Former Sen. Roy Blunt joins DC lobbying firm 

Former Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Wednesday joined Husch Blackwell Methods, a Washington, D.C., lobbying agency with shut ties to the veteran GOP senator.  

Blunt will lead a newly launched strategic advisory follow on the agency, which is run by Gregg Hartley, Blunt’s former chief of workers within the Home, and Andy Blunt, his son. Blunt will even reunite with Stacy McBride, his chief of workers within the Senate who joined the agency final month. 

Blunt lately retired from Congress after 26 years in workplace. He held a number of outstanding roles, chairing the Senate Guidelines Committee and Senate Republican Coverage Committee and serving because the No. 2 Republican within the Home. He was a trusted adviser to Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). 

Blunt is the third senator from the 117th Congress to announce a brand new gig. Former Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) joined lobbying and regulation agency DLA Piper in an identical advisory position. Former Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) joined the American Enterprise Institute as a public coverage fellow. 

The Missouri Republican, who served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, will keep his safety clearance and proceed to advise the intelligence neighborhood separate from his position on the agency. He’ll additionally keep on because the lately elected president of the State Historic Society of Missouri.

Blunt gained a popularity as a dealmaker and institutionalist. One among his final strikes in Congress was passing the Electoral Depend Reform Act, a bipartisan measure to make clear lawmakers’ position in certifying the presidential election and stop a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault. 

“When Senator Blunt will get individuals in a room collectively, nice issues occur, and I stay up for seeing these outcomes,” Neil Bradley, the highest lobbyist on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, mentioned in a press launch from Husch Blackwell Methods.

Blunt doesn’t plan on registering to foyer and can concentrate on advising purchasers, the agency mentioned. After leaving Congress, senators should wait two years earlier than lobbying their former colleagues. 

Ex-lawmakers are more and more selecting to advise purchasers moderately than register to foyer after their lobbying prohibition ends, which retains their purchasers hidden from the general public.