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• Squire Patton Boggs has hired Coates Lear, former senior counsel with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as principal in its government investigations and white-collar practice group. He...
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• ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. registered with its fifth lobby firm, Freemyer & Associates, which will be focused on the Endangered Species Act. Although recently submitted to...
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• The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries has named Joseph Nichols as its new president, succeeding Kyla M. Keck. Nichols is a senior director at FTI Consulting, working in the...
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• The U.S. Forest Service, which helps run the Jobs Corps program, awarded a $33,000 multi-year contract for DJ and karaoke services at its Weber Basin Job Corp Center in Utah. The Jobs Corps program...
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• REGULATIONS. Atkins Nutritionals, Inc., the maker of several low-carb products, hired lobbying and PR firm MWW Group to help shape a revamp of federal nutrition guidelines. The U.S. Department of...
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• The Bureau of Prisons awarded a contract worth up to $1.18 million to Riverland Community College in Austin, Minn., to provide federal inmates in the nearby town of Waseca with cosmetology classes as...
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Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $5.37 billion contract for F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters. According to the Defense Department, 26 F-35As will go to the Air Force, six will go to Norway, seven are...
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• The National Governors Association has chosen Scott Pattison as its new executive director and CEO, coming from the National Association of State Budget Officers. He has served as the executive...
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• TAXES. The end of the year tends to bring a lot of discussions about taxes into play. Two firms, Subject Matter and LobbyIt.com, will be going to battle for clients on legislation that would govern...
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• The Smith-Free Group has hired the former director of member services for retired Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) as a senior vice president. Trevor Kolego will begin his role on Dec. 1. Kolego also...
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The U.S. Agency for International Development awarded a $117.5 million contract to Creative Associates International Inc. to assist the agency with its USAID/Nigeria Northern Education Initiative Plus...
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• Venn Strategies has promoted Jessica Layson Davis to vice president and Michael Lanza to associate vice president. Layson Davis, who specializes in healthcare issues, joined the firm last year. She...
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• The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a contract worth more than $17 million to Development Alternatives Inc. to assist in the agency’s Liberia Accountability and Voice...
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• Crowell & Moring hired Joseph Miller, a former general counsel of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), as a partner in its antitrust and healthcare groups. Prior to AHIP, he worked within the...
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $33.1 million contact to Population Services International to implement its “HIV Regional Flagship Activity” in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz...
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• Monument Policy Group hired Dan Henke as a legislative manager. Prior to that, he worked for Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), where he most recently served as a legislative correspondent. He worked on...
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• Molly Haigh has been named as the communications director at the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. Prior to that, she worked at Fitzgibbon Media and 350.org.• The Consumer Bankers Association...
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• The National Institutes of Health has signed a contract worth as much as $1.7 million with National Jewish Health to serve as the tissue repository for the Lung Tissue Research Consortium (LTRC),...
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• FINANCIAL SERVICES. Chuck Cunningham, a longtime former lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, has registered to lobby for Take Back Our Republic, a conservative group that is working to enact...
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• The Electronic Transactions Association has added Rebecca Anderson to its advocacy team, where she will serve as a senior manager of government relations. Anderson comes from the office of Rep. Tom...
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