Lobbying Relationship

Client

Southwest Chief Rural Rail Partnership

Coalition of municipalities from western Kansas, eastern Colorado and northern New Mexico More records

Lobbying firm

ALSTON & BIRD, LLP

More records

  • Rail infrastructure legislation, including authorizing and appropriations bills funding USDOT, FRA and other executive branch agencies.

Duration: to

General Issues: Railroads, Transportation

Spending: about $220,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2012: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Affiliated organizations: The City of Garden City, Kansas; The City of Dodge City, Kansas; The City of Hutchinson, Kansas; The City of Newton, Kansas; The City of La Junta, Colorado; The City of Lamar, Colorado; The City of Trinidad, Colorado

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?
Robert J. Dole U.S. Senator (Kansas)
Jeff Sural Deputy Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, DHS Legislative Counsel, Rep. Vernon Ehlers Assistant Administrator, Legislative Affairs, TSA

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

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