WAR ROOM · LOBBYING BATTLEGROUND
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.
This bill provides funding, establishes programs, and otherwise modifies provisions relating to a broad array of areas, including education, labor, child care, health care, taxes, immigration, and the environment. (The bill is commonly referred to as the Build Back Better Act.) For example, the bill provides funding for management of the …
THE LOBBYING SURGE
Federal lobbying reports naming this bill, per quarter · dashed lines = what Congress did, on the same axis
The quarterly timeline for this bill is still being assembled — 0 of 2,619 reports dated so far.
Filing periods are extracted from LDA records on a rolling basis — this chart fills in automatically.
WHO SHOWED UP
Organizations by reports naming this bill · a report discloses activity, not a position
THE REVOLVING DOOR
Lobbyists on this bill with disclosed former government roles (LDA §4)
Michael Goo
then: Chief Counsel for Energy & Environment, House Energy & Commerce Committee, (Minority), Senior Policy Advisor/detailee, US Department of Energy, Associate Administrator, US EPA, Staff Director & Chief Counsel, Select Committee on Energy Independence
now for: ELECTRIFY AMERICA, LLC
Allison Trexler
then: Policy Director, House Energy and Commerce and Chairman Ed Whitfield
now for: PERPETUA RESOURCES, CORP.
Elliot Howard
then: Professional Staff Member, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Chairman Joe Manchin
now for: SOUTHWIRE COMPANY
Tara Billingsley
then: Special Assistant to the President and Senate Legislative Affairs Liaison
now for: SOUTHWIRE COMPANY
Chris Gaston
then: Chief of Staff, Representative Rush Holt
now for: RETIREMENT INDUSTRY TRUST ASSOCIATION
Brian Rell
then: Chief of Staff - Congressman Robert Aderholt
now for: NORTHEAST TEXAS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.
Jonathan Slemrod
then: Associate Director, Legislative Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, '17-'18, Policy Advisor, Office of the Sen. Republican Whip, '12-'17, Legislative Assistant, Sen. Marco Rubio '11-'12.
now for: AMERICAN EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION COUNCIL (AXPC)
Kyle Nevins
then: Deputy Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader 11-13; Floor Director, Rep. Eric Cantor 09-10; Floor Director, Rep. Roy Blunt 07-08; Floor Assistant, Rep. Roy Blunt 03-06.
now for: AMERICAN EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION COUNCIL (AXPC)
THE MONEY BEHIND THE VOTE
Final passage: 184 YEA / 188 NAY · each side's top donor industries (all-cycles totals to those members)
⬆ YEA voters — top donor industries
⬇ NAY voters — top donor industries
Dollar figures are each industry's total contributions to those members across all tracked cycles — not money given for this bill. Correlation, not causation.
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