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</div><div><b>What's Up With the Staffing of Betsy DeVos' Education Department</b></div><div>By Alyson Klein on February 15, 2017 7:39 AM</div><div>
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</div><div>When brand-new U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was selected to lead the Education Department, her fans and detractors agreed on one thing: It would be really important to see who she put in other key roles, including the deputy secretary and assistant secretaries that oversee policy, innovation, civil rights, K-12 education, and more.</div><div>
</div><div>That's partly because DeVos, a billionaire GOP donor and school choice advocate, comes from a nontraditional background. Unlike nearly every past education secretary, she's never worked professionally in federal or state government, for a school district, or at a university.</div><div>
</div><div>And while her supporters say she has deep knowledge when it comes to vouchers, charter schools, and other forms of choice, she appeared confused during her confirmation hearing about other areas of education policy, including special education. That could make staffing all the more important.</div><div>
</div><div>So far, key roles haven't been filled. To be sure, it's still early going—the secretary herself has been on the job for just over a week. And a deputy could be named sometime soon. (Allan Hubbard, who worked on economic issues under President George W. Bush, is said to be a top candidate for the deputy role, typically the No. 2 position at the department.)</div><div>
</div><div>"I don't think anyone should be alarmed at the speed, but given the process or lack thereof we've seen administration-wide and the contentiousness of DeVos' confirmation it puts a premium on getting this next wave of hiring absolutely right," said Andy Smarick, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, which has received funding from DeVos' family foundation. "If it's slow but smart, everyone will be happy. If it's slow and clunky, then there are going to be big concerns."</div><div>
</div><div>Some Republican education policy experts including those who have worked in past GOP administrations, for GOP education leaders on Capitol Hill, or in states are reticent to jump into jobs in President Donald Trump's Education Department.</div><div>
</div><div>These observers, who declined to speak for attribution given the sensitivity of the subject, worry that the administration has yet to find its organizational footing, citing reports of a chaotic governing process at the White House. Others aren't sure they want to put in long hours for a secretary with a narrow area of focus who is already facing serious backlash among educators. And a few fear DeVos may not stick around long.</div><div>
</div><div>One person who the Trump team had reached out to said of DeVos. "She doesn't have a vision" beyond vouchers, the Republican said. "I don't want to go in not knowing what the full vision is."</div><div>
</div><div>And another Republican who had mulled joining the administration said, "There's a lot of anxiety around what this administration is going to bring, and some people may think it's pretty risky to go into these roles ... There's a lot of speculation about how long DeVos is going to last. Potential staff may question whether it's worth the risk, whether taking a job for this secretary could cause collateral damage to reputations and future opportunities in education."</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For now, the list of names of folks on the "landing team"—the initial group of policy staffers—that has been circulated to civil servants at the department is heavy on folks whose background is primarily in politics or communications, including more than a half-dozen Trump campaign staffers, state GOP party staffers, and Washington, D.C.-based communications professionals.&nbsp;</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>There aren't as many whose background is primarily education policy as opposed to politics or who have deep experience at a state education agency or school district.</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>Among the exceptions: Ebony Lee, who served at the department during the Bush administration and then worked on charter policy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Michael Brickman has worked in both politics (as the communications director for the Iowa Republican Party) and policy (as a policy adviser to Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis. and staffer at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute)</span>.<b> Jim Manning, </b>who worked in the department during the Bush administration, has a track record in government. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Josh Venable, who has played a key role in the transition, has primarily worked in politics, mostly in DeVos' home state of Michigan, but spent almost two years as the national director of advocacy and legislation at the Foundation for Educational Excellence, started by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Another hire, Andrew Kossack, also did a seven month stint at FEE, and worked in education and government roles in Indiana, including as a deputy chief of staff to the state chief, Tony Bennett, and as an education aide to governor-turned-vice-president Mike Pence.&nbsp;</span></div><div>
</div><div>Starting out primarily with political players is not unusual at this stage of the process, but it will be a bigger deal if there still aren't more policy folks—or people who have worked in school districts or at state agencies, in a few weeks, one Republican said. The Trump administration so far is "raising the bar on the lack of policy staff," the Republican added. But that could change quickly as more hires are announced.</div><div>
</div><div>Some GOP sources in Washington have gone further, describing a chaotic hiring process, with different members of the Trump team calling about different positions over the course of weeks or months—at times it's been unclear to some outsiders who is ultimately empowered to make the staffing decisions.</div><div>
</div><div>But another Republican has confidence that DeVos will make good personnel choices. "The people that have complained are the people that make their living off of who is in what place," the source said.</div><div>
</div><div>And this source said DeVos and her team shouldn't be expected to take a traditional approach to staffing the department. "You cannot look at this administration and apply the same principles that you would to any other administration. This is a totally out-of-the-box administration," said the Republican.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>DeVos' goal is to make the department more efficient and innovative, the source added. "I think the people that are going to be tasked and selected, have to be willing to [be] entrepreneurial, be in some ways visionary."</div><div>
