Lobbying Relationship

Client

Altria Client Services LLC

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Lobbying firm

Venable LLP

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  • Issues related to the regulation and taxation of tobacco products

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General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Tobacco

Spending: about $1,980,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2009: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Bills mentioned

H.R.4134: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that any person...

Sponsor: Diane Black (R-Tenn.)

S.1147: Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009

Sponsor: Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)

H.R.1256: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

Sponsor: Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.)

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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?
Gregory M. Gill Leg. Dir., Rep Hoyer; Asst. Staff. House Approp. Committee Leg Dir, Rep Hoyer; Ass. Staff. H. Approp. Com
Bart Stupak U.S. Representative, 1993-2011
Robert L. Smith Legislative Director, U.S. Representative Watkins
Thomas H. Quinn n/a
Robert L. Smith II 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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