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The Simmons and Russell Group signs its first client

Posted by Katie Barrows on March 5, 2014

The former chiefs of staff to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Mark Pryor (Ark.) have signed on one of the country's largest energy companies as their first lobbying client at their new venture, Simmons and Russell Group LLC.

Robert Russell, a founder of the Simmons and Russell Group, has registered to lobby on behalf of the Georgia-based Southern Co. for issues related to energy, the environment and utilities.

Russell served as Pryor's chief of staff for seven years before becoming a lobbyist for the First Group. After four years with the First Group, Russell joined earlier this year with Kyle Simmons, McConnell's long-time chief of staff and co-partner of the First Group to form the Simmons and Russell Group.