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Decades after leaving Rep. Frank Wolf's (R-Va.) staff, a former appropriations staffer has returned to the long-tenured congressman's office.

Nancy Herbolsheimer has re-joined Wolf's staff as senior appropriations adviser after more than 25 years away. Herbolsheimer worked on the House Appropriations Committee for Wolf from 1985 to 1987. She previously served as press secretary to then-Rep. Jack Edwards (R-Ala.).

Wolf announced late last year that he would not seek an 18th term representing Northern Virginia in the House. The 75-year-old Wolf was first elected by Virginia's 10th district in 1981.

After leaving the Hill, Herbolsheimer embarked on a career which included public and private service with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, the Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration. She received a law degree from George Washington University in 1996.

After spending three years in Gov. George Ryan's (R-Ill.) Washington, D.C. office, in 2003 Herbolsheimer joined husband Robert in practicing law and lobbying at their namesake law firm.

An immigration staffer for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has emigrated to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to lobby on worker visa and related issues.

Jon Baselice, who covered immigration issues as Rubio's legislative assistant for the past four years, filed lobbying forms as the Chamber's new director for immigration policy. Baselice is working with the Hill on a dozen immigration and visa-related bills, including one that was originally co-sponsored by Rubio. The Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, which passed the Senate in June 2013, was the result of the "Gang of Eight" negotiations. The final Senate bill included a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, visa backlog reforms, the expansion of the employment verification system and the improvement of work visa options for low-skill workers.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pressuring Hill Republicans, especially those in the House, to pass immigration reform. The Chamber's CEO and President, Tom Donohue, is quoted by ThinkProgress as saying, "If the Republicans don't do it, they shouldn't bother to run a candidate in 2016." Rubio is in favor of immigration reform that includes tougher border security and updating the immigration system to help stimulate the economy, but without amnesty for undocumented immigrants.

Baselice joined the senator's office in January 2011 as a legislative correspondent. Five months later, he was promoted to legislative assistant, a title which he held until he left for the Chamber of Commerce in May. He has a BS in economics from Syracuse University and a JD from the University of Miami School of Law.

A two-time revolving door congressional aide has once again left Capitol Hill, this time in favor of a lobbying position with international financial services company Nomura.

Most recently legislative director to Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.), Randy Ross is now executive director of public affairs for Nomura's operations in the Americas. Nomura is the biggest brokerage in Japan and boasts offices in Asia, Europe and the Americas. When Wall Street heavyweight Lehman Brothers folded under bankruptcy in 2008, Nomura grew its footprint by purchasing the investment bank's Asian division and parts of its European operation.

Ross arrived on Capitol Hill in 2004, working as a legislative correspondent for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for more than two years. Upon leaving the Senate, Ross took a lobbying position with Washington lobbying firm BGR Group. While at BGR, Ross lobbied for a variety of clients, including those in the housing and insurance industries.

Ross returned to Congress in 2011, joining Miller's staff as a financial services policy adviser, before being promoted to legislative director last year. Miller is vice chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.

Ross studied finance and economics at California Polytechnic State University.

When Senate Democrats recently excoriated the Washington Redskins over their name, the Virginia Democrats were noticeably absent from the criticism. Now lobbyists with ties to the Virginia delegation stand to benefit.

In late May, the team hired lobbying firm McGuireWoods Consulting - its first lobbying firm in recent history - to counter public pressure to change the team's name, which some consider to be an epithet. The move came shortly after 50 Democratic senators signed a letter to the NFL condemning the name. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) were two of only five Senate Democrats not to sign the letter. The Redskins play their games in Maryland, but their practice facilities are located in Virginia.

Two of McGuireWoods lobbyists working for the Redskins have ties to Warner. Andrew Smith, most recently finance director on Gov. Terry McAulliffe's successful gubernatorial campaign, worked on Warner's 2008 re-election, in Warner's office on Capitol Hill and for the senator's Forward Together PAC.

Heather Martin, who has been with McGuireWoods since 2007, previously served as director of Warner's former state leadership political action committee, One Virginia PAC.

Neither Smith nor Martin were listed on the original lobbying filing by McGuire Woods announcing their new client but the firm's latest quarterly filing discloses the involvement of the pair.

While neither Warner nor Kaine have publicly endorsed the name, both disagreed with the letter. According to a Warner aide, the senator does not think it is Congress's responsibility to force a name change. A Kaine aide told the Washington Post that the senator was uncomfortable with the letter's language, but does support a change to the name.

A Hill staffer arrested on felony gun charges at the Capitol Friday morning is a graduate of Columbine High School, where an infamous mass-shooting occurred and where his father was on the scene as a first responder.

Ryan Shucard, who joined the office of Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.) in May, was arrested at 9:15 a.m. According to an earlier Roll Call article, he brought an unlicensed 9mm handgun and magazine into the Cannon House Office Building and was detained while going through building security. He was placed immediately on unpaid leave from Marino's staff.

Shucard graduated from Columbine Senior High School in Littleton, Colo. in 2006. Columbine was the site of a 1999 school shooting which claimed the lives of 15 people, including both shooters. While Shucard was not in that school at the time, his father was a police officer who responded to the scene of the shootings.

Previously, Shucard was a staff assistant and special projects assistant for Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) from 2011-2013. During his year off the Hill, he worked for DDC Advocacy and the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries.