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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 30, 2023
Former Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.), who resigned from Congress in 2020 after pleading guilty to a felony, has disclosed that he's spent months as a federal lobbyist for a company with longstanding ties to the congressman and his family. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 25, 2023
Former Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) is now a first-time registered federal lobbyist. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 24, 2023
Rep. George Santos' (R-N.Y.) new press secretary is the niece of Woody Johnson, billionaire Republican donor and former Trump ambassador to the United Kingdom. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on June 24, 2022
A Chinese surveillance-video manufacturer's U.S. subsidiary has enlisted a former Senate sergeant at arms to help overturn the U.S. government's ban on its products. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 21, 2022
After working for four congressional Republicans and the Trump administration, a Hill staffer has made his first pass through the revolving door for the renewable-energy sector. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 11, 2022
When former D.C. Council Member Michael Brown (Independent) recently registered as a lobbyist after years of inactivity, he joined the ranks of a growing handful of lobbyists with bribery and other certain convictions to their names. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 1, 2022
George W. Bush's former scheduler, a woman whose husband is tied to Donald Trump, has found her way back to Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio). read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 18, 2022
Jenna Ellis, former attorney to Donald Trump, has made a hire from the Hill. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Dec. 1, 2021
Rep. Matt Rosendale's (R-Mont.) new chief of staff might be new to the Hill, but he's no stranger to the Washington establishment. read more
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Posted by LegiStorm on April 26, 2021
The change in presidential administrations brought with it big changes to K Street, which saw its highest client turnover in years. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 19, 2021
Ballard Partners, which rose to power as one of the top lobbying firms of the Trump administration, has signed at least a dozen new clients since President Biden's inauguration. One in particular represents a sharp departure from the firm's usual clientele - Naomi Campbell. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 19, 2021
A communications adviser to the Trump White House has found her way back to the Hill. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 1, 2021
A former State Department appointee has found a new home with Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), Congress's newest member. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 11, 2021
Freshman Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.) has rounded out her climate-heavy legislative team with her first registered lobbyist. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 26, 2021
A public-relations executive who set up meetings between associates of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin has been lobbying on behalf of a fugitive Russian billionaire. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 8, 2021
As many administration aides fret about finding new work, one White House staffer has returned to a Trump-aligned senator with an uncertain future. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Dec. 4, 2020
As President Trump considers preemptive pardons for his inner circle, one ally has disclosed that he's spent the last few months seeking clemency for a man serving the country's longest white-collar prison sentence. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Nov. 23, 2020
Rep.-elect Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), former White House doctor to Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama, has turned to a seasoned Hill veteran to lead his congressional office. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 9, 2020
Trump-connected Avenue Strategies has registered as a foreign agent on behalf of one of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's closest advisers. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 15, 2020
A Democratic senator's top policy aide has left the Hill for a controversy-riddled multinational manufacturer. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on May 20, 2020
Jason Miller, chief spokesperson to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and subsequent presidential transition, has registered as a first-time lobbyist. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 12, 2020
The first lobbyist to explicitly register on coronavirus-related issues is Jack Burkman — a right-wing trickster and conspiracy theorist known for his attempts to frame Robert Mueller and Pete Buttigieg for sexual assault, and who has recently called for the president to ban coronavirus testing. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 21, 2020
Bill McGinley, President Trump's longest-serving Cabinet secretary, has newly registered as a lobbyist. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Nov. 8, 2019
A lobbyist from a Trump-connected firm has landed back in the office of Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.). read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 28, 2019
Last quarter saw the highest federal lobbying activity of any third quarter since 2011. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 3, 2019
A House legislative director has headed to the consulting world. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 1, 2019
Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a close associate of Rudy Giuliani, has registered as a foreign agent on behalf of an Iranian political-opposition group. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 29, 2019
Last quarter saw the most lobbying activity of any second quarter in eight years. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on June 24, 2019
Burning Man has officially entered the lobbying fray. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 29, 2019
Trade and tariff work continues to mean big business for Washington lobbying firms. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 22, 2019
If he walks like a lobbyist and talks like a lobbyist, Karl Rove is probably a lobbyist. And now, he's submitted the official disclosures to prove it. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 15, 2019
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has lost his chief of staff to K Street. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 21, 2019
A pair of senior advisers to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign are lobbying on behalf of a gas company with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 4, 2019
A strategic-communications and public-relations firm with ties to President Donald Trump is kicking off February with a hire from the office of Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.). read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 3, 2019
