Those referrals include Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and lobbyist and ex-Minnesota GOP Rep.
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" In an interview, Mabus stressed he is "not a lobbyist, [and] I will never be a lobbyist.
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Most Americans don't think they've ever met a lobbyist or actually understand what the hell a lobbyist does.
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His cabinet now includes a former coal lobbyist running the Environmental Protection Agency, a former oil and gas lobbyist in charge of the Department of Interior, a top lobbyist for the defense contractor Raytheon leading the Defense Department — and, if he is confirmed, an automobile lobbyist at the Energy Department.
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Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta, Republican lobbyist Vin Weber, and former White House counsel Greg Craig have all come under scrutiny.
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That means aggregating the funds, figuring out which lobbyist to hire and then engaging in ongoing communications with the lobbyist.
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UBER LOBBYIST JOINS TECH FIRM: Uber's top lobbyist, Brian Worth, has joined the boutique tech lobbying firm Franklin Square Group.
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According to the charging documents, the lobbyist and Craig exchanged emails after the report came out, with the lobbyist praising Craig.
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The new Republican Senate nominee, meanwhile, is Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, a former pharmaceutical lobbyist married to a current pharmaceutical lobbyist.
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An ex-lobbyist is a lobbyist; and much like a fox, they do the most damage once inside the White House.
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" On and on like this it went, in email after email, for an hour and a half, with Hart forcefully tagging every quote with, "your friend, the lobbyist," or "Bob Riley, the lobbyist governor," or "your lobbyist governor friend.
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Biden has sworn off lobbyist contributions for the 2020 election and has yet to have a fundraiser hosted by a registered lobbyist.
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"I was a registered lobbyist in 2019 and I wasn't aware that the Biden campaign wasn't taking lobbyist dollars," he said by email.
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We're planning to return the $28503 in lobbyist contributions and going forward our policy will be to return any lobbyist contributions over $22019.
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We --- there&aposs a Republican lobbyist who she was sort of coming on to and this lobbyist was wondering what&aposs going on here?
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Lobbyist in critical condition Another victim, lobbyist Matt Mika, is in critical condition as of Thursday morning, according to a statement from his family.
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The complaint filed by Browder accuses Akhmetshin of not just being a lobbyist for this independent organization, but for being a lobbyist for the Russian government.
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"You only put people in characters: 'lobbyist and mayor,'" the mayor said of the lobbyist matter during a 2400-minute interview at a local coffee shop.
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If you've been registered as a lobbyist, and especially if you have registered as a lobbyist for a corporation or industry group, you acquire a demonic power.
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And Mr. Gillum signed off last month on extending a contract for the city's legislative lobbyist, who retains Mr. Pittman, the top campaign adviser, as a subcontracted lobbyist.
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"Given the choice between buying a tractor and hiring a lobbyist, the sugar industry is going to hire a lobbyist every time," Guest, the environmental lawyer, told me.
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He was a major coal lobbyist A former coal industry lobbyist, Wheeler helped lead an industry fight against regulations aimed at protecting Americans&apos health and addressing climate change.
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"Nothing was worse for the gun industry and the NRA than getting Trump elected," Richard Feldman, a former NRA lobbyist and author of Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist, said.
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While Bennett said he has never been registered before as a lobbyist, Lewandowski was previously a registered lobbyist between 2005 and 2011, with clients including Passport Systems and Borrego Solar.
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Munoz, a two-decades long vice president and registered lobbyist at La Raza was chosen as a top White House advisor, despite the President's vow to end lobbyist conflicts-of-interest.
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All a registered lobbyist has to do is file some paper and deregister, and presto, change-o, that person is no longer a lobbyist and therefore welcome in the Trump administration.
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Last year, Representative Kelly Fajardo, a Republican in New Mexico, was out with a young female lobbyist when the lobbyist got a text on her phone from an older, powerful legislator.
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LONDON — Artistic director, star ballerina, lobbyist, wrangler, psychologist, spokeswoman.
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Other former Biden staffers on K Street include Sudafi Henry, a lobbyist who represents clients such as Facebook, FedEx and PepsiCo; Tony Russo, the top lobbyist for T-Mobile; Jeffrey Peck, who lobbies for clients such as Deutsche Bank and Anheuser-Busch; and Chris Putala, a lobbyist whose clients include Comcast and T-Mobile, according to disclosure filings.
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However, despite Wheeler's former energy lobbyist ties and actions he's taken in agreement with fossil fuel industries, it's expected that the former energy lobbyist will be confirmed handily by the GOP-controlled Senate.
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He was registered as a lobbyist for Comcast in 2009 and 2010, before Comcast's deal to buy NBC Universal, and was registered as a lobbyist for AT&T in 2007, according to opensecrets.org.
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We'll start with the lobbying news... PhRMA's top lobbyist is leaving Rodger Currie, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America's (PhRMA) top lobbyist, is leaving his post at the nation's top lobby for drugmakers.
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Reporters discovered that Pruitt rented an apartment, at an extremely low rate, that was owned by a health care lobbyist whose husband was also a lobbyist who had worked on EPA-related issues.
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Nonetheless after two days in meetings, NATO diplomats said Mr. Esper, a former Raytheon lobbyist, seemed much more well-versed in military and foreign policy affairs than Mr. Shanahan, a former Boeing lobbyist.
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It is not clear why the lobbyist, Scott Green, purchased the parcel from Biden's brother James, or why James Biden later went to the lobbyist for a loan, rather than to a bank.
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"Everybody's a lobbyist down there," he said, referring to Washington.
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He became a lobbyist after leaving the House in 20183.
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Kim Kardashian, Kontour Kueen, reality TV star, and... budding lobbyist?
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A former lobbyist, he was a protégé of Mr Alckmin.
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Google's top lobbyist alone has visited 128 times since 2009.
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This particular parasite is not registered as a foreign lobbyist.
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In her opening statement, Croft said lobbyist and former Rep.
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"It's all down to the Salisbury effect," says a lobbyist.
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Go deeper: Meet the former coal lobbyist replacing Scott Pruitt
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One lobbyist compared it to Democrats passing Obamacare in 2010.
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"They have to go through the motions," the lobbyist added.
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" Trump has described the Washington Post as Amazon's "chief lobbyist.
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"It's not over," said one lobbyist representing financial services companies.
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Amazon hired a lobbyist with close Trump ties, Brian Ballard.
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Even an oily lobbyist has a line she won't cross.
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Yes, but: It's a slippery slope, per lobbyist Bruce Mehlman.
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The firm "really created the modern sleazeball lobbyist," Toobin says.
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For some, there's a political advantage in shunning lobbyist fundraising.
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His wife, Denise, was once a lobbyist for Cardinal Health.
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After leaving Congress, he went on to become a lobbyist.
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"People in Kiev are very happy," the lobbyist wrote Craig.
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Cohen is legally not required to register as a lobbyist.
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Oracle's lobbyist probably was, too, and the news offered pretext.
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Ring is a former lobbyist and Senate Judiciary Committee counsel.
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Deschauer is the former top Senate lobbyist for the Pentagon.
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Ray Beeman will serve as the lobbyist on the account.
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He was New York City's lobbyist in Albany until 1973.
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Trump says no registered lobbyist will serve in his administration.
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And Albany has disappointed many a lobbyist and activist before.
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The lobbyist has not responded to a request for comment.
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Founded by Brian Ballard, a lobbyist based in Tallahassee, Fla.
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Leon G. Billings became a lobbyist for public power companies.
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Barry Bennett is the Avenue Strategies lobbyist on the account.
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Both she — and the lobbyist — believe it may already have.
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"People will say, 'Same gridlock, different people,'" the lobbyist said.
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"They can't ignore it," said Davis, now a Washington lobbyist.
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"These are uncharted waters," said a Republican financial services lobbyist.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating former lobbyist Tony Podesta, former Rep.
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His choice: David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist, far right.
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I'm not taking a single check from a federal lobbyist.
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The indictment says the lobbyist led the strategy to improve Ukraine's "international public image" and that Skadden was paid through a bank account in Cyprus controlled by the lobbyist, mirroring details from Manafort's case.
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Meanwhile, a former coal lobbyist heads the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a former oil lobbyist leads the Department of Interior, and ardent carbon dioxide advocate William Happer serves on the president's National Security Council.
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"Just because I'm a lobbyist, not all lobbyists are in the tank for corporate America," said one lobbyist who has donated to the Vermont senator but was not authorized to speak on the record.
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Ms. Injeski said the fine was the first imposed upon a lobbyist under the city's Lobbyist Gift Law, which bars lobbyists from giving gifts to city employees, since the law went into effect in 2006.
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This Russian lobbyist in the Trump Tower meeting had Clinton ties.
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ROGER STONE, AMERICAN POLITICAL CONSULTANT, LOBBYIST AND STRATEGIST: No, not really.
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Bob Dole, now a lobbyist for the law firm Alston & Bird.
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"I guess we could use a good lobbyist," Ms. Halbur said.
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"Nobody else was freaking out," said Ms. Richardson, 30, a lobbyist.
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He has repeatedly denied being a lobbyist or doing anything unethical.
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Britt now serves as a lobbyist for Fertitta-owned Station Casinos.
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"She's taken this very seriously," said a lobbyist close to Roby.
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The number of dollars spent per registered lobbyist increases every year.
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Chris Cox, the chief lobbyist of the NRA introduced the president.
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How was being a pro-Putin lobbyist not disqualifying for Trump?
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AT&T claims it did not hire Cohen as a lobbyist.
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CBC PAC executive director Benjamin Branch (himself a former telecom lobbyist)
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"The risk of damage is very high," said one Republican lobbyist.
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Schumer's office is "beholden to no one," one Democratic lobbyist added.
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"I don't think tax reform is ever dead," said the lobbyist.
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He is currently a lobbyist at Ogilvy Government Relations in Washington.
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And every lawyer and lobbyist is presumed to be Putin's shill.
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Jamison, for his part, previously worked as a lobbyist for Sprint.
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"I don't think he's familiar with Part D," the lobbyist said.
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The future of President Obama's anti-lobbyist policies is in doubt.
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"It was not unexpected," one industry lobbyist said of Cummings's action.
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With backing from farmers, unions, and manufacturers, he became a lobbyist.
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For years, he worked as a lobbyist for the energy industry.
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By turning settlement payments into lobbyist chum, the DOJ disenfranchised victims.
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She is a lobbyist for one of the nation's largest lenders.
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But his past as a Washington lobbyist has diminished the imagery.
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Other texts showed Cothren making advances towards interns and a lobbyist.
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Michael R. Griffin, a lobbyist for the Georgia Baptist Mission Board.
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Matters referred by Mueller involve Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta, former Rep.
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Why would an anti-sanctions lobbyist have information on DNC finances?
