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Document 7 of 96.

October 7, 2000

SECTION: CONGRESS; Pg. 3186; Vol. 32, No. 41

LENGTH: 575 words

HEADLINE: HILL PEOPLE

BYLINE: Piper Fogg

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Senate
"I guess I'll become one of those Republican strategists I (see)
quoted all the time," said John Czwartacki, the departing press
secretary to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss.
Czwartacki will become a partner in the Washington-based
communications firm Greener and Hook as soon as Congress adjourns
this year. The firm, a boutique shop with a conservative client
base, was founded in 1998 by William Greener III and Michael
Hook, who was a chief of staff to former Rep. Bill Paxon, R-N.Y.
"It's like going out on my own, only with training wheels," said
Czwartacki, 30. He had debated whether to start his own company,
but decided instead on the job at Greener and Hook. Before
joining Lott's staff in 1998, Czwartacki spent a year as Paxon's
communications director. He also did press for the Dole-Kemp
presidential campaign in 1996, following a stint as a spokesman
for the House Republican Conference. Czwartacki said he's looking
forward to checking out life off Capitol Hill, though he'll be
sticking close to the GOP contacts he has made there.

International trade veteran Deborah A. Lamb, 47, has left
Capitol Hill for the Distilled Spirits Council of the United
States, where she'll exercise two decades' worth of skills and
savvy. She'll work to help DISCUS knock down trade barriers and
expand global distribution of member products. Lamb, who most
recently was chief minority trade counsel on the Senate Finance
Committee, spent 10 years on the committee and was involved in
implementing legislation for NAFTA and the Uraguay Round of
multinational trade negotiations, as well as helping gain
approval of permanent normal trade relations for China. Before
that, Lamb spent two years at the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson
and 10 years in the executive branch, working in international
affairs at the Commerce Department. At DISCUS, Lamb is vice
president of international issues and trade. She has replaced
Mark Orr, who left to become vice president of North American
affairs at Austin, Nichols & Co., a DISCUS member that produces,
among other products, Wild Turkey.
House
Even though GOP Rep. Bill Archer of Texas will retire at the
close of the 2000 congressional session, Amy L. Inaba jumped at
the chance to become Archer's press secretary. Inaba, 28, a
former broadcaster, had been searching for a post on Capitol Hill
since August. Because of Archer's high profile as chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, she hopes a job in his office-however
short-will launch her career in government. Before beginning her
quest for a job in the District, Inaba spent nine months as a
freelance newswriter for WFLD-TV (Fox) in Chicago; before that,
she was a freelancer for an NBC affiliate in San Francisco. Inaba
has worked in Washington before, as a writer and producer at Fox
Morning News in 1995 and 1996. As for the future, she's waiting
until after Election Day to begin yet another job search. "I'm
planning to stay on the Hill," she said, but admitted that if
George W. Bush "were to win, it might be fun to make a play for
the Administration." In Archer's office, Inaba replaces Sean
Rushton, who went to the nonprofit Citizens Against Government
Waste. Also joining Archer's countdown team is John Seale, a
recent graduate of Rhodes College in Tennessee, who will be a
legislative aide.

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