Lobbying Relationship

Client

INDEPENDENCE BLUE CROSS

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Lobbying firm

AMERICAN CONTINENTAL GROUP

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  • General Health Care Issues Medicare, Medicaid Reform Issues Health Care Reform
  • General Health Care Issues Association Health Plans Medicare/Medicaid H.R. 3200: America's Affordable Health Choices Act

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General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $360,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, U.S. Senate, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Y Y CMS

Bills mentioned

H.R.3200: America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

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

H.R.3162: Public Safety Officer Family Health Benefits Act

Sponsor: Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)

H.R.6331: Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now Act of 2010

Sponsor: Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.)

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

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

H.R.6331: Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

H.R.4151: STEM Promotion Act of 2007

Sponsor: Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas)

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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?
Shawn Smeallie Special Asst. to Pres. Bush for Legislative Affairs Special Asst. to Director for Leg. Affairs at OMB
James Smith Chief of Staff, Rep. Peter Deutsch
David Urban Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter
Tobias Rodill n/a
Michael Barbera n/a
Joshua Fay-Hurvitz 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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