By
Kate Ackley
| Aug. 9, 2012, 2:32 p.m.
Former Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.), who had been a lobbyist with K&L Gates, has opened his own shop, Slade Gorton LLC.
By
Kate Ackley
| Aug. 2, 2012, 2:17 p.m.
Members of Congress and administration officials got a little less love from K Street in 2011. Lobbyists spent $19 million to honor or fete top policymakers last year, down from $23.2 million the previous year, according to a new report by the Sunlight Foundation.
By
Kate Ackley
| Aug. 1, 2012, 1:42 p.m.
Lobbyist Hunter Bates, who briefly considered a run for the Congressional seat of retiring Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Ky.), is splitting with the C2 Group and relaunching his own firm, Bates Capitol Group.
By
Kate Ackley
| July 31, 2012, 12:01 p.m.
Most Americans, in a shock to no one, have a negative view of companies that hire lobbyists, according to a just-released poll by the nonpartisan Public Affairs Council.
By
Kate Ackley
| July 25, 2012, 1:02 p.m.
A fledgling trade association for a collection of Internet companies has made its first hire in Michael Beckerman, a former deputy staff director of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Beckerman will serve as CEO of the Internet Association.
By
Kate Ackley
| July 19, 2012, 10:08 a.m.
The WPP-owned public relations firm Burson-Marsteller today named Donald Baer, a former White House communications director under President Bill Clinton, as its worldwide CEO. He succeeds Mark Penn, who is heading in-house with longtime client Microsoft as corporate vice president for strategic and special projects, according to a statement today from Burson-Marsteller.
By
Janie Lorber, Kate Ackley
| July 17, 2012, 5:16 p.m.
Consumer safety advocates may be on the verge of winning a years-long fight to ban rental car companies from renting and selling recalled vehicles.
By
Kate Ackley
| July 16, 2012, 2:10 p.m.
The National Association of Counties is bringing on Matthew Chase, most recently with the National Association of Development Organizations, as its executive director. NACo made the announcement today at its 77th annual conference in Pittsburgh. Chase will take over on Sept. 17.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| July 10, 2012, 12:38 p.m.
More than 200 activists are visiting lawmakers on Capitol Hill today to lobby for legislation that would grant workers a minimum number of sick days and for a federal family leave insurance program.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| June 29, 2012, 12:07 p.m.
The Business Roundtable has snagged veteran lobbyist and political strategist Bill Miller as senior vice president in charge of its outreach to Capitol Hill and the Obama administration.
By
Kate Ackley
| June 21, 2012, 4:50 p.m.
Just as one of his premiere K Street properties faces a staff exodus, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell is heading to Washington, D.C., next week for a previously scheduled meeting with top executives from the conglomerate’s shops, according to people familiar with the session.
By
Kate Ackley
| June 15, 2012, 6 a.m.
Veteran lobbyist Andy Wright and former Dutko Grayling colleague Tracy Hammond have joined Polsinelli Shughart’s lobbying team. The duo will focus primarily on energy, environmental and telecommunications issues.
By
Kate Ackley
| June 14, 2012, 5:19 p.m.
Former Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.), who joined the lobby practice of Olsson Frank Weeda last year, will leave the firm this summer to become general counsel of Raven Industries in Sioux Falls.
By
Janie Lorber
| June 11, 2012, 5:49 p.m.
If there were ever a sign that the tea party has grown up, it’s this: Dozens of tea party activists cheering in support of an effort to derail a regulation called “Utility MACT.”
By
Kate Ackley
| June 7, 2012, 1:02 p.m.
Former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) is setting up shop as a visiting scholar at the policy think tank American Enterprise Institute.
By
Kate Ackley
| June 6, 2012, 3:57 p.m.
The Bond Dealers of America has made an investment in a new top lobbyist. Susan Collet will join the organization July 9 as its senior vice president for government relations. She will also take a leading role in the BDA’s new political action committee.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| May 22, 2012, 11:52 a.m.
As it gears up for an ambitious get-out-the-vote effort this year, the AFL-CIO is expanding its legal team with the addition of Craig Becker as co-general counsel.
By
Kate Ackley
| May 9, 2012, 2:24 p.m.
A pair of Congressional candidates will get a boost Thursday from a network of former aides to the late-Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.).
By
Kate Ackley
| May 9, 2012, 12:11 p.m.
Pat Bousliman, a longtime Senate Finance Committee staff member, has joined the Democratic lobby shop of Elmendorf Ryan.
By
Kate Ackley
| May 1, 2012, 12:03 a.m.
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi is back in business on K Street, launching Laszlo Strategies this week.
