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Politico
13-06-2025
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PhRMA bolsters its lobbying lineup
Presented by Recycled Materials Association With Daniel Lippman PhRMA HIRES RUBIN TURNBULL: Florida transplants Rubin Turnbull & Associates have registered to lobby for the brand name drug lobby PhRMA. The trade group retained Rubin Turnbull in March to lobby on a range of issues related to the drug industry, according to a newly filed disclosure. — It's the third new outside lobbying hire for PhRMA this year, after the organization hired DLA Piper and GOP lobbyist Doug Schwartz of HillNorth at the beginning of January. — PhRMA's latest hire came about a month into vocal industry skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure atop the Health and Human Services Departmen. He has heaped criticism on vaccines and blamed drug industry lobbying for contributing to chronic disease among children in a report last month. — The industry already has no shortage of lobbying prowess, of course, with more than 40 other outside firms on retainer and lobbying outlays of $12.9 million just in Q1 of 2025 — a quarterly record. MORE IRA TAX CREDIT LOBBYING: Energizer Holdings has brought on Washington Council Ernst & Young for help salvaging an Inflation Reduction Act incentive for advanced manufacturing of products like batteries and battery components. — Tommy Brown, who worked in Treasury's legislative affairs office during the Biden administration, will work on the account along with Bob Schellhas, Evan Giesemann and Ryan Abraham, who was the Democratic tax counsel on the Senate Finance Committee during negotiations on the 2017 GOP tax bill, according to a disclosure filing. — The battery behemoth previously had just one other outside lobbying firm — Holland & Knight — on its roster. — Meanwhile, the Residential Solar Association retained a team of lobbyists at Becker & Poliakoff that includes a former chief of staff to Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to help save the IRA's residential clean energy credit and the clean electricity investment credit, according to a disclosure filing. TGIF and welcome to PI. Send K Street tips and gossip. You can add me on Signal, email me at coprysko@ and be sure to follow me on X: @caitlinoprysko. NEW BUSINESS: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has signed more than a dozen new clients, including chrome and nickel mining giant Corex Holdings, insulin management software company Glytec, and the philanthropy Daniels Fund. — Florida-based grocery chain Publix, meanwhile, has hired Ballard Partners to lobby on labor issues, compliance with environmental regulations and PBM reforms, according to a disclosure. — And Moody's Corp., the parent company of the credit rating service that downgraded the creditworthiness of the U.S. last month — eliciting brushback from the White House — has hired Republican firm CGCN Group. CGCN's Sam Geduldig, Ja'Ron Smith and Scott Riplinger began working on April 30 to provide 'education on economic trends impacting the global economy,' according to a disclosure filing. MORE TRUMP FALLOUT IN BIG LAW: 'Seven partners at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, a prominent law firm that cut a deal with President Trump to head off a potentially crippling executive order, announced on Friday that they were departing to join a firm that helped successfully challenge one of Mr. Trump's orders in court,' The New York Times' Mike Schmidt and Maggie Haberman report. — 'The decision by the partners, who are leaving Willkie Farr to join the law firm Cooley, is the latest of several high-profile departures of lawyers from firms that cut deals with the president. Cooley represented Jenner & Block in that firm's legal efforts to challenge an executive order rather than settle with the president. Last month, a federal judge struck down the executive order against Jenner, saying it was 'doubly violative of the Constitution.'' — 'Two of the partners leaving Willkie led its San Francisco office: Benedict Y. Hur and Simona Agnolucci, who served as a member of the firm's executive committee. Both are litigators and have told others they were extremely disappointed that the firm capitulated to Mr. Trump, according to two people briefed on the matter.' — Those departures are the 'latest reshuffling amid the fallout from the executive orders. In just the past month, six top partners at the law firm Paul Weiss, the first firm to cut a deal with Mr. Trump, decided to leave. Four of them started their own law firm, while another joined one of the other firms that has successfully fought Mr. Trump in court.' CVS TROUBLE ON THE BAYOU: 'Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Thursday she is investigating whether pharmaceutical giant CVS improperly used customers' personal information to send out text messages lobbying against a proposed state law' that would have prohibited companies like CVS from owning both PBMs and drug stores, per the Associated Press' Sara Cline and Jack Brook. — 'Murrill also said she plans to issue a cease-and-desist letter to the company to stop the messages. As lawmakers debated a now-failed bill on Wednesday they held up screenshots of text messages sent by CVS.' — 'Last minute legislation in Louisiana threatens to close your CVS Pharmacy — your medication cost may go up and your pharmacist may lose their job,' one text obtained by The AP read. The company's texts 'to Louisiana residents included a link to a draft letter urging lawmakers to oppose the legislation that someone could sign with their email address and send to legislators.' ANNALS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE: 'The House Ethics Committee is launching a subpanel to