An aide with the House's Oversight and Government Reform Committee is trading Congress for the General Services Administration. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Nov. 16, 2018
A longtime aide to Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) has gone postal - all to save public-sector mailings, of course. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 30, 2018
Thanks to one eminently qualified new hire, a small aerospace company is now one connection closer to both Congress and the Trump administration. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 29, 2018
Trade and tariff lobbying has reached a fever pitch in Washington, with federal lobbying continuing to grow this past quarter over already record numbers. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 15, 2018
After a seven-year run in the Senate, a senior intelligence expert has moved to the State Department. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 28, 2018
President Trump's White House has scooped up an aide to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 26, 2018
The Department of Transportation has driven off with an aide to Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), who is leaving Congress himself. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 20, 2018
A lobbying group with close ties to President Trump is representing the government of Somalia. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 2, 2018
A Russia-supported Bosnian separatist party has hired a pair of former Trump campaign aides as foreign agents. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 1, 2018
On the heels of his old boss's retirement, a House Financial Services attorney has quietly moved to the White House to be a lawyer for the president. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 30, 2018
President Trump's aluminum and steel tariffs may not be popular among the country's economists, but for lobbying groups, they're as good as gold. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on June 11, 2018
Qatar kicked off June by hiring yet another foreign agent, bringing its number of new foreign principals to 23 since its diplomatic crisis began last year. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 12, 2018
A spokesman who resigned from President Donald Trump's legal team last year is now helping the prime minister of Malaysia. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 10, 2018
Former Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.) has taken his first gig as a foreign agent. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 16, 2018
Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) newest hire is a constitutional lawyer who's helped to defend President Donald Trump. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 15, 2018
A lobbying group with close ties to President Donald Trump has registered as a foreign agent on behalf of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former Ukrainian prime minister who has bad blood with Paul Manafort. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 26, 2018
A prominent aide to President Donald Trump has filed as a foreign agent on behalf of a Turkish group previously led by the Turkish businessman central to the guilty plea by Trump’s former national security adviser. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 21, 2018
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has lost his first legislative director. read more
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Posted by LegiStorm on Jan. 2, 2018
Roger Stone, President Donald Trump's confidant, has indicated that he secretly signed a client in May of last year to lobby on security interests in Somalia as the U.S. military sent troops there. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 16, 2017
In the month after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, some lobbyists are finding opportunity from the crisis. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 29, 2017
A blockchain advocacy group disclosed its first federal lobbying activity just as President Donald Trump's administration reaffirmed its interest in the technology. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 25, 2017
Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with close White House ties, is lobbying on hurricane cleanup, but for a Florida company that was the subject of a newspaper investigation into shoddy hurricane-proofing work. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 20, 2017
A pair of lobbyists who helped found a firm with President Donald Trump's former campaign manager have launched their own lobbying shop. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 18, 2017
A Ukrainian politician and sunflower-seed tycoon hired a public-affairs firm with ties to President Trump ahead of the politician's visit to the U.S., according to a disclosure recently filed with the Justice Department. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 18, 2017
The Podesta Group has finally registered as a foreign agent on behalf of a notorious Saudi campaign, ending speculation as to whether the group was flouting Justice Department disclosure rules. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 14, 2017
Weeks after classifying President Donald Trump's immigration policies as a top threat to its business, one of India's largest software-outsourcing companies is turning to the daughter of former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), a Trump-campaign surrogate and cable-news staple. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 8, 2017
Michael Caputo, the Republican strategist whose ties to the Kremlin and Donald Trump's presidential campaign led to his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee last month, has disclosed his status as a new federal lobbyist — although not for Russia. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 7, 2017
Amid White House struggles to update the country's Afghanistan strategy, a lobbying group with close ties to Donald Trump added the Afghan government as a client. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 2, 2017
Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian oligarch whose long list of enemies includes Russian President Vladimir Putin, has picked up an unexpected ally: John Sweeney, former congressman (R-N.Y.) and counsel to Donald Trump's transition team. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 21, 2017
The National Humanities Alliance hired another lobbyist from the House, just ahead of the House Appropriations Committee's decision to fund humanities programs in spite of the president's wishes. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 20, 2017
Big Tortilla is taking on Big Labor. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 14, 2017
The Broadcasting Board of Governors, which may soon come under more control by the White House, recently picked up the legislative director to a Republican congressman who is a noted Trump antagonist. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 12, 2017
Sean McMaster has a new employer who wants him to reject offers of billions of dollars from his old employer. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 10, 2017
A disgraced hedge-fund legend with ties to President Trump has enlisted two ex-congressmen to lobby on behalf of his pet project — PTSD research and veterans' mental-health care. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 5, 2017
