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Republican Staff Director on Senate Appropriations Committee to Take New Job at Textron, Inc.

Frank Wolfe

Friday, January 14th, 2022

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Republican Staff Director on Senate Appropriations Committee to Take New Job at Textron, Inc.

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

Longtime Capitol Hill staffer Shannon Hines, who has served as the Republican staff director for the Senate Appropriations Committee and its defense panel since April, 2018, is moving on to become the senior vice president of Washington, D.C., operations for Textron, Inc. [TXT]. Hines will take the head Textron lobbyist reins from Stewart Holmes, who recently moved to shipbuilder, Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII]. After college, Hines began her congressional career in 1995 in the office of former Rep. Fred Heineman…

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