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A former construction-industry lobbyist is building a new career in the House.

Kelly Tyroler has joined the Education and Labor Committee as Republican professional staff.

She spent the last few months at the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, a federal agency. Before that, she was a labor lobbyist for the Associated Builders and Contractors. The association spends about $2.8 million a year on federal lobbying work.

Christian Healy, who worked for three different Pennsylvania congressmen, has moved to a public affairs firm.

Healy started this month as an account manager with Herald Group LLC. It remains to be seen whether he'll be dealing with Olivia Pope-level drama, but he describes his role as involving "crisis and strategic communications" on LinkedIn.

Prior to the move, Healy spent a year as a senior legislative assistant for Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.), covering financial issues. 

After graduating from Gettysburg College, Healy started his career as a staff assistant and then press assistant for Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) before moving to Rep. Lou Barletta's (R-Pa.) office in 2016. 

A financial behemoth has finally coaxed a longtime Democratic aide to the private sector.

Mike Berman has joined Citadel from the office of Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), where he was an economic policy adviser. He's now deputy director of government affairs for the hedge-fund and asset management company.

Before joining Jones in 2018, Berman worked for Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill), Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and ex-Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.).

John Starkey, who spent two years working for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee under Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), has joined the American Nuclear Society as director of government relations.

Prior to joining the not-for-profit nuclear science and technology group, Starkey spent just under a year at Bose Public Affairs Group. The American Nuclear Society was one of the Alaska native's lobbying clients while at Bose. 

Leon Buck Jr., who served multiple past stints as Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's (D-Texas) chief of staff, has returned to the representative's office as senior policy director and counsel. 

Buck first started with Jackson Lee as legislative director in 1997. He then worked with her as staff director for the House Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.

He later served as her chief of staff from 2003 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2010. After leaving the office in 2010, he became the assistant vice president for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America before returning to his own firm, Government Strategies LLC, from 2015 to 2019.