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Lobbying group grows into Hatch act

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on May 29, 2020

Three longtime aides to retired Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) have reunited as lobbyists.

Matt Sandgren, who served as the senator's final chief of staff, founded Innovative Policy after the senator retired at the end of last term.

Two more ex-Hatch staffers have since joined in to help the firm lobby for Navajo Nation: Melanie Bowen, former Hatch state director, and Ron Dean, former regional director. With Sandgren, they spent a combined 73 years on Hatch's Senate staff.

Sandgren is also executive director of the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation, and Bowen is community-relations director there.