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Jerry Brown's desk, according to a lobbyist familiar with the bill.
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The accounting prong received backlash from bank lobbyist, the report said.
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"I know Roger Ailes was reviled," Charlie Black, the lobbyist, said.
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The recent experience of a tech lobbyist captured the political divide.
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The lobbyist, Chris Cox, posted on Twitter just after 9 p.m.
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Essentially, they just can't fill out the "I'm a lobbyist" paperwork.
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"We were doomed to fail to this moment," the lobbyist said.
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A head of the EPA who is not a coal lobbyist.
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He is a registered lobbyist for Veselnitskaya's organization, according to CNN.
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Matt Dababneh was accused of masturbating in front of a lobbyist.
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A former Washington lobbyist, David Bernhardt, was appointed deputy Interior secretary.
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But Tom Leibfried, a health care lobbyist at the A.F.L.-C.
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Steve Elmendorf, a Democratic lobbyist who helped raise money for Mrs.
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A GOP lobbyist, though, saw a silver lining for K Street.
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He would replace Ben Howard, who left to be a lobbyist.
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The powerful Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta quit his lobbying firm Monday.
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He later became a lobbyist for the Podesta Group, where his
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Azar, a former drug company executive and pharmaceutical lobbyist, told Rep.
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He was also registered as a lobbyist for Colorado Interstate Gas.
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I ran into a friend who's currently working as a lobbyist.
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Do not let your lobbyist friend pick up the lunch check.
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Our "bipartisan" Congressional orientation is cohosted by a corporate lobbyist group.
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In an email, Mr. Lewandowski said he was not a lobbyist.
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The lobbyist also questioned how thoroughly the campaign examined the policy.
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Now with the "Bank Lobbyist Act," our senators have a choice.
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Republicans paint Bayh as a Washington lobbyist who has abandoned Indiana.
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Mark Warner's text messages with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch.
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Bernhardt is a former lobbyist and lawyer for the oil industry.
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Among the most forceful fighters for secrecy was lobbyist Al Cortese.
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He plans to register as a lobbyist, according to the firm.
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So is hiring a lobbyist or three to press your case.
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Gavin Newsom of California, according to a senior auto industry lobbyist.
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Ethics allegations have dogged Wehrum, a former lobbyist for energy interests.
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The lobbyist was hired because of the overall re-districting process.
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He stepped down in 2013 and has since become a lobbyist.
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"If you want someone to explain how Elizabeth Warren can hammer you 12 different ways, ask a lobbyist," said the financial services lobbyist, referring to the Massachusetts senator who is a frequent critic of Wall Street.
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Sessions Hosted Dinner Parties for Russian Lobbyist Types, Report SaysRichard Burt, a US lobbyist for the interests of a few Russian companies, said he attended two dinners hosted by Jeff Sessions during the 2016 election campaign.
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President Trump has also picked lobbyists and industry insiders for key environmental positions, including putting a coal lobbyist in charge of EPA and an oil and gas lobbyist in charge of the Department of the Interior.
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When a lobbyist gathers donations from many people, the money is heaped together in a pile — the bundle — and while no individual donation can exceed the maximum, the lobbyist has done a major favor for the candidate.
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"If you want someone to explain how Elizabeth Warren can hammer you 12 different ways, ask a lobbyist," said the financial services lobbyist, referring to the Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts and frequent critic of Wall Street.
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That law firm, Schertler & Onorato LLP, also represents Sam Patten, a lobbyist who pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist for illegally obtaining $50,000 in tickets to Trump's inauguration on behalf of a Ukrainian oligarch.
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Two police officers, a lobbyist, and a congressional staffer were also wounded.
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"Republicans are walking down the same track," the GOP lobbyist told me.
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One Republican lobbyist said the fresh turmoil in Washington is unnerving businesses.
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In 2001, Orion hired his son John Breaux Jr. as a lobbyist.
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Looking for foreign work Giuliani has never registered as a foreign lobbyist.
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He deregistered as a lobbyist in August 2017, according to the EPA.
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Mr. McCarthy took a job as a lobbyist for Boeing in September.
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Pruitt's successor as EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, is a former coal lobbyist.
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It hired former Ford lobbyist Ziad Ojakli to improve relations with regulators.
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" A theory from one Republican lobbyist: "Trump throws Ryan under the bus.
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After his retirement, Mr. Oxley became a lobbyist in the financial sector.
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The verdicts were focused on his activities as a lobbyist for Ukraine.
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Robert Livingston (La.), now a powerful lobbyist, repeatedly urged that then-U.
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INVESTIGATIONS Ethics allegations have dogged Wehrum, a former lobbyist for energy interests.
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He'd become a sometime lobbyist and political operator with many international clients.
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Some $50 billion would be earmarked for rural projects, the lobbyist said.
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Trump nominated Zinke's deputy, David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist, to replace him.
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Practically everyone quoted in the American Banker story is a financial lobbyist.
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One staffer, a lobbyist, and two Capitol Police officers were also wounded.
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His former staffer, now lobbyist, Matt Mika was among those shot Wednesday.
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"I'm an economist by education and a lobbyist by profession," Berger said.
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Bush, a onetime GOP presidential candidate, will not register as a lobbyist.
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Jot Carpenter, CTIA's former top lobbyist, has set up his own shop.
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"I think they can live with that provision," one GOP lobbyist said.
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Global Strategies Council will continue to be Al Thani's lobbyist in Washington.
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Both lawmakers have an F rating from the powerful gun lobbyist group.
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An email between an Uber lobbyist and a lawmaker underscores the point.
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"Some of them are really freaking out," one health-care lobbyist said.
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Mr. Kelly, known as Braith, is registered as a lobbyist in Connecticut.
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Tax reform is "the thing du jour," a third Republican lobbyist said.
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Caldwell is a federal lobbyist and Republican strategist with Caldwell Strategic Consulting.
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Before that he was a lobbyist for AT&T for 10 years.
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The strategist and lobbyist has been a fixture in DC for decades.
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The cases concern longtime Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and former Republican Rep.
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The Hill: EPA inspector general to investigate Pruitt's condo rental from lobbyist.
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Scalise, a lobbyist and two Capitol Police officers were shot and hospitalized.
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The company suspended its top lobbyist after facing backlash over the experiments.
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Miller currently works as a lobbyist for the firm McDermott Will & Emery.
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Back in July, the president called WaPo a "lobbyist weapon" for Amazon.
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He hired a lobbyist to learn how to curry the governor's favor.
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Another lobbyist gave checks of $10,000, $5,000 and $50 in the period.
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A former coal lobbyist, Wheeler seems to share Pruitt's passion for deregulation.
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The arrest of Mr. Howe, a former lobbyist and loyalist to Gov.
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It was almost as if we were hiring him as a lobbyist.
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Billy DeLancey says he's got a more effective way: Hire a lobbyist.
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"Suddenly, it exploded," said Lena de Jong, 27, an agriculture-policy lobbyist.
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An oil and gas lobbyist as head of the Department of Interior?
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Mr. Rathner, the lobbyist and longtime N.R.A. board member, sees it differently.
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He later worked in Washington as a lobbyist and lived in McLean.
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"Just about every business/industry is pushing NOLs," said one Republican lobbyist.
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He was also charged with failing to register as a foreign lobbyist.
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Even if your station is that of external lobbyist or international fixer.
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Democratic medical marijuana lobbyist Nicole Fried is currently leading Republican state Rep.
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"I've never said I'm going to be a registered lobbyist," he said.
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An aide, a lobbyist and a Capitol Police officer were also shot.
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It has been weakened by years of bureaucratic, lobbyist, and political intervention.
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Hart is a health care lobbyist who runs Hart Health Strategies Inc.
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Democrats alleged that the rental was an improper gift from a lobbyist.
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"We don't know where his head is on this," the lobbyist added.
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Agencies and politicians are "on a steep learning curve", says another lobbyist.
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Finkel left in 2014 to be a lobbyist for the oil industry.
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She spotted him and said,"Where are you going?" the lobbyist said.
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This isn't just about being power hungry or greedy for lobbyist dollars.
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Cardoza in October said he was the main lobbyist on the issue.
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The former lobbyist becomes President Trump's second energy secretary, succeeding Rick Perry.
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The company, based in Calgary, Canada, has one registered lobbyist on staff.
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Is that renting an apartment from the wife of a Washington lobbyist?
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That means constituent support matters most, even more so than lobbyist checks.
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The companies did not respond to requests to comment on lobbyist spending.
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She also worked as a lobbyist for Japan-based pharmaceutical company Eisai.
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Not every lobbyist who's interacted with Warren's Senate office has been impressed.
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Chris Cox, the NRA lobbyist, posted on Twitter just after 9 p.m.
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But what else should we expect from a former coal industry lobbyist?
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It's a subject he knows well — from his time as a lobbyist.
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He had de-registered as a lobbyist for Westlands in November 2016.
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As he considers new job opportunities (video-game industry lobbyist, perhaps?), Mr.
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"Time hurts Senate GOP leadership," a third Republican health care lobbyist said.
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An energy lobbyist based in Washington said he understood the industry's ambivalence.
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"Honestly this whole thing is a joke," another GOP lobbyist told me.
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He is a former MSNBC contributor and longtime Senate staffer and lobbyist.
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Although a lawyer for Renacci, 28503, filed paperwork ending his registration as a lobbyist in August 22019, the process wasn't completed until this year, prompting charges from Brown's campaign that Renacci had been a lobbyist while in Congress.
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Washington (CNN)Washington lobbyist W. Samuel Patten pleaded guilty Friday to acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist, and admitted to lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee and funneling a Ukrainian oligarch's money to Donald Trump's Presidential Inaugural Committee.
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In the past few days, it's emerged that Pruitt got a sweet rental deal on a condo owned by the wife of an energy company lobbyist—a lobbyist whose client got a pipeline approved by the EPA last year.
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One lobbyist source said the plan was likely to be announced this week.
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Lobbyist Matt Mika was shot multiple times and critically injured, and remained hospitalized.
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Formerly a lawyer and lobbyist in Canada, Koddermann joined Philip Morris in 2010.
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Mike Pence: Trump's 'best lobbyist' Pence is a former member of House leadership.
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Lobbyist Matt Mika was shot multiple times and critically injured and remained hospitalized.
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The PAC has pledged not to take any corporate PAC or lobbyist money.
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The Republican lobbyist said there was pressure for executives to attend the announcement.
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Buttigieg faced mounting pressure from his party's progressive base to disavow lobbyist money.
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He also worked for more than a decade as a consultant and lobbyist.
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Occupation: Lobbyist Industry: Nonprofit Age: 4013Location: Orlando, FLMy Salary: $78,280 | Husband's Salary: $38,2152.
