| | | | | |  | | By Caitlin Oprysko | Presented by Edison Electric Institute | With Daniel Lippman MAYHEM ON THE HILL: Images of pro-Donald Trump rioters storming the Capitol as lawmakers prepared to certify Joe Biden 's electoral college victory left K Street stunned this afternoon. — "I fear for our democracy," one lobbyist, who asked to remain anonymous given the situation's volatility, told PI, adding that they'd never seen anything like the chaos on the Hill that unfolded Wednesday in more than three decades in Washington. "This is a test of our democracy." — "Time for VP Pence to invoke the 25th amendment!" another lobbyist said, referring to the constitutional mechanism to remove an incapacitated president from office. Invariant founder and CEO Heather Podesta echoed the suggestion on Twitter, as Trump tweeted at his supporters "to remain peaceful." He added, as protesters smashed windows and stormed the House and Senate chambers: "No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order." — National Association of Manufacturers president and CEO Jay Timmons also called in a blistering statement for Pence to "seriously consider working with the Cabinet" to invoke the 25th Amendment. "This is chaos. It is mob rule. It is dangerous. This is sedition and should be treated as such," he said, blasting Republicans who "cheered on" the president's baseless claims of widespread election fraud. "The outgoing president incited violence in an attempt to retain power, and any elected leader defending him is violating their oath to the Constitution and rejecting democracy in favor of anarchy." — Even the president's supporters downtown reacted with horror at the scenes playing out, sparking pleas for Trump to denounce the violence. "As somebody who worked in the People's House for 15 years, I am disgusted at what the President had inspired," John Feehery, a partner at EFB Advocacy, wrote on Twitter , asserting Trump had "lied" to his supporters and embarrassed the country. "I have supported him in the past But he lost in a fair election. He needs to leave." — "Condemn this now," Alyssa Farah, one of Trump's former top spokespeople, said in a tweet. "You are the only one they will listen to. For our country!" Speaking to reporters in Wilmington, Biden demanded Trump go on TV to urge his supporters to stand down. "This is not dissent. This is disorder. This is chaos," he said. "It borders on sedition and it must end now." | | A message from the Edison Electric Institute: Our Clean Energy Leadership. America's investor-owned electric companies are leading the clean energy transformation. We are united in our commitment to get the energy we provide as clean as we can as fast as we can, without compromising on the reliability and affordability that are essential to the customers and communities we serve. We are making progress. Carbon emissions from the electric power sector are at their lowest level since 1987—and continue to fall. | | | K STREET REACTS TO GEORGIA'S SENATE STUNNERS: Democrats notched complete control of Washington after Tuesday's twin runoffs that saw Democratic Rev. Raphael Warnock unseat Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Jon Ossoff emerge victorious over Republican David Perdue. Though the Ossoff-Perdue race was not called until this afternoon, K Street found itself preparing today for a Washington narrowly divided — but controlled by Democrats. — "The Democratic side of the firm will be more activated than it was going to be otherwise," former Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), who now lobbies for Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, said of the impact of last night's upsets. He added that because both the House and Senate will have such narrow Democratic majorities, bipartisan firms like Brownstein are "built for this moment." He predicted moderates in both parties will see their influence flourish under the closely divided government. — While lobbyists were gearing up for a more moderate slate of legislation over the next two years regardless of who won control of the Senate, Biden's "agenda will be able to move forward much quicker" with Democrats running the Senate, said Ed Pagano, a Democratic partner at Akin Gump. Former Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), who also lobbies for Akin Gump, said Democratic control of Washington could mark the return of "normalcy" to the legislative process. — Lobbyists have often pointed to infrastructure as a high-profile issue where Democrats and Republicans could likely find compromise in a divided Washington. But after Tuesday they predicted an even bigger package is possible, and a larger coronavirus relief bill that could include state and local aid as well as beefed up stimulus checks. Pryor also mentioned the prospect for a cannabis banking bill as well as climate legislation. HOW A TIED SENATE COULD LOOK: Monument Advocacy founder Stewart Verdery, who worked for former Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) during the brief period in 2001 when the chamber was evenly divided, said it's possible the Senate could follow precedent and adopt a similar framework, with committee members and resources split evenly and Democrats controlling the chair roles and floor, an arrangement he said was still "quite favorable" to the minority. Verdery noted that the "price of admission" for Democrats to strike a power-sharing agreement might be a commitment not to abolish the legislative filibuster, a demand from liberals that more moderate Democrats like Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) oppose. — With the filibuster intact, Democrats would still need to win over 10 Republicans to pass major legislation that can't be addressed in budget reconciliation, which lobbyists pointed out could still be a tall task even with GOP moderates like Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who were named as potential swing votes. Donnelly expressed hope that could be accomplished. "I know a number of moderate Republican senators who really want to get some things done" after years of gridlock, he said. Good afternoon, and welcome to PI. How are you preparing for complete Democratic control of Washington? Let me know: coprysko@politico.com. And follow me on Twitter: @caitlinoprysko. | | | | GET THE BIG PRE-INAUGURATION SCOOPS IN TRANSITION PLAYBOOK: Inauguration Day is quickly approaching. Is the Biden administration ready? 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Subscribe today. | | | | | SPOTTED at the Biden inaugural leadership's second virtual briefing for downtown folks on Tuesday, which drew more than 200 participants, per a PI tipster: PIC CEO Tony Allen, executive director Maju Varghese and finance director Katie Petrelius, Libby Greer of Forbes Tate, Jonathan Mantz of BGR, Terri Fariello of United Airlines, Kim Zimmerman of the American Health Care Association, Robert Head of Lockheed Martin, Don Baer, Bob Siggins of Alston & Bird, Ann Stock, Christine Warnke of Capitol Hill Consulting Group, Tonya Saunders of Washington Premier Group, Robin Bronk of the Creative Coalition, Nelson Cunningham of McLarty Associates, Jeff DeBoer of the Real Estate Roundtable , the DNC's Foxhall Parker, and more. THE LOBBYISTS WHO GAVE TO THE GEORGIA RUNOFF CANDIDATES: Tuesday's election to determine control of the Senate shattered spending records, and even before the stakes were raised the contest drew modest interest from donors on K Street, according to disclosures. While Ossoff, like a number of progressives, shunned donations from lobbyists (but not corporations, including Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Google parent company Alphabet) his opponent Perdue did not. — Among those who donated to Perdue over the past two years are Andrew Ehrlich, Brad Card of Card & Associates, Cypress Group's Bridget Hagan, Aflac's Gina Rigby-House, Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas' Helen Tolar, Cornerstone's Louie Perry, the California Association of Realtors' Matthew Roberts, Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid's Randi Reid, CVS Health's Shannon Penberthy, and Fierce Government Relations' Tyler Stephens. — Several K Streeters opened their wallets for Sen.-elect Warnock as well, including Ricchetti Inc.'s Jeff Ricchetti, Capitol Counsel's Shannon Finley, Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas' David Castagnetti, Avenue Solutions' Amy Tejral, Forbes Tate's Jeffrey Forbes, Signal Group's Samuel Whitehorn, News Corp's Joanne Dowdell and Nathanson+Hauck's Melanie Nathanson. | | | |   | | | POLITICAL ADS GO DARK ON FACEBOOK AGAIN: Facebook will begin clamping down on political ads again today after temporarily lifting part of its self-imposed ban for yesterday's runoffs, our Elena Schneider reports. "In a statement released to its blog, Facebook said that it will no longer allow candidates or groups to run ads about the Georgia runoff elections, and the company did not indicate when it might lift the broader ban on political ads on its platform. Instead, Facebook urged political clients to post 'organic' content to its site, which previously banned political ads since the November election as part of the company's efforts to fight misinformation." GYM RELIEF COALITION EXPANDS: The Community Gym Coalition has added three more members as it pushes for targeted relief for fitness centers in a future coronavirus aid package. Jazzercise, Retro Fitness and [solidcore] are joining the organization, which already includes more than 15,000 local gyms and other big names in the fitness industry like CrossFit, Mindbody, Orangetheory Fitness and Zumba. — The coalition, which has hired Holland & Knight to lobby and Firehouse Strategies to handle public affairs, has pushed for a targeted grant program similar to the one proposed to boost the devastated restaurant industry, arguing that the Paycheck Protection Program doesn't help gyms that have been forced