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Cornyn loses staffer to Texas industrial company

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Aug. 5, 2015

A Dallas-based industrial company has picked up a staffer from a Texas senator for a federal affairs job.

Trinity Industries Inc. regularly registers to lobby on a variety of issues, such as manufacturing, long-term transportation reauthorization and railroads. Josh Jemente left the office of Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) last month to become the company's federal affairs representative though so far he has not filed lobbying papers.

Jemente has four years of experience with Cornyn, beginning as a staff assistant in 2011 and departing as state projects assistant. He earned a bachelor's in political science from Texas Christian University in 2009.

Cornyn has had 19 staffers who have passed through the revolving door since LegiStorm tracking began of salaries in 2000 for salaries and 2001 for lobbying registrations, the fourth-most in the current Texas delegation. Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and Kay Granger (R-Texas) employed more staff who had served as lobbyists or later went on to become lobbyists.