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Lesser-known outfits can project more seriousness than an out-and-out lobbyist.
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"It would be pretty devastating to us," a second Washington-based lobbyist said.
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"There's a concern that liberal attorneys general would file suits," one lobbyist said.
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Pizzella's history with the lobbyist came up during his confirmation hearings in 2017.
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Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen and lobbyist Sam Patten were also under investigation.
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Podesta's brother, of course, is himself a corporate lobbyist and major Clinton bundler.
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Its top lobbyist is Susan Molinari, the former Republican congresswoman from New York.
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He wasn't the only American lobbyist floating in and out of the hotel.
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"Nothing to attach it to so there's no cover," one GOP lobbyist said.
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Scalise, a congressional staffer, a lobbyist and a Capitol Police officer were shot.
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Robert Crowe, the company's outside lobbyist, is contesting the charges in federal court.
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Matt Mika, a lobbyist for Tyson Foods and former congressional aide, was shot.
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A congressional staffer, a lobbyist and a Capitol Police officer were also wounded.
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Roger Williams, Zach Barth; lobbyist Matt Mika; and Capitol Police Agent Crystal Griner.
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One practical consideration for Trump when it comes to lobbyist policies is staffing.
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He currently works as a lobbyist for the oil and natural gas industries.
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I'm not here as a lobbyist for streaming services, though – that's Drake's job.
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The others wounded were a police officer, a congressional aide and a lobbyist.
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In addition, Locast founder Goodfriend previously worked as a lobbyist for the company.
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As a teen she dreamed of attending law school or becoming a lobbyist.
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"Plan beats no plan," one GOP lobbyist with close ties to leadership said.
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Wheeler, who was previously a lobbyist for coal mining company Murray Energy Corp.
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Amid pressure, Lieberman in January officially registered as a lobbyist for the company.
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And we did it without a dime of lobbyist money or PAC money.
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In July, Trump targeted The Post, calling it a "lobbyist weapon" for Amazon.
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"It's really universal," said a Democratic lobbyist with dozens of blue-chip clients.
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Sometimes I think the main role of the lobbyist is to arrange meetings.
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Delrahim, a former attorney and registered lobbyist, has expertise in media industry mergers.
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"The job market down here is just crawling," a lobbyist told The Hill.
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The National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun lobbyist group, opposes both measures.
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"It's exciting," said Andy Abboud, the chief lobbyist for Adelson's Las Vegas Sands.
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The charges relate to his work as a pro-Russia lobbyist in Ukraine.
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Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen and lobbyist Sam Patten were also under investigation.
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Stedman also wrote that Wohl said his information came from a GOP lobbyist.
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The donation to Hyde-Smith was made by a lobbyist on MLB's behalf.
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And it trails the leading tech lobbyist, Alphabet, Google's parent, by several million.
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He hired a lobbyist, who helped to get the law repealed in 2011.
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Moran, her husband from 2004 to 2010, has since become a Washington lobbyist.
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So the companies (and related lobbyist organizations) took their battle to states' capitals.
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Some said the trend of avoiding registering as a lobbyist began under Obama.
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That's because Cohen is not a registered lobbyist, and he never has been.
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But Bezos uses that as his lobbyist, OK, as far as I'm concerned.
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Wheeler is a former coal industry lobbyist, having worked for Murray Energy Corp.
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This is the first time the organization has listed an in-house lobbyist.
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But after all, Mr. Trump hired Mr. Manafort, international pariahs' lobbyist of choice.
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"Events have overtaken us," said Samuel Lee, an anti-abortion lobbyist in Missouri.
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Before he became a judge, Kennedy worked as a Republican lobbyist in California.
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Paul Bock, a Democratic lobbyist and former chief of staff to former Sen.
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Lehman was filling the role of top lobbyist when he departed the organization.
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Now, the company's top Washington lobbyist who hired Cohen, Bob Quinn, is out.
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His wife, the Chinese Nationalist lobbyist Anna Chennault, died in April at 94.
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Hassan El-Tayyab is FCNL's lead lobbyist on Middle East policy and affairs.
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Biden is a former lawyer and lobbyist who openly dealt with drug addiction.
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Everyone has a lobbyist — or three, or 50 — and the lobbyists know everyone.
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Senior mayoral staff members "had no idea" that a top lobbyist was involved.
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Later, the lobbyist gave Biden's brother a mortgage loan on the remaining parcels.
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Reuters has been unable to learn why Tenex chose Campbell as its lobbyist.
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It also confirmed Mark Esper, a former soldier and lobbyist, as defense secretary.
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One more lobbyist in the Blunt family would be no loss for Missourians.
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"I hope they'll be O.K.," the lobbyist said, "but I just don't know."
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"Anything less would not be a political victory" for Trump, the lobbyist said.
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From Republican lobbyist Bruce Mehlman: Bloomberg brought a wallet to a knife fight.
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Christopher Cox, the N.R.A.'s top lobbyist and heir apparent, also wanted out.
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From 1998 to 2000, Brouillette worked as a lobbyist for firm Fleishman-Hillard.
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Doyle, 28, is a registered lobbyist in Washington for the Ford Motor Company.
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"Medicaid is a holy grail for Democrats," a lobbyist on Medicaid issues said.
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The cloture vote for Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, passed 53-45.
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" Opponents of the Senate bill have sarcastically named it "the Bank Lobbyist Act.
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Lyndon Boozer, previously a lobbyist with AT&T, is moving to Capitol Counsel.
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Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader turned lobbyist, held court at one table.
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One industry lobbyist said states have already begun to plan for the worst.
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Lewandowski left the firm last year over concerns about being considered a lobbyist.
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PG&E's top lobbyist, Melissa Lavinson, is leaving the company after two decades.
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Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and lobbyist Michael Freedman were fired earlier this week.
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Trump even appointed Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, to lead the EPA.
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Cornyn is "trying to get his piecemeal portion through," said one Washington lobbyist.
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Since leaving the Senate, Mr. Kyl has been a lobbyist at Covington & Burling.
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He's now a lobbyist, who works for a law firm retained by Trump.
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My career path was frankly the perfect road map to becoming a lobbyist.
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Those expenditures included hotel and bar fees for a 2010 "double date" to Virginia Beach with a female lobbyist during which another congressman came along, a 2011 golfing trip with the lobbyist, and Uber fares, prosecutors said in the filing.
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Jeff Holmstead, a lobbyist at Bracewell LLC and head air regulator under Bush, is on the shortlist along with Mike Catanzaro, a lobbyist at CGCN Group who was deputy associate administrator at the EPA, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing two sources.
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"One bad lobbyist can tarnish the whole industry," said one lobbyist, who likened the latest controversy to the Jack Abramoff scandal, which resulted in the former D.C. power player spending four years in prison and spurred congressional action to regulate lobbying.
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Hiring a coal lobbyist to be his number 2 His most enduring act in the EPA, however, is his hiring of Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist with deep ties to industry and an insider's understanding of the way Washington works.
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Thomas Steg, now VW's top lobbyist, previously served as spokesman for two German chancellors.
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And you have to have a good lobbyist in D.C. and a good strategy.
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"They're gonna have a vote, I believe that," a third health care lobbyist said.
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He also has been on the other side of things as an energy lobbyist.
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"This assumes no one cares about the deficit anymore," another Washington lobbyist told me.
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It hired former Ford Motor Co lobbyist Ziad Ojakli to improve relations with regulators.
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The fund praises the longtime lobbyist for his "lifetime of service" to the country.
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A senior lobbyist at the firm did not respond to a request for comment.
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" A GOP energy lobbyist added: "It's a heavy lift to get back the majority.
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Ben Moncrief is a lobbyist for C Spire, a wireless company based in Mississippi.
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Woolsey has not registered as a lobbyist for the DRC, or any other government.
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He is also a former lobbyist, which can be a dirty word in politics.
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Then, it was the $50 a night condo deal tied to an energy lobbyist.
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But David French, top lobbyist for the National Retail Federation, whose members include Amazon.
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"There's a lot of people that need jobs in this city," the lobbyist said.
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Prior to coming to Drexel, De Carolis served as a strategy consultant and lobbyist.
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Chris Dodd, chief lobbyist and chairman of the MPAA, gives his annual CinemaCon address.
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"People are going to be limited though on the relationship perspective," the lobbyist said.
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Ana Cruz, a Democratic political consultant and lobbyist from Florida, expressed a similar sentiment.
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Matt Mika, a lobbyist for Tyson Foods and former congressional staffer, was also shot.
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Paying taxes is everyone's responsibility, no matter how good your tax lobbyist might be.
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Part 2: Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta has reportedly been swept into Mueller's Russia probe.
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These groups exert much more power and influence than a single lobbyist ever could.
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We have a former gun lobbyist who says NRA stands for Never Reelected Again.
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They'll get a lobbyist, they're took care (of), they're not going to do anything.
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The Oscar nominee stars as Elizabeth Sloane, a lobbyist with a wobbly moral compass.
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Bayh has insisted during this campaign that he has never worked as a lobbyist.
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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Drew Maloney, the top lobbyist at oil production firm Hess Corp.
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The probes are looking into longtime Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta, former Minnesota Republican Rep.
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Mr. Jankowsky has been a lawyer and lobbyist in Washington, D.C. for four decades.
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"DACA has to go away for that to become a possibility," the lobbyist said.
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During the Clinton years, Holmstead spent his time as a lobbyist for Latham & Watkins.
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The NRA is typically the nation's most prominent lobbyist group against stricter gun regulations.
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The firm also recently hired Whitaker Askew as a lobbyist, starting on June 5.
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He will be the group's chief lobbyist for nuclear disarmament and military spending issues.
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Bill McCollum's (R-Fla.) former chief of staff, Doyle Bartlett, is a lobbyist there.
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Mr. Howe was listed as a lobbyist for at least one of those clients.
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The rule applies regardless of whether or not the person was a registered lobbyist.
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Lewandowski, in response to the Democratic criticism, told Reuters he is not a lobbyist.
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"That might change the pressure Hensarling faces internally on this," said a bank lobbyist.
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She previously was a lobbyist with Lewis-Burke Associates for more than five years.
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Bernhardt, a former energy lobbyist, has served as Zinke's Interior deputy secretary since 2017.
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"It was as if Rush Limbaugh were running," Bill Miller, the lobbyist, told me.
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Manafort, a long-time Republican lobbyist and political consultant, was originally indicted last fall.
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Delrahim, a lawyer and a lobbyist, has been nominated to be assistant attorney general.
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In typical Trump administration fashion, the acting head is a former airline industry lobbyist.
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The plan calls for prohibiting registered foreign lobbyist from raising money in U.S. elections.
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Tony Corbo is a senior lobbyist at Food & Water Watch, a national advocacy organization.
