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Ms. Garvie represents transportation, communications, consumer products, and other business clients before the Congress and federal agencies on issues dealing with economic, safety, and security regulation, infrastructure investment, litigation reform, taxes and trade. Among other matters, she has been actively involved in the passage of legislation on the development and implementation of Positive Train Control technology; the passage of legislation dealing with safety recalls of rental cars; proposed legislation dealing with the control of and access to data generated by autonomous vehicles; proposed legislation to reform the Telephone Consumer Protection Act; proposed legislation dealing with the collection of sales taxes on internet sales; and the passage of legislation implementing the Colombia Free Trade Act that included the duty-free treatment of flower imports on a retroactive basis.

Ms. Garvie was honored by the D.C. Women's Bar Association as a "Star of the Bar" for her professional achievement and service to the Washington community.

Before joining the firm, she was chief counsel to the Subcommittees on Aviation; Surface Transportation; and Business, Trade, and Tourism of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the U.S. Senate, as well as counsel to the full committee. During her tenure with the committee from 1981 to 1987, she advised the senators on virtually all legislation affecting the regulation of the railroad, airline and trucking industries, as well as legislation providing for the sale of Conrail and the Alaska Railroad, and the transfer of Dulles and National Airports in Washington, D.C.

From 1978 to 1980 Ms. Garvie worked as an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the Interstate Commerce Commission. In 1980, she was detailed from the commission to the Senate Commerce Committee and the House Transportation Committee to help develop and draft the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 and other transportation legislation. She also served as counsel to former U.S. Congressman Robert B. Duncan of Oregon from 1976 to 1978.

CLIFF ROTHENSTEIN

(Federal)

Cliff Rothenstein has more than 30 years of congressional and federal executive experience. Prior to joining K&L Gates, he served as Director of Legislative Affairs for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). In this capacity, Mr. Rothenstein worked on a daily basis with the FHWA Administrator, Deputy Administrator, and Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). During Mr. Rothenstein's tenure at FHWA, he led the development and advocacy efforts on legislation to reauthorize the nation's surface transportation law where he played a significant role in developing and recommending to the FHWA Administrator and to other DOT executives proposed changes to the law to streamline project delivery and expand investments in highways, bridges, and multimodal transportation projects. Mr. Rothenstein also coordinated FHWA's discretionary grant programs that fund highway and bridge improvement projects and managed FHWA's relationships with Congress on highway-specific projects and issues. In addition to his tenure at FHWA, Mr. Rothenstein served as a senior advisor on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee which has jurisdiction over environment and surface transportation issues. He led the Committees efforts on the reauthorization of Superfund, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts. Mr. Rothenstein also served for 20 years at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including as the Deputy Assistant Administrator and Director of the Office of Underground Storage Tanks. He has represented clients at the intersection of environmental, energy, transportation, and infrastructure policy and regulation, including advising clients on Superfund, the Clean and Safe Drinking Water Acts, the Water Resources Development Act, and the Clean Air and Resource Conservation and Recovery Acts; National Environmental Policy Act strategies for major transportation and energy infrastructure projects; funding opportunities including TIGER grant funding; and issues related to tolling of interstates.

MICHAEL GARRIGA

(Tennessee)
Clients:

CAROL MICHAELSEN

(Federal)
Clients:

1) ACCELERGY CORPORATION

2) AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.

3) AIRPORT MINORITY ADVISORY COUNCIL

4) ALGAE BIOMASS ORGANIZATION

5) Alpha Technologies, Inc.

6) ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION LIMITED

7) AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING

8) American Bus Association

9) American Commercial Space Innovators

10) American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers

11) AMERICAN MARITIME PARTNERSHIP

12) AMERICAN PYROTECHNICS ASSOCIATION

13) American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier Group, Inc.

14) AMERICAN SECURITY ACTION FUND, INC.

15) AMERICAN SMALL MANUFACTURING COALITION

16) American Superconductor Corporation

17) American Tower Corporation

18) AMERICAN WATER

19) Animal Wellness Action

20) Ansys, Inc.

21) Apex Clean Energy

22) Armored Things Inc.

23) Association of Washington Business

24) Astranis Space Technologies Corp.

25) AT-SEA PROCESSORS ASSN

26) Audia International

27) AVIS-BUDGET GROUP, INC.

28) Axiom Space, Inc.

29) Berkshire Hathaway Energy

30) BLUE ORIGIN, LLC

31) BNSF RAILWAY CO.

32) Boeing Employees' Credit Union

33) Boulder Capital Partners OZB, LLC

34) Breville Pty, Ltd.

35) Brightline Holdings LLC f/k/a Virgin Trains USA LLC

36) BROWN-FORMAN CORP

37) BUSINESS LEADERS FOR MICHIGAN

38) ByteDance Inc.

39) California Public Employees' Retirement System

40) CALVERT VENTURES, LLC

41) Capital SouthEast Connector Joint Powers Authority

42) Catalyst Old River Hydroelectric Limited Partnership

43) CERES, INC.

44) Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.

45) Chembio Diagnostics, Inc.

46) CHSPSC, LLC

47) CHURCH ALLIANCE

48) CIGAR RIGHTS OF AMERICA

49) CITY LIGHT & POWER, INC.

50) Clark Street Associates LLC on behalf of PSIQuantum

51) Clark Street Associates on behalf of Bright Machines

52) Clark Street Associates on behalf of Lattice Semiconductor

53) Clark Street Associates on behalf of TruckLabs

54) Clark Street Associates on behalf of Western Digital

55) Clark Street on behalf of Qorvo

56) Cleco Power LLC

57) CMS ENERGY CORP.

