Mark Lunsford Pryor is an American attorney,politician and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 2003 to 2015. He previously served as Attorney General of Arkansas from 1999 to 2003 and in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
John Berlinger Breaux is an American lobbyist,attorney,and retired politician from Louisiana. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from 1987 to 2005. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
Jennifer McLaughlin Safavian is an American lawyer,trade association executive,and former Congressional committee staff member. She is currently the president and CEO of Autos Drive America,a trade association representing the U.S. operations of international auto manufacturers doing business in the United States.
Robert Stanley Nichols is an American association executive and former public official. He is currently the president and CEO of the American Bankers Association. He was previously president and CEO of the Financial Services Forum from 2005 to 2015 and an assistant secretary at the U.S. Treasury Department during the George W. Bush administration.
Melanie Sloan is an American attorney,former counsel for the House Judiciary Committee,and the former Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington,a nonprofit government ethics and accountability watchdog group. In March 2017,Sloan joined a new government ethics watchdog group,American Oversight,as senior adviser.
Kevin A. Ring is a former American attorney and congressional staffer;he served Republicans in both the House and the Senate,including U.S. Representative John T. Doolittle (R-CA). He also served as a counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee's Constitution,Federalism and Property Rights Subcommittee.
Thomas Joseph Downey is an American attorney,lobbyist and former politician who served as a U.S. Representative for New York's 2nd congressional district from 1975 to 1993.
Benjamin Scott Barnes is an American politician who represents District 21 in the Maryland House of Delegates. A Democrat,he was first elected in 2006 and reelected in 2010,2014,and 2018.
The Podesta Group was a lobbying and public affairs firm based in Washington,D.C. It was founded in 1988 by brothers John and Tony Podesta and has previously been known as Podesta Associates,podesta.com and PodestaMattoon. John Podesta left the firm in 1993,and Tony Podesta left the firm on October 30,2017,after finding out about increased scrutiny of the firm. It has essentially ceased to exist since then. The firm reorganized in January 2007 after chairman Tony Podesta split with former business partner Dan Mattoon.
Dickstein Shapiro LLP was a large U.S. law firm and lobbying group based in Washington,D.C.,with five offices across the United States. According to the National Law Journal's 2012 rankings,it was the 128th largest law firm in the United States. The firm also ranked 75th in profit per attorney on the 2012 AmLaw 200 survey.
Melody C. Barnes is an American lawyer and political advisor. Formerly an aide and chief counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee,Barnes later worked at the Center for American Progress,a think tank,before joining Senator Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. After Obama took office as president,Barnes was appointed director of the Domestic Policy Council,serving in that post from January 2009 to January 2012. After leaving the White House,Barnes assumed roles at the Aspen Institute and New York University. Since 2016,she has been at the University of Virginia,where she teaches law and is the co-director of the UVA Democracy Initiative.
Heather Miller Podesta is an American lawyer and lobbyist based in Washington,D.C. She is also a patron of contemporary art.
Elliott I. Portnoy is an American attorney and the Global chief executive officer of Dentons—a law firm that launched March 28,2013 with the combination of US/UKMEA firm SNR Denton,Canada's Fraser Milner Casgrain and France's Salans. Dentons is now the largest law firm in the world.
Hogan Lovells is an American-British law firm co-headquartered in London and Washington,DC. The firm was formed in 2010 by the merger of the American law firm Hogan &Hartson and the British law firm Lovells. As of 2022,the firm employed about 2,500 lawyers,making it the sixth largest law firm in the world.
Edwina Clifton Rogers has served in public policy positions in the US Senate,White House,private,and international sectors for over twenty years. She has worked for two presidents and four senators,and founded or directed lobbying firms for public health issues. From 2012 to 2014,she was the executive director of the Secular Coalition for America. She is currently President of the Secular Policy Institute and CEO of the Global Healthspan Policy Institute,a 501c3 nonprofit think tank working to support research and development of new treatments to address the underlying causes of diseases of aging.
John D. Raffaelli is an American lobbyist born in Texarkana,Texas. He is the Founder and a partner in the Washington,DC,based lobbying firm Capitol Counsel LLC.
Anthony Thomas Podesta is an American lobbyist best known for founding the Podesta Group. The brother of former White House Chief of staff John Podesta,he was formerly one of Washington's most powerful lobbyists and fundraisers.
Stacey Elizabeth Plaskett is an American politician and attorney serving since 2015 as the non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' (USVI) at-large congressional district. Plaskett has practiced law in New York City,Washington,D.C.,and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
CGCN Group is an issue advocacy and lobbying firm in Washington,D.C. The all-Republican firm has ties to GOP leadership and the party's conservative wing. Its clients include banks,finance,and oil companies,in addition to companies such as Microsoft,MasterCard,and Boeing. The firm was formerly known as Clark Geduldig Cranford &Nielsen.
Georgette Castner is an American lawyer from New Jersey who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
