LegiStorm

Following a quick lobbying stint, a Democratic staffer is back to the Senate.

Oliver Riquelme is now a military legislative assistant to Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). He was most recently vice president of government affairs at Tonio Burgos and Associates, where he registered as a federal lobbyist through the New York-based firm.

Before leaving for TBA in June, Riquelme worked for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.).

A staffer to the House Education and Labor Committee has left for K Street.

Georgie Littlefair is now an associate at Elevate Government Affairs. The firm represents a number of big-name lobbying clients, including American Airlines, FedEx, Microsoft and Facebook.

Littlefair comes from the Education and Labor Committee, where she was a legislative assistant under Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.).

Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) has sold $1.25 million to $2.5 million worth of stock in the five Big Tech companies. The six-day selling spree began Oct. 27 with a sale of as much as $500,000 worth of Facebook stock, according to a disclosure he filed with Congress last Friday.

The sale of these assets comes three weeks after LegiStorm first reported that Hickenlooper held as much as $500,000 worth of stock in Facebook while questioning Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen in a committee hearing about how the company's bottom line could be affected by policy changes.

In addition to his stock in Facebook, Hickenlooper sold between $250,001 and $500,000 worth of stock each in Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google parent company Alphabet between Oct. 29 and Nov. 1, according to the disclosure. While Hickenlooper has fully divested his holdings in Amazon, Facebook and Alphabet, he still holds between $500,001 and $1 million worth of stock each in Apple and Microsoft.

According to Hickenlooper's most recent annual financial disclosure filed in May, and taking into account recent transactions he's made, the total value of his assets ranges from $6.7 million to $19.5 million. The exact value of assets is not publicly known, as members of Congress are only required to disclose values within broad ranges. 

After working for three members in a single year, a GOP staffer has found a new home off the Hill.

Yvonne Barker started this month as government-relations manager at Schneider Electric. The Fortune 500 energy-management company lobbies on issues including grid modernization, infrastructure and manufacturing.

Barker most recently as Rep. Victoria Spartz's (R-Ind.) deputy chief of staff and counsel. Before that, she did a short stint with Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) and spent five years with then-Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) until his departure from Congress at the end of last term.

After working for West Virginia members in both chambers, a GOP aide has landed at the telecom industry's biggest Washington advocate.

Sydney Pettit is now government-affairs director at CTIA - The Wireless Association. The trade group is on track to spend more than $11.1 million on federal lobbying this year and, according to OpenSecrets, is the highest-spending telecommunications lobbying group.

Pettit comes from the office of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), where she was a legislative assistant. Before that, the West Virginia native worked for Rep. David McKinley (R-W.V.).