The Washington Inquisitor
Lobbying
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A 2025 Trump trade aide, a Stefanik deputy and an Armed Services staffer turn up on this week’s new lobbying registrations
Of 78 new lobbying registrations posted Oct. 19-20, 54 name at least one lobbyist with prior government service. Here are the moves worth knowing, from Abbott and an Israeli-controlled solar developer to…
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Tencent hires a new lobbyist on the Pentagon’s Chinese military list, four months after its old firms quit
Platinum Advisors DC registered to lobby for Tencent America on Section 1260, the Pentagon list provision. Four firms dropped Tencent in June when a rule tied DoD contracts to lobbying for listed…
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SpaceX hires a former Trump White House trade adviser to lobby on space launch and AI trade
Akin’s Kelly Ann Shaw, a top international economic official in Trump’s first-term White House, registered to lobby for SpaceX on “trade policy regarding space launch and AI services,” as the newly public…
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The Graham Act’s tariffs drew lobbying from importers and nuclear-fuel firms before Trump waived them
At least 33 companies and groups, from the Chamber of Commerce to shoe importers, Home Depot and uranium suppliers, named the Russia sanctions law on lobbying reports this year. The tariffs they…
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Trump’s first-term regulatory chief registers to lobby for a JBS-controlled lab-grown meat maker
Former OIRA Administrator Paul Ray is Covington’s lobbyist for Spain’s Biotech Foods, a cultivated-meat company majority owned by JBS, at a time when U.S. rules bar commercial imports of cell-cultured meat.