review its guidance on campaign activities,' POLITICO's Hailey Fuchs writes. A new working group led by Texas Reps. Nathaniel Moran, a Republican, and Sylvia Garcia, a Democrat, will 'review and make recommendations to improve, clarify, and modernize the Committee's guidance regarding campaign activity by House Members, officers, and employees,' according to the panel. — 'It's unclear what prompted the committee to create a new body tasked with improving resources around campaign activity rules. A spokesperson for the Ethics Committee did not respond to a series of questions about the working group.' — 'However, a number of lawmakers have been dogged by allegations in recent years that they violated rules around campaigning — including, for example, accepting a campaign donation in connection to some kind of official action as a lawmaker.' FOR YOUR RADAR: 'As the Trump administration considers approving a proposed merger between two of the world's largest advertising agencies, Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group, regulators may impose unusual conditions,' per NYT's Lauren Hirsch, Benjamin Mullin, Kate Conger and Tiffany Hsu. — 'A proposed consent decree would prevent the merged company from boycotting platforms because of their political content by refusing to place their clients' advertisements on them, according to two people briefed on the matter.' — 'The restrictions being discussed by the Federal Trade Commission as part of its merger review are part of an effort by the Trump administration to use federal agencies to root out what it considers political bias in corporate America against conservative voices and causes.' — Omnicom has faced scrutiny from Republicans in Washington for its participation in the advertising coalition Global Alliance for Responsible Media, which launched in 2019 in an effort to persuade social media companies to tighten up their content moderation policies. — The group came into the spotlight more recently for recommending a pause for advertising on X following Elon Musk's takeover of the company, triggering an antitrust lawsuit from Musk and prompting the alliance to shut down not long after, though the alliance maintained it had done nothing wrong. Jobs report — Patrick McGill is now director of client services at StackAdapt. He previously was lead associate account director at Trade Desk. — Joe Grogan and John Czwartacki have launched Public Policy Solutions. Grogan is a Trump OMB and Domestic Policy Council alum. Czwartacki is a Trump OMB and CFPB alum. — Jesse Binnall and former Rep. John Sweeney (R-N.Y.) have launched King Street Solutions, a boutique government affairs firm. Binnall currently is a partner at Binnall Law Group. — NCTA announced two major retirements: Rick Chessen, senior vice president of legal and regulatory affairs and chief legal officer, and Mark Bell, senior vice president of creative services. Chessen will be succeeded by Russ Hanser, who joined NCTA in 2024 by way of the Commerce Department. Kristin Buch, who joined NCTA in 2012 and currently serves as NCTA's veep of creative services, will ascend to Bell's role. — Anthony DiGrado is joining ClearPath as a senior manager. He was previously the director of public affairs at the Plastics Industry Association. — Liya Rechtman has joined Evergreen Action as senior transportation policy lead. She previously worked as an environmental protection specialist at DOT. New Joint Fundraisers Frontline Organizing for Representation, Change & Equity (FORCE) PAC (Reps. Emilia Sykes, Steven Horsford, Jahana Hayes, Don Davis, Janelle Bynum) New PACs CITIZENS FOR A HEALTHY NEW MEXICO (Hybrid PAC) Nezarus (PAC) Rising Dems (Hybrid PAC) New Lobbying REGISTRATIONS Agios Pharmaceuticals: Agios Pharmaceuticals Asha Strategies LLC: Nigerian Physician Advocacy Group Ballard Spahr LLP: Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean As Barker Leavitt, Pllc (Ska Mr. James C. Barker): Advantage Capital Boundary Stone Partners: The Ray Breakaway: Arnall Golden Gregory (On Behalf Of The Local Housing Administrators Coalition) Breakaway: National Rental Home Council Breakaway: Pretium Breakaway: U.S. Mortgage Insurers Capitol Hill Consulting Group: Acadiana Regional Airport Capitol Hill Consulting Group: United Network For Organ Sharing Cgcn Group, LLC: Moody's Corporation Crossroads Strategies, LLC: The Law Offices Of Christopher E. Chang On Behalf Of Mr. Jerry Wang Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young): Energizer Holdings Inc. Fierce Government Relations: Haas Automation, Inc. Invariant LLC: American Automotive Leasing Association Invariant LLC: Mysten Labs, Inc. John Watts: California Natural Resources Agency K&L Gates, LLP: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Lot Sixteen LLC: American Physical Society Mike Williams Capitol Strategies LLC (F/K/A Mw Capitol Strategies LLC): Andronaco Industries Mike Williams Capitol Strategies LLC (F/K/A Mw Capitol Strategies LLC): Waterfleet LLC Oculus Strategies, LLC: The Livingston Group, LLC Obob Health Supply LLC O'Neill And Associates: Cora Systems US Inc Rubin, Turnbull & Associates: Phrma Rubin, Turnbull & Associates: Universal Technical Institute Rubin, Turnbull & Associates: USantibotics Strategics Consulting, LLC: Town Of Stanley The Friedlander Group: Logista Advisors LLC The Roosevelt Group: Thermoanalytics New Lobbying Terminations Invariant LLC: Nextdoor Law Offices Of Frederick H. Graefe, Pllc: National Medical Funding Services Richard Sawaya: Halliburton Energy Services
Politico
12-06-2025
- Business
- Politico
Donovan headed to Targeted Victory
