Jan. 1, 1970

Comfort Cases featured in POLITICO Influence

FOR YOUR CALENDAR: The Critical Labor Coalition, a network of trade associations and companies aimed at pushing through policies to address the country’s labor shortages, will be handing out free Häagen-Dazs ice cream cones on the Hill tomorrow to welcome staffers back from August recess (and maybe help ease the pain of today’s withdrawn CR?).

— The truck will be parked at the corner of D Street SE and New Jersey Avenue, and available flavors will include “Choco-Late for Work,” “RetireMINT Chocolate Chip,” “Visas Wanted Vanilla,” “Understaffed Rocky Road,” “Mango Workforce Dream,” “Worker’s Espresso,” “Dulce de Labor” and “Coalition Cookies & Cream.” (Hill staff ID badge required, unfortunately.)

SPOTTED last night at La Collina for a reception hosted by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to welcome lawmakers back from recess and welcome former Ways and Means Chair Kevin Brady to the firm, per a tipster: Reps. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), Ron Estes (R-Kan.), Kevin Hern(R-Okla.), David Kustoff (R-Tenn.), Carol Miller (R-W.Va.), Blake Moore (R-Utah), Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) and Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) of the Ways and Means Committee; Matt Meyer of Smith’s office, Josh Bell and Nick O’Boyle of Estes’ office, Cameron Foster and Jeff Willis of Hern’s office, Will Courtney and Wright Ricketts of Kustoff’s office, Emily Henn of Miller’s office, Rebekah Rodriguez and Nick Wooldridge of Moore’s office, Kate Bonner and Noelle Britton of Smucker’s office, Jake Olson and Ryan Dilworth of Van Duyne’s office, Scott Greenberg, Kathryn Reed, Eric Ettorre and Kyle Perel of Ways and Means; Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, Tim Tebow, and more than a dozen members of Akin.

— And at an anniversary and Hispanic Heritage Month celebration hosted by the Hispanic Lobbyists Association, per a tipster: Reps. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.), Rob Menendez (D-N.J.), Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) and Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.); Mary Ann Gomez Orta of the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute, Steve Haro of Haro Solutions, Lucia Alonzo of Michael Best Strategies, Ivelisse Porroa-García of Crossroads Strategies, Art Motta of AstraZeneca, Erica Romero of the National Center for Teacher Residencies, Maria Luisa Boyce of UPS, Norberto Salinas of Capitol Counsel, Osiris Morel of Mark Anthony Brands, Javier Gamboa of the Business Roundtable, Carlos Becerra of Florida International University, Omar Franco of Becker, Estuardo Rodriguez of the Raben Group, Rich Lopez of Forbes Tate Partners, Marco Davis of CHCI, Diego Zambrano of Philip Morris International, Claudia Flores of DailyPay, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Akin.

— And at an event hosted by Van Scoyoc Associates for foster care philanthropy Comfort Cases to pack backpacks that will be distributed to foster youth in the D.C. area, per a tipster: Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth co-Chairs Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Rob Scheer of Comfort Cases, Kate Riley of America’s Public Television Stations, Charles Chamness of Rep. Mike Quigley’ s (D-Ill.) office, Scott Cunningham of the House General Counsel’s office and Stu Van Scoyoc and Jennifer LaTourette of VSA.

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