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Capitol Hill Consulting Group is lobbying for SolarWorld, a solar energy company based in Hillsboro, Ore.

{mosads}• HEALTHCARE. Masimo Corp., which makes medical devices, hired Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck to lobby on the issue of medical device taxes, federal lobbying records show. Alexander Dahl, former deputy staff director and senior counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Makan Delrahim, former deputy assistant attorney general in the antitrust division at the Justice Department, are lobbying for Masimo.

McDonald’s Corp. hired Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney to lobby on healthcare, lobbying records show.

Heather Podesta + Partners is lobbying for the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.

• LOCAL GOVERNMENT. CapitalEdge Advocacy is lobbying on behalf of Lincoln, Neb. Carolyn Chaney and Christopher Giglio, former staff assistant on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are seeking federal funding on behalf of the city.

• MEDIA. Gephardt Group Government Affairs is lobbying for General Electric on the sale of NBC to Comcast, federal lobbying records show. Former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) is lobbying for GE.

The Glover Park Group is lobbying for News Corp., which owns Fox News. Gregg Rothschild, a former deputy chief of staff and chief counsel on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Susan Brophy, a former chief of staff to Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), are lobbying for the media company.

• RAILROADS. Dow Lohnes Government Strategies is lobbying for Norfolk Southern Corp. Eric Kessler, former chief of staff to Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.); Jessica Lenard, former legislative director to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.); and Norman Lent are lobbying for the railroad on “energy efficiency, sustainability, and related federal funding opportunities,” lobbying records show.

• TRADE. Barnes, Richardson & Colburn is lobbying for Electrolux North America, based in Cleveland, federal lobbying records show. The firm is contacting Senate offices regarding the introduction of “duty suspension legislation on electric cooktops,” according to the registration.