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Mike Rogers, former House Intelligence Committee Chair: Rogers resigned from the transition team on November 15, 2016. He helped to guide the transition's work in national security issues.[1]
Michael Catanzaro, lobbyist at CGCN: Catanzaro resigned from the transition team on November 21, 2016, after the incoming administration required lobbyists to terminate all existing lobbying contracts.[2] Catanzaro had been an energy independence advisor.[3]
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CGCN Group (formerly Clark Geduldig Cranford & Nielsen) is a prominent Washington, D.C.-based Republican lobbying and public affairs firm co-founded by Steve Clark. The firm frequently handles health care, pharmaceutical, and corporate advocacy issues, sometimes setting up allied organizations like the Alliance to Protect Medical Innovation to work on drug pricing policy debates. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Overview of CGCN Group
- Founded: 2000 (as Clark & Lytle / Clark Geduldig Cranford & Nielsen)
- Focus: Republican-aligned government relations, lobbying, and strategic communications
- Key Sectors: Health care reform (HCR), trade, tax, and technology policy [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Connections to Pharma & Lobbying
- Pharma and Health Issues: CGCN represents multiple corporate and sector clients navigating federal policy, heavily active in health care and pharmaceutical legislative battles. [1, 2, 3]
- Advocacy Campaigns: The firm has historically established specialized coalitions—such as groups focused on medical innovation—to push back on drug pricing controls and legislative changes affecting brand-name pharmaceuticals. [1]
- Filings: You can look up specific public disclosures and client lists via the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act Database or track aggregate data on the OpenSecrets CGCN Profile. [1]
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A new advocacy group advocating policies favorable to the pharmaceutical industry last week immediately faced, and pushed back against, accusations that it is a front for the pharmaceutical lobby, and declined to disclose who gave it funding.
The small lobbying firm CGCN Group said on Friday that it created the new group, the Alliance to Protect Medical Innovation. Drug pricing reform activists and several reports questioned who was behind the group earlier in the week, after the alliance sprung into life the previous week with no mention of who is on the staff or who funds it.
Patrick O’Connor, a partner at the GOP-aligned CGCN, issued a statement on Friday noting that he is the new group’s executive director....?
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Rogers received a $30,000 payment from the lobbying firm CGCN Group before his 2024 Senate run, according to a financial disclosure. The firm represented more than 50 clients in 2022 and 2023, including drug companies and medical tech companies.
Rogers campaign spokesperson Alyssa Brouillet said Rogers worked for the strategic communications side of the business, not the lobbying side, and advised on telecommunications issues. It’s not uncommon for lobbying firms to employ people who aren’t lobbyists, Beckel said, though they may still work to influence government decisions.
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Multiple people inside President Donald Trump's administration are already jumping ship after less than a year on the job and are securing highly lucrative jobs as lobbyists.
That's according to a Wednesday article by Politico's Caitlin Oprysko and Sophia Cai, who reported that high-profile lobbying firms are now scooping up several Trump administration staffers who have only been in the White House for a handful of months. Oprysko and Cai noted that the Washington D.C. "revolving door" between lobbying and government that Trump promised to bulldoze with his 2016 "drain the swamp" mantra remains alive and well given the announcement of the new hires.
"[B]arely a half-year into his second administration, a handful of senior White House aides are already heading for the exits — and right through the revolving door between the federal government and K Street, where they’re lining up cushy lobbying gigs," they wrote.
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White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields is leaving the administration to join the Republican-run lobbying firm CGCN Group, after just seven months in his previous role. Fields was often quoted as a White House spokesperson in major media outlets, accusing NPR and PBS of "creating media to support a particular political party on the taxpayers' dime" in a May article for Axios and justifying Trump's attacks on large law firms for having allegedly "propelled one-sided justice by providing pro bono resources to those causes that make our nation more dangerous and less free" in a recent Wall Street Journal report.
In addition to Fields' exit, Trent Morse — who is a deputy assistant to the president and the deputy director of the White House's Office of Presidential Personnel — is launching his own lobbying firm, while also teaming up with the powerhouse lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, who worked alongside Morse at two other lobbying firms over the last decade, heaped praise on Morse as he made his exit, calling him "an important and integral part of the successes we’ve had."
