By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 05/21/2025 07:35 PM EDT SCHWEIKERT CHIEF HEADS DOWNTOWN: Chad Michaels is joining Capitol Counsel as a principal with the firm’s health care and financial services teams. He was most recently chief of staff to Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), serving as Schweikert’s top adviser for his Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee and the Joint Economic Committee portfolios. Michaels previously worked…Read More…

Standout firms of 2024 Bloomberg Government’s analysis identified firms that also achieved high scores on other metrics, earning the “standout” designation. These firms retained 80% or more of their clients from the preceding year, and 60% or more of their clients over three years. They also posted revenue-per-lobbyist of $600,000 or more. Link to BGOV’s…Read More…

“These tariffs are particularly fraught for an industry like aerospace that has been duty-free for decades,” said Bruce Hirsh, a trade policy expert at Capitol Counsel, a lobbying firm in Washington, which has aerospace clients. “Parts are coming from everywhere.”Read More…

As Canada prepared to swear in a new prime minister amid an escalating trade war with the Trump administration, the country’s provinces have turned to K Street for help finding leverage to ride out the storm, according to documents filed with the Justice Department.

Several weeks before Trump took office, Capitol Counsel announced its own cross-border partnership with the Canadian firm Rubicon Strategy Inc.Read More…

by CAITLIN OPRYSKO  With Daniel Lippman FARA FRIDAY: Alberta’s government has re-upped its representation in Washington ahead of next month’s election, inking a $1.2 million contract with former Obama administration official Beth Burke and Capitol Counsel, according to a copy filed with the Justice Department. — Burke currently serves as CEO of the Canadian American Business Council and was a longtime…Read More…