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Fred Keller (R-Pa.), Congress's newest member, has chosen his campaign director as his new office chief of staff.

Jon Anzur takes the staff helm as Keller begins his tenure in Congress today. Voters elected Keller in a landslide to fill the vacancy left when Tom Marino (R) resigned from office for a private-sector job earlier this year.

Before joining Keller's team this year, Anzur worked for ex-Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), with experience both as communications director in the congressman's official office and as campaign manager to Barletta's 2016 re-election campaign and unsuccessful 2018 Senate bid.

A lobbyist for a conservative tax group has arrived on the Hill.

Nan Swift joins the Senate Budget Committee as a GOP professional staff member.

Swift comes from the National Taxpayers Union, where she most recently worked as federal affairs director. Before that, she worked for advocacy group FreedomWorks.

After five years in the House, an aide to Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) has retired to AARP.

Fernando Ruiz joined the nonprofit this month as a government affairs adviser. Last year, AARP disclosed nearly $8.3 million in federal lobbying expenses, mostly through its in-house team.

Ruiz most recently worked as an LA to Smith and previously worked for retired Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas).

When Michigan Rep. Larry Inman was booted from the House GOP caucus last week, he became the seventh state legislator to change party affiliations so far this year.

Inman, who was federally indicted early this month on charges of extortion and solicitation of bribery, is one of five Republicans to leave the party. Of those, three - Iowa Rep. Andrew McKean, Calif Rep. Brian Maienschein and N.J. Sen. Dawn Addiego - now represent their constituents as Democrats. McKean and Maienschein both explicitly named President Donald Trump as the impetus for their switch. Only one GOP defector, Maine Rep. Donald Marean, is now an independent. Inman is not enrolled in a party now.

Democrats, meanwhile, have lost two members this year: Nick Bain announced his switch to the Republican Party in March; Bryce Edgmon, who caucused with Republicans despite officially working as a Democrat, dropped his party affiliation before being re-elected as Alaska House speaker in February.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has powered up with the addition of a House LA.

Brianna Hearn joins the federal agency, which regulates interstate energy transmission, as an energy-industry analyst.

Hearn comes from the office of Rep. Troy Balderson (R-Ohio), where she handled energy, environment and other issues. She previously worked for ex-Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.) and Reps. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) and Bill Posey (R-Fla.).