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The job market on K Street looks a lot like the rest of the country’s employment situation. It’s tough. That is, unless you were chief of staff to the incoming Senate Finance chairman — in which case, who wouldn’t want to hire you? Josh Kardon, who logged 17 years with Sen. Ron Wyden, the Oregon…Read More…
Capitol Counsel, the youngest and fastest-growing firm among the city’s most profitable lobby shops, got its start at a late November meeting at Fogo de Chao. It was 2006, and the firm’s founder, veteran Democratic tax lobbyist John Raffaelli, had asked four of his friends in politics and policy — whom he’d spoken to individually…Read More…
Capitol Counsel has hired veteran lobbyist and fundraising guru Jeff Walter to become a partner in its Washington office, the firm announced on Tuesday. Walter will leave the firm he founded in 2001, the Walter Group, and said he “jumped at the chance” to work at one of the top 20 highest grossing government relations…Read More…
When Sen. Max Baucus warned recently that lawmakers will “slay some sacred cows” to accomplish tax reform, K Street was listening. Seeing a major rewrite of the nation’s tax laws on the horizon, lobbyists have been taking meetings with the Montana Democrat’s aides, who in turn have quietly been reaching out to stakeholders. It’s all…Read More…
John Raffaelli and Jim McCrery. Together, they run the premier tax-lobbying firm in Washington, with a roster that exceeds 90 clients and $13 million in revenue.Read More…