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Pamela Thiessen

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The profile

Former Senate Republican oversight staff director; later a registered lobbyist.

In the archive

Identity and role

Pamela Thiessen — Republican staff director on the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee during its pandemic-fraud oversight period; the record of the committee's March 17, 2022 hearing lists her as Minority Staff Director. (Senate Hearing 117-564)

Biography / career arc

  • She ran the Republican staff of the Senate HSGAC, the committee with broad pandemic-fraud and government-management jurisdiction.
  • She then moved to the government-relations firm theGROUP DC. LegiStorm lists her as a theGROUP DC partner from March 2023; the firm's own site describes her as a partner developing public-policy strategies for clients.
  • Senate LDA filings for theGROUP DC list Coinbase, Inc. as a client and name Pamela Thiessen as one of the lobbyists on digital-asset regulation. A filing signed April 9, 2024 reported $30,000 in lobbying income for Coinbase and listed Treasury and the National Economic Council as agencies lobbied. A later filing signed January 20, 2026 reported $90,000 for Coinbase work on digital-asset market structure before the House and Senate.

Pandemic-relief / PPP-EIDL role

Senate-side oversight staff leadership during the period when HSGAC examined pandemic spending and fraud.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

The public filings place her on a live financial-regulation lobbying account after her HSGAC tenure.

Sources held in this archive

Original source documents and archived captures

Sources

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