• 10/11/23 - Kathleen O'Neill talked to Alaura Ervin in Sen. John Cornyns office and Franci Rooney on Senate Judiciary Committee staff about Name Image Likeness and other issues pertaining to a hearing on NIL on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
• October 2023: Kathleen O'Neill meet several times with staff for US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at the Department of Health and Human Services about mental health resources on campus 11/8/23 - U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy came to UT campus for an event on student mental health issues. 11/8/23 - Lauren Ancel Meyers, Professor of Integrative Biology, Population Health, and Statistics and Data Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin & Mark Escott, Chief Medical Officer for the City of Austin and the Texas Department of Safety and Clinical Assistant Professor at Dell Medical School met with Max Seifert in Rep. LLoyd Doggetts office, Alicia Seagraves in Rep. Henry Cuellars office, and Lilly Walsh in Sen. Cornyns office to discuss the Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling Network
• 11/3/23 - S.V. Sreenivasan of the Cockrell School of Engineering at UT Austin met with Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and staff in Sen. John Cornyns (R-TX) office to discuss the Texas Institute for Electronics, microelectronics research and the CHIPS Act. 12/15/23 - Kathleen O'Neill spoke with Jocelyn Tau in Rep. Doggetts office about the DETERRENT Act (H.R. 5933).
• 11/14/24 - Kathleen ONeill spoke with Jocelyn Tau in Rep. LLoyd Doggetts office about amendment #109 (Harris/Burgess/McCormick/Wenstrup) being offered up as part of the consideration of the Labor HHS Appropriations bill.

Duration: January 8, 2019 to August 17, 2021

General Issues: Sports/Athletics, Health Issues, Science/Technology, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Defense, Education, Environmental/Superfund, Arts/Entertainment, Budget/Appropriations, Energy/Nuclear, Economics/Economic Development, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Homeland Security, Transportation, Veterans, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Immigration, Foreign Relations, Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Animals, Aerospace, Clean Air & Water (Quality), Chemicals/Chemical Industry, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Computer Industry, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Firearms/Guns/Ammunition, Fuel/Gas/Oil, Gaming/Gambling/Casino, Government Issues, Intelligence and Surveillance, Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries, Media (Information/Publishing), Natural Resources, Pharmacy, Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation, Retirement, Roads/Highway, Small Business, Miscellaneous Tariff Bills, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Unemployment, Urban Development/Municipalities, Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)

Spending: about $1,856,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2019: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), State - Dept of (DOS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Army - Dept of (Other), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Energy - Dept of, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)