Presented by Recycled Materials Association With Daniel Lippman FIRST IN PI: Liam Donovan has left Bracewell, where he was a lobbyist and senior political strategist, to launch a new risk and reputation management practice at the GOP consulting firm Targeted Victory. It's aimed at helping clients navigate the shifting demands for successful advocacy in D.C. — Donovan joined Bracewell in 2017 from the Associated Builders and Contractors, and before that was a fundraiser at the NRSC and helped manage several trade association PACs. In an interview, Donovan said he expected to remain an adviser to some of his former clients at Bracewell as a complement to the work his former colleagues are doing. — 'I've been, for the last 15 years, doing more shoe-leather lobbying work,' Donovan told PI. But over the past eight years — and especially over the past six months — he argued, 'the old playbook just gives diminishing returns. You can have the best tactics in the world, you could have all the resources in the world and smart people, but the landscape has just fundamentally changed.' — In Donovan's estimation, if a company or industry is facing challenges in D.C., much of that likely stems from the lack of a broader understanding of how a brand should be positioning itself in the current political landscape, where traditional alignments have been scrambled and almost no longstanding alliances are sacred. — Donovan pointed as an example to the energy industry, which made up a large chunk of his work at Bracewell. Oil and gas interests in particular expected to come into the second Trump administration riding high, only to face being caught in the president's trade wars. — The disruption 'I think threw a lot of people for a loop,' Donovan said. 'You had a lot of people that stand to be winners and beneficiaries of these policies that still had to step back and go, 'Wait, what's happening?'' — 'At the end of the day, it all sort of flows up to risk and reputation,' he told PI. 'Whether you're proactively trying to achieve advocacy ends or just trying to stay out of this administration's slipstream, it is really critical to be approaching this in a deliberate way and in a strategic way.' Happy Thursday and welcome to PI. Send tips. You can add me on Signal, email me at coprysko@ and be sure to follow me on X: @caitlinoprysko. FIRST IN PI — LEO-LINKED GROUP ALIGNED WITH TRIAL LAWYERS: After Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) recently released a bill that would tax profits generated by the third party litigation funding industry, a surprising development occurred: A group from the conservative movement, which is usually against helping out trial attorneys, publicly opposed the bill, Daniel reports. — Consumers First, which is part of Consumers' Research, said the bill would hurt efforts to fight back against the 'far left woke agenda.' Will Hild, the executive director of the group, said on X, 'While I believe his intentions were good, this legislation, attacking litigation financing, would be disastrous if passed.' — 'If passed, @SenThomTillis's legislation would further empower large, woke corporations (like @BlackRock, @BankofAmerica & @Nationwide) to crush the little guy and force their far-left agenda onto America,' he added in an X thread. 'It would rob everyday Americans of a fundamental tool in fighting back.' — PI dug into why Consumers First might be going against the bill since trial lawyers are major supporters of Democrats. In the 2024 election cycle, 84 percent of donations made by Burford Capital, the top player in the third party litigation funding industry, went to Democrats, according to an OpenSecrets analysis of FEC records. — The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the network of Leonard Leo, the lawyer behind much of the conservative legal movement, is connected to Vallecito Capital, a litigation-finance firm which will fund lawsuits against companies that tout progressive causes like DEI and ESG. And the paper also reported that Leo has contributed cash to Consumers' Research, the parent group of Consumers First. — 'Foreign actors and the far-left have exploited predatory litigation to attack American companies and conservatives,' Tillis spokesperson Adam Webb said in a statement. 'The right answer for conservatives is to fight back and hold these predators accountable by passing Senator Tillis' legislation.' — A spokesperson for Leo declined to comment but Hild stood by his criticism of the bill, saying it's 'a gift to woke corporations that uses a bazooka to take out a gnat.' — 'For decades, conservatives have used litigation as a tool to fight government overreach like Obamacare and woke corporate abuse like what we have seen with ESG and DEI,' added Hild in a statement. 'He is gutting the best tool many Americans have to hold these corporations accountable and shielding companies like Uber and Bank of America from lawsuits while silencing victims and consumers.' SPEAKING OF SCRAMBLED ALLIANCES: Look no further than the Make America Healthy Again movement's partnership with the GOP, which has set up a clash with rural lawmakers and the agriculture industry. And amid tension over the recent HHS report that took aim at pesticide use, MAHA adviser Calley Means on Wednesday 'joined several agriculture industry groups for a trip to a Maryland farm' in an apparent effort to mend fences, per POLITICO's Grace Yarrow. — The visit, which was organized by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, 'comes after Means and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a 'heated' discussion with key farm-state Republican senators about the report Tuesday. The White House has also invited nearly 50 agriculture groups and food companies to give their feedback as the MAHA Commission looks to draft policy recommendations before its August deadline.' CHECKMATE LOCKS ARMS WITH ANOTHER TRUMP FIRM: Checkmate Government Relations, the North Carolina-based lobbying shop