Lobbying

The firm is registered under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act and, in addition, members appear on request before committees of the Congress in an unregistered capacity.

Among the congressional issues in which the firm has been involved are:

• Catastrophic health insurance
• Debarment of pharmaceutical companies
• Patent legislation
• Federal-State mineral royalty collection
• Newspaper publishers' antitrust treatment
• Oil pipeline regulation
• Negotiable Orders of Withdrawal (NOW) accounts
• Telephone service providers
• Investigations of foreign activities in the U.S.

Two attorneys in the firm previously served as congressional staff members.  Mr. Banta was counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, 1974-1979, and subsequently counsel to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1979-1980.  Mr. Lobel was a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association for Congressman Gerald R. Ford and Senator William Proxmire in 1968 and subsequently became Legislative Assistant to Senator William Proxmire, 1968-1972.