Group Lobbies for Puerto Rican Statehood
Wed, Mar. 24, 2021
By Jon Gingerich
The Puerto Rico Statehood Council has retained government relations firm Michael Best Strategies in the ongoing fight to admit Puerto Rico into the Union.
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The Puerto Rico Statehood Council has retained government relations firm Michael Best Strategies in the ongoing fight to admit Puerto Rico into the Union.
BGR Government Affairs is helping Korea’s CheilJedang Corp. on regulatory and legislative issues concerning its push into the US.
Keith Cocozza, who was executive VP of marketing & communications at WarnerMedia, has signed on as senior advisor at Chartwell Strategy Group.
Peloton Interactive has registered Justin Kintz, senior VP-government relations & public policy, as its first in-house Capitol Hill lobbyist.
Invariant has inked a pact with Finnish microsatellite manufacturer Iceye to educate members of the Biden Administration on recent advancements in satellite imaging technology.
Prime Policy Group has been hired to promote a constitutional amendment that would eliminate a little-known exception from the 13th Amendment that allows slavery.
South Korea has signed on Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck for government relations work.
BGR Group has recruited Douglas Lute, retired US Army general, to chair its international and defense practices.
Former US Senators John Breaux (D-LA) and Trent Lott (R-MS) have signed on to represent TikTok, the social media platform that is owned by China’s ByteDance.
Sonoran Policy Group, which has close ties with the Trump White House, is working to obtain a presidential pardon for Julian Assange, who has been charged with violating the Espionage Act.
Glover Park Group has picked up Grubhub for DC representation of labor and issues related to delivery network companies.
Alyssa Farah, Donald Trump’s 31-year-old communications director, has called it quits. She plans to launch a PR firm focused on corporate and defense issues.
The Pebble Limited Partnership has enlisted BGR Government Affairs to gain support for its controversial open-pit mine project located at the headwaters of Alaska's Bristol Bay.
Jerome Murray, a Capitol Hill veteran who most recently served as policy director at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, has joined Ogilvy Government Relations.
Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center (DC) is hiring Mariah Sixkiller, who runs Sixkiller Consulting and heads its national security practice, as director of government relations.
Former Senators John Breaux (D-LA) and Trent Lott (R-MS) of Crossroads Strategies have signed on to represent Guardian Centers of Georgia for disaster preparedness/security training and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive response.
The Livingston Group is working for San Francisco Zion Church, which is an independent church associated with South Korean religious sect linked to the spread of COVID-19.
BGR Worldwide represents Altimmune, the clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that is working on a COVID-19 vaccine and a treatment for liver disease triggered by the obesity epidemic.
McKinsey & Company and Boston Consulting Group reported to the Justice Dept. on Aug. 10 a combined $7.6M in fees received three years ago from Saudi Aramco to further Saudi Arabia's diplomatic standing around the world.
Al Thompson, who led government relations for Raytheon Technologies’ commercial aerospace and space businesses, is moving to Intel as VP-US government relations.
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