whose ties to Trump's inner circle have business booming, is teaming up with Ballard Partners to expand the firms' reach at the state level. — Ballard is, of course, a Florida-grown lobbying powerhouse. And since setting up shop in D.C. eight years ago the firm has expanded its domestic operations to California, Massachusetts and Illinois. Ballard's partnership with Checkmate is aimed at broadening both firms' reach across the Southeast as well as the other major state markets where Ballard has a presence. — 'Together, our firms will offer a powerful combination of regional expertise and national reach, ensuring our clients are well-positioned to navigate and solve the issues that matter most,' Ches McDowell, Checkmate's managing partner, said in a statement. — This is Checkmate's second alliance with a D.C. firm known for its ties to the Trump administration: In February, Checkmate, which had launched its federal lobbying practice months earlier, struck up a partnership at the federal level with Miller Strategies. COIN IT: Crypto giant Coinbase has added another prominent political ally in David Plouffe, the veteran Democratic strategist who helped steer former Vice President Kamala Harris' White House run last year. — The former Barack Obama aide is joining Coinbase's global advisory council, where he'll 'bring his skills as a storyteller to an industry whose regulatory struggles have turned into a fight for credibility and stability' and which has found itself in need of more alliances on the left, per POLITICO's Christine Mui and Chris Cadelago. — 'Among Plouffe's charges will be outreach to tech-savvy voters who flocked to Democrats during the Obama era, but have shifted to the right in recent years.' — Coinbase's advisory council already represents a who's who of modern day politics: Early this year it welcomed Trump's former co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita and former Democratic-turned-indepenent former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. — Other members include Democratic pollster John Anzalone, former Democratic Reps. Tim Ryan and Stephanie Murphy, former GOP Sen. Pat Toomey, former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper and GOP strategist and lobbyist David Urban. Another top Democratic strategist, Chris Lehane, joined the board at Coinbase last year as the exchange sought to bolster its bipartisan bonafides. ANNALS OF ETHICS: Executive Branch, the exclusive new club launching in the coming weeks, boasts a 'line-up of Trump royalty,' among its members and founders, Mother Jones' David Corn and Ross Choma report. 'But at the top of the corporate structure of the club, as its president, is a much less well-known figure who previously has not been publicly identified with the high echelons of Trumpworld: a San Francisco real estate businessman named Glenn Gilmore.' — Gilmore is a close associate of David Sacks, Trump's AI czar and a founding member of the club. And Gilmore's 'role in the endeavor adds to possible ethics questions related to Sacks' involvement in this operation, according to government ethics experts.' SPOTTED at Walmart's D.C. office on Wednesday for a reception closing out a two-day fly-in focused on the retailer's U.S. manufacturing legacy, per a tipster: Reps. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.), Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D-Md.), Bill Foster (D-Ill.), Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Brad Knott (R-N.C.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), Nick Langworthy (R-N.Y.), Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas), Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández (D-Puerto Rico). — And in the National Beer Wholesalers Association and Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America's suite at the congressional baseball game, per a tipster: Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Angie Craig (D-Minn.), Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.), Mike Bost (R-Ill.), Julie Johnson (D-Texas), Andrea Salinas (D-Ore.), Derek Schmidt (R-Kan.) Langworthy and Van Duyne; Craig Purser, Laurie Knight, Linda Auglis and Brittanny Meierling of NBWA; Dawson Hobbs, Cody Tucker, Dwayne Carson and Dan Jarrell of WSWA; John Bodnovich of American Beverage Licensees and Amanda Nguyen of the American Distilled Spirits Alliance. — And at the International Spy Museum for a a summer reception hosted by the Brunswick Group, per a tipster: Alan Parker, George Little, Nik Deogun, Courtney Chiang Dorman, Patti Solis Doyle, Lanhee Chen, Tom Burns, Siobhan Gorman, Don Baer, Jim Bognet, Michael Fitzpatrick, Janelle Nowak-Santo, Mark Seifert, Dave Brown, Andrew Williams, Emily Levin, Kate Bedingfield, Michael Schoenfeld, Ninio Fetalvo, Alex Masi, Alasdair Coleman and Noah Ferris of Brunswick; Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.); Steve Dutton of Deloitte, Brittany Kelm of the National Energy Dominance Council, Bob Josephson of Merck, Sarah Craighill of Capital One, Kaily Grabemann of Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office, Stephanie Penn of Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) office, Harry Fones of DHS; Nadgey Louis-Charles of the House Judiciary Committee, Sourav Bhowmick of Global Counsel, Liz Allbright and Meredith Julian of Dropbox, Mo Elleithee of Georgetown Institute of Politics, Neil Grace of McKinsey, Cheyenne Hopkins of Prudential Financial, Aris Lazdins of Stanford Medicine and Brian Hale of Booz Allen Hamilton. — And at the 15th annual Washington Women in Public Relations Emerging Leaders Awards last night at AT&T Forum, per a tipster: Kathy Baird, formerly of The Washington Post, and award winners Katie Shoaf of Edison Electric Institute; Courtney Bailey of Meta; Ianthe Metzger