Google on Thursday named former Republican congresswoman Susan Molinari to head its Washington lobbying and policy office as the search giant fights off antitrust and privacy scrutiny by federal regulators.
The three-term representative from New York takes over from Alan Davidson, who recently left the firm after taking the office from a small think-tank type of operation to a more powerful and traditional corporate influence, doubling its budget on lobbying to $11 million in the last year.