Ivan Adler, who runs an executive hiring firm in Washington, told Politico that the early exits of senior Trump staffers was proof that so many lobbying clients are "looking for a sherpa for this administration, just because it’s so different," and that "people are taking advantage" of their knowledge by hiring them directly from the White House.
Federal law requires a year-long "cooling off" period from the time a former government worker leaves their position to when they can begin officially lobbying the West Wing and representing foreign entities, meaning that for Fields and Morse, their cooling off window will be longer than their actual time serving in the White House. However, they can begin lobbying Congress immediately.
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An unusual legislative strategy to revive an infrastructure bill is being tested in the House, with members of the Congressional Black Caucus teaming up with conservative Republicans to sign onto a new bill. The measure would raise money by selling distressed government loans on the private market, using the proceeds to pay down the deficit […]
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An infrastructure bill to invest in America’s poorest communities introduced in the House last week could be a template for bridging the gap between the extremes of the two parties. Why it matters: The bill’s co-sponsors are a coalition of members from the Freedom Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus who rarely work together. And it can […]
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Sam Geduldig, a partner at CGCN Group, is formalizing a partnership with four Democratic lobbyists by launching a new firm called United by Interest. CGCN, a Republican lobbying shop, had struck up an informal alliance last year with several lobbyists close to the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, including Michael Williams of the Williams Group, David Morgan of D. Morgan & […]
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Sam Geduldig has been named as one of the top Republican lobbyists in Washington for 9 years in a row by The Hill newspaper. Before joining the all Republican government affairs firm CGCN Group, Sam spent years on Capitol Hill working for Bob Dole, John Boehner, Mike Oxley and Roy Blunt. As the Washingtonian noted, his “experiences allow him to offer his clients an exceptionally well-rounded view of the legislative process.”
Jennifer Stewart
Jennifer Stewart has almost two decades of experience forging strong relationships with Democratic members of Congress while working in government relations, public policy, and on Capitol Hill. She has especially strong ties with many members of the Congressional Black Caucus, which she forged while working for Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and for Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY). After leaving the Hill, Jennifer served as Senior Policy Advisor at Bryan Cave, Government Affairs Manager for AstraZeneca and received her PhD in Education and Public Policy from American University. In 2011, Jennifer founded Stewart Strategies & Solutions, a government affairs firm which offers its clients creative and strategic approaches to public policy matters.
John Stipicevic
John Stipicevic understands the inner-workings of the House floor – and what it takes to pass or stop legislation – as well as anyone in Washington. He spent nearly a dozen years in the Capitol, most recently as a top aide to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. He helped party leaders and chairmen craft legislative strategies and count votes, as well as playing key roles in a number of contested leadership races.
Recognized as a “Top Lobbyist” by The Hill newspaper, Stipicevic spent a decade at the center of every major issue before the House of Representatives. He was a member of the whip operations under Rep. McCarthy and his predecessors, former Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor and former Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt. During Stipicevic’s time in the House, few aides developed such close ties to members of Congress. “He knows the make-up of each member,” McCarthy said. In a testament to his goodwill on both sides of the aisle, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer also praised Stipicevic on the floor.
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Michael Williams has over two decades of experience in business advocacy, strategic communications, as well as federal and state government service. He began his career in Washington serving as a Special Assistant for Legislative Affairs for President Bill Clinton, later moving on to manage government affairs for Credit Suisse and the Bond Markets Association. He is currently head of The Williams Group, a public policy and communications consulting firm specializing in government relations, public affairs, and corporate business development services.
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[More on incoming Center For Legal Action President Machalagh Carr in @Politico Influence:
“[Carr] will be joining the new-ish legal arm of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce. Carr will be the president of the business group’s Center for Legal Action, which is chaired by former Attorney General Bill Barr.”
See more of what leaders across Capitol Hill are saying about Machalagh Carr.…show more](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7143209533761343488?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_updateV2%3A%28urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7143209533761343488%2CFEED_DETAIL%2CEMPTY%2CDEFAULT%2Cfalse%29)
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[More on incoming Center For Legal Action President Machalagh Carr in @Politico Influence:
“[Carr] will be joining the new-ish legal arm of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce. Carr will be the president of the business group’s Center for Legal Action, which is chaired by former Attorney General Bill Barr.”