of Planned Parenthood; Tejah Robinson of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' office, Megan Reilly of Edelman, Katherine Nanney of Merritt Group and Asma Amani of Asma Amani PR. Jobs report — Chris Morton will be the new CEO of the American Land Title Association. He previously was the trade group's senior vice president of public affairs and chief advocacy officer. — Farrin Jay has joined Spotify as global head of consumer product and tech communications. Jay was previously director of product and content communications at Snapchat. — Ronald Rowe Jr. is joining the Chertoff Group as a senior adviser. He previously was acting director of the Secret Service. — Reservoir Communications Group is adding Patrick 'Pat' Kannan as CFO and Ashley Flint as a senior vice president. Kannan previously was CFO at OPEXUS. Flint previously was a principal at Avalere Health. — Ross Perot Jr. of Hillwood and the Perot Group has been elected as board chair at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Jill Wyant of Madison Air was elected vice chair. Perot succeeds Mark Ordan as board chair. — Jake Vreeburg is joining Fierce Government Relations. He most recently served as director of the D.C. office for the U.N. Mission at State and is an Elise Stefanik and Trump 45 alum. — Henrietta Levin is now senior fellow for the Freeman chair in China studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She most recently was deputy China coordinator for global affairs at the State Department. — Austin Gage is now a senior associate at Innovative Federal Strategies. He previously was legislative director and counsel for Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.). New Joint Fundraisers DSCC Liftoff Fund (Liftoff PAC, Sen. Mark Kelly, DSCC) New PACs BUILDERS GROUP PAC (Hybrid PAC) Team Coughlin Three Point Five (PAC) New Lobbying REGISTRATIONS Becker & Poliakoff, P.A.: Iteris, Inc. Becker & Poliakoff, P.A.: Residential Solar Association Constitution Partners: Blue Whale Materials Continental Strategy, LLC: Dexcom Continental Strategy, LLC: Entrokey Labs Continental Strategy, LLC: Veon Ltd. Crossroads Strategies, LLC: Vera Institute Of Justice, Inc. Holland & Knight LLP: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Ice Miller LLP: Akron Children'S Hospital Neale Creek, LLC: International Organization For Migration Red Maple Consulting, LLC: International Legal Finance Association Red Maple Consulting, LLC: Magnet Schools Of America S2R, LLC: Csmi Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Dba Taft Advisors LLC Fka (Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, LLP): Fort Harrison Reuse Authority The Roosevelt Group: Illinois Quantum And Microelectronics Park Tiger Hill Partners LLC: Paradigm Operations Lp University Health Systems Of Eastern Carolina, Inc. D/B/A Ecu Health: University Health Systems Of Eastern Carolina, Inc. D/B/A Ecu Health Valiant Strategies LLC: R.R.P. Consulting Engineers, LLC Obo Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority Valiant Strategies LLC: R.R.P. Consulting Engineers, L.L.C. Obo Southwebb Bridge Company, LLC New Lobbying Terminations Avoq, LLC: Omeros Corporation Barsa Strategies, LLC: The Cormac Group (On Behalf Of Participate, Inc.) Morrison & Foerster, LLP: American Bankers Association
Politico
11-06-2025
- Business
- Politico
IRA incentive boosters take to the airwaves
Presented by Recycled Materials Association With Daniel Lippman AD BLITZ: Advocacy groups and trade associations continue pouring money into advertising to support various priorities in the reconciliation bill. Two new campaigns launched this week to support the Inflation Reduction Act's clean energy incentives alone. — They include a six-figure ad blitz from Advanced Energy United, a coalition made up of energy stakeholders and tech companies that is targeting Republican senators the group sees as winnable on the issue of protecting the IRA tax credits. — The digital campaign, the details of which were shared exclusively with PI, will target constituents of Sens. Todd Young (Ind.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Dave McCormick (Pa.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Jerry Moran (Kan.) with display and Facebook ads touting the economic benefits of the IRA incentives in their respective states. The ads will also run inside the Beltway to target Hill staffers. — The ad buy will be accompanied by a letter campaign from local energy companies urging senators like Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to protect the clean energy incentives. It follows a similar campaign on the House side by the coalition, whose members include NRG, Microsoft, Blink, Rivian, Oracle, Carrier and Ford. — A second new campaign to save the IRA provisions is focused on persuading President Donald Trump (or at least his inner circle). The $2 million ad buy from GOP-led Built for America will run over the next three weeks on platforms closely watched by Trump and his allies, including on Fox News, Truth Social and various conservative podcasts. — The 30-second spot borrows Trump's own language to make the case against gutting the tax credits, contending that 'Trump country is booming' thanks to the incentives, which are helping put 'America first.' — The Association of Equipment Manufacturers is also out with a new nationwide ad buy supporting the reconciliation bill's tax extensions specifically, with a minute-long ad arguing that the bill would keep equipment manufacturers in America by providing certainty to make investments. Happy Wednesday and welcome to PI. Send tips. You can add me on Signal, email me at coprysko@ and be sure to follow me on X: @caitlinoprysko. FIRST IN PI — FLANAGAN'S CORPORATE MONEY FLIP-FLOP: Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who's