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ALASKA MINE PROJECT HIRES ANOTHER FORMER MURKOWSKI AIDE: The Pebble Limited Partnership has hired another former aide to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to help in its long-running fight for permission to build an open-pit mine in Alaska. Edward Hild, a former chief of staff to Murkowski who left the Hill for Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in 2016, will lobby on “hardrock mine permitting and operation,” according to a disclosure filing. He’s not the first former Murkowski aide Pebble has hired. The partnership brought on John Sterne of Windward Strategies, a former Murkowski legislative assistant, in October to lobby on similar issues.
— Pebble has spent millions of dollars and more than a decade lobbying for permission to build the mine, which is opposed by environmentalists and commercial fishermen who fear it will threaten salmon fishing. The partnership also retains Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Ballard Partners, Gavel Resources and Squire Patton Boggs, according to disclosure filings.
K STREET CHEERS DEAL WITH CHINA: For the second time this week, Washington trade groups praised a breakthrough on trade, this time President Donald Trump’s announcement that his administration had agreed on “phase one” of a trade deal with China. “For the first time in months, the United States and China are moving in the right direction on tariffs, and we congratulate negotiators from both sides for the progress they have made,” David French, the National Retail Federation’s top lobbyist, said in a statement. The Business Roundtable, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Information Technology Industry Council and other trade groups also offered cautious praise for the deal.
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ZELENSKY CONSIDERS HIRING WASHINGTON LOBBYISTS: Bryan Lanza, who worked on Trump's 2016 campaign and is now a lobbyist at Mercury, met in Kyiv last month with a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, The New York Times' Ken Vogel and Andrew Kramer report. Lanza "was in Ukraine on unrelated business, according to people familiar with the meeting. It was arranged by an American lawyer named Andrew Mac," who, as PI noted at the time, registered as an unpaid foreign agent last month working for Zelensky. "In a sign of the scrutiny in Kyiv on its new government’s tumultuous relationship with Mr. Trump, and efforts to calm it, secretly recorded video and photographs circulated of Mr. Lanza’s meeting with the Zelensky aide in a restaurant."
WHAT DEVAL PATRICK DID AT BAIN CAPITAL: Before he left Bain Capital last month to mount a last-minute campaign for president, Deval Patrick spent more than four years at the private equity firm building a fund dedicated to impact investing — the idea that it’s possible to achieve outsized financial returns and do good in the world at the same time. As I report, the companies his fund invested in included “a franchise of Planet Fitness gyms located in underserved communities such as the Flint, Mich., suburb of Burton and an outsourcing firm that seeks to bring jobs to small and midsize American cities ‘overlooked by the digital revolution.’”
— “But a POLITICO review of the deals Patrick struck show the fund also invested in several companies that have been hit with lawsuits in recent years. Among the investments were a chain of vegan fast-casual restaurants currently being sued by its namesake and a health care company the Massachusetts attorney general sued while Patrick was the state’s governor.”
CANNABIS BANKING BILL’S FATE UP IN THE AIR: Momentum has stalled for a cannabis banking bill that’s received support from banks and other industries as well as cannabis interests, POLITICO’s Natalie Fertig reports. “Senators on both sides of the aisle still say the legislation is important and that they want to see it pass, but even Republicans in charge cannot provide a timeline for when it may be marked up in committee — and some advocates think it may not even make it that far. ‘It’s in a stall pattern,’ said Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the lead sponsor of the SAFE Banking Act. ‘It's a plane that has kind of lost momentum. It hasn't crashed, It's not climbing.’”
— Lobbyists pushing for the bill are emphasizing support “from companies that aren’t directly involved in the marijuana industry, believing that they might hold more sway in the GOP-controlled Senate, where many members are wary of backing anything that could be construed as supporting legalization. On Thursday, the American Bankers Association, together with 11 other trade groups from the financial services and real estate industries, sent a letter to" Sens. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), asking them to move the bill forward.
MORE DETAILS ON PG&E’S LOBBYING: D&P Creative Strategies, which Pacific Gas & Electric hired to lobby on its behalf as PI reported on Thursday, will be reaching out to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus — commonly known as the Tri-Caucus — Ingrid Duran wrote in an email to PI.
IF YOU MISSED IT ON THURSDAY: “Federal officials are considering seeking a preliminary injunction against Facebook Inc. over antitrust concerns related to how its products interact, according to people familiar with the matter,” The Wall Street Journal’s John McKinnon and Emily Glazer report. “If it materializes, the action by the Federal Trade Commission would focus on Facebook’s policies concerning it how it integrates its apps or allows them to work with potential rivals, these people said. Alongside its core social network, Facebook’s key products also include Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp.”
Jobs Report
— Nikki Haley, President Donald Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has joined United Against a Nuclear Iran as a senior adviser. John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, returned to the group last month in a similar role.
— Gus Maples is joining Tai Ginsberg & Associates as a director of government affairs, per Morning Transportation. He was previously a Republican staffer on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
New Joint Fundraisers
Conservative Squad (Jessica Taylor for Congress, Fischbach for Congress, Nancy Mace for Congress, Beth Van Duyne for Congress)
Team Murphy (Rep. Greg Murphy, Victory East, NRCC)
New PACs
Better Lunches for America (PAC)
Total Transparency Anonymous (PAC)
New Lobbying Registrations
American Continental Group: Water Generating Systems, LLC
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC: Pebble Limited Partnership
Cassidy & Associates, Inc.: Perkins Coie on behalf of Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC
Clark Hill, PLC: Esper Regulatory Technologies, Inc.
Ervin Hill Strategy: Mongolia Tomorrow Coalition
Frinzi & Associates: Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo
Ice Miller LLP: Hillenbrand Inc.
Patrick Foley: Pharmaceutical Industry Labor Management Association
Thorn Run Partners: National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc.
Thorn Run Partners: Solve ME/CFS Initiative
New Lobbying Terminations
Ballard Partners: Continental Heavy Civil Corp.
Liebman & Associates, Inc.: Blossman Gas
Vatoca Partners: Bond & Associates on behalf of (ISC)2
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