Smith jumps to T-Mobile

By Caitlin Oprysko

With help from Daniel Lippman

DLA PIPER’S SMITH JUMPS TO T-MOBILE: Veteran telecom attorney Edward “Smitty” Smith is headed to T-Mobile to help head up the company’s lobbying operation. Smith has been at DLA Piper for more than half a decade, most recently serving as managing partner of its D.C. office and overseeing a merger of the firm’s regulatory and lobbying practices. He also led the firm’s telecom practice, where he helped T-Mobile steer its blockbuster merger with Sprint through regulatory hurdles.

— Smith will become the carrier’s senior vice president of public policy and government affairs following the October departure of Kathleen O’Brien Ham, who is retiring as senior vice president of government affairs after two decades with T-Mobile. He’ll report to Mark Nelson, the carrier’s general counsel and executive vice president.

— Prior to joining DLA Piper, Smith spent around a decade in federal telecom agencies and ran for D.C. attorney general. He was also a fundraiser for Kamala Harris during her presidential campaign before becoming a bundler for President Joe Biden, and was named to Biden’s FCC transition team and endorsed by the Congressional Black Caucus to chair the agency.

SHEIN HIRES BIDEN USTR OFFICIAL: Fast fashion giant Shein has hired a former Biden administration trade official to help lead its efforts to charm Washington amid scrutiny on the Hill. Sirat Attapit joined the e-commerce site in April as its vice president of U.S. government relations and registered as one of Shein’s first in-house lobbyists last month, according to newly filed disclosures.

— Attapit joined the Biden administration in its early days as U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai’s liaison to state and local elected officials, and later to the private sector as well. She moved over to the White House last year to help confirm Biden’s Fed nominees before leaving in March 2022 to work as an independent consultant, according to Attapit’s LinkedIn.

— Shein’s Mark Aitken registered to lobby for the retailer as well, as the company looks to weather bipartisan criticism over its labor practices and possible exploitation of trade and tax loopholes — in addition to scrutiny over its ties to the Chinese government.

— An interim report released last month by the House Select Committee on China knocked Shein and another popular fast fashion brand, Temu, over their trade practices and possible use of forced labor, allegations Shein has only recently gone on the offensive to try and shake.

— In addition to lobbying on general apparel industry, e-commerce and trade matters, the duo will also conduct “general education regarding SHEINs presence, operating footprint, and economic impact in the United States,” the disclosure filing shows.

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MORE NEW BUSINESS: Novo Nordisk, which makes weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, has added another new lobbying firm to its bench as the drugmaker seeks to persuade Medicare to cover anti-obesity medications.

— Subject Matter’s Bill Ghent, who worked for Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) for more than 15 years, including as his chief of staff, began lobbying last month for Novo Nordisk on obesity issues, according to a disclosure. Carper has repeatedly introduced legislation that would expand coverage of weight loss drugs and weight-related behavioral therapy under Medicare.

— Novo Nordisk has brought on three new lobbying firms to work on the issue since September, the latest of which being Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, the new K Street home of former Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.), another key sponsor of legislation to allow Medicare coverage of weight loss therapeutics.

ADDITIONAL DCA SLOTS FAILS: Airlines’ lobbying blitz over the addition of new long haul flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is heading over to the Senate, after the House rejected an amendment to increase the number of slots at lawmakers’ favorite airport last night.

— The provision from Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) would have added 14 new flights per day — or one round-trip slot per airline at the airport. “Ahead of the vote, House Transportation ranking member Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) said ‘clearly this is an issue that evokes passion on both sides’ and noted that congressional leaders from both parties let their members vote their conscience,” POLITICO’s Alex Daughtry reports.

— “Despite the lure of a larger number of more convenient flights home to their districts, the effort ultimately lost in the House, with lawmakers voting 205-229 against adding any additional flights to a major aviation policy bill under consideration,” the full version of which passed earlier today.

— The fight over new slots has scrambled partisan allegiances, pitting lawmakers from the West (and Georgia, where the ringleader of the expansion campaign, Delta Air Lines, is headquartered) against members from the D.C. area, who along with United Airlines, American Airlines and Alaska Airlines and local regional airports have largely opposed the slot proposal.

— Advocates’ focus will turn back to the Senate Commerce Committee, which has yet to mark up its FAA bill but where the issue has several key supporters and was set to include a much smaller slot provision in an earlier version of the bill.

BANKS READY TO SPEND ‘WHATEVER IS NEEDED’ TO FIGHT CREDIT FEES BILL: “The Biden administration and key lawmakers are stepping up their fight against credit card fees that they say are slamming consumers and stifling competition,” our Sam Sutton writes.

— “But their ability to hack away at more than $130 billion in swipe fees and late penalties that banks and card companies charge each year could hinge on something Americans love — rewards programs that subsidize everything from airline travel to groceries,” a message the finance industry is hammering across the country as a lobbying brawl over the issue picks up once again.

— “The goal is to convince ‘thousands of people to reach out to their elected representatives, to let them know how disappointed they are and how concerned they are,’ said American Bankers Association President Rob Nichols. ‘We’ll spend whatever is needed.’”