running for an open U.S. Senate seat, has made rejecting corporate money a major part of her campaign platform. But she accepted millions of dollars in corporate cash on behalf of the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association when she was its chair, Daniel reports. — Flanagan's launch video said she wouldn't take 'one dime from corporate interests.' In April, she said in a video on X that 'taking corporate money is a choice' and she is 'not taking money from corporations and I never will.' — But Flanagan helped raise more than $2 million in corporate money last year when she was chair of the DLGA. That included half a million dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, almost $300,000 from the tech industry and around $100,000 from the tobacco industry, according to a PI analysis of FEC records. — And even as Flanagan says her campaign won't take corporate cash, NOTUS reported last week that DLGA plans to spend big to support lieutenant governors like Flanagan who are running in open primaries and has already maxed out in direct contributions to her campaign — meaning that at least some of that money could have come from corporations. — Flanagan is facing Rep. Angie Craig (D) in the campaign to fill the Senate seat of Sen. Tina Smith (D), who's retiring. Before joining Congress, Craig, as part of her private-sector job, ran a corporate PAC that gave to many prominent Republicans. Last cycle, she was the 12th-largest recipient among House Democrats of money from corporate PACs, taking $1.3 million from them during that time, according to OpenSecrets. — 'Peggy is the only candidate in this race to reject corporate PAC money,' campaign spokesperson Alexandra Fetissoff said in a statement to PI. 'This is a transparent attempt to distract from Angie Craig's continued funding from big corporations like Elon Musk's SpaceX. People want leaders who are willing to take a stand and make the choice to only be beholden to their constituents. Only Peggy has made that choice.' QUIGLEY CHIEF HEADED DOWNTOWN: Allison Jarus has left the Hill after 12 years to join Arnold & Porter as a policy adviser. Jarus spent the past decade working for Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), most recently as his chief of staff. — Jarus helped handle Quigley's work on the House Appropriations Committee and was a key architect of the 2021 legislation to increase access for experimental treatments for ALS patients. Before joining Quigley's office, she worked for Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio). FLYING SOLO: 'Lobbyists usually run in herds at bipartisan firms, but a slice of K Street takes a lone-wolf approach to the influence game,' Bloomberg's Kate Ackley reports. 'Those who opt to go it alone say it makes for a leaner, more nimble operation, reduces potential client conflicts, and gives them control over how they operate the business.' — 'In good times, a single-lobbyist enterprise can rake in big money that the rainmaker doesn't have to share. But risks abound. … Solo lobbying firms are more vulnerable to the whims of elections, and often rise or fall on which policy fights are hot at the moment. The presidential transition and flip in control of the Senate can ripple into K Street bottom lines, with one-person firms especially susceptible.' — Still, 'more than 50 solo shops reported revenue of $1 million or more last year, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of federal lobbying disclosures, accounting for nearly $80 million in fees.' INSIDERS, TRADING: 'As markets tanked in the wake of President Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs in early April, members of Congress and their families made hundreds of stock trades, shining a spotlight on a controversial practice that some lawmakers have pushed to ban,' according to the Wall Street Journal's Katy Stech Ferek, Jack Gillum, James Benedict and Gunjan Banerji. — 'From April 2, when Trump launched the sweeping tariffs, to April 8, the day before he paused many of them, more than a dozen House lawmakers and their family members made more than 700 stock trades, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of disclosure filings.' FLY-IN SZN: A handful of health care groups headed to the Hill today, including the Children's Hospital Association, which focused on urging lawmakers to strengthen Medicaid, grow the pediatric health care workforce and address the mental health crisis among youth. Kidney Care Partners also trekked up Pennsylvania Avenue to lobby for improved access and coverage for those with kidney failure. — Advocates with the American Telemedicine Association were in town as well to advocate for the industry's top priorities, which include making permanent various telehealth permissions and expanding coverage for telehealth services, including prescription digital therapeutics and virtual medical nutritionists. The trade group was slated to meet with more than 40 offices on the Hill, including leaders in the House and Senate and on key committees. — And more than 1,000 homebuilders were fanning out across Washington for a fly-in focused on several priorities of the National Association of Home Builders, including loosening energy standards for new homes and addressing workforce shortages. — Tax policy was also expected to be front of mind in the group's more than 250 meetings on the Hill and with the Trump administration: NAHB is pushing for an expanded low-income housing tax credit, fewer SALT cap restrictions and the preservation of clean energy tax credits. — Leaders from the convenience services industry will be on the Hill tomorrow, but the National Automatic Merchandising Association will kick off the fun with a pop-up micro market at tonight's Congressional Baseball