Compared to their Democratic counterparts, Republicans in Congress continue to shy away from town halls over the Independence Day recess, according to a LegiStorm analysis. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on June 27, 2017
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) added a lobbyist from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network to her staff this month. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on June 19, 2017
A New York real-estate mogul and longtime friend of Donald Trump has enlisted a law firm repesenting the president to lobby the federal government on issues surrounding his son's 2011 OxyContin-overdose death. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on May 24, 2017
Agriculture's Democratic golden girl has harvested her Senate office's newest legislative assistant from pesticide advocate CropLife America. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on May 18, 2017
A convicted felon and former lawyer to Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, is one of the newest federal lobbyists to take advantage of ties to Donald Trump, the president. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on May 12, 2017
While Republican Hill staffers mostly stayed quiet following President Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey, Democratic aides took to Twitter this week to express outrage and poke fun. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on May 1, 2017
Members of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club benefit from such exclusive access to the administration that one regular has entered the lobbying world herself. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 14, 2017
A pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker under investigation for treason in his country is paying $30,000 a month to an evangelist preacher who backs President Donald Trump and has newly filed as a foreign agent. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 4, 2017
The pharmaceutical industry's biggest lobbying spender has added Rep. Larry Bucshon's (R-Ind.) chief of staff as its new director of federal affairs. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 22, 2017
Stacey Kafka, a new Hill staffer, has a way of picking bosses. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 14, 2017
Donald Trump insider and one-time National Security Council contender Monica Crowley is lobbying on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch and Trump donor Victor Pinchuk, who favors his country's compromise with Russia. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 13, 2017
Though Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) has at times criticized President Donald Trump's foreign policy vision, the two can agree on one thing: The United Nations is in desperate need of reform. Now, one of Corker's staffers is joining in the fight for change as a senior policy adviser to the U.S. Mission to the international body. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 6, 2017
Led by Republicans, representatives ended 2016 by handing staffers their highest fourth-quarter bonuses since 2010. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 27, 2017
If President Trump is going to come to agreement on priorities with Congress, it won't be in a joint session. They can't agree on weed. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 2, 2017
President Donald Trump has divided two leaders of a Los Angeles, Calif. church, with one working for the White House and the other for a Democrat in Congress. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Dec. 1, 2016
Dmytro Firtash, the Ukrainian oil oligarch and international fugitive with ties to Donald Trump, has hired the new crisis management firm started by Lanny Davis, perhaps Washington's leading crisis manager and a former aide to President Bill Clinton. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Nov. 28, 2016
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), reportedly shortlisted as a pick for secretary of defense, has added a prominent national-security expert — and Trump critic — to his D.C. staff this month.John Noonan, who, according to The Hill, signed an open letter opposing Trump's presidential campaign earlier this year, is a former U.S. Air Force nuclear-missile officer. He worked as a foreign policy adviser for Jeb Bush's presidential campaign this year and as defense policy adviser for Mitt Romney's bid in 2012, and spent several years as deputy communications director to the House Armed Services Committee. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Nov. 21, 2016
Republicans in Congress have remained largely silent on President-elect Donald Trump's early proposed appointees who aren't coming from the Hill, according to a LegiStorm analysis of Member press releases and tweets. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Nov. 17, 2016
A coalition of Dominican sugar companies with deep ties to American politics is lobbying the federal government over trade and labor issues, according to a recent lobbying disclosure. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Nov. 10, 2016
Flynn Intel Group, headed by Mike Flynn, Donald Trump's most prominent national security adviser, has enlisted the help of a boutique lobbying firm in its continued work representing a low-profile Dutch company. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Nov. 9, 2016
If this were a typical election year, an estimated 19 of the current crop of more than 60 outgoing members of Congress would be setting themselves up with jobs in lobbying. But with Donald Trump being elected president, this is no ordinary election year. read more
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 11, 2016
The Republican Party has no de facto successor to Donald Trump, should he exit the presidential race before Election Day, according to a new Congressional Research Service report produced with prescient timing. read more
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Posted by Nate Hoffman on May 9, 2016
If the presidential race ends up being the insider Hillary Clinton versus the outsider Donald Trump, congressional staff are showing a crystal clear preference for the insider Clinton based on who they are working for. read more
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Posted by J. Todd Foster on March 18, 2016
Hillary Clinton is slated to speak at AIPAC's annual policy conference, which begins this weekend. Her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, is not. read more
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Posted by Nate Hoffman on March 17, 2016
The Hill was all atwitter after President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland for the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by Judge Antonin Scalia's passing. Garland is the chief judge on the D.C. Circuit's U.S. Court of Appeals. read more
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Posted by J. Todd Foster on March 16, 2016
An Indiana congressman hoping for a Senate seat traveled to the posh Georgia resort town of Sea Island for the forum that helped launch the presidential campaigns of Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). read more
