Lobbying Relationship

Client

The Raben Group (On behalf of the Botanical Education Alliance)

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Lobbying firm

VALENTE & ASSOCIATES

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  • In opposition to DEA's classification of Kratom as a Schedule I controlled substance
  • In opposition to DEA's classification of Kratom as a Schedule I controlled substance.

Duration: to

General Issues: Health Issues, Government Issues, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection

Spending: about $40,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2016: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

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?
Mark Rodgers Deputy Dir., Cong. Rel.; Policy Dir., OPM; Dir.,Cong. Rel. Smithsonian Inst.; Workforce Policy Coordinator, House Comm. on Education and the Workforce Deputy Dir., Cong. Rel.; Policy Dir., OPM; Dir., Cong. Rel. Smithsonian Inst.; Workforce Policy Coordinator, House Comm. on Education and the Workforce Deputy Dir., Cong. Rel.; Policy Dir., OMP; Dir. Cong. Rel., Smithsonian Inst.; Workforce Policy Coordinator, House Comm. on Education and the Workforce. Deputy Dir., Cong. Rel.; Policy Dir., OPM; Dir. COng. Rel., Smithsonian Inst.; Workforce Policy Coordinator, House Comm. on Education and the Workforce
J. Daniel Walsh Leg. Dir., Rep. Wayne Gilchrest; Leg. Asst., Rep. Jack Buechner
Claudia Valente Special Asst. to the Comptroller, U.S. DoD

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.

Termination
Q3 Report
Registration

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

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