Wal-Mart is beefing up its already healthy lobbying ranks with a team from Bryan Cave, according to a lobbying registration the firm filed this week.
The Bryan Cave team includes senior policy adviser David Russell, a former chief of staff to ex-Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska); senior policy adviser Jennifer Stewart, who worked for Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.); and former aides to Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), both Republican whips.
Broderick Johnson, a partner at Bryan Cave, said that the firm will lobby mostly on health care and energy issues, and that Wal-Mart is an existing client of the law firm.
Wal-Mart spent nearly $2.6 million lobbying in the second quarter of 2009. About $340,000 went to seven outside lobbying firms, including the Podesta Group, Patton Boggs, and Miller & Chevalier.
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