 2015
  Rep. Jim Renacci (R-Ohio) has hired a former oil and gas lobbyist as his chief of staff. read more

• Rep. Rodney Davis re-hires staffer from American Petroleum Institute

  Posted by John Sugden on Aug. 8, 2014
  A staffer-turned-lobbyist has returned to the same House office after less than a year of lobbying for the American Petroleum Institute. read more

• Posted by LegiStorm on Oct. 14, 2011
  Talk about potentially awkward office politics. Justin Spickard, a staffer to Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), married his boss's daughter Julia last month. read more

Employees

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People whose biographies include American Petroleum Institute as an employer:

• Paul G. Afonso

  (Nov. 2019-Feb. 2022)

  Senior Vice President/Chief Legal Officer/Corporate Secretary

• Patricia W. Aho

  (1993-2004)

  Executive Director, Maine

• Bryan Michael Allen

  (May 2021-Jan. 2023)

  Global Strategy Associate

• Margaret Smythe Anderson (Smythe)

  (Oct. 2018-May 2023)

  Director, Federal Relations

• Erik Christopher Baptist

  (Jan. 2014-June 2017)

  Senior Counsel

• William Brett Barrus (Brett)

  (Jan. 2016-June 2018)

  Senior Policy Adviser

• Rhonda Bentz

  (Aug. 2019-Nov. 2021)

  Vice President, Paid Media and Strategic Initiatives

• Christopher Boness (Chris)

  (Feb. 2023-)

  Director, Federal Relations

• Raymond Bradley

  (Jan. 2011-Aug. 2016)

  Senior Policy Adviser/Communications Strategist

• Geoffrey Norman Brand (Geoff)

  (Jan. 2010-)

  Senior Economic Adviser

• Christopher D. Carroll (Chris)

  (Oct. 2023-)

  Senior Director, Executive Writing

• Khary Isaiah Cauthen

  (June 2006-Aug. 2018)

  Washington Representative

• Lisa Marie Ceglia

  (Jan. 2013-Dec. 2014)

  Director, Federal Relations

• Timothy Tyler Charters (Tim)

  (April 2023-)

  Director

• Hassan C. Christian

  (Nov. 2019-July 2021)

  Regional Mobilization Manager

• Jordan Noelle Christman

  (Aug. 2023-)

  Federal Relations Associate Director

• Tyler R. Cianciotti (Tyler Rae)

  (Jan. 2023-)

  Senior Executive Assistant

• Zachary C. Cikanek (Zach)

  (2013-Dec. 2015)

  Spokesman

• Aindrìu C. Colgan

  (July 2022-)

  Director, Tax and Trade Policy

• Stephen Edward Comstock

  (June 2022-)

  Vice President, Senior Counsel Policy, Economics and Regulatory Affairs

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