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Pharma team signs Rep. Mike Kelly's chief

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 9, 2021

A GOP chief of staff is taking his shot at a new government-affairs job.

Matt Stroia is now Pfizer's senior director of federal government relations. The pharmaceutical giant is a perennial big spender on federal lobbying, investing about $11 million per year to influence Washington even before its rise as a pandemic main player.

Stroia had worked for Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) since the congressman took office more than a decade ago and spent almost all of that time as chief of staff. Kelly, who sits on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, accepted $7,000 in Pfizer campaign donations last cycle.