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Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 13, 2023 Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (D-R.I.) Budget Committee has turned to a veteran environmental lobbyist to help take on the fossil-fuel industry. Matt Bolden joined the committee from the Climate Leadership Council, where he was most recently director for policy and government relations. He worked as an environmental lobbyist through Americans for Carbon Dividends, CLC's advocacy arm. Bolden is now climate-policy adviser to Budget Committee Democrats. Whitehouse has indicated that climate change would be a top priority in his first term as committee chair. The committee has also added Jonathan Misk, the 117th Congress's staff director to the now-defunct House Oversight and Reform Committee's Economic and Consumer Policy Subcommittee, to continue Big Oil investigations that the Oversight and Reform Committee (now the Oversight and Accountability Committee) began last session. Misk's title with the Budget Committee is oversight director and senior counsel. Some people and organizations who "caught our eye" last week:Hill Hires - Brian Randolph, Senate Budget Committee, Investigative Counsel
- Sara Kugler, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Senior Adviser for Labor Policy
- Peter Warren, House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Senior Adviser
Hill Departures - Steve Pfrang, formerly Chief of Staff to Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL)
(now Vice President at BGR Group)
Hill Moves and Promotions - Joe Ballard, now Legislative Assistant for Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND)
(formerly Legislative Assistant/Operations Director to Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX))
- Mary Ellen Richardson, now Chief of Staff to Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL)
(formerly Legislative Director)
- Greg Warren, now Legislative Director to Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL)
(formerly Legislative Assistant)
- Ian Bryan, now Legislative Director for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
(formerly Legislative Assistant)
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