Gotham Government Relations, a firm with ties to President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE, has hired former Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.).

Ackerman served 15 terms in Congress before leaving Capitol Hill in 2013. At the time he retired, he was the second most senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

While in Congress, he also served on the House Financial Services Committee and was once a congressional delegate to the United Nations.

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He’ll be consulting for clients on a range of issues — including finance and international matters — and will not register to be a lobbyist.

Since 2006, Ackerman has served as the executive of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians, a post he still holds.

Ackerman decided to join K Street, he said, because “a lot of people tell me I wasn’t being busy enough.”

“One of them is my wife,” he joked.

Gotham Government Relations, a firm based in New York, helped to coordinate Trump’s initial campaign launch in June 2015. Following the election, the firm opened an office in Washington.

The firm took in nearly $550,000 in federal lobbying revenue last year.

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Ackerman, who said he’s known co-founders Brad Gerstman and David Schwartz for many years, will be based in New York, but will come to D.C. as needed.

“They have a firm that’s been growing,” he said. “They have a great reputation.”

His new colleagues had only praise for him as well.

“Congressman Gary Ackerman is a household name in the world of policy making and advocacy” said Gerstman. “He brings to the table a wealth of knowledge in international and domestic affairs. It goes without saying, we are thrilled he has agreed to join our team.”

The former congressman “will bring a level of institutional knowledge to our team that few other firms can match,” Schwartz said. “I know that he will advocate for his clients with the same tenacity as he advocated for the residents of the 5th and 7th Congressional Districts for 20 years.”

During his time in Congress, Ackerman was known to wear a white carnation in his lapel and lived on a houseboat named Unsinkable II while in Washington.

He says he sold it following his retirement.

“My wife said that if I moved it into the driveway, I’d have to live in it. I think that was a pretty good argument.”