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Rep. Pete Stauber fuels office with API lobbyist hire

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 11, 2023

Senior House Natural Resources Committee member Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) has hired a lobbyist from the oil and gas industry.

Shawn Rusterholz joined Stauber's office from the American Petroleum Institute, where he was an associate director for federal relations and lobbied on a host of issues. API is the oil-and-gas industry's top lobbying group. Rusterholz is also an alum of Chevron's government-affairs shop.

He's now a legislative assistant with Stauber. Stauber, an outspoken critic of the Biden administration's oil policies, is expected to chair the Natural Resources Committee's Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee this session.