Koch Companies Public Sector LLC has retained Crossroads Strategies for input on issues related to derivative regulation.
David and Charles Koch use the sector to speak for the family's energy, trading, operations and investment activity.
Those properties include Georgia-Pacific (building suppliers/consumer goods), Molex Inc. (electronic connectors), Koch Pipeline, Flint Hill Resources (oil processing), Koch Chemical Technology Group (pollution controls) and Matador Cattle Co.
Crossroads has assigned the business to veterans John Green, who was deputy chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott; Stewart Hall, ex-legislative director to Alabama Republican Senator Richard Shelby, and Todd Weiss, aide to former Senator Rick Santorum.
KCPS spent $13.7M in 2014 lobbying fees. Its roster features Nickles Group, S-3 Group, Palmetto Group. Cyprus Advocacy and Ice Miller Strategy.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
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.
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