</div><div>The Trump administration is also said to be taking a close look at revamping the department's organizational flow chart, something that a number of incoming administrations have also done. Ideas on the table include reducing the number of deputy assistant secretaries, and getting rid of the undersecretary, a key role for higher education.</div><div>
</div><div>The U.S. Department of Education did not respond to requests to comment.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Staffing decisions are more than just inside baseball—they could have a real impact on the direction of the Trump administration on K-12 policy, Smarick said.</div><div>
</div><div>"Some people think this is just a Washington parlor game," he said. But there are real implications for schools and state education agencies, he added. "This will determine what gets put in the $70 billion education budget. This will determine what the big school choice initiative is going to be and who is reviewing state accountability plans. These decisions matter as much as anything that the department is doing."</div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Get to Know Donald Trump's Education Transition Team</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Alyson Klein on November 21, 2016 10:57 AM</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The folks on President-elect Donald Trump's education transition team will help set the policy course—and likely, even appoint key personnel—for the new administration. Their backgrounds could provide clues on the direction the Trump administration wants to go on K-12. Here's a look:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Manning</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump's transition team told reporters Monday that Manning will be a part of the "landing team" at the U.S. Department of Education; the transition team said his name would be sent to President Barack Obama's administration at noon on Monday.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Manning worked on higher education issues at the department under President George W. Bush. Read testimony Manning gave to the House foreign affairs committee in 2007 about postsecondary issues here. "America must remain the primary destination for international students. We must work together to make sure our nation's institutions of higher education continue to be open to students from around the globe," Manning said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Williamson "Bill" Evers</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Williamson-Evers-280.jpgEvers' name is probably familiar with long-time Education Week readers, in fact we profiled him back in 2007. He served as assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and policy development under President George W. Bush.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was a veteran of the so-called "math wars" in California. In helping to write standards and curriculum for the state, he championed a strong foundation of core content, particularly in the early grades. He's also no fan of the Common Core State Standards. In fact, he wrote a commentary opposing the standards for Education Week, which you can read here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And as a school board member in Santa Clara County Calif., Evers supported a ballot resolution that would have made it easier to fire tenured teachers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Evers also served as an education adviser to President Bush in Iraq, and sought to ensure that standardized testing could continue despite widespread violence after the U.S. invasion in 2003.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Iraqi parents love standardized testing and were fervently concerned not to let either the war in March and April [2003], or the subsequent guerrilla skirmishes, interfere with the nationwide testing program," Evers wrote in a 2004 essay published in the Wall Street Journal.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And also relevant to current education debates, Evers is skeptical of "dashboards" that get at students' opportunity to learn. (More in this Education Week commentary he wrote with Ze'ev Wurman, another one-time Bush advisor.) He's a fan of holding schools accountable for a single data point. But that's exactly what some states, including California, want to avoid under the Every Student Succeeds Act.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gerard Robinson</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robinson is the former state chief in Virginia and Florida, and was a member of the "education reform" group Chiefs for Change. CLARIFICATION: In Virginia, Robinson was secretary of education under GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell, a cabinet position—the state superintendent during Robinson's time in that post was Pat Wright.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He only served for a short time as state chief in the Florida, working for just one year and leaving in 2014. Right before he left, the state rushed to change the passing score on the state's writing test because so many students had performed poorly. That was partly because, before Robinson took office, the state legislature directed the department to come up with tougher standards. And Robinson sought to respond to the score drop, launching a townhall type tour reassure parents, and devoting a section of the state department's website to parent outreach. More in this story from the Andrew half.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robinson also faced criticism for how he factored English-language learners into Florida's A-F school grades.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Townsend McNitt&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other transition staffers include Townsend McNitt, another Education Department official under Bush who served as deputy chief of staff there from 2005 to 2007. In that role, she helped implement the No Child Left Behind Act, according to this bio from the Center for Public Justice, a Christian think tank. Before working at the department, McNitt was the staff director of the Senate education committee. Since 2007, McNitt has been working as a "strategic consultant" according to this online resume.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One Republican and former Education Department official described McNitt as a strong behind-the-scenes player. She's "serious, capable, diligent, gets done stuff done," the official said.