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One of them was Robert Hoffman, a Republican lobbyist at Heather Podesta and Partners.
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To get around that restriction, a lobbyist would have to be granted a waiver.
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Former Speaker Dennis Hastert, for example, used the office while working as a lobbyist.
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He leaned on a former Comcast lobbyist to set up a trip to Morocco.
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Oxley is survived by his wife, Patricia, and their son, Chadd, also a lobbyist.
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The lobbyist, who is a former congressional aide, signed the ball for Thursday's game.
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LifeLock, an identity theft protection company, registered its first in-house lobbyist, Kimberly Allman.
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Wheeler was previously a lobbyist whose clients included coal mining company Murray Energy Corp.
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The Wall Street Journal: Acting administrator Wheeler is an ex-coal and energy lobbyist.
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Strange was a Washington lobbyist for an oil company before becoming attorney general; Rep.
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" He also renewed his previous inaccurate claim that the Post is a "registered lobbyist.
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Manchin, meanwhile, hit Morrisey for his time as a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist in Washington.
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Pruitt recently resigned amid ethics scandals, to be replaced by coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler.
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Pruitt's deputy, former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, will take over the agency on Monday.
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It's also a sign of the maturation of the industry, one tech lobbyist said.
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On Monday Pruitt's deputy, former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, took over at the agency.
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Previously, Stone worked as a lobbyist at both Jefferson Consulting and Denny Miller Associates.
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"If 230 were eliminated, you'd end up with two extremes," Beckerman, the lobbyist, said.
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"They're gonna have a vote, I believe that," a health care lobbyist said recently.
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The energy lobbyist went into the men's room and gave the guy some money.
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But the lobbyist they hired, Ron Young, said that was taking on too much.
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In a previous job as a lobbyist at BGR Group, Mr. Faulkner represented Raytheon.
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The groom, 50, is a lobbyist for affordable housing and community development in Washington.
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No one in South Dakota is going to have sympathy for the NARAL lobbyist.
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Mr. Gillum, his wife and several friends vacationed in Costa Rica with the lobbyist.
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"It shouldn't be about Russia," said Pascale Michaux, a lobbyist who represents the company.
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A lobbyist said Boeing would have to fight for its share of that pie.
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Calls went out to a former city finance commissioner and a veteran Albany lobbyist.
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"We are flying blind," said Scott Faber, a lobbyist at the Environmental Working Group.
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Lutsenko's new claim also deepens questions about the lobbyist Livingston's involvement in the scandal.
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A fifth Republican lobbyist said his clients aren't clamoring for meetings with Trump officials.
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PAUL J. MANAFORT, JR. (MANAFORT) served for years as a political consultant and lobbyist.
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Before working for the Senate, Glick was the head lobbyist for Iberdrola Renewables Inc.
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Mr. Howe, a former lobbyist in Albany and Washington who had worked for Gov.
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Yet, under the Bank Lobbyist Act, that threshold would be raised to $250 billion.
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One lobbyist, Michael Caballero, had been a senior Treasury official in the Obama administration.
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From 2011 to 2017, he was a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences.
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The Sacramento lobbyist never formally reported the matter out of concern for his clients.
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"The Senate confirmation would be butt ugly," one pro-Bernhardt lobbyist said last month.
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Brouillette, 57, had previously served as a top lobbyist for the Ford Motor Company.
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He was a lobbyist for energy clients including coal-mining giant Murray Energy Corp.
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Not membership, which I represent, & I, despite some media's accusations, am not a lobbyist.
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Their end goal being to replace Garrett with a special interest, lobbyist-approved crony.
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Quardricos Bernard Driskell is a healthcare lobbyist with 10 years of government relations experience.
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Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), Bob Ney (R-Ohio) and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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The email was sent to USDA policy adviser and former industry lobbyist Kailee Tkacz.
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If you were a lobbyist, who gave us money, I might talk to you.
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Wheeler is a lawyer and former lobbyist who specialized in energy and environmental policy.
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"People are going to wait and see what happens here," the Republican lobbyist said.
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"It's who you are, who you know and what lobbyist you hired," she said.
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Environment: Trump tapped an ex-lobbyist for the Environmental Protection Agency's No. 2 job.
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"I think they don't trust each other, the big [companies]," said one tech lobbyist.
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She was senior director of regulatory science policy for the group, not a lobbyist.
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Mr. Hoyt resigned from the economic post in October and is now a lobbyist.
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"I think this is a real test of that alliance," the industry lobbyist said.
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"I feel like it hurts," another health care lobbyist told me of the delay.
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Despite denials, the lobbyist did meet with Pruitt during his stay to discuss clients.
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Google's also the nation's biggest lobbyist in DC. Does that mean Google is evil?
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It acts as Amazon's "chief lobbyist," Trump has said on Twitter, without presenting evidence.
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"McConnell is addicted to hating the ACA," one Republican health care lobbyist told me.
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When I tell people I used to be a lobbyist, their ears perk up.
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"That's your place that Republicans can more comfortably let it move," the lobbyist said.
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" Top Clinton lobbyist Tony Podesta leaves firm because of Mueller probe - Politico : "Democratic power lobbyist Tony Podesta , founder of the Podesta Group, is stepping down from the lobbying shop that bears his name after coming under investigation by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.
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Ajit Pai, the current head of the FCC, is a former Verizon lobbyist; Scott Pruitt, the man running the EPA, spent most of his career suing the EPA and rented his DC apartment from a lobbyist; the Treasury Secretary is an investment banker.
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Controversial lobbyist Burkman is a lobbyist who previously sought to keep the death of DNC staffer Seth Rich in the news this year, including with an ad looking for tips on the murder and a promise to re-enact Rich's death on video.
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David VitterDavid Bruce VitterGrocery group hires new top lobbyist Lobbying World Senate confirms Trump judge who faced scrutiny over abortion views MORE (R-La.) and aide on the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy — will act as the lobbyist on the account.
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"By signing below I hereby certify that I am not currently registered and reporting as a federal lobbyist as defined by the Lobbying Disclosure Act as amended or as a compensated lobbyist at the state level in any state," the pledge reads.
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A lobbyist who worked on Trump's inaugural committee told me of a billionaire who, within a week of the inauguration, offered a million dollars if the lobbyist could arrange for his picture to be taken in the Oval Office with the new president.
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Trump and Pence's offices did not respond to questions about the transition team lobbyist ban.
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Joe Lieberman as a lobbyist to lead efforts in testing equipment over national security concerns.
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To go from being registered as a lobbyist to not being registered is very easy.
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Bob McEwen of Ohio, a registered lobbyist, and former Reagan administration Attorney General Ed Meese.
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The lobbyist added that Giuliani's firm did not have a wide range of political clients.
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Observers were waiting to see whether former Vice President Joe Biden would take lobbyist money.
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"I have another 15–20 years of working in town," said one prominent GOP lobbyist.
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" Prosecutors also said that Manafort and the lobbyist told Gates that the "meeting went well.
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The bottom line: "The real fear is, what else is to come?" the lobbyist said.
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"If you're a Democrat, why do you want to do this?" one pharmaceutical lobbyist asked.
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Now, as an insurance lobbyist, she sees big jumps in Obamacare insurance premiums next year.
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So, if a lobbyist splits time among several clients, they are not required to register.
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The current secretary of defense is Mark Esper, a former lobbyist for a defense contractor.
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The company was Laudato SIA, a firm connected to Igor Pobereschski, a Russian-German lobbyist.
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In his response, Kihuen implied the lobbyist was one "several different women" he has dated.
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Mueller is also probing longtime Democrat lobbyist Tony Podesta's possible violation of the same law.
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The ouster of Manafort -- the longtime Washington lobbyist -- as Trump's campaign chairman has caused alarm.
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Last week Trump called The Post "Amazon's 'chief lobbyist,'" a claim he's fond of repeating.
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He also said the group was also targeting Delaware lawmakers and has hired a lobbyist.
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"A telecom lobbyist agreed with that assessment, saying the privacy rules repeal had "totally backfired.
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His deputy, Andrew Wheeler, is a longtime coal lobbyist who is a fan of deregulation.
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These claim to offer access, observes a former Republican heavyweight turned lobbyist, "but lack substance".
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Top coal industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler is likely to be tapped as the No. 2.
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One Democratic health care lobbyist grimly predicted to me Sanders would take the Democratic nomination.
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" Perry continued, "Because on November 8, you'll be just as powerful as an NRA lobbyist.
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In 2006 and 2007, Gorny was a registered lobbyist for the United Fresh Produce Association.
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The order killed the requirement that lobbyist waivers be justified as in the public interest.
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"This is why we can't have anything, let alone nice things," one insurance lobbyist said.
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"All of the goodies and none of the vegetables," said one well-connected GOP lobbyist.
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To run the group, Manafort tapped an old friend, Connecticut-based lobbyist Laurance "Laury" Gay.
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They include a Russian-American lobbyist and two others who are yet to be identified.
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Uber's top lobbyist, Brian Worth, has joined the boutique tech lobbying firm Franklin Square Group.
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Jeff Clemens resigned after a report that he had an extramarital affair with a lobbyist.
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Townley, who briefly served on Trump's National Security Council staff, is not a registered lobbyist.
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Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for the non-partisan watchdog Public Citizen, echoed Noble's concerns.
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The group has also brought on Ana Unruh Cohen to be the group's top lobbyist.
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He is a longtime fossil-fuel lobbyist and helped to advance Trump's pro-polluter agenda.
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The group registered as a lobbyist in 2014, but did not do so in 2015.
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Mr. Bahrami previously worked as an industry lobbyist for a trade group that represents Boeing.
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Prior to joining the Interior Department in 2628, Bernhardt was an oil and gas lobbyist.
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She comes from the American College of Surgeons, where she served as a congressional lobbyist.
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According to a lobbyist, there are very few areas that can be cut without consequences.
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"Every aspect of Medicaid can be altered if you do a waiver," the lobbyist said.
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"Can tech just find one issue that's supportive of Republicans?" laments a disconsolate Republican lobbyist.
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On Friday, the AP reported that a Russian-American lobbyist was also at that meeting.
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Trump's ignorance of rural needs and pro-corporate lobbyist agenda creates an opening for Democrats.
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He later spent around seven years as a lobbyist for Raytheon before becoming Army secretary.
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He was previously registered with Congress as a lobbyist, but removed his registration in August.
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So, back to Manafort and his lobbyist partner Rick Gates, both former Trump campaign officials.
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Wheeler, a former lobbyist and lawyer for coal companies, previously served as the deputy administrator.
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After all, Scott Pruitt's overly generous landlord is also a lobbyist who represents petroleum interests.