— The lobbying push has been fierce, per Sam: “Alfred Kelly, Visa’s executive chairman, met with possible sponsors in a bid to stanch support” as Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) “prepared the bill for reintroduction. Outreach from the Electronic Payments Coalition — which represents banks, credit unions and card companies — has been ‘nonstop,’ one staffer said. The American Bankers Association spotlighted the possible damage to credit card rewards in targeted ads that ran in districts belonging to Durbin’s allies.”

— “Those groups also had a hand in bringing in Brian Kelly — a travel influencer and publisher behind the popular travel and credit rewards site The Points Guy. Kelly has leveraged his widely followed platform to blister Durbin’s efforts.”

— Hill supporters of the crackdown aren’t easily deterred. Sources close to Durbin tell Sam he’ll push to attach his bill to any amendable piece of legislation, and Sam and Eleanor Mueller report this afternoon that Marshall has threatened to hold up the Senate’s defense authorization bill to force the inclusion of the swipe fees bill.

SCOTT SUPER PAC CONSULTANT SPEWED N-WORD: “A political consultant closely tied to the effort to elect Tim Scott president repeatedly used the N-word when he was playing a card game with friends,” a video obtained by Daniel shows.

— “Anton Castaneda is the main adviser to Opportunity Matters Fund, a super PAC that is doing work in early primary states to support Scott’s campaign. It has paid Castaneda’s firm more than $1.3 million in the last several years for strategy, fundraising and digital consulting and ad production. He is a former congressional staffer for two prominent Black Republican politicians: Scott (R-S.C.) and former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas).”

— “Castaneda is the founder of Mountaintop Advisors, a firm to which Opportunity Matters Fund has paid more than any other political consulting outfit over the last several years, according to FEC records. Scott has spoken about the need to move past racism in the country. Castaneda declined to comment but did not deny the authenticity of the video. A spokesperson for Scott’s campaign also declined to comment.”

FLY-IN SZN: A bipartisan group of mayors was on the Hill this week with the U.S. Conference of Mayors to discuss mental health reforms with members of Congress. Reno, Nev., Mayor Hillary Schieve; Fresno, Calif., Mayor Jerry Dyer; Denton, Texas, Mayor Gerard Hudspeth; Schenectady, N.Y., Mayor Gary McCarthy; Albany, N.Y., Mayor Kathy Sheehan; Piscataway, N.J., Mayor Brian Wahler; Fontana, Calif., Mayor Acquanetta Warren and Huntington, W.Va., Mayor Steve Williams huddled with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Mark Amodei (R-Nev.), Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.) and staff for Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

— Fair housing advocates were also in town this week with the National Fair Housing Alliance for the coalition’s annual conference. NFHA President and CEO Lisa Rice, executive vice president Nikitra Bailey, and other leaders met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to press for more funding for local agencies tasked with enforcing fair housing policies. The group also heard later on from Brown and Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and hosted HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, the Fed’s Michael Barr, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson and more.

SPOTTED at the Chamber of Progress’ summer Hill happy hour, per a tipster: Jesse Blumenthal of Apple, Robert Hoffman of Broadcom, Eli Lehrer of the R Street Institute, Ben LaRocco of EarnIn, Sam Dreiman of Ripple, Brian Woolfolk of Swan Creek Strategies, Max Mallory of Penta Group, Nu Wexler of Seven Letter, Ashley Scott of Circle, Helen Milby of HM&CO, Alisa Valentin of the National Urban League and Danielle Aviles Krueger of Klarna.

— And at a reception hosted by Pew, Next Century Cities, the National Lifeline Association and other advocates to push for renewing funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program, per a tipster: Kathryn de Wit of Pew, Mike Lynch of NATOA, Francella Ochillo and Ryan Johnston of Next Century Cities, Lindsay Stern of INCOMPAS, John Howes of the Competitive Carriers Association, John Heitmann of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, Drew Garner of Common Sense Media, Kenya Asli of the city of Baltimore, Khotan Harmon of the city of Austin, Ryan Collins of Buckeye Hills Regional Council and Yvette Scorse and Tsion Tesfaye of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance.

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— Locust Street Group has added Jasme Bantens as a principal and Jordan Stein as a senior director in the New York office. Bantens was vice president of global media sciences at Goldman Sachs and Stein was most recently head of public affairs and communications at Rhino.

— Caroline Kitchens will be public policy partnerships manager at TikTok. She most recently was lead for government affairs and policy partnerships at Shopify.

— Shamina Singh has been named a member of the President’s Export Council, part of the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration. She will continue as executive vice president of sustainability at Mastercard.

— Kyle Matous is now director of government relations for Advocacy Associates. He previously was senior director of U.S. government relations for Bono’s ONE Campaign.

— Josh Nassar is joining the National Air Traffic Controllers Association as director of government affairs. He’s spent the past 11 years as legislative director for the United Auto Workers.

— Scott Farmer is now chief operating officer of Push Digital Group, per Morning Score. Farmer was previously campaign manager for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, as well as senior adviser for Herschel Walker’s 2022 Georgia Senate campaign.

— Alexander Niejelow joined the New York Department of Financial Services as deputy superintendent for innovation policy. Niejelow was previously a senior vice president at Mastercard and is an Obama administration and Biden transition alum.

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