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Presented by the American Civil Liberties Union, Inc.: Delivered daily, Influence gives you a comprehensive rundown and analysis of all lobby hires and news on K Street. | | | | | |  | | By Caitlin Oprysko | Presented by the American Civil Liberties Union, Inc. | With Daniel Lippman PROGRAMMING NOTE: POLITICO Influence will not publish on Monday, Feb. 15. We’ll be back on our normal schedule on Tuesday, Feb. 16. IT’S OFFICIAL: Suzanne Clark will take over the U.S. Chamber of Commerce next month as its president and chief executive, the business lobby announced Tuesday night, replacing current CEO Tom Donohue after more than two decades steering the trade group. Though Donohue’s departure was long in the making, the longtime leader will step down from his post on March 11, about nine months earlier than originally expected. He’ll stay on in an advisory capacity, the chamber said last night. — The Chamber did not say in its statement what precipitated the accelerated timeline and did not respond to questions. Clark will become the first woman to lead the group in its centurylong existence and will bring recent private sector experience to the role. After initially leaving the Chamber in 2007, she founded and led the financial data firm Potomac Research Group, and also ran the National Journal media group. She returned to the Chamber in 2014 and was tapped as its president in 2019, when the group announced Donohue’s eventual departure. — She’ll take the reins of the powerful lobby in the midst of a pandemic-induced recession that has shuttered businesses across the country and weeks after a dramatic shift in the political makeup of Washington. Clark will also confront a Congress that appears more divided than ever, a phenomenon the chamber experienced in the backlash last year to its decision to support a slate of endangered House Democratic incumbents. — “I am honored to lead the U.S. Chamber at a time when our members need us most,” Clark said in a statement released by the business group last night. “American businesses are dealing with the uncertainty of the pandemic, the challenges of a recession and uneven recovery, stark shifts in government leadership and policy, and near-constant disruptions being driven by rapid technological advancement.” — Clark’s peers welcomed the news on Tuesday night. Clark "is a great choice to take the reins of the Chamber at this time. She brings an abundance of experience, integrity and grace to the role,” said Josh Bolten, who leads the Business Roundtable, another of Washington’s powerful business groups. Bolten also saluted Donohue, whom he called “American business’s premier advocate” for the past 20 years. — National Association of Manufacturers president and CEO Jay Timmons said that as the Chamber’s leader, “the business association community will be turning to [Clark] for inspiration and guidance as we all chart the way forward during this consequential moment in our nation’s history,” and described the Chamber’s new leader as “extraordinarily well respected by her peers, fiercely dedicated to the success of American enterprise and constantly guided by a clear moral compass.” Good afternoon and welcome to PI, Got any tips? Send them my way: coprysko@politico.com. And follow me on Twitter: @caitlinoprysko. | | A message from the American Civil Liberties Union, Inc.: Abortion is essential, time-sensitive health care. But outdated FDA restrictions on medication abortion are forcing patients and their families to risk exposure to COVID-19 in order to access it.
The Biden-Harris administration must listen to medical experts and let patients safely access abortion care by mail. Learn more. | | | BROWNSTEIN ADDS LONGTIME DIPLOMAT: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has hired Samantha Carl-Yoder, a longtime foreign service officer at the State Department, as a policy director. Most recently Carl-Yoder led international government relations for LNG company Tellurian. At the State Department, Carl-Yoder held senior roles in both the Obama and Trump administrations and served in Indonesia, Peru, Burma and Brazil over two decades. She plans to register to lobby for both domestic and foreign clients, she told PI, and expects to work on international issues as well as climate and sustainability. BIG BIRD GOES TO WASHINGTON: The American Bird Conservancy on Tuesday became the first group to hold a meeting with the Biden administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs as disclosed under a Clinton-era executive order aimed at improving transparency in the regulatory process known as E.O. 12866, our David Lim reports. — Steve Holmer, the group's vice president of government affairs, said he noticed that a final rule regarding a critical habitat designation for certain populations of the yellow-billed cuckoo was still pending at the Office of Management and Budget a few weeks ago. "I went through the usual portal and put in a request," Holmer said. "It was very interesting to have a chance to go talk with for the most part a different team. There was one person from the OIRA staff who was there from before, but it was a lot of new folks, including a few administration people." — The Obama administration first proposed a critical habitat designation for the western population