58) Coalition for Energy Efficient Jobs & Investment

59) Columbia Sportswear

60) COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT FEDERATION

61) Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC

62) Community Capital Management, LLC d/b/a CRAFund Advisory, Inc.

63) Compass Group USA, Inc.

64) Conservation International Foundation

65) CONSORTIUM OF STATE MARITIME ACADEMIES

66) Consumer Technology Association

67) Cumberland County Hospital System d/b/a Cape Fear Valley Health System

68) Cyanco International

69) Disability Benefits Deadline Initiative

70) DJI Technology, Inc.

71) Edelman Financial Engines f/k/a Financial Engines

72) ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND

73) ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND

74) Equinix, Inc.

75) Financial Accounting Foundation

76) FinCom Ltd.

77) First Trust Portfolios L.P.

78) Fisher Investments

79) Fleet Energy America, Inc.

80) Forterra, Inc.

81) G.W. PEOPLES CONTRACTING CO. INC.

82) GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR CANNABIS COMMERCE

83) Gordon Food Service, Inc.

84) Great Elm Capital Group, Inc.

85) GREAT LAKES METRO CHAMBERS

86) Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce

87) GREATER SPOKANE INCORPORATED

88) GRIT Energy Services, LLC

89) Groundfish Forum

90) Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders' Alliance

91) Hecla Mining Company

92) Hyundai Motor Company, Ltd.

93) Iconic Artists, LLC

94) Index Industry Association

95) Industrial Technology Institute

96) Ingo Money, Inc.

97) Inmarsat PLC d/b/a Inmarsat Aviation

98) INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL CONTAINER LESSORS

99) INSTITUTE OF SCRAP RECYCLING INDUSTRIES, INC.

100) Intelligrated Systems, Inc. dba Honeywell Intelligrated

101) INTERNATIONAL HOUSING COALITION

102) James Hardie Building Products, Inc.

103) John Lefas

104) Just Greens LLC

105) LAKE CARRIERS ASSOCIATION

106) LAKE PILOTS ASSN INC.

107) Launch on Demand Corporation

108) LEHIGH HANSON INC.

109) LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION

110) LOWER PASSAIC RIVER STUDY AREA COOP

111) Lynas USA, LLC

112) Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, Inc.

113) MADE IN SPACE

114) MAGNOLIA LNG LLC

115) MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY, INC.

116) MATSON NAVIGATION

117) Maxar Technologies Holdings Inc. f/k/a SSL MDA Holdings

118) McDermott International, Inc. f/k/a CHICAGO BRIDGE & IRON (CB&I)

119) Michael L. Taylor

120) Midwater Trawlers Cooperative

121) Moda Health

122) MUSEUM OF FLIGHT

123) NANOBUSINESS COMMERCIALIZATION ASSOCIATION

124) Nanotronics Imaging, Inc.

125) National Assn for Biomedical Research

126) NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHAPTER THIRTEEN TRUSTEES (NACTT)

127) NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TRAILER MANUFACTURERS

128) NCL CORPORATION LTD.

129) NextStep Interacative Inc.

130) Nortek Security & Control LLC

131) NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

132) Olympus Power LLC

133) Oshkosh Corporation

134) Pacific Seafood Group

135) PacifiCorp Energy

136) Package Coalition LLC

137) PAPER RECYCLING COALITION

138) Parsyl, Inc.

139) Pear Therapeutics, Inc.

140) Pinnacle Treatment Centers

141) PITNEY BOWES

142) PolyVision Corporation

143) Poplicus Incorporated d/b/a Govini

144) Port of Moses Lake

145) Port of Portland

146) PPG Industries Inc.

147) PRIMET PRECISION MATERIALS, INC.

148) PRN Software

149) Quantum Industry Coalition

150) Qurate Retail, Inc. f/k/a LIBERTY INTERACTIVE CORPORATION

151) QVC, INC.

152) R.T. G. Furniture Corp. d/b/a Rooms to Go

153) Receivables Management Association fka DBA INTERNATIONAL

154) RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.

155) Resolve Marine Group, Inc.

156) Savion, LLC

157) Seastreak LLC

158) Sierra Pacific Industries

159) SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND

160) Spire Global, Inc.

161) SPOKANE AIRPORT BOARD

162) SPRAGUE ENERGY CORP.

163) ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY PILOTS ASSN.

164) STARBUCKS COFFEE CORP

165) STEELCASE, INC.

166) Strategic Vaccines, LLC

167) Sunshine Silver Mining & Refining Corporation

168) Suntory Business Expert Limited

169) Texas LNG

170) The ESOP Association

171) The First Church of Christ, Scientist

172) The World Dog Alliance Limited

173) TM3 Systems

174) Topical Bio Medics Inc.

175) TOWN OF FUQUAY-VARINA, NC

176) Tradebe Treatment and Recycling, LLC

177) Trans AstroNautica Corporation d/b/a TransAstra

178) Trans-Atlantic Business Council

179) TRANSPHORM INC.

180) TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE

181) TRI-CITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

182) TrueBlue, Inc.

183) Turing Inc.

184) U.S. Global Leadership Campaign

185) United Catcher Boats

186) United States Cannabis Council

187) Vanguard Charitable

188) Velocys Inc

189) Veolia Nuclear Solutions f/k/a Kurion

190) Viamedia, Inc.

191) Vitalant

192) VOX Space

193) WATER INNOVATIONS ALLIANCE

194) WATER INNOVATIONS FOUNDATION

195) WESTERN GREAT LAKES PILOTS ASSN

196) WESTON SOLUTIONS

197) XO Energy, LLC

198) Zapata Computing, Inc.

199) Zeno Power Systems, Inc.