Lobbying Relationship

Client

CEPHALON, INC.

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Lobbying firm

CEPHALON, INC.

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  • R&D Tax Credit Orphan Drug Exemption to Industry Health Reform Fee Health Care Reform Drug Reimportation Life Science Jobs & Investment Act Prescription Drug shortage Legislation (S296)
  • Health Care Reform
  • Patent Settlements Patent Reform

Duration: to

General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Budget/Appropriations, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Trucking/Shipping

Spending: about $5,288,310 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, U.S. Senate,, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), State - Dept of (DOS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Natl Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Y Y U.S. House of Representatives; U.S. Senate; FDA; HHS; DEA; CMS., Y Y U.S. Senate; U.S. House of Representatives; SAMHSA; NIH, Y Y U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate, Y Y U.S. House of Representatives; U.S. Senate.

Bills mentioned

S.296: Preserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act

Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

S.369: Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act

Sponsor: Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)

S.2029: Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2007

Sponsor: Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa)

H.R.5613: Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008

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

H.R.3610: Food and Drug Import Safety Act of 2007

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

H.R.4: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007

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

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

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

H.R.1908: Patent Reform Act of 2007

Sponsor: Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.)

H.R.1432: Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act

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

H.R.1424: A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and...

Sponsor: Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.)

S.558: Mental Health Parity Act of 2007

Sponsor: Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.)

H.R.1706: Protecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act of 2009

Sponsor: Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.)

S.515: Patent Reform Act of 2009

Sponsor: Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)

H.R.1260: Patent Reform Act of 2009

Sponsor: John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)

S.301: Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2009

Sponsor: Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa)

S.330: Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2009

Sponsor: Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.)

S.525: Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2009

Sponsor: Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.)

H.R.1298: Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2009

Sponsor: Marion Berry (D-Ark.)

H.CON.RES.95: Honoring the career and research accomplishments of Frances E. Allen,...

Sponsor: Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.)

H.R.3043: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and...

Sponsor: David R. Obey (D-Wis.)

S.CON.RES.70: An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget...

Sponsor: Kent Conrad (D-N.D.)

H.R.2795: Reasonable Rates for Veterans Act

Sponsor: Steve Pearce (R-N.M.)

H.R.5418: To extend the temporary suspension of duty on 2-Chloro benzyl chloride.

Sponsor: Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.)

S.3582: Safeguarding Our Hospitals' Futures Act of 2008

Sponsor: Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.)

H.R.2642: Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008

Sponsor: Chet Edwards (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?
Patrick Plues Leg. Asst, Rep. Bob Wise Leg. Asst., Rep Bob Wise Leg. Asst., Rep. Bob Wise Leg. Asst, Rep Bob Wise
Fritz Bittenbender n/a
JEFF MYERS n/a
Kim Zimmerman n/a
Jennifer Connelly 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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