Despite the hard economic times, the lobbying shop run by former Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., is still attracting new clients.

Livingston, a former House Appropriations Committee chair who was briefly House speaker-elect in 1998 but withdrew from consideration amid allegations of marital infidelity, has been running his own government relations firm since 1999.

Livingston recently signed up SUNRx , a prescription drug benefits administrator. Registered to lobby for SUNRx is J. Allen Martin, a former chief of staff to Livingston in Congress. Livingston and Martin also recently registered to lobby for the health care technology company NovoLogix, which would have a stake in any upcoming health care reform bill. Livingston, Martin, and Bernard Robinson, former chief of staff to Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass., registered to represent the Current Group, a Smart Grid technology company that provides services to electric utilities.

                                                                                            -Gregg Sangillo