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EXIM SVP takes new job as House chief

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 25, 2021

Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) may have voted against reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank, but she's fine with hiring her chief of staff from the agency.

Ross Branson was most recently senior vice president of EXIM's Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. Lesko voted against an EXIM reauthorization bill in 2019; later that year, Congress reauthorized the agency through 2026 as part of a spending package that averted a government shutdown.

Before joining EXIM in 2019, Branson was deputy assistant secretary for legislative affairs at the Department of Commerce and has worked for Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.).