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.blendedlearning.org/</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 5px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The placement of all these lobbyists as de facto — or actual — high-level agency staffers “raises the appearance that you could be attempting to influence public policy in favor of your former client,” said Meredith McGehee, chief of policy, programs and strategy at Issue One.&nbsp;“This isn’t saying that lobbyists are bad or evil, it’s simply saying the reason that you should have rules governing lobbyists in government is because they have been paid by private interests to promote the interests of their employer.”</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It makes a difference whether an individual lobbied last year of 10 years ago, McGehee said. Revolving door restrictions are written with time limits, because it’s understood your relationships with clients and freshness of information cool over time.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One former for-profit college lobbyist has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/betsy-devos-hands-victory-to-loan-firm-tied-to-adviser-who-just-quit" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">already resigned</a>&nbsp;from his beachhead position at the Department of Education,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> where he worked for about a month.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/for-profit-colleges-gain-beachhead-in-trump-administration" target="blank" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Taylor Hansen lobbied</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;for Career Education Colleges and Universities&nbsp;until July 2016, where he focused on trying to weaken the “gainful employment” rule that puts for-profit schools’ federal funding at risk if their graduates don’t earn enough to pay back their student loans.</span></font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/trumps-beachhead-hosts-dozens-of-former-lobbyists/">https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/trumps-beachhead-hosts-dozens-of-former-lobbyists/</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price</b>&nbsp;has been mired in questions about his investments in the healthcare industry. As it turns out, some of the people helping him get grounded at the department are also prompting questions about their ties with the industry.<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;" /></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Leggitt%2C%20Lance%20B&id=Y0000026767L&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lance Leggitt</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, a lobbyist at Baker Donelson since 2006, was named Price’s chief of staff earlier this month. In 2016 alone, he lobbied for 10 organizations — all related to health care.&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">Alere Inc</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, for example, manufactures diagnostic tests and spent nearly $900,000 lobbying last year. Other clients included hospitals and a medical trade group.<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;" /></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leggitt deregistered as a lobbyist in January, because he was on his way to HHS even before being made chief of staff.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the early days of the administration, Leggitt was a member of President Trump’s&nbsp;<b>“beachhead” force,&nbsp;</b>a temporary cast of characters brought in to keep the government running and lay the groundwork for Trump’s agenda.<b>&nbsp;With key jobs in the administration being filled at a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.whitehousetransitionproject.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">slower-than-average</a>&nbsp;pace, these individuals can have a big impact on their agencies.</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">ProPublica</em>, the names of 400 of the more than 520 members of beachhead teams were released by the Office of Personnel Management — including&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YZ4tjWE2uWpqB0Z1cplvL6kfVf0OsHMlnpnXfYZNp2s/edit#gid=0" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">several dozen individuals</a>&nbsp;who have been federally registered&nbsp;lobbyists, a review by&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">OpenSecrets</em>&nbsp;confirmed.</span>&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;" /></strong></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Their positions can last 90 to 120 days, depending on the level, with one contract extension permitted — although many expect to be later hired on to full-time positions. That’s what happened with Leggitt, for example, and with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000003324L" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack Kalavritinos</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, who was brought in on a beachhead assignment to help run FDA; that agency’s commissioner wasn’t named by Trump for close to two months. Kalavritinos worked at HHS in the mid 2000’s but more recently spent eight years lobbying for&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000025166&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Covidien Ltd</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, an Ireland-based pharmaceutical and health products company. This week, Kalavritinos was named associate commissioner for external affairs at FDA.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While past administrations have used some temporary personnel, they didn’t seem to do so at the same scale as Trump’s, said&nbsp;Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, which helps advise new&nbsp;administrations. Most pushed to have officials in place much more quickly.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There wasn’t a notion of a group of people that were only there for a limited period of time, but more of an expectation that the secretary and team would get in and be using the career folks,” Stier said. “The beachhead team creates another step in the process.” (The term “beachhead” was first used by Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign; he didn’t get the chance to implement the concept.)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It also creates “minders” of a sort who aren’t always appreciated by agency chiefs or civil service employees trying to do their work.&nbsp;</b>According to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/white-house-installs-political-aides-at-cabinet-agencies-to-be-trumps-eyes-and-ears/2017/03/19/68419f0e-08da-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">Washington Post</em>,</a>&nbsp;these temporary figures often act as eyes and ears for the White House, making sure the agencies are loyally hewing to the administration’s agenda.