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Rep. David McKinley's (R-W.Va.) newest hire comes straight from the country's largest spender on federal lobbying.

Jake Tyner joined McKinley's office as a policy adviser and counsel earlier this month. He spent the last four years at the Chamber of Commerce, where his title was director and associate policy counsel. Tyner is the only current member of McKinley's staff to have registered as a federal lobbyist.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the Chamber and its subsidiaries dropped more than $77 million on lobbying last year, easily snagging itself the top federal spending slot.

Capitol 6 Advisors, the new firm founded by former NRA leading lobbyist Chris W. Cox, is looking to the skies to fund its operations. The firm's first registed client is Skydweller Aero, a company working to develop "the world's first solar-powered, unmanned perpetual" airplanes. 

Before striking out on his own as president of Capitol 6 Advisors, Cox was the executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action. His former deputy there, David Lehman, has also left to join the new firm as vice president. The third member of the Capitol 6 Advisors team is Phil Hoon, an alum of the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation. 

A Democratic aide is getting a new education off the Hill.

José Miranda is now a senior government-relations associate at the Association of Community College Trustees, a D.C.-based nonprofit that lobbies mainly on higher education-related legislation.

Miranda comes from the office of Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), where he was a legislative assistant, and was previously a fellow with Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.). He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida.

A Democratic aide has taken his years of Senate experience to Health and Human Services' anti-fraud and -waste office.

Nico Janssen is now a program analyst for congressional affairs at HHS's Office of the Inspector General.

Janssen spent the last six and a half years with Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash), most recently as a legislative assistant. He holds an MPA in health policy from American University.

After stints with three congressmen, a GOP staffer has made the jump to the private sector.

Chris Buki comes from the office of Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.), where he was deputy chief of staff and legislative director. He's also worked for ex-Reps. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) and John Culberson (R-Texas).

He now works as the government affairs director for Fresenius Medical Care, which provides dialysis services throughout the world. Fresenius dropped more than $4.6 million to lobby the federal government in 2019.