LegiStorm

The Cheney family likes one scheduler so much that they can't stop hiring her.

Elizabeth Pearce is now scheduling director to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). Her first work for the Cheney family came in 2000, when she worked as scheduling director for vice president operations on George W. Bush's first presidential campaign, and continued as scheduling director to Vice President Dick Cheney.

Pearce has also worked for the Republican National Committee, where she served as chief of staff to former co-chair Jan Larimer.

The U.S. subsidiary of Venezuelan-owned voting-systems company with ties to electoral controversies has hired a lobbying firm.

Jake Perry + Partners began its lobbying work for Smartmatic USA in March, according to a pair of recent filings. David Perry, firm founder and a former finance director to big-name Democratic campaigns, is lobbying on unspecified legislation regarding election-security on Smartmatic USA's behalf.

Electronic-voting systems of Smartmatic USA's parent company, Smartmatic Corp., are connected to several mishaps, including the 2016 Utah GOP presidential caucus, which was the first-ever online presidential primary and in which some experienced trouble with the voting process. Smartmatic further embroiled itself in electoral issues in the 2017 Venezuelan presidential election, when the company reported that the government had manipulated vote counts. Smartmatic pulled out of Venezuelan operations the next year.

With lobbying experience under her belt, an Army veteran is back to the Hill.

Lindsay Dearing is now a professional staff member to the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee under chair Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). She comes from the American Legion, where she worked as a legislative associate and lobbied on defense issues.

Dearing, a retired sergeant first class who holds a master's in policy management from Georgetown, previously served as a Wounded Warrior Program Fellow in the office of then-Rep. (now Sen.) Martha McSally (R-Ariz.).

Uber's IPO was a huge disappointment to Wall Street, but thanks to it, one key Republican staffer is set for life.

The chief of staff to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla), Mike Needham, disclosed last summer that his wife sold Uber stocks worth between $5 million and $25 million but she still owns much more stock. His wife, Rachel Holt, is Uber's head of new mobility. Holt, who holds an MBA from Stanford, has worked for the tech giant since 2011. Needham, who is also staff director to the senator's Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, got an MBA at Stanford too.

Last summer, Uber permitted its employees to sell off up to $25 million worth of shares or up to a quarter of their total shares, whichever was less. Uber employees are prohibited from selling their remaining shares for six months after its IPO date. Needham's financial disclosure last year before the partial sale indicated that their full Uber shares were worth $25 million to $50 million.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski's (R-Alaska) newest legislative assistant rejoins the Senate with 17 years of lobbying experience.

Anne McInerney comes from Arconic, a metal manufacturing and engineering company, where she was federal affairs director. Before that, she spent fifteen years lobbying for Rolls-Royce North America.

McInerney now handling appropriations, finance and telecom issues for Murkowski. Before her lobbying days, she worked for former Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and the Senate Appropriations Committee.