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<a href="http://www.muckety.com/Capitol-Counsel-LLC/5012741.muckety"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.muckety.com/Capitol-Counsel-LLC/5012741.muckety</font></a><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">senator, staffer rev dr</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no wait period?</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Former GOP Sen. Pat Roberts Joins Lobbying Firm Capitol Counsel</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Firm’s clients include NFL,<b> Edison Electric, PhRMA</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Kansan retired from Congress after 40 years</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>February 25, 2021 </b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By Megan R. Wilson</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Former Sen. Pat Roberts, who retired in January, has joined top lobbying shop Capitol Counsel.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Kansas Republican will serve as a senior counselor to the firm’s clients, offering “his insights and advice about legislative strategy and his deep understanding of the executive branch,” Capitol Counsel said in a release.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Capitol Counsel is a top firm by revenue, earning $19 million in 2020 from clients including Intuit Inc., the National Football League, Walmart Inc., the American Health Care Association, Edison Electric Institute, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Retired Sen. Pat Roberts has joined the lobbying firm of Capitol Counsel</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Roberts served on Capitol Hill for 40 years. He was first elected to the House in 1980 and then to the Senate in 1996. Ethics rules bar him from lobbying either chamber for two years.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During his last term in the Senate, he served as chair of the Agriculture Committee </span>and also served on the committees on Finance; Rules; and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I have been honored to serve the citizens of Kansas and of the United States and look forward to this new chapter,” Roberts said in a statement. “I believe positive policy achievements are possible with hard work and good will. I look forward to joining the team.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“He embodies the no-nonsense, authentic approach that made him a respected statesman. His unmatched experience offers our clients best-in-class strategic advice, and we are honored to have him join our team,” Shannon Finley, a partner at the firm, said in a statement.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>To contact the reporter on this story: Megan R. Wilson in Washington at mwilson@bgov.com</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">To contact the editors responsible for this story: Bennett Roth at broth@bgov.com; Kyle Trygstad at ktrygstad@bgov.com</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/joe-manchin-2655486530/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/joe-manchin-2655486530/</a></font></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div> Meaghan Ellis November 03, 2021</div><div> </div><div>As Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) works tirelessly to roll back President Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda, several of his former aides are lobbying Congress on behalf of their corporate clients.</div><div>
</div><div>According to CNBC, dozens of filings to Congress indicate "<b>at least six former aides and advisors lobbying members of Congress, including senators, for power players in industries such as coal, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, tobacco, and finance, according to more than two dozen filings to Congress."</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CNBC highlighted the current work of Jonathan Kott, Manchin's former senior advisor who now works for Capitol Counsel and is lobbying for ExxonMobil.</span></div><div>
</div><div>"Kott, Manchin's senior advisor, and communications director for seven years, now works for <b>lobbying giant Capitol Counsel. </b>Kott started lobbying for gas giant ExxonMobil in the third quarter after he was hired by Capitol Counsel in June 2021, according to lobbying disclosures.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">"Kott and his colleagues at the firm were paid $10,000 by Exxon to lobby the House and Senate, which included activities such as 'monitoring legislation impacting energy development and production" and lobbying on 'issues related to tax reform, energy taxes and <b>taxation of U.S. multinational corporations.'"</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>Third-quarter lobbying disclosures also indicate that Kott received a total of $50,000 from the <b>American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers. </b>Per the company's website, they are described as "a trade association 'representing the makers of the fuels that keep Americans moving and the petrochemicals that are the essential building blocks for modern life.'"</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The group's board consists of high-ranking representatives from some of the country's largest oil and gas corporations, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Badische Anilin- und SodaFabrik (BASF), and Dow Chemicals, Inc.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Patrick Hayes, Manchin's former chief of staff and current partner at Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, has been lobbying Congress for "mix of clean energy companies and the Industrial Minerals Association, which according to its website is a 'premier trade association representing the interests of North American companies that mine or process the industrial minerals.'"</div><div>
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</div><div>Read the full report at CNBC.</div><div>
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</div><div>KEY POINTS</div><div>Sen. Joe Manchin has been working to shrink or eliminate key elements of President Joe Biden’s social spending and climate proposal as several of his former advisors lobby Congress.</div><div>Manchin has at least six former aides and advisors lobbying members of Congress for power players in industries such as coal, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, tobacco, and finance, according to more than two dozen filings to Congress.</div><div>One of lobbyists, Jonathan Kott, has said that he has privately called Manchin. The senator has said Larry Puccio, another former advisor currently lobbying the Senate, is a “dear friend.”</div><div>
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</div><div>House Dems put paid family leave back into social spending plan</div><div>Sen. Joe Manchin has been working to shrink or eliminate key elements of President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party’s massive social spending and climate proposal as several of his former advisors lobby Congress for their corporate clients.</div><div>
</div><div>Manchin, the moderate West Virginia Democrat, has at least six former aides and advisors lobbying members of Congress, including senators, for power players in industries such as coal, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, tobacco, and finance, according to more than two dozen filings to Congress.</div><div>
</div><div>The lobbying disclosure reports reviewed by CNBC span the third quarter, which started in July and concluded at the end of September.</div><div>
