Amazon, Adobe enlist new outside help

By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 

12/15/2023 06:10 PM EST

With Daniel Lippman

NEW BUSINESS: Amazon has added yet another outside lobbying firm to its already extensive stable of hired guns. The tech and e-commerce giant retained Sean McLean of Origin Advocacy last month, bringing the company’s total of outside firms on retainer to 21 (not counting the dozen or so additional firms retained by Amazon’s cloud computing arm or other subsidiaries).

— McLean is a former Commerce Department liaison to former President Donald Trump’s White House, and before that served as legislative director to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), now the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee. He’s lobbying on a number of issues under the Commerce Committee’s purview, according to a disclosure filing, including data privacy, consumer protection and issues related to drones.