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Telecommunications and finance lobbyist returns to Rush's office

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Feb. 4, 2015

A former top staffer for Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) has returned to his office after a seven-year break while lobbying on telecommunications and other issues.

Yardly Pollas-Kimble is now senior policy counsel and legislative director for Rush, covering commerce, economics and public finance, finance and financial sector, international affairs, labor and employment and taxation issues. She previously worked for Rush from 1998 to 2007, rising from legislative assistant to legislative director, chief of staff and finally deputy chief of staff and legislative director.

Pollas-Kimble left Rush's office in 2007 to take a job as head of government affairs for Motorola Solutions Inc., where she worked until 2011. She has lobbied since with Upstream Consulting and also founded her own company, Pollas Global Government and Public Relations Consulting, in 2014.

During her time as a lobbyist, Pollas-Kimble advocated on a range of topics, most recently in 2013 on financial services reform, retirement and tax issues for Prudential Financial Cos.