National Association of Manufacturers has enlisted former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt to fend off Republican threats to kill the US Export-Import Bank, which they claim provides corporate welfare to giant companies such as Boeing, General Electric and Caterpillar.
Standard & Poor's calculates the aerospace giant sopped up a third of Ex-Im Bank's total financial commitment from 2007 to 2013 in its global fight against Airbus, which is subsidized by European governments.
Incoming GOP Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, who will succeed Eric Cantor, has switched sides on whether to reauthorize the bank and now lines up with Tea Partiers who want to kill the institution. Cantor supported the bank.
NAM CEO Jay Timmons has said, "A vote against the Ex-Im Bank is a vote to support growing manufacturing and jobs overseas and not in the US."
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and NAM claim more than 200K workers at 3,400 companies rely on the Ex-Im Bank for their livlihoods.
Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to renew Ex-Im Bank authorization.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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