See more of what leaders across Capitol Hill are saying about Machalagh Carr.…show more](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7142929215707914241?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_updateV2%3A%28urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7142929215707914241%2CFEED_DETAIL%2CEMPTY%2CDEFAULT%2Cfalse%29)
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[The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce that Machalagh Carr will serve as the President of our Center for Legal Action. Carr joins the Center for Legal Action’s leadership team alongside two-time former Attorney General Bill Barr. Carr most recently served as Chief of Staff to Speaker Kevin McCarthy, serving as McCarthy’s General Counsel in both his Speaker and Minority Leader Offices, as part of a nearly 20-year career tackling the nation’s most complex legal and political challenges.
Read the AmFree Chamber’s full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eXfarUJ2…show more](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7142630444231000064?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_updateV2%3A%28urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7142630444231000064%2CFEED_DETAIL%2CEMPTY%2CDEFAULT%2Cfalse%29)
**MACHALAGH CARR, FORMER COS TO SPEAKER MCCARTHY, JOINS AMFree's CENTER FOR LEGAL ACTION as President** amfreechamber.com • 1 min read
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Sommers’ American Investment Council became a client of the all-Republican lobbying firm CGCN, *Politico* reported. CGCN Group, LLC (Formerly Clark Geduldig Cranford & Nielsen, LLC) would lobby on tax treatment of partnerships and tax reform. CCGN also added power company Nextra Energy to its list of clients at the time. [14] desmog
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Climatewire: Thursday, November 29, 2018
A veteran White House energy and environment official has left the administration for a lobbying gig.
Aaron Szabo, who worked on climate and energy policies in the Trump and Obama administrations, started this week at CGCN Group.
He'll be lobbying primarily on energy issues, according to CGCN spokesman Ken Spain. The group's clients include theAmerican Petroleum Institute,Duke Energy Corp.,TransCanada Corp., the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, Devon Energy Corp., and NextEraEnergy Inc.
Former White House aide Aaron Szabo. CGCN Group
"Aaron is one of the most experienced energy policy experts in D.C.," said Steve Clark, founder of CGCN. "We are proud to welcome him to the team after a decade of working on some of the biggest energy and environmental issues for both the Obama and Trump administrations."
Szabo was a career staffer in the White House from 2014 until he stepped down last week, according to his LinkedIn profile. He worked in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2014 until 2017, when he became anattorney at the Council on Environmental Quality.
His exit is "a big loss for the administration," said George David Banks, a former Trump White House official who focused on international energy policy. "He's an A player and he did a phenomenal job in helping promote the president's regulatory rollback policies."
Szabo worked closely in the White House with Mike Catanzaro, Trump's top domestic energy official who returned to CGCN in April, according to Banks.
"I tried to poach him and move him over to international because he's that good, and Mike put an end to that," joked Banks, who left the White House in February.
Szabo worked on the Obama administration's climate rules before he helped to overhaul them under Trump.
For example, he worked on Obama's Clean Power Plan before he assisted with the Trump team's proposed replacement, named the Affordable Clean Energy rule. He also worked on methane regulations for both administrations.
Prior to his time at the White House, Szabo spent nearly seven years as an analyst at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
CGCN's energy team includes Jay Cranford, a former policy adviser to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), and Mike Freeman, a former lawyer for the House Natural Resources Committee. Rosemarie Calabro Tully, former spokeswoman for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee's top Democrat, Maria Cantwell of Washington, joined CGCN earlier this year.
