Former Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., has joined Arnold & Porter as a senior policy adviser and resident in the Legislative and Public Policy practice, the firm announced. In Congress, Kind served on the House Ways and Means Committee and its Subcommittees on Health and Trade, where he engaged on various issues including multiple free trade agreements, the CHIPS Act, and tax and pension reform legislation.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who is retiring from Congress at year's end, told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that he was disappointed there were no trade items in the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science (CHIPS) Act. "But I’m ready to negotiate a grand bargain on trade in this lame-duck session," he said in a video address Oct. 17. Portman was scheduled to participate in a roundtable of former U.S. trade representatives but was traveling overseas on an official congressional trip.