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"There is a pay-to-play mentality" in Montgomery, a prominent lobbyist told The Hill.
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Mike Rogers (Mich.) and lobbyist Michael Freedman, who were fired from the campaign this week.
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Unless you're a Wall Street lobbyist, $50 billion almost certainly isn't your definition of small.
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It will be followed by a panel featuring McCarthy and Google's top lobbyist, former Rep.
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"Before anyone could get too organized, the process was too far along," one lobbyist acknowledged.
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As for Miller, Apple represents the latest Big Tech client for the pro-Trump lobbyist.
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Another option, according to the lobbyist, is changing how Medicare Part B pays for drugs.
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Prior to joining the Interior Department in 2017, Bernhardt was an oil and gas lobbyist.
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The documentary used secret recordings from journalist Rodger Muller, who posed as a gun lobbyist.
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"Nobody writes perfect legislation," one lobbyist who used to work on the Hill told CNN.
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They are there "every time Senators and staffers are on the Hill," the lobbyist said.
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Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) told Wheeler, referring to Wheeler's past work as a coal lobbyist.
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Reilly O'Connor, the group's new head lobbyist, has been with the organization for nine years.
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In one case, a Republican lobbyist from Florida reached out to Guccifer, according to Aug.
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He's also come under fire for accepting a very cheap rent deal from a lobbyist.
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Formerly homeless, she is a registered lobbyist who advocates on behalf of low-income families.
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Mr. Pawlenty became a banking lobbyist before losing a primary for Minnesota governor last year.
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Presumably, this is something almost every lobbyist would do anyway upon taking a government job.
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The other is Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist who heads the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Mulvaney closed the letter by saying the OMB did not grant any lobbyist waivers itself.
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She is a counsel, a senior policy adviser and a lobbyist in the Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Andrew M. Cuomo who is now a lobbyist and top government affairs official for Verizon.
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His family was well-off, with his father a lobbyist and his mother a judge.
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The combination of lobbyist pressure and increasingly aggressive trolling eventually spurs Congress to crack down.
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At the time, Mr. Whitefield was a lobbyist for the group, according to state disclosures.
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"We're living in a world in which it's just Republican votes," one lobbyist told me.
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Jessica Chastain plays a ruthless Washington lobbyist in this political thriller directed by John Madden.
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"We have colorful people in Florida," said Mac Stipanovich, a veteran Republican consultant and lobbyist.
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"It's not a win for PhRMA, but it's not a loss either," the lobbyist said.
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If you were a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn't talk to you.
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I will never put a donor before a voter, or a lobbyist before a citizen.
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Sacramento lobbyist Pamela Lopez alleged that Democratic Assemblyman Matt Dababneh sexually harassed her in 85033.
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Both the lawyer and the Russian-American lobbyist had been working to remove those restrictions.
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Later, he would also officially become a lobbyist despite having never worked on K Street.
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"The paths are very weird, and you've got to be creative," another Republican lobbyist said.
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For much of the past decade, the chief lobbyist for the group was David Bernhardt.
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The lobbyist, Ed Rogers, chairman of the BGR Group, writes for the newspaper's PostPartisan blog.
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That was "the line in the sand," according to the lobbyist, and he stopped her.
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Trump also appointed Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, to run the Environmental Protection Agency.
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"This is no different than what President Obama said he would do," that lobbyist said.
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"That work begins immediately," said one industry lobbyist who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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An ex-lobbyist working for the government will have an agenda, whether implicit or explicit.
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Vicki Hart is also a lobbyist, though her clients do not have business before EPA.
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Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist for Russian clients, was also in the Trump Tower meeting.
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Manafort faces a litany of financial charges pertaining to his work as a foreign lobbyist.
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"He tweets it and talks about it still, so we're still worried," the lobbyist said.
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Playing lobbyist is Johnson's passion, but her job as a private caregiver pays the bills.
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These have become political tools, a handheld pollster, lobbyist, donor, and, maybe one day, voter.
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Rohrabacher joins board of cannabis company MORE (R-Calif.), and an unnamed lobbyist discussed Ukraine.
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President Donald Trump has nominated Bernhardt, a former fossil fuels lobbyist, to permanently lead Interior.
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She has three Democratic challengers; Gideon, lobbyist and progressive Betsy Sweet, and attorney Bre Kidman.
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Draper, the Audubon Society lobbyist, said that environmentalists had little hope of stopping the bill.
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If you're a lobbyist who didn't give me any money, I wouldn't meet with you.
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Mike Griffin, a lobbyist and spokesman for the Georgia Baptist Convention, applauded the bill's passage.
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But the association did provide written responses to questions through its lobbyist, Threase A. Harms.
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Latest addition: Rinat Akhmetshin, a former Soviet military officer who's currently a lobbyist in Washington.
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Also in attendance were a Russian-American lobbyist and top campaign advisers, including Jared Kushner.
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After all, it's hardly radical to point out that lobbyist money has pernicious political effects.
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Staff should not be enticed to leave for lobbyist pay, taking their expertise with them.
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Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), now a lobbyist, stood on the sidewalk gawking like everyone else.
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Rohrabacher joins board of cannabis company MORE (R-Calif.), and an unnamed lobbyist discussed Ukraine.
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Zook is also a former lobbyist for Aetna, helping them navigate the changes from ObamaCare.
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Don't worry, I'm going to get it approved, I'm connected, I'm a lobbyist, don't worry.
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Before becoming a lobbyist about 10 years ago, Wheeler worked for Inhofe for 14 years.
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I was a lobbyist between 2003 and 2010 in Washington, DC. I quit in disgust.
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If that means hiring a lobbyist to represent your point of view before Congress, awesomesauce.
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"The way it used to be, you go to a lobbyist, you pay the lobbyist a bunch of money, and he takes care of politics," said Gary Winnick, a close friend to Trump and Barrack who now spends much of his time making similar introductions.
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First, they have been publicly responsive — but in a controlled way," a GOP lobbyist told The Hill "I thought the CEO's public messaging was productive," the lobbyist added, referring to a public statement from Muilenburg on Monday, vowing to make Boeing planes "even safer.
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One Republican health care lobbyist described the party's blind faith in repeal as the inverse of the Democratic belief that people would warm to Obamacare once they found out what's in it: "We repealed it and therefore you must love it," the lobbyist said.
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For example, Michael Catanzaro, who until recently worked as a lobbyist for companies like Devon Energy and for the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers association, is now in charge of White House environmental policy, an issue related to the topics he handled as a lobbyist.
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Citing Mr. Sanders's attendance at a lobbyist-filled Democratic Party fund-raiser, Mr. Clinton expressed astonishment.
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But if you're a lobbyist and live in Missouri, you may no longer have that privilege.
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After Pruitt's resignation, his deputy and former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler assumed control of the agency.
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Assisting again with this year's baseball practices were lobbyist Matt Mika and House aide Zach Barth.
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Make every single meeting between a lobbyist and a public official a matter of public record.
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But Trump campaigned vigorously against the lobbyist culture, and would care for something different, Winnick stressed.
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The Senate just confirmed Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, to run the Environmental Protection Agency.
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After an ill-fated run for president, he, er, spent time as a financial services lobbyist.
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Brouillette, himself, also spent some time as a lobbyist, working for Fleishman-Hillard and Alpine Group.
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"It causes delays and a lot of frustration within the companies," said Mr. Efford, the lobbyist.
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The Indianapolis Star on Friday reported that Pruitt registered as a coal lobbyist in the state.
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Several others were injured at the Republican baseball practice that morning: lobbyist Matt Mika, Texas Rep.
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A supporter of the effort, lobbyist Jack Burkman, held a fundraiser in Northern Virginia Friday night.
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George Franklin, a former Kellogg lobbyist also raising a lot of money, rounds out the field.
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Lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin arrives at the US Capitol for a meeting with the House Intelligence Committee.
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After he lost a Senate race to Democrat Bill Nelson in 2012, he became a lobbyist.
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Eagan Kemp, a health-care policy lobbyist for Public Citizen: It is tough to take Reps.
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Coal industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler was nominated earlier this month to be Pruitt's second in command.
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Sprint owner SoftBank recently hired another lobbyist to work on the transaction, per Axios' David McCabe.
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"I don't think Clinton wakes up thinking about Wall Street," one senior banking industry lobbyist said.
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When I met her, she saw herself as the lobbyist for the middle class American family.
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The SEC said Robert Crowe, the company's outside lobbyist, is contesting the charges in federal court.
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Susan Molinari, Google's chief lobbyist, spoke to Anne-Marie Slaughter, New America's president and chief executive.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, announced the proposal.
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The memo could have been aimed at quieting internal unrest about Facebook's chief lobbyist Joel Kaplan.
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Iwu, the lobbyist, organized 147 women to sign an open letter revealing harassment in California's government.
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Blaming 'blue collar' Americans as the main opponents to bold climate policy is gas lobbyist 101.
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A veteran lobbyist turned unregistered influencer is convinced that "everything will be investigated at some point".
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A lobbyist for a leading private-equity firm warns that power there "shifts around very quickly".
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"How do you lobby Trump's gut?" grumbles an environmental lobbyist with experience in the Clinton administration.
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Cornish, meanwhile, reached a settlement with a female lobbyist who accused him of persistently harassing her.
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Every staffer and lobbyist I asked says immigration will be a bigger fight than health care.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Check out Wednesday's stories ... -Keystone pipeline builder signs lobbyist -GOP Sen.
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And unlike most other lobbyist donors, the AHA's donations were remarkably even between Republicans and Democrats.
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On Friday, the Associated Press reported that Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin also attended the meeting.
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No outside lobbyist has donated to any presidential campaign on CCA's behalf, either, the spokesman said.
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Legislative aide Zack Barth and lobbyist Matt Mika were also shot before Hodgkinson was fatally wounded.
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Michael Catanzaro, a former oil and gas lobbyist, can help shape the Trump administration's energy policies.
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She most recently served as a state lobbyist and staff attorney for the Iowa Hospital Association.
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And as Recode senior editor Tony Romm noted, Amazon's lobbyist was one of Trump's top fundraisers.
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Lisa Nelson, a lobbyist, initially supported her local governor, Mr Walker, and the businesswoman Carly Fiorina.
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A congressional panel is investigating Pruitt's use of the condominium tied to an energy industry lobbyist.
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"We could never win at the local level," said Victor Crawford, a former Tobacco Institute lobbyist.
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The scheme appears to involve a GOP lobbyist and pro-Trump social media personality (NBC News).
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"He makes these comments or a tweet, and he gets responses, he succeeds," the lobbyist said.
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President Trump will nominate Raytheon lobbyist Mark Esper as the top civilian leader of the Army.
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"FAA [reauthorization] becomes a Christmas tree where people get stuff packed into it," the lobbyist added.
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What about Louis Finkel, another Democrat and the former head lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute?
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A former top aide, Marc Short, was tapped as the administration's lead lobbyist for Capitol Hill.
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Hagan will serve as a senior policy consultant and will become a registered lobbyist. http://bit.
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So has Nicolas Muzin, a lobbyist for Qatar who is also a defendant in the case.
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Bill Shuster in Pennsylvania is using Shuster's romantic involvement with a top airline lobbyist against him.
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On Wednesday, the Senate easily approved Raytheon's top lobbyist to be the Army's top civilian leader.
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Yarowsky is a former colleague at WilmerHale, his former law firm, and a registered lobbyist (Politico).
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"[The shutdown] backed the calendar up into 2019 more than normal," a lobbyist told The Hill.
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Laura Cox Kaplan, lobbyist Ginger Loper and several other women who supported Kavanaugh organized the event.
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Another notable Pelosi aide-turned-lobbyist is Anne MacMillan, a partner at Invariant — Heather Podesta's firm.
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Circuit Judge Richard Wesley asked if Sutter went beyond protected activity in talking to the lobbyist.
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Jessica Chastain stars in the thriller as a driven lobbyist who takes on the gun industry.
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Brian Johnson, a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute who also runs the food blog hungrylobbyist.
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Mr. Blunt's wife is a lobbyist, and his three adult children are registered lobbyists as well.
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"It is a have-to-get-done that's really hard to get done," said one lobbyist.
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In addition, the lobbyist works for Hungary's MOL, the biggest shareholder in Croatia's energy company INA.
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Chris Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist, said he was "not really interested" in talking to Obama.
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"This is going to be a tough fall," said one financial services lobbyist backing the deal.
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The person nominated to enforce anti-pollution laws was an attorney and lobbyist who defended polluters.
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The new Region 4 administrator was a lobbyist for business interests that fight against pollution regulations.
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I'm introduced to a lobbyist for Viacom, who tells me he represents MTV, BET, and VH1.
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Some $50 billion would be earmarked for rural projects, the lobbyist and an administration official said.
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The cause for concern: The owner of the apartment is a health care lobbyist, Vicki Hart.
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Ralph Northam faces off with Republican lobbyist and former George W. Bush administration official Ed Gillespie.
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In general, individuals and institutions can be good analysts, or good lobbyist/advocates, but not both.
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They're concerned about his lobbyist past and how the agency is handling the ongoing government shutdown.
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Haley Barbour, who is also a former Republican National Committee chairman and a veteran Washington lobbyist.
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Delrahim represented the company as a lobbyist on antitrust issues in 2016, according to federal records.
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Mr. Giuliani rejected the use of the word lobbyist to describe his work for Mr. Fuks.
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"We like what you're doing," the horse diaper lobbyist says to me on the golf course.
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Mr. Esper, 55, is a former lobbyist for Raytheon, one of the largest U.S. military contractors.
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" He said he received an email from a Republican lobbyist with this message: "Poisonous gridlock. Hemlock?
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"Many people accuse him of being a lobbyist," said Carlos Bruce, a congressman from Kuczynski's party.
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Its first chairman, appointed in 20183, was convicted of a bribery scheme involving an industry lobbyist.
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"They aren't going to revisit decisions they just made in tax reform," another Republican lobbyist predicted.
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"I'm really worried about how, when this finally blows over, what Congress does," said one lobbyist.
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In Ohio, Republicans picked congressman and former lobbyist Jim Renacci to run against Senator Sherrod Brown.
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Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who's now a lobbyist at the firm, introduced Biden at the event.
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"They'll be sitting on a monopoly," said Tomasz Wlostowski, a lobbyist who represents European fertilizer manufacturers.
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"Even Boeing will have a tough time getting something over the finish line," the lobbyist said.
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A lobbyist close to the administration who pleaded guilty to corruption charges testified against Mr. Percoco.
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A powerful lawyer and lobbyist named Ron Book can take a lot of credit for that.
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On leaving the EU civil service he had set up as a lobbyist, the magazine reported.
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He was then given a position in the Commerce Department before he became an industry lobbyist.
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New York State defines a lobbyist as, in part, someone who spends money to influence lawmakers.
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Adam Waldman, a Washington lobbyist representing Mr. Deripaska, did not respond to an email seeking comment.
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I had a spirited debate with a lobbyist about whether lobbying should be a bad word.
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Wheeler is a former energy lobbyist with clients in the coal and uranium industries, among others.
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The president's tweet repeated his false claim that the Post acts as a "lobbyist" for Amazon.
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He has been accused of working as a lobbyist for a foreign government without appropriately registering.
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He said he did not discuss it with the lobbyist until after it had passed Congress.
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Also in attendance were a Russian-American lobbyist and top campaign advisers, including Jared Kushner. 25.
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Mr. Crangle is a lobbyist for the South Carolina Progressive Caucus, which does not endorse candidates.
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One Republican lobbyist said Warren's proposal would likely be defeated in court if it were enacted.
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Stone even worked as a lobbyist for Trump's casinos at one point in the late 1980s.
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He, too was succeeded by a former lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, who previously had represented coal companies.
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Florida lobbyist Brian Ballard, a top fundraiser for Trump, opened up shop in Washington after 2202.
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Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) has been a lobbyist for management consulting company APCO Worldwide since 2013.
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One Democratic lobbyist said this was a "desperate" move by Sanders to gain ground on Sen.
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Wheeler, a former industry lobbyist, served as the deputy administrator at the EPA until Pruitt resigned.
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Not a concession, a correction to the misleading accusations by media that I am a lobbyist.
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Michele Wymer, the lobbyist on the account, is a former staffer on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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"I don't think they're at the point now where they have the votes," the lobbyist said.
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The chief trade lobbyist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has departed for Kia Motors Corp.
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A lobbyist said Kruse had cupped her rear end while posing for a photograph with Gov.
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Instead, he transformed from a lobbyist for companies that supported immigration into an anti-immigration hardliner.
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" He has also directed his vitriol at The Washington Post, calling the paper Amazon's "chief lobbyist.
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"Scott Pruitt's acting replacement, Andrew Wheeler, is a former coal lobbyist and climate-change denier," Sen.
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Verdery, the Republican lobbyist, said Isakowitz's broad background can still be a big asset to Google.
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Robert Livingston, a lobbyist for Ukrainian steel companies, urging Marie Yovanovitch's removal as ambassador to Ukraine.
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The bottom line: "We're a long way from push coming to shove," the industry lobbyist said.
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The littlest lobbyist: A 6-year-old whose life depends on ACA heads to Capitol Hill.
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Blaming "blue collar" Americans as the main opponents to bold climate policy is gas lobbyist 101.
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Bernhardt, his replacement, is a former industry lobbyist and has previously worked at the Interior Department.
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The other two are Joshua Pitcock, who formerly worked as Indiana's only lobbyist in Washington, and Andrew Olmem, a former financial services lobbyist from Venable who is now able to work directly on economic policies as the No. 2 on the White House National Economic Council.
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Preston: You know, I was talking to a very powerful lobbyist recently, a Republican lobbyist, and just talking about health care, and this lobbyist's head was almost exploding, saying they had seven years to get something done, seven years, and they really dropped the ball on it.
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Proving that an extremist political group or a glib lobbyist is backed by Moscow is often impossible.
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The key paragraph: I asked Lewandowski on Sunday about his decision not to register as a lobbyist.
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A six-year time-out before that lobbyist or outlaw CEO can take a job in government.
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"It took us a long time to get where we are," said Justin Strekal, NORML's Hill lobbyist.
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"McConnell has zero interest in presiding over another goat rodeo," a second health care lobbyist told me.
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Manchin has repeatedly reminded voters of Morrisey's years as a Washington lobbyist for interests including pharmaceutical companies.
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Both Pruitt and the lobbyist, Steven Hart, denied he had conducted any recent business with the EPA.
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Manafort is a veteran Republican operative who has worked as a Washington lobbyist and international political consultant.
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Carl Trujillo was accused by an animal rights lobbyist of having touched her inappropriately and propositioning her.
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Esper is the former secretary of the Army, and was a lobbyist for the weapons manufacturer Raytheon.
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He is expected to name coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, a former aide to climate-science denier Sen.
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" Meanwhile, earlier this week NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer called the legislation "a display of bullying and coercion.
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A lobbyist who asked not to be identified also said Democrats should be cautious about the bill.
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Koch Industries — Mr. Schlapp is a former chief Washington lobbyist for the corporation — was Cove's first client.
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But Chris Cox, the National Rifle Association's brash and boyish-looking chief lobbyist, was ready for them.
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But days later, Trump had what he called a "great" meeting with top NRA lobbyist Chris Cox.
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" As for Wheeler, who is a former coal lobbyist, the president called him "a very environmental person.
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Wheeler, who is now set to be acting head of the EPA, is a former coal lobbyist.
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"If this group can agree, they can pass a bill," one Republican health care lobbyist told me.
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The lobbyist also received his final check from the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative Foundation that month.
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The Florida state Senate's top Democrat resigned Friday after admitting to an extramarital affair with a lobbyist.
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My close friend Matt Brown, who is a well-known cannabis lobbyist, recommended I get in early.
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James Inhofe (R-OK) and as a lobbyist for a coal company that has sued the EPA.
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Kelly Norton, who is now divorced from the lobbyist, has acknowledged her role and was granted immunity.
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She'll be in Washington the following day for evening events hosted by lobbyist Rob Shapiro and Rep.
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Letters like these are lobbyist-generated favors; they're part of the currency of big-money donor networks.
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Lobbyist Matt Mika, director of government relations for Tyson's DC office, was also shot, per NBC. Rep.
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The Department of Defense has hired a former lobbyist for the Peter Thiel-founded data company Palantir.
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Ahead of the vote, Democrats will vote on resolutions about corporate and lobbyist influence on the party.
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Bill Wichterman, a veteran lobbyist and former George W. Bush administration official, is also on the account.
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"This will impact the decisions about list prices, and it won't be downward," a drug lobbyist said.
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The third lobbyist recalled getting an urgent-sounding text message recently from a sovereign government client overseas.
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" He went on, "If you're a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn't talk to you.
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Mr. Klitsch said he found that his was only the latest local business to sue the lobbyist.
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Before his return to the Senate, Kyl worked as lobbyist for the Washington-based firm Covington & Burling.
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" "As you know, these days I am no more an energy lobbyist than I am an astronaut.
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Effective grassroots advocacy can be just as "direct" as if the communication came from a professional lobbyist.
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His work as a lobbyist after he left the House in 2007 also fattened his net worth.
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ZTE also has the help of Angela Simpson, the in-house lobbyist for the company's U.S. subsidiary.
