K Street Insiders

K Street is giving Boehner’s proposal to raise $800 billion in tax revenue the benefit of the doubt — for now.

• Ronald Rubin has been named a partner in the Washington office of Hunton & Williams in the bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors’-rights practice. He most recently served as an enforcement attorney with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s supervision, fair lending and enforcement division.

• Sunil Mansukhani has joined The Raben Group as a principal. Mansukhani was the first executive director of the District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission. He has served in the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and worked as a teaching fellow specializing in disability rights at Georgetown University Law Center.

There’s a new paradigm for making it on K Street: going it alone.

Several headhunters told The Hill that the Maine senator would be a hot commodity in the influence industry.

With the passage of health reform, the administration and Congress will turn their attention to other issues. One thing, however, will remain the same — the assault upon lobbyists.

“To register or not to register?”

For many of us, trying to figure out the remainder of this Congress feels a lot like picking your NCAA brackets. You know the players and teams and strategize based on known facts, but there’s always an element of surprise, whether it’s a top seed’s unexpected loss or the upset win of a senator in Massachusetts.

More than three decades ago, I had my first encounter with a certain corporate lobbyist. It was on the eve of the 1968 election and he said he was prepared for any outcome. On his desk was a framed photo of the next president — on one side was a photo of Hubert Humphrey, the other Richard Nixon.

It wasn’t too long ago that the notion of seeing and talking to someone thousands of miles away via a portable device was the stuff of science fiction. Today it’s as real as Team USA setting the record for the most medals won by any country ever in a Winter Olympics.