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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.

Surya Gunasekara will join Renacci's office in May after most recently working at Airlines for America. His wife, a chemical industry lobbyist, also moved through the revolving door to a job on the Hill earlier this year.

Gunasekara registered to lobby in 2012 and 2013 for the American Petroleum Institute on issues including Dodd-Frank and oil and gas industry regulations. He has also worked at the Defense Logistics Agency and Departments of Health and Human Services and Defense.

The new top staffer replaces outgoing chief of staff Rick Limardo, a former lobbyist for the manufacturing industry who worked for the congressman for just over a year.