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Bill Kirk, a partner at K&L Gates, represents clients before Congress and Executive Branch agencies with emphasis on tax, financial services, corporate and transportation and infrastructure matters. Mr. Kirk's clients include public and private entities such as major corporations and national trade associations for whom he provides policy analysis and strategic advice and engages in advocacy with the Congress and Executive Branch agencies. He also has significant experience representing emerging and middle market firms on legal and policy matters (e.g., minority and women-owned companies) and investment firms, including venture capital funds and their management teams. Mr. Kirk also advises clients on diversity and inclusion issues.
Mr. Kirk enjoyed a distinguished career as a Congressional staff member, including positions as an advisor to Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) and as a senior staff member of the House Ways and Means Committee including serving as Staff Director of the Committee's Oversight panel then chaired by Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY). He serves on the steering committee of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Political Action Committee (PAC).
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Rod Hall is a government affairs advisor in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on transportation and infrastructure issues. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Hall served as the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) assistant administrator for Government Affairs. For more than five years, he served as the principal advisor to two FAA administrators on matters concerning Congress, aviation industry groups, and other governmental organizations
Working on a bipartisan basis with Congress, Mr. Hall engaged U.S. House of Representatives and Senate Committees of jurisdiction on policy and funding issues of importance to an agency of 48,000 personnel and a $15 billion budget. He has successfully shepherded two executive branch nominees through Senate confirmations and designed various outreach initiatives to educate members of Congress and their staff on various aspects of the Agency's mission. Mr. Hall has also aided in the passage of legislation critical to the Agency such as the FAA Modernization & Reform Act of 2012, Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013, and the Airline Safety and FAA Extension Act of 2010.
Mr. Hall engaged U.S. House of Representatives and Senate Committees of jurisdiction on policy and funding issues of importance to an agency of 48,000 personnel and a $15 billion budget. He has successfully shepherded two executive branch nominees through Senate confirmations and designed various outreach initiatives to educate members of Congress and their staff on various aspects of the Agency's mission. Mr. Hall has also aided in the passage of legislation critical to the Agency such as the FAA Modernization & Reform Act of 2012, Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013, and the Airline Safety and FAA Extension Act of 2010.
Mr. Hall served as deputy chief of staff and associate professional staff member to U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), a senior member on the House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee and former chair of the T&I Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Prior to his executive branch appointment, Mr. Hall served as deputy chief of staff and associate professional staff member to U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), a senior member on the House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee and former chair of the T&I Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. In this capacity, Mr. Hall served as Rep. Johnson's principal advisor on transportation and infrastructure issues related to her various committee assignments (aviation, highway, rail, and water resources), in addition to her Dallas, Texas-based congressional district. During his tenure with Rep. Johnson, Mr. Hall aided various constituencies secure policy and funding provisions for critical infrastructure in bills such as the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act; Water Resources Development Act; and energy and environment appropriations and transportation appropriations bills.
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2) AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.
3) AIRPORT MINORITY ADVISORY COUNCIL
6) ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION LIMITED
7) AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING
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
20) Ansys, Inc.
23) Association of Washington Business
24) Astranis Space Technologies Corp.
30) BLUE ORIGIN, LLC
31) BNSF RAILWAY CO.
32) Boeing Employees' Credit Union
33) Boulder Capital Partners OZB, LLC
35) Brightline Holdings LLC f/k/a Virgin Trains USA LLC
37) BUSINESS LEADERS FOR MICHIGAN
38) ByteDance Inc.
39) California Public Employees' Retirement System
41) Capital SouthEast Connector Joint Powers Authority
42) Catalyst Old River Hydroelectric Limited Partnership
43) CERES, INC.
44) Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.
46) CHSPSC, LLC
47) CHURCH ALLIANCE
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
60) COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT FEDERATION
61) Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC
62) Community Capital Management, LLC d/b/a CRAFund Advisory, 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
69) Disability Benefits Deadline Initiative
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.
79) Fleet Energy America, Inc.
80) Forterra, Inc.
81) G.W. PEOPLES CONTRACTING CO. INC.
82) GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR CANNABIS COMMERCE
84) Great Elm Capital Group, Inc.
85) GREAT LAKES METRO CHAMBERS
86) Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce
87) GREATER SPOKANE INCORPORATED
89) Groundfish Forum
90) Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders' Alliance
92) Hyundai Motor Company, Ltd.
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
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
135) PacifiCorp Energy
137) PAPER RECYCLING COALITION
138) Parsyl, Inc.
140) Pinnacle Treatment Centers
141) PITNEY BOWES
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.
162) SPRAGUE ENERGY CORP.
163) ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY PILOTS ASSN.
165) STEELCASE, INC.
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
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.
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