Game. SPOTTED at a reception hosted by the Alpine Group celebrating the recent opening of the firm's new Dallas-Fort Worth outpost, per a tipster: Keenan Austin Reed, Barry Brown, Rhod Shaw and Greg Walden of Alpine Group; Pat Shortridge of TrailRunner International; Stewart Hall of PPHC; Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas), Marc Veasey (R-Texas), Brandon Gill (R-Texas) and Jodey Arrington (R-Texas); Katie Vincentz and Russell Thomasson of Arrington's office; Andrew Leppert of Gill's office; Ryan Dilworth and Brayden Woods of Van Duyne's office; Tasia Jackson of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' office; Mark Longoria of Rep. Michael Cloud's (R-Texas) office; Matt Esguerra of Rep. Lance Gooden's (R-Texas) office; Karen Navarro of Rep. Monica De La Cruz's (R-Texas) office; Raven Reeder of Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-D.C.) office; Hayden Upchurch of Rep. Nathaniel Moran's (R-Texas) office; Jianna Covarelli of Cornyn's office; Emily Stipe of Vistra Corp.; Nick D'Angelo of Eaton Corp.; and Drew Wayne of Siemens. Jobs report — Doug Sellers has joined the advisory board at BGR Group. He's a senior counselor at Palantir and was a special assistant to Trump during his first term and served as White House associate staff secretary. — Adam Minehardt is joining Chainlink Labs as head of public policy. He was previously a principal at FS Vector. — Connor Rabb has joined the National Association of Manufacturers as senior director of tax policy. He was previously a legislative assistant for Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa). — Sabrina Singh is joining Seven Letter as a partner. She most recently was deputy press secretary at the Defense Department and is a Kamala Harris alum. — Tom Corry is joining Rubrum Advising to launch a government affairs practice at the firm. He was most recently managing director of Corry Advisors and was previously assistant secretary for public affairs at HHS and senior adviser to former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma. — Jennifer Short has joined Capital Park Partners as an adviser. She was most recently a senior military assistant to the secretary of Defense in both the Biden and Trump administrations and is an Air Force veteran. — Sam Varie is joining the Australian Embassy as U.S. media and external relations manager. Varie was previously communications director for Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.). — Karina Lubell will be a partner at Brunswick Group. She previously led the competition policy and advocacy section at DOJ's Antitrust Division. — Ashley Moir has launched Ashley Moir Media, a PR company with booking services, media training and comms strategy. She most recently was director of national broadcast operations at Deploy/US and is a former senior booker at Fox News. — Gopal Das Varma is now a vice president at Cornerstone Research. He previously was vice president at Charles River Associates and is a DOJ Antitrust Division alum. — Allison Rivera will be vice president for government and industry affairs at the National Grain and Feed Association. She most recently was executive director of government affairs at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. — Steven Ferenczy has joined the American Council of Life Insurers as assistant vice president for paid leave policy and implementation. He was previously a first vice president and compliance consultant at Alliant. — Richard Johnson has joined OpenAI as its national security risk mitigation lead, Morning Defense reports. He was previously DOD deputy assistant secretary for nuclear and countering weapons of mass destruction policy. — Joseph Humire is now a deputy assistant secretary of Defense for policy, per MD. He was previously executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society and a senior fellow at the America First Policy Institute and Heritage Foundation. New Joint Fundraisers Team Coughlin (Coughlin for Congress, One Country, One Destiny PAC) New PACs AMERICANS READY TO WORK PAC (Super PAC) Cohabitate PAC (PAC) Empire State Patriots PAC (PAC) PATIENTS RISING PAC (PAC) Reengineer NJ PAC Inc. (Super PAC) New Lobbying REGISTRATIONS Alston & Bird LLP: Performance Health Atlas Crossing LLC: Trinity University Capitol Counsel LLC: Boviet Solar USa Capitol Resources, LLC: The Federation Of Korean Industries Coreweave, Inc.: Coreweave, Inc. Dc Advocacy, LLC: Konecranes Finland Corp. Dc Advocacy, LLC: Logistec Marine Services Ulc Fgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC): Six Continents Hotels, Inc. Franklin Square Group, LLC: Fiat Chain Holdings LLC Holland & Knight LLP: Wood Mackenzie Invariant LLC: Oldendorff Carriers USa, Inc. King & Spalding LLP: Lifegift Kyowa Kirin, Inc: Kyowa Kirin, Inc Leavitt Partners, LLC: Orchard Therapeutics North America Mercury Public Affairs, LLC: Novant Health, Inc. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP: Flashpoint Intelligence Polsinelli Pc: Clairity, Inc. Resolution Public Affairs, LLC: Jp Morgan Chase Holdings Rutledge Policy Group, LLC: Brownstein (Bhfs, LLP) Obo Apollo Global Management Sorini, Samet & Associates, LLC: Popp Forest Products Inc. Stapleton & Associates, LLC: Intellisense Systems, Inc. Steptoe LLP: Early Warning Services, LLC Stoick Consulting, LLC: Resident Home, Inc. Sullivan Strategies LLC (Fka Sb Capitol Solutions): Vontier Business Services, LLC New Lobbying Terminations Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP: Vector Group Ltd
Mid East Info
09-06-2025
- Business
- Mid East Info
Samsung Galaxy S25 Receives 2025 ReMA Design for Recycling® Award - Middle East Business News and Information
