Bottom Line: JPMorgan Chase hires several former members of Congress
Finance
JPMorgan Chase hired Venture Government Strategies to lobby on a range of issues related to tax, budget, banking, securities, housing and financial services. Former Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kansas) will work on the account.
Dentons also registered to lobby on these issues for JPMorgan Chase. Former Reps. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) and Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) will work on the account.
Education
Mercury Public Affairs registered to lobby on issues and services related to education on behalf of Loyola University New Orleans. Former Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), who also served in the House before he was elected to the upper chamber, will work on the account.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation hired VNF Solutions to consult on federal funding issues. Former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) will work on the account.
Environment
Northwest Public Power Association hired Desimone Consulting to lobby on wildlife management policy, the hydropower licensing process, grid reliability, energy generation and transmission, and the distribution transformers supply chain. Rick Desimone, former chief of staff to Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), will work on the account.
Sports
The U.S. Olympic Paralympic Committee hired Ballard Partners to lobby on guidance and advocacy related to the congressional commerce committees. Michael LaRosa, former press secretary for First Lady Jill Biden, will work on the account.
Defense
The Bulgarian weapons manufacturer Arsenal JSCo hired Manticore Defense to advise and assist “with entry into the United States military, commercial, and law enforcement markets, as well as other United States allied countries, providing market analysis, competition assessments, proposal preparation, and win themes,” according to disclosures filed with the Justice Department’s Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) division. Angelo Saitta, a former director at the defense contracting giant General Dynamics, registered as the foreign agent on the account.
Notable terminations
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Tiber Creek Group have stopped working together after more than a decade. The firm first registered to lobby on the Postal Reform Act in 2013, and has since worked on a range of issues related to health insurance, federal employee health benefits, postal reform, COBRA subsidies and the Affordable Care Act.
Invariant parted ways with the Household & Commercial Products Association, which hired the firm in 2020 to lobby on the “importance of household and commercial cleaning products in COVID-19 pandemic response in residential and commercial settings” among other issues. Invariant has not reported any lobbying activity for the trade association since the first quarter of 2023.