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One of Washington's biggest lobbying presences has added yet another Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) staffer.

Tim Graham, previously Butterfield's legislative counsel, is now vice president for external affairs and government relations at NCTA - The Internet & Television Association. The telecom trade group dropped almost $15.5 million on federal lobbying last year - making it the tenth highest lobbying spender in the country, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Graham isn't the first Butterfield aide to leave the congressman for the NCTA. Former Butterfield deputy chief Saul Hernandez joined the trade group in 2018 and has registered as a lobbyist every quarter since.

A former State Department appointee has found a new home with Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), Congress's newest member.

Giulia Giannangeli is now legislative director to the congresswoman. Tenney was sworn in more than a month later than the rest of the freshman class due to a long vote-recount process.

Giannangeli was most recently the State Department's acting deputy assistant secretary for legislative affairs and has also worked for the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Donald Trump's White House Office of Legislative Affairs.

After a stint with the Environmental Protection Agency, a GOP aide is back to the Senate.

Holt Edwards is now an LA to freshman Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.). He handles infrastructure issues for the senator, who sits on both the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the Environment and Public Works Committee.

At the EPA, he was a senior adviser for Senate affairs and previously worked for ex-Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.).

Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) may have voted against reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank, but she's fine with hiring her chief of staff from the agency.

Ross Branson was most recently senior vice president of EXIM's Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. Lesko voted against an EXIM reauthorization bill in 2019; later that year, Congress reauthorized the agency through 2026 as part of a spending package that averted a government shutdown.

Before joining EXIM in 2019, Branson was deputy assistant secretary for legislative affairs at the Department of Commerce and has worked for Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.).

As Washington debates student-loan forgiveness, one of the largest federal student-loan servicers has added a Democratic staffer and seasoned lobbyist to its arsenal.

Jacque Chevalier Mosely is now director of government relations at Nelnet. She spent the last eight years with the House Education and Labor Committee, most recently as education-policy director.

Before that, Chevalier Mosely worked as a lobbyist for the National Parent Teacher Association and the United Way.