to close by local coronavirus restrictions and whose biggest expense isn't payroll. NEXT UP FOR THE GOP: The internal finger pointing has already begun following Republicans' poor showing in Georgia, with some in the party placing blame for the Democratic upsets squarely on the president's shoulders. CNBC's Brian Schwartz reports that Republican donors are looking to move past the president to the next leader of the party. — "A person who raised money for Trump and Republicans in the Georgia runoffs suggested to CNBC that donors are already rallying around House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as their future leader instead of Trump. This bundler said donors have already been reaching out to discuss focusing on trying to make McCarthy House speaker by flipping control of the chamber in the 2022 midterms." | | | | A NEW YEAR MEANS A NEW HUDDLE IS HERE: Huddle, our daily congressional must-read, has a new author! Olivia Beavers took the reins this week, and she has the latest news and whispers from the Speakers' Lobby. Don't miss out, subscribe to our Huddle newsletter, the essential guide to all things Capitol Hill. Subscribe today. | | | | | | | | — Husch Blackwell Strategies has added Tom Alexander as director of marketing and strategic communications. Alexander previously managed his own consulting firm in Washington and most recently led the concept to launch a new pet care nonprofit for the D.C. area. — Amanda Hunter is now executive director of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and the Barbara Lee Political Office. She was previously communications director. — The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has hired Aurelien Portuese as director of antitrust and innovation policy. He is also a law professor at the Brussels School of Governance of the Free University Brussels and an adjunct professor of law at the Global Antitrust Institute of George Mason University. — Raya Treiser has joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner. She was previously at WilmerHale. — Tod Cohen is now a partner at O'Melveny, per Playbook PM. He most recently was deputy general counsel and vice president at Twitter. — Crystal Brown is now chief communications officer at the National Geographic Society . She most recently was executive vice president of Hager Sharp's education, labor, and economy practice. — Redwire has promoted Andrew Rush to president and chief operating officer. He was previously chief operating officer. | | | None. | | | Big Ideas Create Excellence - BICE PAC (Leadership PAC: Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.))
IBT Joint Council No. 16 PAC (PAC)
Local 41 Political Action Committee (PAC)
Progressive Future (Leadership PAC: Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.))
Teamsters Local 554 Iowa Drive (PAC) | | New Lobbying Registrations | | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Argentem Creek Partners Lp
Bramer Group, LLC: Arch Precision Components Corp.
Firststrategic, LLC: Sda Inc.
Gilliland & Mckinney International Counsellors: Ar Textiles Ltd.
Grayrobinson Pa: Associated Equipment Dealers
Invariant LLC: Coinflip
Kadesh & Associates, LLC: Good2Go, Inc.
Peck Madigan Jones: Incyte Corporation
Quinella Global LLC: Gerald Metals LLC
Strategos Public Affairs: Fiserv
Strategos Public Affairs: Kleo (Dba Classwallet)
Tarah Tyler: Lorenz Bus Service
The Hamm Consulting Group, LLC: Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. On Behalf Of County Of Hennepin
The Hamm Consulting Group, LLC: City Of Chattanooga, Tn
The Tolman Group: Dina Reis
The Tolman Group: Reform Action Fund
Tradewins, LLC: Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd.
Winning Strategies Washington: Optinose | | New Lobbying Terminations | | Anemoi Group LLC: Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council
Americans For Safe Access: Americans For Safe Access
Capstone National Partners: Visual Arts Rights Coalition
Clark Street Associates: Ansys, Inc.
Strategic Marketing Innovations: University Of Delaware
Fredericks Peebles & Patterson, LLP: Bridgeport Indian Colony
Fredericks Peebles & Patterson, LLP: Fort Belknap Indian Community
Fredericks Peebles & Patterson, LLP: Three Affiliated Tribes
Kairos Government Affairs: Solar Energy Industries Association, Inc.
Navy League Of The United States: Navy League Of The United States
Oak Federal Solutions, LLC: Vera Institute Of Justice
O'Neill And Associates: American Academy Of Addiction Psychiatry
Paul Schroeder: National Federation Of The Blind
Strategic Marketing Innovations: Navatek, Ltd.
Winning Strategies Washington: Retractable Technologies Inc (Rti)
Key Advocates, Inc.: Association Of American Railroads
Key Advocates, Inc.: Koochiching County, Mn
Renaissance Strategy Group, LLC: City Of Winter Park Fl
Winning Strategies Washington: Custom Molded Products, LLC
Winning Strategies Washington: Progressive Packaging Solutions, Inc
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