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Retiring leaders may use experience, cachet on K street

Retiring Republicans may not find K Street as welcoming as in times past, but most will still find work lobbying their former colleagues. And officials who are true statesmen, with a record of working across the aisle, will fare the best, say recruiters, lobbyists and trade group leaders of the current crop of leaders leaving the Hill in 2008. Bipartisan hiring in lobbying firms and associations has become the rule of the day, since Democrats took control of Congress after the November 2006 elections. But Republican officials and staff, especially those attached with prominent leadership when they were in the majority, will still find firms vying for their access. “If… Read More