Lobbying Relationship

Client

Astellas Pharma US, Inc.

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Lobbying firm

NVG, LLC

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  • Monitoring issues related to the FDA user fee reauthorization bill.
  • Monitor issues related to the negotiations of prescription drugs in Medicare.
  • Issues related to Bayh-Dole Act (Pub.L. 96-517).

Duration: to

General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Defense, Pharmacy

Spending: about $960,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2019: White House Office, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Related Foreign Entities: Astellas Pharma, Inc. (Tokyo , JPN); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 99%

Bills mentioned

H.R.1040: Flat Tax Act

Sponsor: Michael C. Burgess (R-Texas)

H.R.2296: More Efficient Tools to Realize Information for Consumers Act

Sponsor: Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)

H.R.2113: Prescription Drug STAR Act

Sponsor: Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.)

S.340: CREATES Act of 2019

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

H.R.965: CREATES Act of 2019

Sponsor: David Cicilline (D-R.I.)

S.64: Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act

Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

H.R.2375: Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act

Sponsor: Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)

S.1224: Stop STALLING Act

Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

H.R.2374: Stop STALLING Act

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

S.1227: Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2019

Sponsor: Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa)

H.R.2376: Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2019

Sponsor: Doug Collins (R-Ga.)

S.1416: Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act of 2019

Sponsor: John Cornyn (R-Texas)

H.R.3: Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act

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

H.R.3199: Terminating the Extension of Rights Misappropriated Act of 2019

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

H.R.4398: Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Through Promoting Competition Act...

Sponsor: David Cicilline (D-R.I.)

H.R.1499: Protecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act of 2019

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

S.2543: Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 2019

Sponsor: Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa)

S.1895: Lower Health Care Costs Act

Sponsor: Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)

H.R.6395: William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for...

Sponsor: Adam Smith (D-Wash.)

S.4049: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021

Sponsor: James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.)

H.R.3: Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act

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

H.R.5376: Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

Sponsor: John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)

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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?
Irene Bueno Legis. Asst., Sen. Cranston; Spec. Asst. to Asst. Secy for Legislation, HHS; Dep. Asst. Secy for Legislation, HHS; Spec. Asst. to the President, White House
Lisa Foster Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Jack Reed
Andrea LaRue Rules Committee Counsel, Senator Christopher Dodd; Counsel, Senator Thomas A. Daschle; Legislative Assistant & District Director, Congressman Michael A. Andre
D Brady King Chief of Staff, Rep Kendra Horn; Chief of Staff, Sen Roland Burris; Chief of Staff, Rep Tim Mahoney; LD, Rep Allen Boyd; National Security Advisor, Sen Edward Kennedy; National Security Advisor, Sen Mark Dayton; Approps Associate, Rep Chet Edwards
Eden Shiferaw n/a
Brady King 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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