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With Daniel Lippman<\/i><\/p>\n

ANOTHA\u2019 ONE:<\/b> Former Rep. Ron Kind<\/b> is the latest member of last year\u2019s class of retired or defeated lawmakers to head to K Street. The Wisconsin Democrat, who decided not to seek reelection after two-and-a-half decades, has joined Arnold & Porter<\/b> as a senior policy adviser.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kind is a former chair of the centrist New Democrat Coalition<\/b>, which is expected to retain some power even in a GOP-majority House thanks to Republicans\u2019 slim majority. Kind also sat on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which helped craft parts of Democrats\u2019 high-profile drug pricing and tax plans over the past two years, and on its health and trade subcommittees.<\/p>\n

\u2014 There\u2019s been \u201ca lot of focus\u201d on those issues, the former congressman told PI, meaning \u201cI’ll be able to continue pursuing those policy interests\u201d at Arnold & Porter. Kind, who was on the Hill earlier today previewing the upcoming trade agenda, noted that he sees a number of opportunities on that issue, even with a divided Congress.<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u201cObviously, it’s going to be much more difficult for President Biden to get a domestic agenda through the house,\u201d he said. \u201cSo naturally, administrations pivot to more trade and foreign policy issues. But I think you’re gonna see a good bipartisan coalition in the Ways and Means Committee and throughout the Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kind, who is subject to a one-year \u201ccooling off\u201d period barring him from lobbying his former colleagues in Congress but is free to lobby the Biden administration right away, said he\u2019s not yet sure whether he will do so.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kind is already the ninth member of the previous Congress to make the jump downtown since leaving office at the beginning of the year. He joins former Democratic Reps. G.K. Butterfield<\/b> (now at McGuireWoods<\/b>), Mike Doyle<\/b> (now at K&L Gates<\/b>), Ed Perlmutter<\/b> (now at Holland & Knight<\/b>), Peter DeFazio<\/b> (now in partnership with Summit Strategies<\/b>) and Cheri Bustos<\/b> (now at Mercury<\/b>) and former Republican Reps. John Katko<\/b> (now at HillEast Group<\/b>), Rodney Davis<\/b> (now at Cozen O’Connor<\/b>) and Jaime Herrera Beutler<\/b> (now advising the Children’s Hospital Association<\/b>).<\/p>\n

\u2014 Another member of that class, former House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney<\/b>, is joining the Fund for Women\u2019s Equality<\/b> and its sister group the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition<\/b> as the chair of the groups\u2019 boards.<\/p>\n

Happy Monday and welcome to PI<\/b>. Send tips: [email protected]<\/span><\/a>. And be sure to follow me on Twitter: @caitlinoprysko<\/a>.<\/p>\n