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Caught Our Eye

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Caught Our Eye items are posted daily. LegiStorm Pro subscribers have access to all posts a few hours before other users, and are also able to search the full Caught Our Eye archive. Log in as a LegiStorm Pro user or learn more about subscribing.

Ex-LD finds home at trade group

Posted by LegiStorm on May 3, 2019

A former House legislative director is off to the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association.

Austin Bone now works as the trade group's government affairs director. He most recently worked for Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.), who retired at the end of last term.

NSSGA last year disclosed $800,000 on federal lobbying on a range of trade, labor, environmental and other issues.

 

Subjects: Austin Bone; National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association; Former Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)

Rep. Porter adds rural health lobbyist

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on May 1, 2019

Rep. Katie Porter's (D-Calif.) newest hire is a former health lobbyist.

Jessica Seigel comes from the National Rural Health Association, where she lobbied on budget, immigration, health care and other issues.

Seigel, who previously worked for Rep. Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa), is now Porter's legislative assistant handling health, education and environment portfolios.

Subjects: Former Rep. Dave Loebsack (D-IA); Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA); National Rural Health Association; Jessica Mariah Seigel

Lobbyist heads to Senate Banking Committee

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 30, 2019

The Senate Banking Committee has added a staffer who was a lobbyist for one of the world's biggest banks.

Catherine Fuchs is now Republican counsel under Chair Mike Crapo (Idaho).

She comes from BNP Paribas, where she worked as assistant vice president for public policy and regulatory affairs to the French group's Corporate & Institutional Banking subsidiary. She lobbied mainly on last year's Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, which rolled back certain Dodd-Frank banking regulations.

Subjects: BNP Paribas US Wholesale Holdings Corp.; Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee; Catherine J. Fuchs

Lobbyists still benefiting from Trump tariffs

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 29, 2019

Trade and tariff work continues to mean big business for Washington lobbying firms.

In the first quarter of 2019, at least 1,944 federal lobbying contracts disclosed work on trade and/or tariff issues. That represents an 18 percent increase over the 1,646 contracts mentioning those issues during the same period in 2018 and a whopping 50 percent increase over those filed in the first quarter of 2017 (1,297).

Lobbying on trade and tariff issues has soared in the time since President Trump announced that the U.S. would impose tariffs on China, Canada, Mexico and the European Union. After several consecutive quarters of growth, trade and tariff lobbying has finally begun to level off, slightly down from an all-time high of 1,977 contracts in 2018 Q4.

Subjects: Donald John Trump Sr.

Education group adds Rep. Brown LA

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 26, 2019

Rep. Anthony Brown's (D-Md.) top education staffer has graduated to the association world.

Michael Matthews is now government relations manager at the Association for Career and Technical Education. According to the trade group, he will specialize in federal budget and appropriations.

Matthews had worked for Brown since the congressman's 2017 inauguration, most recently serving as a legislative assistant.

Subjects: Association for Career and Technical Education; Former Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD); Michael Robert Matthews (Mike)

About Caught Our Eye

We spend a large part of our days looking at data. Documents often come in by the dozens and hundreds. And while most are boring - how interesting can staring at a phone directory or salary records be, for example? - we find daily reasons for interest, amusement or even concern packed in the documents. So we are launching a new running feature that we call "Caught our Eye."

Longer than tweets but shorter than most blog posts, Caught our Eye items will bring back the interest in reviewing documents and researching people. Some items might bring hard, breaking news. Others will raise eyebrows and lead some into further inquiry. Others might be good for a joke or two around the water cooler. All will enlighten about the people or workings of Capitol Hill.

Caught our Eye items will be published each morning for LegiStorm Pro subscribers. Non-Pro site users will be able to receive the news items a few hours later. In addition to having immediate access to the news, LegiStorm Pro users will have a handy way to search and browse all past items.

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