Your background report: Pam Bondi launches new practice, Hillary to Georgetown, Grenell pushed for State, Craig Shirley on Washington’s mom

Pam Bondi, a Trump White House regular and Florida’s attorney general from 2011-2019, has joined a leading Florida government affairs group, Ballard Partners. Bondi is launching the firm’s regulatory compliance practice to help Fortune 500 firms deal with big public policy issues including human trafficking, opioid abuse, and personal data privacy.

  • Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to make a return to the world stage next month when she will keynote the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service’s symposium on the “Future of Diplomacy.” The event, co-sponsored by the university’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, takes place Feb. 6.

  • Rumors that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is being urged to run for Senate in Kansas in 2020 is fueling speculation over who will replace him. Besides the usual suspects in the foreign policy world is U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell who has a string of wins for the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce trade sanctions on Iran.

  • Reagan biographer and legendary Washington communicator and GOP analyst Craig Shirley has submitted his final chapter on his latest, a biography of George Washington’s mother. Harper Collins plans to publish “Honored Madam” this fall.

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