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Armed with opposition research notes, Moore attacked Strange for being a lobbyist and for McConnell groups' spending.
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The property is owned by Vicki Hart, a health lobbyist, whose husband, Steven, has energy industry clients.
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For Amazon this would mark at least the second pickup of a lobbyist with ties to Trump.
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"I am not a reporter, and I am not a lobbyist, so I've seen nothing," Murkowski said.
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Republicans like to talk about abolishing tax deductions, but every loophole has a lobbyist to defend it.
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The group's top lobbyist, Chris Cox, had a total compensation in 2015 of more than $1.3 million.
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The agency's new director, former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, has continued the dismantling of numerous environmental regulations.
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"It's like they're jamming 10 years of legislation into five weeks of votes," the second lobbyist said.
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Bernhardt, a former energy lobbyist, maintains he has gone to great lengths to maintain his ethics pledge.
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Strickland was responding to a specific question about his past record, and that he's not a lobbyist.
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"I never lobbied or contracted lobbyist on behalf of the Turkish Government," he tweeted in March 2017.
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Boehner will not work as a registered lobbyist for the group, but will serve as an adviser.
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The National Environmental Health Association registered its first lobbyist: Joanne Zurcher, the group's director of government affairs.
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He also worked as a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry, mining companies and big agriculture.
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Delrahim is a former antitrust lawyer in the administration of George W. Bush and a former lobbyist.
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"The Second Amendment is on the ballot this November," the NRA's top lobbyist Chris Cox said Friday.
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Andrew Wheeler, the EPA's deputy administrator and former coal lobbyist, will assume the position upon Pruitt's departure.
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He has also been accused of taking part in lobbying activities without ever registering as a lobbyist.
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Meanwhile, at American Airlines, Will Ris retired as the company's top lobbyist at the end of 2015.
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Adam Waldman, a Washington lobbyist representing Deripaska, also did not respond to the newspaper's request for comment.
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Elizabeth Warren, over his ties to the defense contractor Raytheon, where he previously worked as a lobbyist.
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The person nominated to be Pruitt's deputy, fossil fuel lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, still hasn't been confirmed yet.
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He also has worked as a lobbyist, forming his own firm, Shea Public Strategies LLC, in 2010.
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After all, Tom is getting calls from lobbyist Sidney Purcell and mentioning Sidney's clients on the air.
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My friend Rinat Akhmetshin, a lobbyist of Russian origin, was keen to muscle in on the action.
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He will now be the third lobbyist at Daly Consulting Group, founded by Justin Daly in 85033.
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After leaving Congress, Michel went to work at the Washington law firm Hogan & Hartson as a lobbyist.
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In the new political drama "Miss Sloane," Jessica Chastain's titular lobbyist explains how to win in Washington.
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SoftBank has already taken steps to improve its visibility in Washington, including by hiring Ford's top lobbyist.
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But Lewandowski has not registered as a lobbyist and says he does not need to do so.
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"His problem is that the policy is just really bad," another Republican health care lobbyist told me.
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His likely successor, David Bernhardt, is a former oil lobbyist who has influenced Mr. Trump's energy policy.
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The lobbyist looked depressed, and Gleckman asked whether he'd lost a fight over language in the bill.
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Sam Patten, another lobbyist, pleaded guilty this year to steering Ukranian funds to Mr. Trump's inaugural committee.
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Every additional minute we spend debating the merits of the "lobbyist ban" is a minute we've wasted.
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He is not the Chris Cox who is a former top lobbyist at the National Rifle Association.
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After the war she became a lobbyist for the airline in its relations with the federal government.
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Before joining the E.P.A., Mr. Wheeler, the new acting administrator, worked as a lobbyist for Mr. Murray.
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He went on to become an assistant principal, a lobbyist for the district, and an associate superintendent.
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The NRA's top lobbyist, Christopher Cox, who built decades of relationships with congressional Republicans, resigned in June.
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A former lobbyist, he served time in prison because of his role in the Abramoff lobbying scandal.
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The administration has slashed environmental regulations and even installed a former coal lobbyist to lead the EPA.
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In this case, a Biden staffer left the Senate in the early '20083s to become a lobbyist.
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This was not the first time a Biden-tied lobbyist had figured into James Biden's personal finances.
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As John Feehrey, a Republican lobbyist and party operative, told me, People inside the beltway are dreaming.
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It was owned by Vicki Hart, wife of Steven Hart, a lobbyist with business before the EPA.
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On Saturday, he wrote that The Washington Post should be forced to "REGISTER" as an Amazon lobbyist.
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We need to simplify the tax code while closing lobbyist-driven loopholes and incentivizing long-term investment.
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In Salt Lake City, they met a gun lobbyist who discussed the sanctity of the Second Amendment.
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In Salt Lake City, they met a gun lobbyist who discussed the sanctity of the Second Amendment.
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Michael Crossen, the lobbyist on the account, served as the national finance co-chair for former Sen.
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At Saturday's debate, Halvorson blasted Shuster for "cavorting" with a lobbyist who attempts to influence his committee.
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Henry Waxman, now a lobbyist, told FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in a phone call earlier this week.
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Last tuna-salad sandwich on planet is eaten by coal-industry lobbyist in Winnipeg, new U.S. capital.
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The so-called revolving door is also moving quickly under Trump to bring officials into lobbyist posts.
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The banking industry's top lobbyist, Rob Nichols, president of the American Bankers Association, cheered the committee's vote.
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Rittener has been leading the group since June when Intel's top lobbyist, Peter Cleveland, left the company.
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The condo is owned by the wife of a lobbyist whose clients had business before Pruitt's EPA.
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Michael Catanzaro, a former energy lobbyist, now works on regulations and policies that affect his former clients.
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Chadwick, who was the top lobbyist for the Bush White House, is also a prolific Republican donor.
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Among others eyed partying it up: lobbyist Heather Podesta; Fox News's Ed Henry and Brian Kilmeade; Rep.
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Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), and as a lobbyist at the now-defunct Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White.
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He was previously registered as a lobbyist for energy companies including coal-mining giant Murray Energy Corp.
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The email suggests the lobbyist is seeking USDA support for particular industry-friendly candidates for the committee.
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Scalise, a member of his Capitol Police security detail, a staffer and a lobbyist all were shot.
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Stanley Black & Decker, known for its power tools, also registered its first in-house lobbyist, Greg Polk.
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They deserted their lobbyist-drafted amendments and voted for the tough automobile safety bill we have today.
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She retired from a career as a corporate lobbyist in Dallas and made a hard left turn.
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In May, they raided the City Club of Chicago, seeking records from its president, lobbyist Jay Doherty.
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"Two things critical yesterday: the [repeal-and-replace] vote and the parliamentarian," another Republican lobbyist told me.
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"He's been a very solid follow on to Scott Pruitt." said Michael McKenna, a Republican energy lobbyist.
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Even John Boehner, the former speaker of the House, has become a lobbyist for the cannabis industry.
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"I believe the part where they are working on something," one GOP health care lobbyist told me.
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Cresco Labs hired a lobbyist in New York for the first time this year, state records showed.
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"McConnell clearly got his members to agree to stay quiet," one Republican health care lobbyist told me.
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He not only spent more than a decade as a coal lobbyist but also questions climate change.
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That includes Andrew R. Wheeler, a coal lobbyist, to be deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Facebook has a major Trump donor on its board, it has a conservative magazine (but no progressive publications) on its fact-checking team, it hired a GOP operative to be its chief global lobbyist and said lobbyist flew to Washington to support Brett Kavanaugh during his hearings, etc.
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In 2017, New York State records showed that the company hired a lobbyist to push against the issue there, and an Apple lobbyist in Nebraska told a lawmaker there that passing a right to repair bill would turn the state into a "Mecca for bad actors," criminals, and hackers.
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Richard Smotkin, a lobbyist who secured a contract with the Moroccan government after helping organize Pruitt's trip to Morocco last year, was also a critical link between Environmental Protection Agency officials and a Washington consultant and former lobbyist who helped plan the trip to Australia, the sources said.
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The probe looked at former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig and his former law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; longtime Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and his former firm, the Podesta Group; and lobbyist Vin Weber, a former Minnesota Republican congressman, and his firm, Mercury Public Affairs.
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If you're a Washington lobbyist, if you make your money in and around Washington, things are doing great.
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In addition, when they leave the government, they will be banned from being a lobbyist for five years.
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"Flynn was the main lobbyist for the 'big deal with Putin' project," said Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin.
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Uber steamrolled into the city, with its lobbyist telling the mayor that it would operate without his permission.
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Rice joined Facebook from Verizon more than four years ago to serve as the company's top Democratic lobbyist.
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In June, the Trump campaign has a scheduled stop at top D.C. lobbyist Jack Burkman's Arlington, Virginia, home.
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Trump previously appointed former drug industry lobbyist Joe Grogan to lead the administration's task force on drug prices.
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"The battle for Britain is over, the battle for France is about to begin," said one senior lobbyist.
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Brian Ballard, a veteran Florida lobbyist, has emerged as a major player in Washington since Trump was elected.
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Pruitt began renting a room in a townhouse owned by a top DC energy lobbyist in early 2000.
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Not necessarily, the industry lobbyist said — Republicans are still a better bet for pharma than increasingly progressive Democrats.
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"I feel like the dog that finally caught the mail truck," one broadcast industry lobbyist recently texted POLITICO.
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Grant Smith, a lobbyist with Drug Policy Action, said it was remarkable how much airtime addiction was getting.
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If you're a Washington lobbyist, if you make your money in and around Washington, things are doing great.
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Ben Dendy, a Richmond-based lobbyist, told the paper Trump mingled with the crowd and addressed the reception.
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Besides Scalise, a congressional aide, a government lobbyist, and two officers of the Capitol Police were also shot.
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Details: Bernhardt is an oil and gas lobbyist and a member of former President George W. Bush's administration.
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Some key roles remain unfilled, most notably the top U.S. lobbyist job, which has been vacant since November.
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Delrahim was previously hired as a lobbyist who helped shepherd Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick in 2007.
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But he also has a long and storied history as a Republican campaign consultant and as a lobbyist.
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"Basically we can't release anything," Lori Sattenspiel, a lobbyist for the Oregon School Boards Association, told BuzzFeed News.
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And over the years Manafort, working as a lobbyist, has been tied to his share of questionable clients.
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Mr. Vice, 32, is a lobbyist in Washington, working for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
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A former coal lobbyist, Mr Wheeler is also a climate change sceptic and considered an effective bureaucratic operator.
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From 2008 until 2016, Jaime Harrison was a lobbyist for a powerful lobbying firm called the Podesta Group.
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Eckart von Klaeden, once a senior official in the CDU, became Daimler's chief lobbyist in Berlin in 2013.
