By
Kate Ackley
| April 8, 2013, 12:01 a.m.
Who says Obama insiders don’t go to K Street?
By
Kate Ackley
| April 4, 2013, 12:01 a.m.
Veteran congressional aide Richard Hertling, most recently staff director and chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, is joining Covington & Burling’s global public policy and government affairs practice.
By
Kate Ackley
| April 1, 2013, 1:16 p.m.
Twenty-one CEOs of some of the country’s biggest companies had a message Monday for members of Congress. They want comprehensive tax reform, and that’s no April Fools’ joke.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 28, 2013, 10:40 a.m.
The Generic Pharmaceutical Association has filled a prescription for its top lobbyist: Melissa Schulman, a longtime lobbyist with the Bockorny Group and a former congressional aide to Democratic members, will serve as the group’s senior vice president of government affairs.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 21, 2013, 3:51 p.m.
The city and county of Denver has a new lobbying firm on retainer: Greenberg Traurig.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 19, 2013, 1:47 p.m.
Former Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., who lost her bid for an eighth full term in November, has joined FaegreBD Consulting as a senior vice president, the firm announced Tuesday.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 19, 2013, 7:30 a.m.
The C2 Group is off the market.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 18, 2013, 4:37 p.m.
Former Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., is setting up shop at the lobbying and communications firm Mercury/Clark & Weinstock.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 14, 2013, 12:01 a.m.
Former Rep. Howard L. Berman, the California Democrat who lost a bitter and costly congressional race in November to fellow incumbent Rep. Brad Sherman, is joining the law and lobbying firm Covington & Burling, the firm will announce Thursday.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 13, 2013, 11:44 a.m.
The Entertainment Software Association, the video game lobby, has added a new bipartisan duo to its roster: Ali Amirhooshmand and Danielle Rodman are joining the group as directors of federal government affairs.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 11, 2013, 12:43 p.m.
The Boston office of law and lobbying firm Nixon Peabody has nabbed former Sen. Scott P. Brown, R-Mass., as counsel.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 10, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
The opening credits of Netflix’s inside-the-Beltway show “House of Cards” offer glimpses of iconic D.C. spots such as the Capitol, the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building and statues of soldiers on horses.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 7, 2013, 10:55 a.m.
The Podesta Group this week launched a new company, Global Solutions. Arturo Sarukhan, a former Mexican ambassador to the United States, will serve as its chairman.
By
Adriel Bettelheim
| March 6, 2013, 9:42 a.m.
Former Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., will join the global public policy and government affairs practice at Covington & Burling, the firm announced Wednesday.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| March 5, 2013, 4:17 p.m.
Public Citizen and several progressive groups filed a complaint Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission, calling on the agency to take action against Chevron Corp. for $2.5 million the energy company gave to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a Republican super PAC.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| March 5, 2013, 9:26 a.m.
Calls to increase the minimum wage by President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress have triggered pre-emptive action on both sides of the debate.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 1, 2013, 9:28 p.m.
The lobbying and law firm Patton Boggs, the city’s biggest K Street practice, laid off 30 lawyers and 35 other employees including more than 20 people in Washington, D.C., according to multiple news reports Friday.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 1, 2013, 4:09 p.m.
Former Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., announced Friday that he is setting up an Omaha consulting and government affairs shop called Heartland Strategy Group.
By
Kate Ackley
| Feb. 27, 2013, 2:44 p.m.
At the height of D.C.’s spring tourist season, visitors may very well witness something bizarre: A flock of activists dressed as $100 bills running from K Street to Capitol Hill.
By
Kate Ackley
| Feb. 26, 2013, 6:18 p.m.
Congress and the White House, like most of K Street, may be consumed with the latest fiscal crisis. But even though a carbon tax seems like a policy relic from the past, the National Association of Manufacturers has decided to keep the heat on against the possibility.
