SHERIFFS KEY VOTE PRIVACY AMENDMENT TO FISA BILL: The main trade association representing U.S. sheriffs is wading into Congress’ fight over reauthorizing controversial spy powers, warning of political backlash for lawmakers who support a bipartisan amendment that sheriffs say would “kneecap law enforcement.” — The threat from the National Sheriffs’ Association revolves around proposed language from House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) that would bar data brokers from selling consumer data to law enforcement and require a warrant before searching for Americans’ information. — “The Sheriffs of this great country don’t often keep score on House amendments, but on this one, we will keep score and know who our friends are by their votes against Congressman Davidson’s amendment, which empowers the cartels and further erodes the rule of law in our nation,” the association’s president, Greg Champagne, warned in a letter to lawmakers on Tuesday. — He highlighted a number of policy concerns facing Congress, including fentanyl deaths, the border crisis, the war in Gaza, education and crime. Instead of focusing on those, he argued, “Congress plans to kneecap law enforcement with a poorly thought out, ill-timed and politically motivated fund raising amendment that brings shame to its supporters in the U.S. House of Representatives.” — Davidson’s amendment speaks to a broader fight between privacy hawks and national security hawks that is scrambling Congress’ usual ideological divide and prompted House Speaker Mike Johnson to pull the bill this afternoon. The language is also backed by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) in the House, as well as privacy hawks in the Senate and groups like the ACLU and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. ANNALS OF THE REVOLVING DOOR: “Liz Rosenberg, assistant Treasury secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes, will join Bank of America later this month as a global financial crimes public policy executive,” our Katy O’Donnell reports. — “Rosenberg will serve on the bank’s global financial crimes leadership team, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO. She previously served as counsel to the deputy Treasury secretary in the Biden administration and as undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence in the Obama administration,” and “was instrumental in developing the U.S. financial response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including a policy to cap the price of Russian oil.” — Meanwhile our Zach Warmbrodt reports that a push by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to secure ethics assurances from former representative and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nominee Sean Patrick Maloney has paid off — the latest win in her “crusade against crypto and the broader revolving door between Washington and corporate America.” — Maloney, “who once led House Democrats’ campaign arm, has told Warren that he plans to give up work on crypto issues if confirmed” as OECD ambassador, which came after Warren “raised concerns about his role advising Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange. She now plans to support his confirmation, which is awaiting consideration by the full Senate.” BROWNSTEIN SIGNS 12: Brownstein Hyatt is preparing to file a dozen new lobbying registrations, with the firm adding nine new clients just this year, according to drafts of the registrations shared early with PI. The new clients include several major trade associations: CTIA, which represents the wireless industry, and the American Hotel & Lodging Association, which represents the hospitality industry. — The firm has also signed telecom giant Verizon, Florida’s Airglades International Airport, the utility provider Consolidated Mutual Water Company, the Hawaii Pacific Foundation and AI defense company Modern Intelligence. Former Alaska Sen. Mark Pryor is also registering to lobby on behalf of the conservation group Ducks Unlimited, and former Rep. Ed Royce will resume lobbying for home infusion therapy provider KabaFusion. — The new filings will also include several clients signed last year. Rental car giant Hertz hired Brownstein more than four months ago to lobby on tax issues like allowing businesses to immediately resume writing off 100 percent of capital expenditures, a provision in the 2017 tax bill that had begun to phase out and which would be revived as part of a bipartisan tax deal awaiting Senate action. — In December, Brownstein signed the mining company Ivanhoe Electric Inc. to work on “funding and global infrastructure issues related to mining developments” in Saudi Arabia, where Ivanhoe has entered into a joint exploration venture with state-owned Ma’aden. UKRAINE ADVOCATES PRESS THEIR CASE WITH JOHNSON: Razom for Ukraine, a nonprofit pushing Congress to approve another batch of aid to the country, has launched another ad blitz looking to ramp up pressure on Johnson to bring a Senate-passed package to the House floor for a vote. — Razom is pouring six figures into the campaign, which is running mainly on Fox News and digitally in D.C. as well as in Johnson’s district and the districts of several other lawmakers whom Razom views as on the fence. — “Families lost everything when Putin invaded Ukraine, but these brave people decided to take a stand and fight for their freedom,” a reverend from Bakersfield, California, says in the spot. “I was inspired by that so my congregation, along with others, now pray and rally for Ukraine. Putin must be stopped. Christians are being persecuted and slaughtered. These are crimes against humanity.” JOHNSON HUDDLES WITH HEALTH CARE LOBBYISTS: Johnson’s K Street fundraising spin continued this week. The speaker hauled in six figures at a fundraising dinner Monday, which was hosted by Julie Hershey Carr and Dave Peluso of Kountoupes, Denham, Carr & Reid, Amy Jensen of SplitOak Strategies, Aron Griffin and Sohini Gupta of AHIP, Marty McGuinness of Unum and the PACs for Guidewell and the American Academy Of Family Physicians, the firm told PI.
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