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.
By
Kate Ackley
| April 24, 2012, 1:33 p.m.
Bill Thorne, Walmart’s senior director of community affairs, will join the National Retail Federation in June as its senior vice president of communications and public affairs.
By
Kate Ackley
| April 19, 2012, 4:06 p.m.
A trio of tax lobbyists — James Gould, Thomas Dwyer and Tucker Shumack — have opened a new shop, GDS Strategies.
By
Janie Lorber
| April 2, 2012, 5:39 p.m.
TechAmerica has expanded its ranks once again, adding a defense policy expert and two membership-focused positions, even as talk of a technology association merger still swirls.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 30, 2012, 3:38 p.m.
Reginald Gilliam Jr., who was most recently senior vice president of government affairs for Sodexo, died March 28 of lymphoma. He was 67.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 28, 2012, 1:24 p.m.
The recently rebranded shop Ervin|Hill Strategy has snagged Barclay Resler, who spent 31 years with the Coca-Cola Co.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 28, 2012, 12:01 a.m.
Nick Allard, the Democratic co-chairman of Patton Boggs’ lobbying practice, is leaving K Street for academia. The longtime lobbyist and one-time Hill staffer will be named dean of Brooklyn Law School today.
By
Kate Ackley, Eliza Newlin Carney
| March 21, 2012, Midnight
Democratic strategist Kristen Hawn and Ali Harden, a former aide in the George W. Bush White House, are launching their own public affairs shop, Granite Integrated Strategies, this week.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 19, 2012, Midnight
The House of Representatives is expected to vote on a medical liability bill this week, and that means one sure thing: The place will be swarming with trial lawyers lobbying against the measure.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 12, 2012, 4:49 p.m.
The defense lobbying firm Ervin Technical Associates has brought on Dan Hill, formerly the head of Washington operations for AgustaWestland, and changed its name to Ervin|Hill Strategy.
By
Kate Ackley
| March 1, 2012, 4:28 p.m.
Airlines for America has landed Shelley Rubino, most recently chief of staff to Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), who will serve as the group’s vice president of global government affairs. After almost four years on Capitol Hill, she will start her new gig April 2.
By
Kate Ackley
| Feb. 29, 2012, 4:44 p.m.
Steve Miller is leaving the band, well, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
By
Kate Ackley
| Feb. 22, 2012, 6:15 p.m.
Former Ambassador Robert Gelbard has joined the public policy and regulation practice at SNR Denton.
By
Kate Ackley
| Feb. 7, 2012, Midnight
Under a banner of “Standing Up to Corporate Power” at Public Citizen’s Dupont headquarters, the reinvented Jack Abramoff offered his ideas for how to take corruption out of Congress and K Street.
By
Kate Ackley
| Jan. 17, 2012, Midnight
An increasingly nasty fight over bills to stop online piracy has gripped the attention of Google’s outside lobbyists. But there’s something else worth watching, too.
By
Kate Ackley
| Nov. 30, 2011, Midnight
British conglomerate WPP, which already owns several D.C. lobbying and consulting firms including Quinn Gillespie & Associates and Burson-Marsteller, announced Tuesday it is scooping up the Glover Park Group.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| Nov. 22, 2011, Midnight
Capitol Hill may have given up on a sweeping deficit reduction plan, at least for the moment, but K Street is still pushing for it.
By
Eliza Newlin Carney
| Nov. 10, 2011, Midnight
The website of Americans Elect, a nonpartisan group that is set out to mount an alternative presidential candidate in 2012, exhorts visitors: “You have the power to help break gridlock and change politics as usual.”
