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</div><div><h3 class="heading" style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(86, 86, 86); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former Legislative Director to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Joins Preston Gates' Growing Federal Policy Practice</h3><div class="date" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2px; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">January 8, 2003</div><div class="description" style="margin-top: 15px; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;"><strong>Washington, DC</strong>—<strong>Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP</strong> announced today that Roger Morse, former Legislative Director for Congressman Van Hilleary and Congressman DeLay, has joined the firm as Senior Government Affairs Analyst in the federal policy practice.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">Most recently, Roger worked as Legislative Director for Congressman Van Hilleary. For six years prior to that, he worked as Legislative Director with Congressman Delay. Roger was also Chairman for the past eight years of the Conservative Staff Meeting, a group of 100 conservative House staff that develops action items on conservative policy matters.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">"We are very excited to have someone of Roger's experience join our federal policy team. He has been at the center of the legislative debates that span a wide range of issues which are of concern to our clients," said Emanuel Rouvelas, chairman of Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">"Roger understands first-hand the political dynamics that will drive legislation in the House," added Mark Ruge, head of the firm's policy practice.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">Prior to working for Congressman Tom DeLay, Morse served as Special Assistant and Assistant Campaign Manager to Congressman Frank Wolf.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">Roger Morse is one of many recent additions to Preston's growing bipartisan policy practice. Other new members of Preston's policy team include Ellen Livingston-Behan, 13-year veteran of the Department of Energy; Charles Tiefer, former Acting General Counsel and Solicitor to the U.S. House of Representatives; and Stephen Cooper and Amy Forshew, two of Washington's top health care policy lobbyists.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 9px;">
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