Industry pushes for Export-Import Bank
The Washington Examiner – May 19th, 2015
NAM has employed big-name lobbyists Dick Gephardt and Haley Barbour to fight for Ex-Im renewal…
Remembering Jim Wright
Politico – May 10th, 2015
“He had a mind like a steel trap,” said former Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt, who chaired the Democratic Caucus. And with this came Wright’s meticulousness — some might say obsession — about the details to be controlled.
GGA’s Tom Blank comments on TSA screeners
MSNBC – April 15th, 2015
Thomas Roberts talks to Tom Blank, former head of TSA security policy, about allegations that two TSA agents purposefully groped attractive men at checkpoints.
Leonardo DiCaprio Builds an Eco-Resort
The New York Times – April 3rd, 2015
Mr. DiCaprio serves on the Delos advisory board, along with Deepak Chopra, the self-improvement guru; Richard A. Gephardt, the former United States representative from Missouri; and doctors at the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic.
‘Is it safe, is it not safe?’: Fox host speculates metric system brought down AirAsia flight
Fox News – December 28th, 2014
On Fox & Friends Sunday, host Anna Kooiman introduced an interview with former FAA official Scott Brenner about how “the different way other countries train their pilots may be the real reason” for the crash.
K Street Files: Democratic Lobbyists Still Have Value
Roll Call – November 19th, 2014
Rob Epplin, a vice president of Gephardt Government Affairs and a former Senate GOP aide, said Democrats are “absolutely” part of the strategy, especially when working the Senate.
Phones light up at GOP lobby firms
The Hill – November 6th, 2014
Gephardt Government Affairs, founded by former Democratic Rep. Dick Gephardt (Mo.), has prominent Republicans on staff, including George W. Bush administration official Scott Brenner
Top Lobbyists 2014: Hired Guns
The Hill – October 10th, 2014
Tom O’Donnell, Gephardt Group Government Affairs
O’Donnell helped former Rep. Dick Gephardt hang a shingle seven years ago and has been scoring high-profile clients
Marti Thomas, The Duberstein Group Inc.
From America’s Health Insurance Plans to Goldman Sachs and The Weather Co., Duberstein has a flourishing book of business.
Lyft has enlisted Gephardt Group Government Affairs
Politico – September 14, 2014
Ride-sharing startup Lyft has enlisted Gephardt Group Government Affairs to fight policies that inhibit its operation, according to Senate lobbying disclosure records.
This is the company’s third federal lobbying registration since it came to Washington earlier this year, POLITICO Influence reports today. TwinLogic Strategies and Jochum Shore & Trossevin lobby for Lyft on similar issues. The company has expanded rapidly this year despite a variety of policy battles in state and local markets and a growing rivalry with competitor Uber.
Three Gephardt lobbyists will represent the company: Scott Brenner, formerly of the Department of Homeland Security and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Kyle Mulhall, who was counsel for former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt; and Robert Epplin, a former Senate aide.
Lyft spent $20,000 on lobbying in the first half of the year, according to Senate records.
Boeing battles for bank’s survival
The Hill – August 27, 2014
Boeing is pulling out all the stops in an aggressive campaign to save the Export-Import Bank. The aerospace giant is employing a high-powered team of lobbyists as it presses lawmakers to reauthorize the 80-year-old agency before its charter expires on Sept. 30.
The company has poured $4.18 million into its lobbying operation in recent months, a 6 percent increase over the second quarter of 2013, and has at least 18 lobbyists working on financial services issues alone.
It has also hired two outside lobbying firms, the Gephardt Group and Clark Geduldig Cranford & Nielsen, to push for the bank’s renewal. Both firms worked for Boeing during the last fight over Ex-Im reauthorization in 2012.