</div><div>Manchin, who is also the chair of the Senate Energy Committee, has been fighting pieces of the now-$1.75 trillion social spending and climate plan that Biden supports. If passed by Congress, many pieces of that plan could significantly impact the companies that his former aides are lobbying for.</div></span></div><div><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">D</span>emocrats on Tuesday overcame one of their biggest hurdles, as they <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/02/democrats-reach-a-major-deal-on-drug-prices-spending-bill-nearly-done.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">reached</a> a breakthrough agreement on lowering prescription drug prices.</font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lobbying disclosure reports do not say whether Manchin or his office have been directly targeted by his former advisors. Yet one of lobbyists, Jonathan Kott, has said publicly that he has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/20/meet-manchin-k-street-whisperers/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">privately called the West Virginia senator</a>. Manchin has said that Larry Puccio, another former advisor currently lobbying the Senate, is a <a href="https://wvmetronews.com/2020/11/15/w-va-super-lobbyist-puccio-crosses-political-streams-as-adviser-to-democrat-manchin-republican-justice/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">“dear friend.”</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At least two lobbyists who used to work for Manchin are barred from engaging directly with him or his office, as Senate rules say former staffers must wait a year after leaving a congressional office before lobbying their former colleagues. As long as they didn’t hit a certain salary threshold while working in Congress, they are allowed to lobby other members of the Senate.</font></p><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="MidResponsive-midResponsiveContainer" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div id="MidResponsive-1" class="" data-module="mps-slot" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; position: sticky;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div></div></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neither Manchin’s office nor any of the lobbyists mentioned in this story returned requests for comment before publication.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Kott, Manchin’s senior advisor and communications director for seven years, now works for<b> lobbying giant Capitol Counsel. Kott started lobbying for gas giant <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/XOM" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">ExxonMobil</a> in the third quarter after he was hired by Capitol Counsel in June 2021</b>, according to lobbying disclosures.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Kott and his colleagues at the firm were paid $10,000 by Exxon to lobby the House and Senate, which included activities such as “monitoring legislation impacting energy development and production” and lobbying on “issues related to tax reform, energy taxes and taxation of U.S. multinational corporations.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Kott has said he knows how to get in touch with Manchin. “I try not to call him because he’s a busy man but I know he’s available when needed</span>,” Kott told The Washington Post in September.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Exxon’s lobbying efforts against Biden’s agenda have included <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/exxon-mobil-has-been-lobbying-against-parts-of-biden-reconciliation-bill.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">a more than $275,000 Facebook ad campaign targeting tax hikes Democrats have proposed</a>. Exxon’s CEO Darren Woods <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1453802213676134419?s=20" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">told</a> progressive House lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., during a recent hearing that he has participated in calls with members of Congress as lawmakers put together a spending bill that includes $550 billion to fight climate change, as well as their separate $1 trillion infrastructure bill</span>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kott and the firm that employs him also was paid $50,000 in the third quarter to lobby Congress by the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers,</b> a trade association “representing the makers of the fuels that keep Americans moving and the <b>petrochemicals that are the essential building blocks for modern life,”</b> according to their website. The group’s board of directors includes representatives from many of the top oil and gas giants, including <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/XOM" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">ExxonMobil</a>, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/CVX" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">Chevron</a>, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/BAS-DE" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">BASF</a> and <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/DOW" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">Dow Inc</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Patrick Hayes, a partner at Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, was once Manchin’s chief of staff.</b> He has has been lobbying for a mix of clean energy companies and the Industrial Minerals Association, which according to its website is a “premier trade association representing the interests of North American companies that mine or process the industrial minerals.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The mining trade association paid Hayes and his team $30,000 to lobby on issues related to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing budget disputes, among other items.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the solar and clean energy companies – including Breakthrough Technologies, which was founded by tech billionaire Bill Gates – had Hayes lobby Congress on the Democrats infrastructure bill, according to third quarter filings.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Puccio, who was once Manchin’s chief of staff when he was governor of West Virginia, registered to lobby at the federal level in February.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of his more recent clients is Sandy Bay Partners, an investment management firm based in Florida. “We manage and sponsor investment programs focused on private equity and real estate development,” their LinkedIn page says.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the third quarter, Puccio was paid $10,000 by Sandy Bay to specifically lobby the Senate on “conservation easements,” according to the third quarter disclosure. Puccio was also paid $75,000 over the past few months to lobby for the Appalachian Natural Gas Operators Coalition, which is described on a lobbying registration report as a West Virginia company that focuses on “oil and natural gas.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report says that in the third quarter Puccio lobbied the Senate and Biden’s Department of Energy on “energy infrastructure, proposed taxes and fees related to energy production.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Puccio has been close to Manchin for years. In a 2020 interview with a local news outlet in West Virginia, the longtime lobbyist discussed their friendship.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Joe and I are very close. I think the world of Joe. I hope you print that. I’ve always been supportive of Joe Manchin. Joe knows me and I know Joe,” <a href="https://wvmetronews.com/2020/11/15/w-va-super-lobbyist-puccio-crosses-political-streams-as-adviser-to-democrat-manchin-republican-justice/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">Puccio said at the time.</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Thomas J. Lucas, who became a vice president at Crossroads Strategies this year after working in Manchin’s office for the past six years, lobbied lawmakers for two massive pharmaceutical firms and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America</span>, a trade group that represents the pharmaceutical industry.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For the drugmaker Merck, Lucas and his team lobbied lawmakers on a variety of issues in the third quarter including those “related to health care, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 340B Program, drug pricing, importation of biopharmaceuticals, international pharmaceutical supply chain,” according to the latest disclosure report. Crossroads Strategies was paid $40,000 for their most recent work for Merck.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb paid $40,000 for Lucas and his colleagues to lobby on similar issues last quarter. PhRMA, the trade association, invested $60,000 for their lobbying services.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Elliot Howard, who worked for Manchin on the Senate Energy Committee, joined Massie Partners earlier this year.</span> He lobbied the House and Senate in the third quarter for a several corporate giants including oil and gas behemoth <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/BP.-GB" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">BP</a>, </span>Colonial Pipeline, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/NRG" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">NRG Energy</a> and <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/MMP" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;">Magellan Midstream Partners</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Howard’s work helped bring in over $150,000 for Massie Partners.</font></p><div><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></div>