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Lyft makes another stop on the Hill for House Rules Committee staffer

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on July 24, 2015

Lyft Inc. has made another pick-up on Capitol Hill in its challenge to competing ride-sharing service Uber and confrontation with traditional taxi companies.

Lauren Belive started as federal government relations manager in June after leaving the House Rules Committee, where she served as Democratic policy director. Lyft earlier this year hired a staffer with the Senate Legislative Counsel and has at least one other former congressional staffer on its team, Chelsea Wilson who started last year after working for Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.).

The company has lobbied this year on issues including removing barriers to ride-sharing and insurance requirements, data security and privacy. None of the three former staffers has yet filed lobbying registrations for Lyft.

Belive, whose husband Jeff Zubricki works as a director at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. after leaving the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, got her first job in Congress with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in 2007. She has worked since 2012 with the Rules Committee.