Roy Blunt says he doesn’t miss Congress after 26 years. He can’t entirely pull himself away, though.
The retired Missouri Republican is joining Husch Blackwell Strategies as chair of a new advisory group, he said in an interview, where he will offer the same kind of counsel that he gave House speakers and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell for decades.
“I’ve been giving advice for free for a long time. And generally people have been willing to take it and it worked out pretty well,” Blunt said this week. In his new role, Blunt will concentrate on offering advice on how to navigate both state and local government.
A former member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Blunt has retained his security clearance and is also working on projects with Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines that he declined to elaborate on — describing it only as a “couple of things she and I have talked about that I’m going to be helping her with.”
Blunt’s departure from the Hill punctuates a noticeable gap in the GOP’s institutional knowledge since the November midterms. The group of recently retired GOP senators ranges from leadership stalwarts like Rob Portman of Ohio, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Blunt to Donald Trump critics like Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Ben Sasse of Nebraska to the old-bull appropriator Richard Shelby of Alabama.
They are all taking diverse paths: Portman is a public policy fellow at the American E ..
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