Lobbying Relationship

Client

ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES INC

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Lobbying firm

Ryan MacKinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLP

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  • Implementation of Family Smoking Protection and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 and FDA Tobacco Product Deeming proposed Rule
  • CDC's implementation of health care funding provisions of P.L. 111-148, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Implementation. Medicare Secondary Payor issues and funding sources.
  • CDC's implementation of stimulus funding provisions of P.L. 111-5, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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General Issues: Tobacco, Health Issues, Budget/Appropriations, Pharmacy, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Torts, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $2,120,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Executive Office of the President (EOP), U.S. Senate,

Bills mentioned

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

Sponsor: Diane Black (R-Tenn.)

S.2042: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain reconstituted tobacco.

Sponsor: Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)

H.R.4439: Tobacco Tax Parity Act of 2010

Sponsor: Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.)

S.1504: Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2009

Sponsor: Arlen Specter (D-Pa.)

S.41: POWER Act

Sponsor: John Ensign (R-Nev.)

H.R.1400: To amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain...

Sponsor: John M. McHugh (R-N.Y.)

H.R.4213: Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010

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

S.1147: Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009

Sponsor: Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)

H.R.1676: Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009

Sponsor: Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)

H.R.1108: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

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

S.625: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

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

H.R.1108: Grow American Supply Act

Sponsor: Steve Scalise (R-La.)

S.625: Waco Mammoth National Monument Establishment Act of 2009

Sponsor: John Cornyn (R-Texas)

S.1177: Confidence in Long-Term Care Insurance Act of 2009

Sponsor: Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)

H.R.4081: To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the...

Sponsor: Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.)

H.R.5689: Predatory Lending Sunset Act

Sponsor: Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)

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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?
Jeffrey MacKinnon LD & LA Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) Min. Counsel, Energy&Comm, Special Asst. DOE
Joseph Vasapoli Min. Counsel, Energy&Comm, Special Asst. DOE
Matthew Berzok LD, Chief Counsel, LA Rep. Stupak & Deutsch LD,Chief Counsel,LA Rep.Stupak,LA Rep.Deutsch LD,Chief Counsel,LA Rep.Stupak,LA Rep. Deutsch
Nikolaos Kolovos LA Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-California)
Jeffery Mortier Prof Staff on E&C Cmte and LA Rep Whitfield
Jeff MacKinnon LD & LA Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) LD and LA Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)
Joe Vasapoli Min. Counsel, Energy&Comm, Special Asst. DOE Min.Counsel, Energy&Comm, Special Assist. DOE
Nick Kolovos LA Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-California)
Jeff Mortier Prof Staff on E&C Cmte and LA Rep Whitfield Staff on Energy & Commerce Committee
Doug Nappi Chief Counsel, Senate Banking Committee
Rodney Hoppe Deputy Press Secretary, Energy and Commerce
Thomas Ryan n/a
George O'Connor n/a
William Phillips 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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