Bond transitions from Senate to international trade, law, housing
WASHINGTON - His homegrown chestnut crop was a bust this fall, but former U.S. Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond says the seeds he has sown during his first year out of office -- in international business, law, and housing policy -- are starting to bear fruit.
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U.S. Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond
"I've got so many balls up in the air that I have trouble following them all," says Bond, who said he was looking forward to departing today for Indonesia to join a World Trade Center trade delegation organized in partnership with Kit Bond Strategies (KBS).
Launched by Bond in November, KBS is a business consultancy that aims to help firms in Missouri and elsewhere expand their international markets, especially in southeast Asia.
But business strategy is hardly the only work pursued by Bond, 72, in the year since he left the Senate last January after 24 years:
As a partner in the St. Louis-based law firm Thompson Coburn, Bond is involved in legal strategies for business development, based mainly in the firm's Washington office. He says he does not lobby as part of that work. As a co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's new housing commission...
