LegiStorm

Lobbying and Foreign Representation

Has been represented by:

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (2021)
• Alliance for American Advertising (2006 - 2007)
• Barnes & Thornburg LLP (2005 - 2008)
• BGR Group (2009 - 2012)
• BKSH & Associates (2001 - 2009)
• Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP (2016 - 2017)
• Capitol Legislative Strategies LLC (2013 - 2018, 2021 - 2022)
• Capitol Tax Partners LLP (2013 - 2016)
• Food Directions LLC (2010 - 2016)
• Invariant LLC (2017 - 2019)
• Jackson Lewis PC (2009 - 2011)
• K&L Gates LLP (2009 - 2013)
• McGuireWoods Consulting LLC (2011 - 2012)
• Mehlman Consulting Inc. (2009 - 2016, 2019 - 2024)
• Michael, Kathleen O'Leary (2008 - 2010)
• Prime Policy Group (2010 - 2019)
• Quill Advisers LLC (2022 - 2024)
• Resolution Public Affairs LLC (2020 - 2024)
• Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP (2003 - 2009)
• Urban Swirski & Associates LLC (2017 - 2022)
• Washington Council Ernst & Young (2017 - 2019)

Domestic lobbying:

Filed to lobby on its own behalf from 2002-2024

Revolving door lobbyists:

People who lobbied on behalf of National Restaurant Association and have also worked in a congressional office:

• Laura Ann Abshire
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• Lauren Ellen Aronson
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• Joel D. Bailey
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• Stefan La Barbera Bailey
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• Stephen R. Bailey
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• Mary Burke Baker
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• Jonathan H. Becker
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• Alexandra B. Bedford
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• Kelly Rucker Bingel
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• McKenzie Bennett Brice
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• Michelle Bright
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• Cynthia Sue Brown
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• Paul Edmund Brown
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• Amy Flachbart Carnevale
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• Erica Dempsey Chabot
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Caught Our Eye

• Small Business Committee banks on JPMorgan Chase hire

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on May 17, 2023
  The House Small Business Committee's newest hire comes straight from the JPMorgan Chase lobbying team. read more

• Prime Policy Group lobbyist returns to Senate

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 1, 2019
  Now armed with a year and a half of lobbying experience, an aide has returned to the Senate. read more

• Rep. Panetta brings restaurant lobbyist to the table

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 19, 2017
  A National Restaurant Association lobbyist is serving up a new job as chief of staff to Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.). read more

• National Restaurant Association wants Frye with that

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 19, 2017
  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has lost his first staffer to the lobbying world. read more

• Boeing snaps up House aide and longtime lobbyist

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 3, 2017
  After leaving the House Education Committee, an ex-lobbyist is taking flight as Boeing's new director of health care policy. read more

• Restaurant industry lobbyist takes Hill job

  Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Feb. 24, 2015
  A registered lobbyist for more than a decade who lobbied on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and National Restaurant Association has started as professional staff member on the House Education and Workforce Committee. read more

Employees

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People whose biographies include National Restaurant Association as an employer:

• Laura Ann Abshire

  (Nov. 2012-)

  Director, Food and Sustainability Policy

• Michael A. Ambrose (Mike)

  (Sept. 2017-Feb. 2023)

  Manager, State and Local Public Affairs

• Joel D. Bailey

  (2015-2017)

  Lobbyist

• Abigail Fox Bresett (Abbey)

  (2001-2003)

  Political Affairs Manager

• Sean P. Bresett

  (March 2000-Dec. 2004)

  Vice President of Political Affairs

• Laura Knapp Chadwick

  (March 2018-April 2020)

  Program Director, Membership Engagement

• Stephanie Childs

  (2017-2018)

  Vice President, Public Policy

• Seth Anderson Coppe

  (March 2018-Dec. 2019)

  Board Liaison

• Pearce Berry Crosland

  (Jan. 2017-June 2021)

  Federal Government Relations Specialist

• R. Lee Culpepper

  (Aug. 1999-July 2005)

  Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Public Policy

• Shirley Dai

  (July 2017-July 2020)

  Counsel

• Steve S. Danon

  (Sept. 2017-Aug. 2019)

  Senior Vice President of Public Affairs

• John Scott DeFife (Scott)

  (Jan. 2010-Feb. 2015)

  Executive Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs

• Sarah E. Dolan Schneider

  (Jan. 2017-Dec. 2017)

  Director of Media Relations

• Liam P. Donovan

  (Aug. 2004-Nov. 2004)

  PAC Assistant

• Brennan Robert Duckett

  (June 2021-)

  Director, Technology and Innovation Policy

• Timothy Ehlert (Tim)

  (April 2009-Oct. 2009)

  Policy Analyst, Labor and Workforce

• Former Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO)

  (1991-1993)

  Director of State Relations and Grassroots Programs

• Brendan J. Flanagan

  (March 2014-March 2022)

  Vice President, State Restaurant Association Relations and Strategy

• Thomas A. Foulkes (Tom)

  (2001-2006)

  Vice President, State Relations

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