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Now, some of the beachheaders with lobbying backgrounds did that work many years ago and went on to other careers.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But even for more recent practitioners, Trump’s executive order on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/28/executive-order-ethics-commitments-executive-branch-appointees" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">ethics</a>, unlike President Obama’s,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/02/lobbying-poised-to-shoot-up-with-trump/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">allows lobbyists</a>&nbsp;to join the administration, even in the agencies they previously lobbied, though they are not supposed to work on specific issues on which they lobbied in the last two years. There are also restrictions on the lobbying that administration employees can do&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">after</em>&nbsp;they leave the public payroll, but there are a number of loopholes in the rules. REV DR</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s unclear if all the beachhead employees are bound by the Trump policy. Still, even if they are, there are a number of ways that former lobbyists can flourish in the administration. For instance, Trump could waive the executive order’s requirements for certain appointees, and now doesn’t even need to make those waivers public, like Obama did. (There is a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/ethics-pledge-waivers" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">section of the White House</a>&nbsp;site that says “Ethics pledge waivers will be published as they become available,” but there weren’t any waivers posted when we published.)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The placement of all these lobbyists as de facto — or actual — high-level agency staffers “raises the appearance that you could be attempting to influence public policy in favor of your former client,” said Meredith McGehee, chief of policy, programs and strategy at Issue One.&nbsp;“This isn’t saying that lobbyists are bad or evil, it’s simply saying the reason that you should have rules governing lobbyists in government is because they have been paid by private interests to promote the interests of their employer.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It makes a difference whether an individual lobbied last year of 10 years ago, McGehee said. Revolving door restrictions are written with time limits, because it’s understood your relationships with clients and freshness of information cool over time.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One former for-profit college lobbyist</b>&nbsp;has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/betsy-devos-hands-victory-to-loan-firm-tied-to-adviser-who-just-quit" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">already resigned</a>&nbsp;from his beachhead position at the Department of Education, where he worked for about a month.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/for-profit-colleges-gain-beachhead-in-trump-administration" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Taylor Hansen lobbied</a>&nbsp;for Career Education Colleges and Universities&nbsp;until July 2016, where he focused on trying to weaken the “gainful employment” rule that puts for-profit schools’ federal funding at risk if their graduates don’t earn enough to pay back their student loans.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/former-lobbyist-with-for-profit-colleges-quits-education-department" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">ProPublica</em>&nbsp;reported</a>&nbsp;that soon after Hansen started working at Education, the agency began delaying deadlines for the gainful employment rule and is reviewing the implementation of the rule. Hansen told&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">ProPublica</em>&nbsp;he didn’t work on gainful employment while at the department.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">OpenSecrets Blog</em>&nbsp;contacted the federal agencies with former lobbyist beachhead members about their ethics policies. The Department of Homeland Security was the only one to get back to us, and its response was vague:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Ethics training, consistent with U.S. Office of Government Ethics regulations, is provided to all political appointees,” said DHS spokesman David Lapan in an email.&nbsp;“DHS ethics attorneys conduct reviews for potential conflicts of interest and provide guidance to employees.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Nine beachhead members were registered lobbyists as recently as last year</b>; eight of them have filed forms with the Senate deregistering from that work. General Mills&nbsp;<a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=5353D9B4-81C9-4930-9E16-11DD659A7FC2&filingTypeID=78" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">has not filed paperwork</a>&nbsp;that shows Erika Baum ending her lobbying gig at the food company, although she is now an executive assistant to the Secretary of Transportation, according to&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">ProPublica</em>‘s data and lobbying records.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">OpenSecrets</em>&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">Blog</em>&nbsp;contacted all nine firms, and confirmed at least four beachheaders had formally resigned from their lobbying jobs, as opposed to taking temporary leaves of absence. Two firms said they could not divulge personnel information, and two did not reply by publication. (The ninth was General Mills.)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Among the former cohorts on K Street:</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000019178L&year=2013" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John Barsa</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, who is installed at DHS, has lobbied for the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000046462&year=2002" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Aerospace Industries Association of America</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, a trade group for the aerospace and defense industry. He’s also represented&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000066670&year=2012" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">MRIGlobal</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, a research organization that touts its security and defense program and runs facilities for the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense. He deregistered in 2013, though he stayed at his lobbying firm until 2015.