Lobbying Relationship

Client

RAI Services Company

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Lobbying firm

Ruhlen Strategies, LLC

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  • Issues related to: FDA actions, proposed and actual, under the authority of the Tobacco Control Act of 2009; congressional action to ban flavors. S 1314/HR 2786, The Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021.
  • Congressional action to increase taxes on tobacco product; S 1314, HR 2786

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General Issues: Tobacco, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $380,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2018: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

Related Foreign Entities: British American Tobacco, PLC (London, GBR); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%

Bills mentioned

H.R.2339: Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act...

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

H.R.4742: Protecting American Lungs Act of 2019

Sponsor: Thomas Suozzi (D-N.Y.)

S.1314: Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021

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

H.R.2786: Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021

Sponsor: Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.)

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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?
Stephen Ruhlen Chief of Staff to: Rep. Henry Bonilla; Rep. Pete Olson; Rep. Lee Terry; Rep. Kay Granger Chief of Staff for : Reps. Henry Bonilla (TX), Pete Olson (TX), Lee Terry (NE), and Kay Granger (TX). Chief of staff for US Reps. Kay Granger (TX), Lee Terry (NE), Pete Olson (TX) and Henry Bonilla (TX)

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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