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COVID-19 test maker adds GOP committee counsel

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Oct. 6, 2020

A major producer of COVID-19 tests has added a Republican counsel to its government-affairs arsenal.

Jen Barblan recently joined Abbott Laboratories, where she is senior director for federal government affairs. The health-care and medical-device giant drops big bucks to influence the government, disclosing nearly $4 million on federal lobbying in the last year.

Barblan spent the last five years with the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, most recently as GOP chief counsel. She's also worked for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Judiciary Committee.