Lobbying Relationship

Client

MERCK & CO, INC

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Lobbying firm

COVINGTON & BURLING LLP

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  • Assistance to resolve a customs issue in the Philippines

Duration: to

General Issues: Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Health Issues, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $350,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2015: State - Dept of (DOS), House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

Bills mentioned

H.R.6294: REVAMP Act

Sponsor: John Shimkus (R-Ill.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Ed McClellan Tax Counsel, United States Senate Committee on Finance.
Gabe Neville Special Assistant, Press Secretary, Communications Director & Chief of Staff, Congressman Joseph Pitts.
Jon Kyl U.S. Senator (1995-2013) US Senator (1995-2013); US House Member (1987-1995)
Richard Hertling Staff Director & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Acting Assistant AG, Office of Leg. Affairs, DoJ; Deputy Assistant AG, Office of Legal Policy, DoJ; Deputy CoS & Leg. Dir., Senator Lamar Alexander
" " Chief of Staff, Senator Peter Fitzgerald; Sr. Counsel, Senate Government Affairs; Chief Counsel, Senator Arlen Specter Office of Senator Maria Cantwell, Legislative Counsel; Office of Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Legal Counsel
Layth Elhassani White House Office of Legislative Affairs, Special Assistant to the President; Office of Senator Michael F. Bennet, Legislative Director; House Committee on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Office of Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Legislative Director
Wade Ackerman Sr. FDA Counsel, US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Alan Larson Under Secretary of State for Economic Business & Agricultural Affairs (1999-2005); Assistant Secretary of State for Economic & Business Affairs (1996-1999); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Finance & Development (1993-1996)
Dirk Suringa n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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