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000039701L&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Pete Giambastiani</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, in his role as special assistant at the office of the secretary of defense, might visit one of those facilities. He, too, has a history of lobbying on behalf of defense interests. His past clients, through 2014, include the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F112664&year=2011" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Defense Venture Group</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000043127&year=2011" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Finmeccanica SpA</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">&nbsp;and the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000054528&year=2012" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Navy League of the US</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">. Giambastiani also served in the Department of the Navy and the offices of Reps.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00013846&cycle=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Miller</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">&nbsp;(R-Fla.) and, most recently,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00029018&cycle=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Tom Rooney</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">&nbsp;(R-Fla.).</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Maddox%2C%20Mark&id=Y0000029594L&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Maddox</a>‘s clients as a lobbyist included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F124333&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">General Synfuels International</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F111237&year=2011" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Calcasieu Refinery Co.</a>and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F120761&year=2008" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Cline Resource and Development</a>. Now, fittingly, he’s a key beachhead figure at the Energy Department. He deregistered in 2015, though he continued working at The Livingston Group/Maddox Strategies.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Then there’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Burr%2C%20Geoff&id=Y0000013019L&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Geoff Burr</a>, who is at the Department of Labor.</b>&nbsp;Until 2015, he was the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-watered-down-ethics-rules-let-lobbyist-help-run-agency-he-lobbied" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">top lobbyist</a>&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000187&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Associated Builders and Contractors</a>, which is always fighting wage standards in federal contracts and is on the other side of labor unions when it comes to exposure to hazardous materials. He then went on to run the lobbying shop&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffrey-burr-71a4225/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">at Cablevision</a>. Burr previously put in time at Labor, from 2006 to 2008.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">Other departments have smatterings of staff who have lobbied on behalf of issues that are intensely political.&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000027361L" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Julie Kirchner</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, a Homeland Security adviser, represented the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000050827&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Federation for Amer Immigration Reform</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, a nonprofit that seeks to reduce immigration levels. (She deregistered in 2015.) At the Department of Agriculture, special assistant&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000002781L&year=2001" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George Dunlop</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">&nbsp;brings with him his experience lobbying for the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F107045&year=1998" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Tobacco Quota Warehouse Alliance</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, which advocated in support of tobacco producers from 1999 to 2001.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">So far, the links between lobbying and the beachhead team have been pretty direct: Health care lobbyists at HHS, defense lobbyists at Homeland Security, and so on. But what about the Department of Commerce, which is tasked with the broad goal of expanding economic growth?&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Comstock%2C%20Earl%20W&id=Y0000031829L&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Earl Comstock</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning at Commerce, has demonstrated the flexibility befitting the nation’s multifaceted economy. In his 18 years of lobbying until 2015, he represented firms from&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F104107&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Swiss International Air Lines</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">&nbsp;to the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000046598&year=2009" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">&nbsp;to the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000066&year=1998" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Teamsters Union</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">. He can now apply that diverse experience as he makes his way back to government — he was a staffer on the Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee from 1988-1991.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><b>In some cases, the revolving door made a complete 360 swivel:&nbsp;</b>At least&nbsp;</span>14&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">of the beachheads have previously worked in the same agency where Trump has now placed them.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">One of them is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=35395" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Marcus Peacock</a></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">, now adviser for Office of Management & Budget, who worked in that office for eight years under GOP Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush (R). Peacock worked for Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly as a program manager in the early 1990’s.&nbsp;Most recently he was the environment & energy consultant for dark-money nonprofit Right to Rise Policy Solutions, which supported Jeb Bush.