Lobbying Relationship

Client

COMMONWEALTH BRANDS, INC

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Lobbying firm

ALPINE GROUP, INC.

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  • Issues related to FDA regulation of tobacco
  • Tobacco taxes

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General Issues: Tobacco, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.), Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Retirement

Spending: about $1,225,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, Alcohol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau (TTB), Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (ATF)

Bills mentioned

H.R.1639: Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act...

Sponsor: Bill Posey (R-Fla.)

S.1461: Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act...

Sponsor: Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)

H.R.1256: Medicare Physician Payment Transparency and Assessment Act of 2011

Sponsor: Jim McDermott (D-Wash.)

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

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

H.R.2: Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009

Sponsor: Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)

S.275: Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009

Sponsor: Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

H.R.3162: Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007

Sponsor: John D. Dingell (D-Mich.)

S.625: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

Sponsor: Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)

H.R.1108: 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?
James Hawkins III Health Policy Advisor, Senate HELP Committee
JAY HAWKINS n/a
Greg Means 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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