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Network Associates Expands D.C. Staff
by Bara Vaida
Silicon Valley-based companies are still expanding their policy offices in Washington despite the economic slowdown, and Network Associates, a company that was active in the encryption debate, is among those boosting its presence in the nation's capital.
Douglas Sabo, the vice president of information security programs at the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is leaving his job to join Network Associates, a computer security software company based in Santa Clara, Calif. Sabo will become the government relations manager based in Washington and will cover a broad range of policy issues.
Coming And Going
Also on the lobbying front, Robert Raben has opened a legislative, consulting and lobbying practice in Washington, Tech Law Journal reports. He will concentrate on intellectual property policy. His clients include the Recording Industry Association of America and Sony Music Entertainment.
Raben is a former assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legislative Affairs. Before that he held jobs as counsel to two House Judiciary subcommittees — first the Constitution Subcommittee and then the Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittee. Raben also once worked on the personal staff of Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
Meanwhile, Catherine Reid-Nolan, a long-time in-house lobbyist for Time Warner, has left the newly merged AOL Time Warner to pursue other interests. Nolan was the vice president for law and public policy at Time Warner and focused much of her time on the company's issues that came before the Federal Communications Commission.
AOL Time Warner is refocusing and merging America Online and Time Warner's government relations' offices, but it does plan to fill Nolan's position, according to a spokeswoman. There also are no plans for layoffs in the company's government affairs arena, she said.
No More Rules
Rich Mills, the communications director for the House Rules Committee since January 1999, is leaving the Hill for the Bush administration. Mills will be the press secretary at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and spokesman for USTR Robert Zoellick.
Before working for the Rules Committee, Mills spent seven years working for former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, first in the New York Republican's personal office and then as the spokesman for the Senate Banking Committee when D'Amato was chairman.
Farewell To Congressional Arms
Jeff Grove, the former staff director of the House Science Technology Subcommittee, also is leaving Capitol Hill. He has been named director of public policy at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM was founded in 1947 and was one of the first educational and scientific computing societies. Its key issues include privacy, intellectual property, universal access and free speech on the Internet.
Elsewhere, the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) has hired Amy McKennis to its congressional affairs team as the Senate government affairs director. McKennis served most recently as a legislative assistant to Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., on telecommunications, transportation and energy issues, among others.
Previously, she worked for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, as a legislative assistant on her Commerce Committee staff, where she handled telecommunications, aviation, space, science, technology, consumer affairs and surface transportation issues. McKennis is also a co-writer of the fashion column for Hillzoo.com, an online Web site for congressional staffers.
Technically Speaking At CDT
John Morris, an attorney with broad expertise in Internet technology and constitutional and telecommunications law, has joined the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Since 1994, he has been a partner in the Washington office of Jenner & Block, where he has litigated groundbreaking cases in Internet and First Amendment law.
Morris will head a CDT new project aimed at promoting better participation in the technical development of the Internet. The Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project will involve technologists, policymakers and advocates, and will seek to increase public involvement in technical decisions, as well as technical understanding among policymakers.
Gorton's New Gig
Former Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., is joining Preston Gates & Ellis. Gorton is expected to work in the firm's Seattle office, as well as with Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds in Washington, D.C. Gorton, who served 18 years in the Senate before narrowly losing to Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., last November, joins former Reps. Lloyd Meeds, D-Wash., Robert Davis, R-Mich., and David Funderburk, R-N.C., at Preston Gates.
A Suburban Field Trip
CapNet took Democratic Senate staffers on a daylong bus tour of several northern Virginia technology companies April 10. Led by the Democratic Steering Committee, representatives from the group included staff from the offices of Sens. Joseph Lieberman, Conn., Barbara Mikulski, Md., John (Jay) Rockefeller, W.Va., Kent Conrad, N.D., Maria Cantwell, Wash., Evan Bayh, Ind. and Jack Reed, R.I.
The tour began in Tysons Corner at SAIC, where company officials demonstrated how a corporate network system could be compromised with a simple laptop computer and an Internet connection. SAIC officials on critical infrastructure protection then briefed the group.
The second visit was to VeriSign's Global Registry Services, where the Democratic aides toured the root server — the center of the Internet. The tour concluded at AOL Time Warner in Dulles, where the staffers were briefed on AOL TV.
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