ETA Expands Government Affairs Activities
September 9, 2013 – ETA announced the next step in its continued expansion of government relations activities with the hiring of seasoned Hill veteran Jaime Graham as the association’s new Senior Government Affairs Manager.
ETA is significantly enhancing its government affairs operations, including the recently announced formation of the payments industry’s first political action committee, the ETA PAC; the registration of ETA’s first in-house lobbyist, Hill veteran Mary Bennett, ETA’s Director of Government and Industry Relations; and the expansion of ETA’s Government Relations Committee to include representatives from more than 30 of the nation’s largest financial and technology companies.
To learn more about ETA’s advocacy initiatives, please click on the links below for recent media coverage. For the latest on payments legislation, visit ETA’s Voice of Payments.
Electronic payments group creates PAC, registers lobbyist
Megan Wilson, The Hill
ETA Adds Graham
Byron Tau, Politico