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here are the rest of the former lobbyists on Trump’s beachhead team:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Adkins%2C%20Patricia&id=Y0000009906L&year=2010" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Patricia Adkins</a>&nbsp;– Executive director at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Lobbying client was the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000051872&year=2010" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Home Safety Council</a>&nbsp;until 2010, after which she worked at Safe Kids Worldwide. Has worked at CPSC since 2014 under Obama, and was temporarily hired to stay on under the Trump administration.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Byron Anderson – Dept. of Labor. Lobbying clients included American General Corp and Transamerica Companies. Deregistered&nbsp;2016.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Bass%2C%20Deidre&id=Y0000038701L&year=2008" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Deidre Bass</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Lobbying client was the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F104028&year=2008" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Stark Area Transit Authority</a>. Deregistered 2008.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Cameron%2C%20Scott&id=Y0000028809L&year=2001" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Cameron</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of&nbsp;Interior. Lobbying client was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000048581&year=2001" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Chep USA</a>. Deregistered in 2001, then worked at Interior and&nbsp;<a href="https://hjspllc.com/our-leadership/scott-j-cameron/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Grant Thornton LLP</a>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Claver-Carone%2C%20Mauricio&id=Y0000006579L&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mauricio Claver-Carone</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Treasury. Lobbying client was the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000049906&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Cuba Democracy Public Advocacy Corp</a>. Deregistered 2016.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Dannenfelser%2C%20Martin&id=Y0000007217L&year=2000" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Martin Dannenfelser</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Energy. Lobbying client was the Family Research Council. Deregistered 2000, worked at&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060046511" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Energy Innovation Reform Project</a>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000003239L&year=2005" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lynda Davis</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">&nbsp;– Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Lobbying clinets included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000050964&year=2005" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Florida State College at Jacksonville</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F118153&year=2005" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Valencia Community College</a>, as well as&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000104&year=1999" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lockheed Martin</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000055927&year=1999" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Raydon Corp</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000583&year=2005" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">BAE Systems</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">. Most recently, was executive director of a group called the Military and Veteran Caregiver Network.</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Greenwood%2C%20Sheila%20M&id=Y0000028251L&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sheila Greenwood</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Lobbying clients included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000141&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Prudential Financial</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000367&year=2010" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Wal-Mart</a>. Deregistered 2014, continued working at Prudential Financial.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Hommel%2C%20Scott&id=Y0000030075L&year=2010" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Hommel</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Interior. Lobbying clients included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000046913&year=2010" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Defense Systems</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F110812&year=2007" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Avalex Technologies</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000054256&year=2006" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Guard Association of the U.S.</a>&nbsp;Deregistered 2010,&nbsp;served as now-<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-hommel-17653232/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Secretary Ryan Zinke’s chief of staff</a>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Laird%2C%20Russell&id=Y0000046865L&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Russell Laird</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Agriculture. Lobbying clients include the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000064930&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Cooperative Services Corp.</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000064591&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp.</a>&nbsp;Deregistered 2016.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Lenihan%2C%20Keagan%20R&id=Y0000046788L&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Keagan Lenihan</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Health and Human Services. Lobbying client was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000022105&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">McKesson Corp.</a>&nbsp;Deregistered 2016.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">Marianne McInerney – Dept. of Transportation. Lobbying client was the American International Automobile Dealers Association, a lobbying group for foreign car dealers, where she was also president. Joined beachhead team from&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">electric car maker Cenntro Automotive.