Robert Marcus, special assistant to President Obama for legislative affairs, is moving to McBee Strategic Consulting next month to handling lobbying and communications for the Washington-based firm.
Marcus lobbied on the Iran deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership and Defense Dept. appropriations while at the White House. He was previously a staff member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs under Chairman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and earlier was a legislative assistant to Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.).
McBee managing director Rob Chamberlin called Marcus a "total fit" for the firm's model.
Marcus joins Sept. 6 as an executive VP.
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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