Lobbying Relationship

Client

RAI Services Company

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Lobbying firm

GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP

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  • Congressional monitoring related to the tobacco industry. Congressional monitoring of FDA and Congressional action related to menthol cigarettes. Congressional monitoring of FDA action related to deeming tobacco products to be subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Congressional monitoring related to federal excise taxes Monitor federal and legislative action related to the marketing and advertising of tobacco products. Monitor the implementation of Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (P.L. 113-3). Monitor FDA action related to: -Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Combusted Cigarettes (Docket No. FDA2017N6189) -Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Regulation of Flavors in Tobacco Products (Docket No. FDA2017N6565)
  • Congressional monitoring related to the tobacco industry. Congressional monitoring related to federal excise taxes

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General Issues: Tobacco, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Health Issues

Spending: about $1,160,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2019: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Related Foreign Entities: British American Tobacco p.l.c. (London WC2R 2PG, GBR); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%

Bills mentioned

H.R.3164: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and...

Sponsor: Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (D-Ga.)

H.R.2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign...

Sponsor: Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)

S.1541: Tobacco-Free Youth Act

Sponsor: Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

H.R.2411: Tobacco to 21 Act

Sponsor: Diana DeGette (D-Colo.)

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

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

S.2522: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and...

Sponsor: John Hoeven (R-N.D.)

S.1895: Lower Health Care Costs Act

Sponsor: Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)

H.R.1865: Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020

Sponsor: Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.)

S.1253: Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act

Sponsor: Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

H.R.133: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

Sponsor: Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)

H.R.3407: MOM­MA’s Act

Sponsor: Robin Kelly (D-Ill.)

S.411: MOM­MA’s Act

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

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

Sponsor: Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.)

S.1314: Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021

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

H.R.5376: Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

Sponsor: John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)

S.CON.RES.14: A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the...

Sponsor: Bernard Sanders (ID-Vt.)

H.R.4356: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and...

Sponsor: Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (D-Ga.)

S.2559: Deepfake Task Force Act

Sponsor: Rob Portman (R-Ohio)

H.R.2471: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022

Sponsor: Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

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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?
Albert Wynn U.S. Congressman (92-08)
L. Andrew Zausner n/a
Katie Reed n/a
K. Laurie McKay n/a
Robert Maples 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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