</span></font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Mikolay%2C%20Justin&id=Y0000050992L&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Justin Mikolay</a>&nbsp;– Office of the Secretary of Defense. Lobbying client was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000055177&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Palantir Technologies</a>. Deregistered 2016.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Palmer%2C%20Wayne&id=Y0000011596L&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Wayne Palmer</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Labor. Lobbying clients included the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000064491&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alliance for Healthcare Competitiveness</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000043112&year=2010" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals</a>.&nbsp;Deregistered 2015, continued working at&nbsp;AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Pryor%2C%20Alex&id=Y0000048211L&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alex Pryor</a>&nbsp;(or Campau)&nbsp;– Dept. of Health and Human Services. Lobbying clients included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000047102&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">AmeriHealth Caritas</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000109&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Blue Cross/Blue Shield</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000025929&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Fresenius Medical Care</a>. Deregistered 2014,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrapryor/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">worked at the House Budget Committee</a>&nbsp;and Senate Republican Policy Committee.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lora Ries – DHS. Lobbying clients included General Dynamics and Boeing. Deregistered 2010, worked with two technology companies that had contracts with DHS.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Stirrup%2C%20Heidi%20H&id=Y0000009162L&year=2008" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Heidi Stirrup</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Health and Human Services. Lobbying clients included the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000027805&year=2003" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Association of Spine Specialists</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000031708&year=2006" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Aurora Organic Dairy</a>. Deregistered 2008, worked at&nbsp;Faithful Catholic Citizens, then the Department of Commerce followed by the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Sugiyama%2C%20George&id=Y0000033480L&year=2013" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George Sugiyama</a>&nbsp;– Environmental Protection Agency. Lobbying clients included the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000308&year=2013" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Mining Association</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000168&year=2012" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Southern Co.</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F116790&year=2004" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Solargenix Energy</a>. Deregistered 2013, worked at the&nbsp;Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Tripodi%2C%20Cathy&id=Y0000046826L&year=2012" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Cathy Tripodi</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Energy. Lobbying clients were&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F118343&year=2012" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Abound Solar</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000056925&year=2012" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">South Coast Air Quality Management District</a>. Deregistered 2012, worked at the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathytripodi/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">North Carolina Department of Transportation</a>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=25995" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Laura Clay Trueman</a><strong style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">&nbsp;</strong>– Dept. of&nbsp;Health and Human Services. Lobbying clients included Aetna, Coalition for Affordable Health. Deregistered 2007, worked at the UnitedHealth Group and then the Heritage Foundation.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Tucker%2C%20Brooks&id=Y0000051716L&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Brooks Tucker</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Lobbying clients included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F120234&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Management Solutions</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F118792&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Air Comm Corp.</a>&nbsp;Deregistered 2016.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Vaughn%2C%20Stephen&id=Y0000050378L&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Stephen Vaughn</a>&nbsp;– U.S. Trade Rep. Lobbying client was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000019533&year=2015" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Steel</a>. Deregistered 2015, worked at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.law360.com/articles/741004/king-spalding-snags-ex-skadden-int-l-trade-partner" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">King & Spalding LLP</a>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Wolf%2C%20Chad&id=Y0000024196L&year=2016" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Chad Wolf</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Homeland Security. Lobbying clients included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000395&year=2012" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Harris Corp.</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000100&year=2007" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Boeing</a>. Deregistered 2016.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Zelden%2C%20Mark&id=Y0000008841L&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Zelden</a>&nbsp;– Dept. of Labor. Lobbying clients included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000047804&year=2010" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Birmingham Water Works</a>&nbsp;and the cities of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=F125044&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Foley</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000048941&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jackson</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000049017&year=2014" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mobile</a>, Alabama. 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