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Catanzaro stepped down from his position as a special assistant to the president for domestic energy and environmental policy, *The Washington Examiner* reported. [53]
“In just a short time on the job, I realized Mike was an integral member of the [National Economic Council] team and played an important role in crafting domestic energy and environmental policy,” said Larry Kudlow, the National Economic Council director. “His expertise and dedication to the Trump administration’s energy independence priorities was greatly valued and he will be missed. We thank him for his leadership and we wish him well on his future endeavors.” [53]
Francis Brooke CAT? will be replaced by Francis Broooke, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence. The Examiner noted that Catanzaro had been instrumental in starting the process to appeal the Obama administrations Clean Power Plan and Waters of the United States rules during his time working for the Trump administration. [53]
*E&E News* reported that Catanzaro had been among those who opposed Scott Pruitt's “red team, blue team” climate change debate, making his departure increase the likelihood of such a debate occurring in the future. [54]
It's now up in the air again,” saidMyron Ebellof the Competitive Enterprise Institute. [54]
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Just weeks before becoming Donald Trump's White House energy adviser, Catanzaro was paid by TransCanada to lobby for the Keystone XL pipeline, DeSmog reported.[51]
Lobbying for CGCN Group, disclosure forms reviewed by DeSmog revealed that a team of lobbyists including Catanzaro advocated for “Policy issues and executive branch approval of the Keystone pipeline.” TransCanada paid Catanzaro and the CGCN team $90,000 for their work during the first quarter of 2017.[52]
During the first quarter of 2017 before taking the Trump administration job, Catanzaro also lobbied on behalf of oil and gas industry companies such as Encana, Devon Energy, and NobleEnergy, and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturersaccording to lobbying disclosures. [51]
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Just weeks before being hired as President Donald Trump's top White House energy adviser, Mike Catanzaro was paid by TransCanada to advocate for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Lobbying for his old employer, CGCN Group, disclosure forms reviewed by DeSmog reveal that a team of lobbyists including Catanzaro advocated for “Policy issues and executive branch approval of the Keystone pipeline.” TransCanada paid Catanzaro and the CGCN team $90,000 for their work during the first quarter of 2017. The Trump administration recently gave the Canadian energy company the green light to build the long-contested cross-border pipeline, which will carry tar sands from Alberta, Canada, to Cushing, Oklahoma.
During the first quarter of 2017 before taking the Trump administration job, Catanzaro also lobbied on behalf of oil and gas industry companies such as Encana, Devon Energy, NobleEnergy, and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers(AFPM). Catanzaro, as The New York Times reported, is now working on many of the same issues for the federal government which were the subject of his lobbying efforts at CGCN Group]grx]
In the lobbyist update section of the disclosure form,CGCN describes Catanzaro as someone “who is no longer expected to act as a lobbyist for the client,” signifying he would soon be departing to work in the Trump White House. Many of the same individuals who in the past have passed through the Republican government-industry revolving door, as previously reported by DeSmog, are now replacing their Democratic Party counterparts who lobbied for Keystone XL during the Obama era.
Joining Catanzaro in lobbying for Keystone XL at CGCN were his colleagues Steve Clark, Gary Lytle, Sam Geduldig, Mike Nielsen, Jay Cranford, Doug Schwartz, John Stipicevic, Amy Wren, Juliane Sullivan, and Katie Mitchell. That list includes eight out of 14 lobbyists employed by the firm.
All of them except for Lytle and Clark, the lobbying disclosure form points out, formerly worked for Republican Party congressional members. Wren and Cranford formerly worked for the George W. Bush administration. Stipicevic departed from his job working for House Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Meanwhile, Alex Oehler, another former GOP congressional staffer, now lobbies in-house for TransCanada and also advocates for Keystone XL.
“Catanzaro’s appointment as a key Trump administration energy and climate adviser so soon after he served as a fossil fuel lobbyist is an outrageous conflict of interest,” said Tyson Slocum, energy program director for Public Citizen, a progressive consumer rights nonprofit. “Far from draining the swamp, Trump’s promotion of an inside-the-Beltway lobbyist to run national energy policy smacks of special interest giveaways for well-connected corporations.”
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Nov 29, 2018 — Aaron Szabo, who worked on climate and energy policies in the Trump and Obama administrations, started this week at CGCN Group.
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CGCN Group Revolving Door Personnel: (11) | Partner |  Firm lobbying profile Major Donor profile | Firm lobbying profileMajor Donor profile |
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| 2017-2018 | Council on Environmental Quality Revolving Door Personnel: (36) | Senior Counsel |  Agency lobbying profile |
| 2014-2017 | Office of Management & Budget Revolving Door Personnel: (188) | Policy Analyst, OIRA |  Agency lobbying profile |
| 2008-2014 | Nuclear Regulatory Commission Revolving Door Personnel: (16) | Analyst |  Agency lobbying p |
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