CAPITOL COUNSEL BOLSTERS TRUMP TIES: Capitol Counsel is adding two new Republican lobbyists and elevating a former member of Trump’s first administration to head of one of its practice groups as K Street scrambles to make inroads with the incoming president. George Sifakis and Michael Lamoureux are joining the firm as partners.
— Sifakis is the founder of media and strategic communications platform Ideagen Global and served in the first Trump White House as an assistant to the president and director of the public liaison’s office.
— Lamoureux is a former Arkansas state senator and served as chief of staff to former Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who primaried Trump last year. Most recently, he was a principal at Washington Advocacy Group.
— Meanwhile Capitol Counsel promoted Trump alum John Martin, who joined the firm last year, to be head of its health care practice. Martin is a former legislative director for Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and served as a principal associate commissioner at FDA during Trump’s first term before going on to lobby in-house for CRISPR Therapeutics and Pardes Biosciences.
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