Friday, July 31, 2009 9:30 AM

K Street's Health Care Haul

Top lobbying stories from this week's National Journal: (subscription)

• K Street's Health Care Haul: Foley Hoag is among the firms on K Street that have benefited from the health care industry's efforts to influence policy. Eliza Krigman looks at the firms that are raking in the health care business on K Street. The story includes a chart of the top earners.

• Financial Industry Guns Of August: Scores of House and Senate members are sure to be blasted with letters, e-mails, and visits from large and small bankers, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, and other financial services players riled up about one of President Obama's top regulatory reform proposals: creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Peter Stone writes.

• The GOP's Health Care Echo Chamber: In this week's cover story, Alexis Simendinger writes about how the Senate GOP leadership and other GOP leaders are trying to hone their message for the Senate's health care debate.

• From On The Move: CH2M HILL, an engineering and construction provider, has tapped Howlie Davis as its new director of U.S. government affairs; Mark Lindsay is now working for the Livingston Group as director of its health care practice team. Lindsay, 46, arrives from UnitedHealth Group; before that, he worked in the Clinton administration; Jodie Kelley has just started as general counsel and vice president of anti-piracy at the Business Software Alliance. She most recently was vice president and deputy general counsel at Fannie Mae.