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</div><div>=</div><div><div class="byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">By <a href="http://www.politico.com/reporters/AnnaPalmer.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ANNA PALMER</a> and <a href="http://www.politico.com/reporters/JakeSherman.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">JAKE SHERMAN</a> | 8/5/14 5:29 PM EDT <span class="updated" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(183, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Updated: 8/6/14 9:58 AM EDT</div><div class="story-wrapper" style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div class="story-text p-content resize" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">House Majority Whip Steve Scalise got some help interviewing potential new hires for his press shop from an unlikely source: a federal lobbyist.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Quinn Gillespie & Associates’ John Feehery sat in on and participated in multiple official interviews with job candidates last month for the new majority whip’s press operation. Scalise has not yet announced who he will name as his communications director</div></div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Read more: <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/steve-scalise-staff-john-feehery-109739.html#ixzz39eVO3gaY" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/steve-scalise-staff-john-feehery-109739.html#ixzz39eVO3gaY</a></div><div>
</div><div><p id="continue" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sometimes lawmakers rely on lobbyists for strategic advice. But inviting a lobbyist into an interview is highly unusual. Several ethics lawyers and current and former leadership aides said they have never heard of a similar arrangement.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Scalise enjoys closer relationships with lobbyists than many House conservatives — a reality that is sometimes helpful but also adds to his reputation of being closer to the establishment wing of the party than some in the conference had wanted.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Feehery is registered to lobby on behalf of major corporations like AT&T, Sony Corp., Qualcomm, 21st Century Fox and others that have interests before Congress and the House Energy and Commerce Committee, of which Scalise is a member.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Feehery defended his relationship with Scalise and helping with the staff hires.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“As a former House leadership communications director, I work with the office in strictly a communications strategy development capacity,” Feehery said in a statement. “In this role, I’ve never advocated for or brought client issues before the office. In fact, I have never lobbied the office.”<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/steve-scalise-day-one-109612.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Also on POLITICO: GOP leaders stumble on Day One</a>)<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Scalise’s spokesman T.J. Tatum said Feehery “provides feedback on quality of candidates” but does not make “recommendations as far as yes or no.” The spokesman said Scalise makes all hiring decisions. Asked if it was problematic that Feehery is a registered lobbyist, the spokesman said, “he’s a communications professional.”<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Tatum wrote in an email: “The office met with and sought the advice of many current and former members of House leadership and their staff to gauge best practices while building up the Whip operation. John Feehery is a well-respected former senior House leadership communications aide whom the office has previously contracted with to provide media training. The office has only ever sought his advice and opinion as a communications professional with many years of House leadership experience.”<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">In May, USA Today reported that Scalise paid Quinn Gillespie & Associates $5,000 to review the lawmaker’s communications operation. “They did some media training and also looked at the website and Twitter account,” Scalise’s chief of staff Lynnel Ruckert told USA Today at the time.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">QGA is no longer being paid by the office, according to public records.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Feehery is a veteran Washington Republican operative. He ran the communications operation of then-Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois and also served as communications director for then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas. Prior to becoming president of Quinn Gillespie Communications and director of QGA government affairs, he lobbied at the Motion Picture Association of America. He has also worked at BGR Group. He’s a frequent presence on cable news shows, where he serves as a political analyst.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">While Feehery said he doesn’t lobby the office, many of his clients have issues that can be affected by the House Republican leadership, which controls the flow of bills to the House floor and sets the chamber’s agenda.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">For instance, AT&T has contributed $15,000 to Scalise this cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The telecom giant also has business before the energy and commerce panel.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(<a href="http://www.politico.com//story/2014/08/eric-cantor-resigned-109659.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Also on POLITICO: Why Cantor really resigned</a>)<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Scalise got off to a rocky start in his first week in leadership. A bill to deal with the influx of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border had to be pulled from consideration. The House eventually passed a more conservative version of that legislation, along with restrictions on President Barack Obama’s ability to defer deportations. Next, Scalise will have to cull votes for a continuing resolution to keep the government open past Sept. 30. The House is in recess and doesn’t return to Washington until Sept. 8.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Scalise, who handily beat Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) in June to become the No. 3 in House GOP leadership, faced skepticism as head of the Republican Study Committee from some conservatives for working too closely with GOP leaders.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">He also has good relationships on K Street. After the government shutdown, the Louisiana Republican tried to make inroads with corporate lobbyists frustrated with some conservatives in the House Republican conference, setting up a meeting and talking about how they could work together more closely.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/john-walsh-montana-political-future-109735.html" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Also on POLITICO: Sources: Walsh weighs future</a>)<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Veteran ethics lawyer Stan Brand said that Feehery advising Scalise’s team doesn’t appear to violate any specific House rules.