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A former Soviet counterintelligence officer and current Russian-American lobbyist also attended the meeting, according to NBC News.
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Also wounded were a congressional aide and one former aide who now works as a lobbyist, officials said.
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On Friday Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin revealed that he too accompanied Veselnitskaya to the Trump Tower meeting.
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N) long-time top lobbyist is leaving the No. 2 U.S. automaker to join Japan's Softbank Group (9984.
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President Trump said that Pruitt's deputy, former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, will take over the agency on Monday.
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He also says that The Washington Post — owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos — should register as a lobbyist.
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He worked as a policy staffer on Capitol Hill and later as a lobbyist for defense contractor Raytheon.
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The bill had a rocky start, with an early incarnation scuttled in committee thanks to ISP lobbyist gamesmanship.
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Why it matters: It's a step beyond her pledge to reject any lobbyist, PAC or super PAC money.
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"The report is basically our entire wish list," said one banking lobbyist who asked not to be named.
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According to The New York Times, Clinton is already the top recipient of lobbyist donations in either party.
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"There is definitely broader consultation going on with industry at this point," a health care lobbyist told Axios.
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"I don't think the House approach to Medicaid will survive in the Senate," the health insurance lobbyist said.
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Other contenders, including coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, have been cast aside, according to a source with direct knowledge.
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Why would a man known for his international dealings as a lobbyist for global dictators be stockpiling iPods?
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Super lobbyist to the Democratic Party and brother of John, the chairman of Hillary&aposs failed 2000 campaign.
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A lobbyist last week posted on social media that Mosley had criticized her for being a working mother.
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Bernhardt, a former energy lobbyist, was confirmed by the Senate last week in a 56 to 41 vote.
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"Right now, to take away lobbyist and lawyer money would leave a hole of $18 million," Harrison said.
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And the senior lobbyist praised Shelby for not clearing any legislation that would be harmful to the industry.
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"He's bound and determined to have the vote pre-July Fourth recess," a Republican lobbyist said of McConnell.
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Two Capitol Police officers were wounded in the shooting, as well as a congressional aide and a lobbyist.
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Flynn has come under intense scrutiny for his time working as a lobbyist for the government of Turkey.
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Ballard is Trump's longtime lobbyist in Tallahassee and began heavily fundraising for the billionaire after Trump defeated Sen.
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"We were so close to having a defined regulatory structure," said Louis Rotundo, a lobbyist for CBSync Inc.
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One insurance lobbyist predicted that there would be "intense lobbying" on those payments in the next few years.
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After all, Strange, a former D.C. lobbyist, has made a name for himself as a force against corruption.
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Smart Approaches to Marijuana, the leading group opposing legalization, hired a lobbyist and organized supporters to pressure lawmakers.
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" The lobbyist added that "organizations like the Chamber, with massive internal bureaucracies, do not adapt well or easily.
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"We're in uncharted territory here," said one lobbyist with foreign government clients who asked not to be identified.
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And Westlands officials expressed their enthusiasm for the new post in Washington that their former lobbyist was taking.
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Pruitt wasn't at his most dangerous when he was renting a $50-per-night condo from a lobbyist.
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Having a trained lobbyist constantly monitoring the public policy process and providing expertise is an equally important ingredient.
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The lobbyist said he personally drafted Idaho's legislation, according to a recording of his presentation to state lawmakers.
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As Politico reported in May, Morrisey is a former D.C. lobbyist for major pharmaceutical companies, including drug wholesalers.
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In addition to Scalise, a Hill staffer, lobbyist and the two members of Scalise's security detail were wounded.
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Nicholas E. Calio, a former lobbyist who worked on legislative affairs for President George Bush, was in attendance.
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Dunlap told the Times that he had no knowledge that Pruitt had purchased the residence from a lobbyist.
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Ryan identified the others shot as Tyson Foods lobbyist Matt Mika and Zack Barth, a staffer for Rep.
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"He is an evil person," was the assessment of Alfonse M. D'Amato, the former Republican senator turned lobbyist.
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He denied helping on the basis that Formica is a friend or because he is an industry lobbyist.
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His wife is a lobbyist for Kraft Foods, and three of his kids have worked in the industry.
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"Blaming 'blue collar' Americans as the main opponents to bold climate policy is gas lobbyist 101," she continued.
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"Right now, we're ruling out taking any PAC money, any lobbyist money, ever," the El Paso Democrat added.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) administration officials and a former aide-turned-lobbyist who later pleaded guilty to eight felonies.
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"Ken and Teiro are friends to Cathy and me," Gillespie, a former lobbyist and current communications strategist, said.
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Five people were injured in the shooting: two Capitol Police officers, a congressional staffer, a lobbyist and Scalise.
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Soon after, the new secretary of defense, Mark Esper (a former chief lobbyist for Raytheon), requested another review.
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Mason Tvert, a pro-marijuana lobbyist who helped lead the effort to legalize marijuana, dismissed the survey's findings.
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Briefel serves as chief lobbyist for the Senior Executives Association and has lobbied Congress significantly on this issue.
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Schröder makes his money since leaving office as a high-priced lobbyist for the Russian energy giant Gazprom.
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And Democrats have already blasted Blunt for hiring his son, who's a lobbyist, to helm his reelection bid.
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Mark Esper, the newly minted secretary of defense, for example, previously worked as Raytheon's top lobbyist in Washington.
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Manafort previously served as a lobbyist and worked with the political party of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
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This is because the US National Rifle Association NRA has always been the greatest lobbyist of the Republicans.
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Outside the arena, the lavish lobbyist-funded parties that were packed at past conventions have seen smaller crowds.
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Trump's recent attack on the border adjustment tax was another sign of his unpredictability, the financial lobbyist said.
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Another attendee, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, testified before Mueller's grand jury in August, the Financial Times reported.
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Mr. Dorgan did not immediately register as a lobbyist, but his firm has oil and gas industry clients.
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Four others — two Capitol Police officers, a congressional aide and a lobbyist — were also injured in the shooting.
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But Pruitt never publicly disclosed that one co-owner and sometimes-housemate was a lobbyist, the Times reported.
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Delrahim, a veteran of the Justice Department and a lobbyist, has been nominated to be assistant attorney general.
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Several years later, he moved to America — where he's been working as a lobbyist since at least 1998.
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"The demand in the job market is not always captured by the highest salary," said one tech lobbyist.
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He came under fire for renting a bedroom near Capitol Hill from a lobbyist for $50 a night.
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"I'm the Trump Organization lobbyist, and he has never, ever brought up Trump University with me," he said.
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Shortly after the deal was reached, Cooper hired Lee Lilley, a lobbyist for Dominion, as his legislative liaison.
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Bono, who served in the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2013, was a lobbyist for the firm.
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Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, the senator's staff would "barely wave from a distance," the lobbyist said.
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He was not a lobbyist, he argued, addressing lawmakers often but not spending or receiving money for it.
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He is also in regular contact with early-state Democrats like the influential New Hampshire lobbyist Jim Demers.
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Last month, for instance, Mr. Trump nominated a coal lobbyist as deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The top lobbyist for the restaurant industry said that she was hopeful that lawmakers had heard their complaints.
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He previously worked for the American Petroleum Institute as a lobbyist on federal regulations related to renewable fuels.
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Andrew Wheeler, a former lobbyist for industries including coal, will take over EPA as acting director on Monday.
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But of course, that doesn't produce any windfall gains for corporate America, its shareholders, or its lobbyist boosters.
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The world's largest cable company, which owns NBCUniversal, is the most active lobbyist on tax issues this year.
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Afterward, the Wilks family hired a lobbyist to push for a law that would stiffen penalties for trespass.
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I was meeting a lobbyist for lunch at Tortilla Coast [a Mexican restaurant one block from the Capitol].
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Another big step is to prevent David Bernhardt, a former oil and gas lobbyist, from becoming interior secretary.
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N.R.A. member, gun lobbyist and legislative director of the Texas State Rifle Association Age: 71 From: Paige, Tex.
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The Trump presidency has changed the rules of influence in Washington — and spawned a new breed of lobbyist.
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"I am not a reporter, and I am not a lobbyist, so I've seen nothing," said Murkowski tartly.
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But, Ms. Sullivan said, even if she had reached the spending limit, she opposed being called a lobbyist.
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"It doesn't matter what you've done in the past," said one tech industry lobbyist, reflecting on Trump's tactics.
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Until early this year, Tymoshenko was also being indirectly represented by another lobbyist, the law firm Wiley Rein.
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However, he said that he will not register himself as a lobbyist or take work for foreign governments.
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And, on the lobbyist comment, what Mulvaney is saying is the literal definition of pay-to-play politics.
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But in recent times it has become overwhelmingly apparent that one party represents lobbyist groups and the wealthy.
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"I really am not sure if the Trump team has done any analysis of this," the lobbyist said.
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"The courts decided that speech is protected and this is wrong-headed on its face," the lobbyist said.
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Ms. Bishop volunteered to meet with officials to help influence the legislation, essentially acting as an unpaid lobbyist.
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Its chief lobbyist personally gave nearly a quarter of a million dollars to dozens of campaigns last year.
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A prominent Republican lobbyist repeated unfounded claims that Soros had ties to the former US ambassador to Ukraine.
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Bernhardt was also the longtime lobbyist for a powerful California irrigation district that has fought endangered species protections.
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"I don't remember anything quite like this," said Vin Weber, a Republican lobbyist and former congressman from Minnesota.
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Jot Carpenter, a former in-house lobbyist at the telecommunications trade group CTIA, has started his own firm.
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A former lobbyist, he served time in prison because of his role in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
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The lobbyist, Rinat Akhmetshin, has been reported to have ties with Russian intelligence, though he denies the connections.
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Russia can't beat them on the battlefield, so they use K Street lobbyist sellouts to help cripple them.
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"Members of Congress aren't just dependent on corporate lobbyist propaganda because they're bought and paid for," Warren said.
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"This is a guy who just survived cancer," said Gerald E. Evans, a lobbyist in Annapolis, the capital.
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And Democrats have already begun taking aim at the former Trump aide over his lobbyist ties in Washington.
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No apologies, even for its lack of a backbone and for sending only a lobbyist to the hearing.
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"It's a pretty big concern, but no one really knows what that might look like," said the lobbyist.
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"Any new administration takes a while to get their sea legs," said Charlie Black, a veteran Republican lobbyist.
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"It's something that they're just trying to get their arms around," said a lobbyist representing financial services companies.
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What do you make of the positions people have taken about not taking lobbyist money for their campaigns?
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Jen Gross (D) reportedly acknowledged that lobbyist and consultant John MacDonald provided proposed language for their respective columns.
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He has been a senior adviser to the Trump campaign since 2016 and is a lobbyist in Washington.
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