LegiStorm

Squire Patton Boggs has made a first-time lobbyist out of former Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.).

The law firm recently added Crowley to its existing contract with Calvary Hospital, according to a recent disclosure. The Bronx hospital is one of the country's largest instutitions focused on end-of-life hospice care and hired Squire Patton Boggs for work on accelerated Medicare payments to health-care providers.

Crowley joined Squire Patton Boggs as a senior policy adviser in 2019, shortly after losing his primary bid to now-Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). The Hill reported in May that Crowley would register as a lobbyist for music-creators' coalition MusicFIRST, though Squire Patton Boggs has not yet disclosed adding Crowley to that contract.

A health-care lobbyist has passed through the revolving door and into the office of Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.).

Sarah Skirmont is now a legislative assistant for the congresswoman. She's assigned to a wide variety of issues, including education, agriculture and government oversight.

Skirmont spent the last four years at AMGA (formerly the American Medical Group Association), where she was a government-relations coordinator for the trade group. Skirmont's most recent lobbying work focused on health-care issues, as well as the Paycheck Protection Program.

After working his way around the Colorado delegation, a former GOP staffer is cultivating a new career with the agriculture industry's top lobbying group.

Dustin Sherer is now a director for the American Farm Bureau Federation's congressional-relations team. The Farm Bureau spends big on lobbying, last year dropping more than $3 million across contractors and its 18-person in-house team.

Sherer most recently served as an legislative assistant to then-Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.). Positions with former Rep. Scott Tipton (R-Colo.) and former Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) rounded out the rest of his 16-year congressional career.

A GOP chief of staff is taking his shot at a new government-affairs job.

Matt Stroia is now Pfizer's senior director of federal government relations. The pharmaceutical giant is a perennial big spender on federal lobbying, investing about $11 million per year to influence Washington even before its rise as a pandemic main player.

Stroia had worked for Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) since the congressman took office more than a decade ago and spent almost all of that time as chief of staff. Kelly, who sits on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, accepted $7,000 in Pfizer campaign donations last cycle.

Rep. Dan Meuser's (R-Pa.) chief of staff has left the Hill for a smoke break.

Patrick Rooney started this month as senior manager of government affairs at ITG Brands, the country's third-largest tobacco manufacturer. ITG is owned by British multinational tobacco company Imperial Brands, whose subsidiaries made it Washington's sixth-largest tobacco lobbying presence last year.

Rooney had worked for Meuser since the congressman took office in 2019. Meuser is close with ITG, calling the tobacco group "a great and important manufacturing company" after touring a facility in his district. He also accepted $5,000 in campaign donations from the group's PAC last cycle.