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“I suppose there are lines that could be crossed at some point, but I can’t think of a specific rule or conflict of interest standard or anything that prevents members from getting advice,” Brand said.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">But some government watchdog groups believe there is more to Scalise’s use of volunteer services.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s Adam Rapapport said that depending on how involved Feehery is in running a member’s official duties, it may be a violation of House rules. Former Speaker Newt Gingrichwas reprimanded by the ethics panel for misusing volunteer resources in setting up his leadership office.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“The question is, essentially, is the person acting as a congressional staffer but being paid by somebody else, and generally speaking, I would think there is a difference between having a kitchen cabinet and having somebody involved in hiring decisions,” Rappaport said.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Public Citizen’s Craig Holman said that this is just one of the many ways that Republicans have “inappropriate” connections with lobbyists, pointing to how House GOP leaders culled a list of K Street figures who could make chiefs of staff when Republicans took control of the chamber in 2010.<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) “recognizes that a marriage between K Street and congressional Republicans can be a powerful electioneering tool,” Holman said.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

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</div><div>President Barack Obama used the occasion of his first Oval Office address on June 15 to order BP (<a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=BP" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 213); text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">BP</a>) to set aside "whatever resources are required" to compensate workers and business owners harmed by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. A day later, at the White House for a private tongue-lashing, BP executives did just that, putting $20 billion in escrow and canceling payment of a dividend to shareholders. Meanwhile, Congress prepared to go on the attack, with BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward set to face a verbal drubbing on June 17 from a House panel over charges that his company cut corners in pursuit of profits.BP is maintaining a careful public equilibrium while oil continues to spill into the Gulf—executives have not gone into hiding, nor have they been defensive as more and more demands are made on the company's purse. Still, they aren't taking the political piling-on lightly. Coordinating the nuanced approach is a crisis-management team, assembled over the last two months, of high-priced Washington insiders.Orchestrating the response is the Brunswick Group, whose Washington managing partner, Hilary Rosen, has connections throughout the city as the former head of the Recording Industry Association of America and from previous jobs that include working for Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat. To help massage the press, Brunswick has retained John Feehery, who served as an aide to former House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Other recent hires include Alex Castellanos, an adviser to GOP Presidential campaigns, who comes aboard with his own media and advertising firm, Purple Strategies. WilmerHale, a law and public policy firm populated by top officials from President Bill Clinton's Administration, is helping contend with multiple legal issues and congressional investigations. To help BP fight the war against viral innuendo, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide is advising on digital media such as Facebook and Twitter. Brunswick, Ogilvy, Rosen, Feehery, and Castellanos all declined to comment. Officials at WilmerHale didn't respond to requests for comment.<div class="related_item tracked" data-action-type="Feature Template" data-actions="click" data-category="Inline Related Links" data-label="Position: 1" style="margin: -0.25em 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica-Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 124, 213); font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-31/tensions-arise-between-mds-and-the-mbas-that-manage-them" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 213); text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">STORY: Doctors Are Fighting With Their MBA Bosses</a></div>The experts talk daily to plot strategy and dissect the day's events. In prepping Hayward for his hearing, says one adviser, the basic message was: Don't say anything you don't know to be true. At the June 16 White House meeting, company officials were accompanied by WilmerHale partner Jamie Gorelick, a former deputy attorney general under Clinton, and Michele Davis, a Brunswick partner who was former Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s spokeswoman.Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), whose state's coastline is being destroyed, says none of this counsel is doing much good. "I don't think their repeated statements that they are moving to efficiently compensate people who have suffered damages and to protect the beaches and estuaries has been perceived as very credible," he says. BP is getting much the same reception all over town. "The issues of their own credibility have damaged them so much that the things they are saying...are just not remotely resonating with people," says Jack Quinn, the former White House counsel under Clinton who founded Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a lobbying firm. Quinn is not doing any BP work.Even before the spill, BP had some of the city's top fixers on retainer, including Ken Duberstein, a former chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan, and Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta, who ran Obama's transition team. All this talent is pricey: BP paid Duberstein $400,000 in 2009 and $100,000 so far this year, according to lobbying reports. Superlawyers such as WilmerHale's Gorelick bill between $900 and $1,100 an hour, says law firm consultant Peter Zeughauser.<div class="related_item tracked" data-action-type="Feature Template" data-actions="click" data-category="Inline Related Links" data-label="Position: 0" style="margin: -0.25em 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica-Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 124, 213); font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-24/high-frequency-traders-find-microwaves-suit-their-need-for-speed" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 213); text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">STORY: High-Frequency Traders Find Microwaves Suit Their Need for Speed</a></div>There is a danger that the BP public-relations effort, highlighted by TV ads that promise the company "will make this right," may make matters worse. Obama pilloried the company in a June 4 speech for running what he called a $50 million image campaign while the leak goes unplugged. A push to use Twitter isn't catching on, either. While posts by Hayward and other executives at @BP_America have close to 15,000 subscribers, that feed is dwarfed by tweets mocking the company at @BPGlobalPR, which has more than 167,000 followers.The bottom line: BP's hiring binge of lawyers, lobbyists, and media experts to help it deal with angry demands from Washington may not be doing it much good.</div><div>=</div>