Booz Allen and EverWatch announced their impending merger in March, with a press release declaring the deal would “meaningfully accelerate the delivery of classified software development and analytics capabilities for national security clients.”
A push to renew the ban is so unlikely to succeed that one Democratic aide likened it to trying to jam the world’s biggest genie back into the world’s smallest bottle.
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Renewable energy companies are deploying a former aide to President Joe Biden to lobby the White House on the specifics of its proposed $2 trillion infrastructure package that would provide huge windfalls for the industry.
Christopher Putala, a former Biden staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1989 to 1998, more than doubled his client list and lobbying revenue under the new president. Putala’s one-man lobbying firm raked in $770,000 in the first three months of 2021, up from $310,000 during the same period last year.
That first-quarter haul was a personal best for Putala, who primarily represented telecom companies in Washington before Biden’s win ushered in an influx of green energy clients on Jan. 11. Putala reported bringing in a total of $300,000 from six renewable energy firms, Apex Clean Energy, Clearway Energy Group, Invenergy LLC, Pattern Energy Group, IP Renewable Energy Holdings and Longroad Energy Mana