Influence Alley

The American Health Care Association has grown its government relations shop with the addition of three new employees.

Christopher Donnellan will lobby House and Senate Democrats as senior director of AHCA's government relations shop. He comes most recently  served as the assistant director of federal affairs for the College of American Pathologists. He's also worked for Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass.

Mike Cowden will be a manager of grassroots work. He most recently worked in the firm's public affairs shop as a media specialist and prior to that, before that was with the American Society of Landscape Architects.

And Clark Princell joins the firm as an assistant in the government relations shop, where we will help with grassroots campaigns and PAC work. He comes from from office of Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif.