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Spring into a great deal!
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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 29, 2019 Trade and tariff work continues to mean big business for Washington lobbying firms. In the first quarter of 2019, at least 1,944 federal lobbying contracts disclosed work on trade and/or tariff issues. That represents an 18 percent increase over the 1,646 contracts mentioning those issues during the same period in 2018 and a whopping 50 percent increase over those filed in the first quarter of 2017 (1,297). Lobbying on trade and tariff issues has soared in the time since President Trump announced that the U.S. would impose tariffs on China, Canada, Mexico and the European Union. After several consecutive quarters of growth, trade and tariff lobbying has finally begun to level off, slightly down from an all-time high of 1,977 contracts in 2018 Q4. - Peter Kenny, Democratic Chief Investigative Counsel, House Oversight and Reform Committee (current staffer) – Uh oh!
Trump suit gets personal - Adam Kovacevich, Press Secretary, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) (former staffer) – Bravo!
Scooting along - Wallace Henley, Chief of Staff, Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) (former staffer) – Bravo!
End-of-Times prophet - Sarah Gilbert, Legislative Assistant, Rep. George Holding (R-NC); Kichelle Webster, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC); Sean McCabe, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) – Bravo!
Making House calls Hill Departures - Lara Quint, formerly Chief Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee, Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee
(now Public Policy Manager/Policy Counsel at Facebook) - Chad Maisel, formerly Economic Policy Adviser to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
(now Deputy Policy Director at Cory 2020) - Hannah Schmidt, formerly Professional Staff Member to House Small Business Committee
(now Legislative Analyst at the Alpine Group)
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