of the threatened bird, but the regulation was never finalized. The Trump administration issued a second proposed rule in 2020 but shrunk the scale of the proposal, according to Holmer. "We don't want to see them do what the Trump administration proposed: to reduce protection. We actually think the science shows that they should increase protection," Holmer said Tuesday. "The gist of the conversation that I got with the Biden team today is that they are taking a fresh look." | | | | Designed specifically for regulatory affairs professionals - AgencyIQ FDA Forecast 2021: In its inaugural year, AgencyIQ's FDA Forecast predicts the FDA regulatory changes that will take place in 2021 and what they will mean for the life sciences industry. Read more about the report and download the summary here. | | | | | APP FAIRNESS GROUP TAPS NEW LEADER: A coalition of app developers formed last fall to take on Apple over the stringent rules it imposes on its app store has tapped a new executive director as it expands its work. The group, the Coalition for App Fairness, has hired Forbes Tate’s Meghan DiMuzio as Apple faces global scrutiny over what the app developers call “monopolistic behavior” with “no competition, no options, and no recourse” for companies looking to get their apps on iPhones, a process Apple has immense control over. — Apple has already been sued by one of the coalition’s members, Fortnite creator Epic Games , and the European Commission has launched an investigation to assess whether the iPhone maker treated rivals like Spotify, another coalition member, unfairly. The group has expanded from 13 members when it first launched in September to more than 50 members worldwide today. K STREET’S SIDE PROJECT: “The debate over pandemic schooling has ignited passion and protest across the nation,” Roll Call’s Kate Ackley reports. “But in the D.C. area where some parents hail from K Street, Capitol Hill and candidate campaigns, the volunteer advocates bring a level of polish to rival politically connected teachers’ unions as they seek to sway local and state officials.” — “Some of the parents ... have taken a public role in their advocacy, others have remained mostly behind the scenes, drawing on their K Street chops of finding political and policy pressure points. Jenna Hamilton, a lobbyist by profession, has put to use some of her grassroots organizing and advocacy skills — helping fellow parents identify and contact local officials, for example, circulating ideas on a closed Facebook page for like-minded” parents in her county. “The collaboration across party lines and career sectors has been one of the few positive experiences to come out of the pandemic and persistent virtual schooling, she said.” | | | | A message from the American Civil Liberties Union, Inc.:   | | | | | | — Douglas Stoss is now vice president of policy and government affairs at Vir Biotechnology. He was previously vice president of federal affairs at Humana. — Hugh Carroll is now vice president of government affairs at Fortinet. He was previously director of government affairs at Sprint. — Colin Andrews has been promoted to senior director of government affairs at the Telecommunications Industry Association. — Holland & Knight has added Kevin Turner as a partner in its D.C. office working on corporate mergers and acquisitions and securities issues. He was most recently vice president and general counsel of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. — The food allergy advocacy group FARE has named Susan Ralston as their new chief revenue officer. She was previously president at SBR Enterprises. — Andrea Delisi has joined Morrison & Foerster’s national security and global risk and crisis management groups as of counsel. She most recently served at the Treasury Department as assistant chief counsel in the Office of the Chief Counsel for Foreign Assets Control. —Trump-era EPA chemicals chief Alexandra Dapolito Dunn has joined the law firm Baker Botts' Environmental, Safety & Incident Response division, Morning Energy reports. Before joining the Trump administration she was executive director of the nonprofit Environmental Council of the States. | | | | THE INDISPENSABLE GUIDE TO CONGRESS: Looking for the latest on the Schumer/McConnell dynamic or the increasing tensions in the House? What are the latest whispers coming out of the Speaker's Lobby? Just leave it to Beavers... New author Olivia Beavers delivers the scoop in Huddle, the morning Capitol Hill must-read with assists from POLITICO's deeply sourced Congress team. Subscribe to Huddle today. | | | | | | | | Blue Senate 2022 (Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.)) | | | PAC for Good (Leadership PAC: Rep. 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Medical organizations like the American Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and American Academy of Family Physicians agree that the FDA’s requirement that patients pick up medication abortion in person is unnecessary -- and dangerous for patients and their families during the pandemic.
We agree with the Biden-Harris administration: it's time to put science before politics. That's why the Biden-Harris administration should let patients access medication abortion by mail, just like thousands of other FDA-approved drugs. Learn more. | | | | | | | Follow us | | | | |  |