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that Galaxy S25 has been honored with the 2025 Design for Recycling® Award, the highest recognition for leadership in sustainable product design presented by the Recycled Materials Association ( ReMA ), a leading industry organization dedicated to promoting recycling and circular innovation. This award recognizes Samsung's innovative efforts to scale its use of recycled materials and do more with less of the planet's natural resources. Galaxy S25 is the first Galaxy device to incorporate recycled cobalt —a critical material used in batteries—sourced through Samsung's new Circular Battery Supply Chain [1] . This system recovers cobalt from previously used Galaxy devices and batteries discarded during the manufacturing process [2] , helping to reuse valuable materials and reduce the need for newly-mined cobalt. 'Samsung is committed to embedding sustainability throughout our products' life cycle from design, to usage and disposal,' said Daniel Araujo, VP and Head of the Sustainability Management Office, Mobile eXperience(MX) Business at Samsung Electronics. 'Galaxy S25 represents an important milestone in our journey to enhance circularity in our products and operations, combining cutting-edge innovation with responsibility for the planet. We will continue expanding our efforts to create a more sustainable future for future generations.' 'Samsung has demonstrated true leadership by incorporating design for recycling principles into every phase of Galaxy S25,' said Robin Wiener, President of the Recycled Materials Association ( ReMA ). 'Their use of various recycled materials shows a clear commitment to designing the products we rely on every day with innovation and environmental responsibility.' Building on its progress in battery recycling, the Galaxy S25 features eight different recycled materials [3] across its components, including aluminum, rare earth elements like neodymium and steel. For the first time, recycled material has been integrated into armor aluminum frame [4] , ensuring that every external component of Galaxy S25 contains at least one recycled material. The Galaxy S25 series packaging box is also made with 100% recycled paper, eliminating single-use plastics. Samsung also supports consumer repairability with its Self-Repair program [5] , empowering users to extend product life and reduce e-waste. These initiatives support Samsung's broader environmental goals, including working toward transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy across global DX operations by 2027 and incorporating at least one recycled material in every module of every mobile product [6] by 2030 investing in innovative eco-conscious materials without compromising strength, aesthetics or durability. The award ceremony was held on May 14 at the ReMA Convention in San Diego, California. -Ends-
Syyaha
16-05-2025
- Business
- Syyaha
Samsung Galaxy S25 Receives 2025 ReMA Design for Recycling® Award
Prestigious award highlights company's commitment to advancing circularity and reducing environmental impact Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that Galaxy S25 has been honored with the 2025 Design for Recycling® Award, the highest recognition for leadership in sustainable product design presented by the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA), a leading industry organization dedicated to promoting recycling and circular award recognizes Samsung's innovative efforts to scale its use of recycled materials and do more with less of the planet's natural resources. Galaxy S25 is the first Galaxy device to incorporate recycled cobalt —a critical material used in batteries—sourced through Samsung's new Circular Battery Supply Chain . This system recovers cobalt from previously used Galaxy devices and batteries discarded during the manufacturing process , helping to reuse valuable materials and reduce the need for newly-mined cobalt.'Samsung is committed to embedding sustainability throughout our products' life cycle from design, to usage and disposal,' said Daniel Araujo, VP and Head of the Sustainability Management Office, Mobile eXperience(MX) Business at Samsung Electronics. 'Galaxy S25 represents an important milestone in our journey to enhance circularity in our products and operations, combining cutting-edge innovation with responsibility for the planet. We will continue expanding our efforts to create a more sustainable future for future generations.''Samsung has demonstrated true leadership by incorporating design for recycling principles into every phase of Galaxy S25,' said Robin Wiener, President of the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA). 'Their use of various recycled materials shows a clear commitment to designing the products we rely on every day with innovation and environmental responsibility.'Building on its progress in battery recycling, the Galaxy S25 features eight different recycled materials across its components, including aluminum, rare earth elements like neodymium and steel. For the first time, recycled material has been integrated into armor aluminum frame , ensuring that every external component of Galaxy S25 contains at least one recycled material. The Galaxy S25 series packaging box is also made with 100% recycled paper, eliminating single-use also supports consumer repairability with its Self-Repair program , empowering users to extend product life and reduce initiatives support Samsung's broader environmental goals, including working toward transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy across global DX operations by 2027 and incorporating at least one recycled material in every module of every mobile product by 2030 investing in innovative eco-conscious materials without compromising strength, aesthetics or durability . The award ceremony will be held on May 14 at the ReMA Convention in San Diego, California.
