Lobbying Relationship

Client

EMD Millipore

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Lobbying firm

Tiber Creek Group

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  • Issues impacting the life sciences industry, including testing manufacturing, vaccines, supply chain reforms, and pandemic preparedness.
  • Issues related to Section 301 tariffs; Issues related to supply chain and COVID-19-related tariff relief.

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General Issues: Health Issues, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Budget/Appropriations, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $520,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2020: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), White House Office, Commerce - Dept of (DOC)

Related Foreign Entities: Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, GER); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%

Bills mentioned

H.R.6930: MADE in America Act of 2020

Sponsor: Buddy Carter (R-Ga.)

H.R.7610: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and...

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

H.R.133: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

Sponsor: Henry Cuellar (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?
Andrew McKechnie Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Finance Committee; Legislative Assistant, Senator Norm Coleman; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Ramstad; Bipartisan Medical Technology Caucus
Matt Leffingwell Director of Member Services Coalitions, House Appropriations Cmte.; CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Deputy CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Kay Granger; Comms. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Projects Director/Press Secretary, Rep. Mark Kirk
Jay Heimbach Special Asst. to the President for Leg. Affairs (2009-2011); Chief of Staff, Sen. Sherrod Brown (2007-2009); Office of Leg & Intergovernmental Affairs, FCC (1999-2001)
John Twomey Chief of Staff, HHS Office of the Asst. Sec. for Legislation (2019-2021); Policy Adviser, HHS (2017-2019); Special Asst., Office of the Secretary, HHS (2017); Staff Assistant, Rep. Tom Price (2015-2017); Intern, Rep. Doug Collins (2015)
Kristen Harper 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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