Lobbying Relationship

Client

Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Lobbying firm

Prime Policy Group

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  • Access to in vitro fertilization therapeutics and procedures; antibiotic resistance
  • NDAA; access to assisted reproductive technology

Duration: to

General Issues: Health Issues, Defense

Spending: about $210,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2022: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, White House Office

Related Foreign Entities: Ferring International Center S.A. (Saint-Prex, SUI); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%

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?
Emily Katz 2013-15: Senior Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Barbara Boxer; 2010-13: Health Policy Director, Rep. Diana DeGette; 2009-10: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Ron Wyden; 2005-07: Legislative Aide, Sen. Ron Wyden; 2004: Biomedical Ethics Intern (Paid), NIH
Mitchell Vakerics 2007-08: Staff Assistant, Rep. Timothy Murphy; 2008-09: Legislative Correspondent/Press Assistant, Rep. Timothy Murphy; 2011-15: Legislative Counsel, Rep. Renee Ellmers; 2015: Legislative Director, Rep. Renee Ellmers
Rich Meade 1997-2003: Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim Nussle; 2001-05: Chief of Staff, Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives
Aquila Powell 1996-1999: Legislative Aide, US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI); 1994-1995: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. John Bryant (D-TX); 1999-2001: Special Assistant, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation
Andrew Terp 2012-2016: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Todd Young (IN-09); 2017-2019 Legislative Assistant, Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)
Mark Disler 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.

Termination
Q2 Report
Q1 Report
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Q3 Report
Q2 Report
Registration

Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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