Gold represents railroads, water districts, and many cities and counties with environmental issues. Sikorski is said to have handled most of the congressional outreach and helped construct a PR campaign that allowed the agreement to happen. Rodney Slater, Patton Boggs. Coming out of the shadows of nearly a decade of Republican rule, Slater has emerged as a go-to lobbyist, especially in the airline industry, where he represents groups of airline pilots as well as Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
He joined Illinois-based Clark Consulting in His blue-chip client list on tax issues there is the best in town. Howard Vine, Dickstein Shapiro. A graduate of American University and George Mason law school, Vine began lobbying with the National Association of Manufacturers three decades ago and eventually was hired by Miami-based Greenberg Traurig to open its Washington office. He left Greenberg Traurig in because of his discomfort over the lobbying of former partner Jack Abramoff, now in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud.
If every Washington scandal has a hero, Vine is a nominee. Susan Molinari, the Washington Group. This bubbly former congresswoman pursued several career paths, including a stint as anchor for CBS News Saturday Morning, before finding her calling as a lobbyist. Molinari has been tapped by the worldwide PR agency Ketchum to be the top person in Washington for its lobbying subsidiary, where she is half of a lobbying duo with former Tom Daschle aide Rita Lewis. Molinari also carries the flag of the Republic of Panama.
With several projects in the works there, including the widening of the canal, she should have no shortage of work. She lives with her husband, Akin Gump lobbyist Bill Paxon—they have never worked on a project together—in Alexandria and is working on the presidential campaign of Rudolph Giuliani. Charles Brain, Capitol Hill Strategies. A former aide to once-powerful congressman Dan Rostenkowski, Brain saw his lobbying career going down when his boss and mentor went up the river for fraud and embezzlement.
Brain left lobbying and joined the Clinton administration as a congressional liaison. When George W. Back in business as a lobbyist, Brain is once again sought by corporations that want to get a hearing with the chair. Prioleau was an assistant for domestic policy in the Carter administration, but her cachet now, like that of Charles Brain, is her longstanding association with Ways and Means chair Charles Rangel.
Prioleau worked with Rangel from to After 20 years at Patton Boggs, this year Prioleau is suddenly a hot property. As part of her practice representing cities, Prioleau helps coordinate appropriations requests from clients such as Atlanta and Cleveland. University of Virginia law grad Bruce Mehlman was once telecommunications-policy counsel for Cisco Systems, the big high-tech company.
He went to the Commerce Department after that, and now he is one of the undisputed experts on high-tech issues. His clients include drug and pharmaceutical companies. She and lobbyist husband Tony Podesta collect contemporary art and keep a home in Venice, Italy. After several years lobbying with a Philadelphia law firm, Podesta is on her own. To say she has panache is an understatement.
A Wall Street Journal profile revealed that she once had four female chefs from Seattle flown in for a fundraiser for Washington senator Maria Cantwell.
Watts, J. Watts Companies. Twice the most valuable player in the Orange Bowl, the former Oklahoma Sooner quarterback has parlayed his leadership skills into a six-company organization. Elected to Congress in , he left in to go into lobbying. Watts has been sought out by traditionally black colleges and universities including Grambling and Mississippi Valley State. His personality, high profile, and ability to get along with allies and opponents alike put him in good position to continue to do well no matter who is in power.
Steven Elmendorf, Elmendorf Strategies. Elmendorf was senior adviser to former Democratic House majority leader Richard Gephardt, and he maintains close links with most of the House leaders and committee chairs.
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The former top lobbyist for the Federation of American Hospitals is a go-to guy on the Affordable Care Act and worked as the sole outside lobbyist this year for the craft store Hobby Lobby, which won a battle over the employer birth control mandate. Brain served as a congressional liaison in the Clinton White House and now helps blue-chip companies — including Citigroup and Merck — navigate Congress. With the deft advocacy of Bryant and Fechner, Covington leaves no public policy issue untouched.
The die-hard Red Sox fan takes a no-nonsense approach to advocacy, going to bat with a bipartisan firm that has connections all over Capitol Hill. Manus Cooney, American Continental Group. With experience at Napster in the private sector and time on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Cooney comes armed and ready for the battle over patent reform.
The former New York senator has assembled a shop with a diverse client roster that includes several large defense companies.
Daschle, the former acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, brings a command of the issues to big names in the airline, aerospace and defense industries. Do Canto is an ardent defender of public health programs and makes disadvantaged communities his main focus. The Democratic heavyweights had a hand this year in everything from patent reform to Dodd-Frank implementation to immigration. The new king of K Street rose to power on the strength of this core team of lobbyists who help keep the firm front and center in every major policy debate on Capitol Hill.
Mitchell Feuer, Rich Feuer Anderson. Feuer is a number to have on speed dial when it comes to the complexities of financial regulatory policy. Business is booming at the boutique shop that Frazee and Ringley built together. While Ogilvy has downsized, the leadership of Giblin and Mercado ensures that it remains mighty. Giordano is a leading expert in all things taxes, the policy area where there is never a shortage of work. Fred Graefe, Law offices of Frederick H.
Graefe, PLLC. Healthcare clients trust Graefe with all their Medicare and Medicaid policy needs. Hellmann has close ties to the new House Republican leadership, making him a dynamite partner with Lugar, who knows his way around the Senate. House is a time-trusted guide for clients as they maneuver through the legislative and regulatory mazes of Washington.
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