House Commerce Hires Ex-EchoStar Lobbyist as Communications Subcommittee Chief Counsel
House Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said Monday he has hired Michael Essington, EchoStar's former senior manager of public affairs, as the Communications Subcommittee’s new chief counsel. Essington led EchoStar's lobbying of “Capitol Hill Republicans and the Trump Administration,”…
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House Commerce said. He held a similar role at Dish Network before EchoStar’s 2023 purchase of the company. Essington was also previously general counsel for Senate Commerce Committee member Todd Young, R-Ind., working for him on “commerce, telecom, and media issues,” House Commerce said. Before that, he was an aide to former House Commerce member and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and was a lawyer at Husch Blackwell.