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WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

Lobbying for WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

 Filing 1st Quarter - Report
Reporting period
1st Quarter 2025
Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted Apr 21, 2025
Expenses
$81,998.00
What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.
Client based in
Washington

Official filing document

 Lobbyists on this filing 3
  • JACOB ANDREW DOWD
    Previously held: Director, Federal Relations
  • BETHANY JOHNS New on this filing
    Previously held: Assistant Director, Federal Relations
  • PATTI ANN STAUFFER
    Previously held: Director Health Sciences Public Policy & Advocacy

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

 Government bodies contacted 7
  • Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
  • Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
  • Energy, Dept of
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
  • Natl Science Foundation (NSF)
  • SENATE

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

 Lobbying activity 23
Environment/Superfund

Nuclear clean up, hydrogen, water, stormwater

Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Rural opioid technical assistance/support

Economics/Economic Development

Locally owned small business advocacy, economic development, infrastructure

Indian/Native American Affairs

Health professional education/training, pathway programs

Transportation

Sustainable aviation fuels, hydrogen

Sports/Athletics

Name image likeness, student athletes health and education, scholarship

Health Issues

Public health, graduate medical education, medical simulation, rural residency development

Clean Air and Water (quality)

Water infrastructure, stormwater

Defense

Advanced materials, ceramics, hydrogen, cyber security, research funding

Aerospace

Sustainable aviation fuels, hydrogen, manufacturing and STEM, NASA and workforce development

Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

Substance abuse disorder research and contingency management, Food is Medicine, disabilities research

Foreign Relations

Budget, global health, disease surveillance

Medicare/Medicaid

Graduate Medical Education, Medicare funded GME/rural health, Medicaid

Education

Access to Higher Education, Affordability of Higher Education, research development, STEM Programs, Pell Grants, Federal Student Aid, campus speech, Title IX, budget, TRIO, HEP, CAMP, student athletes, distance learning, FY25 funding, nursing education and HRSA Title VII & VIII

Budget/Appropriations

Pell, FY25 and FY26 funding for NIH, NSF, DOD & DOE, Agriculture Research, Small business development centers, Deferred maintenance and infrastructure needs, HRSA Title VII & Title VIII, CDC, USDA

Telecommunications

Broadband deployment, infrastructure and precision agriculture, broadband infrastructure, broadband mapping, access to broadband. Artificial Intel programs and legislation

Energy/Nuclear

Grid security, Sciences & engineering laboratory partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Research Agenda and Development, DOE funding (NNSA, STEM), Office of Science, quantum, biofuels, artificial intelligence, workforce development, hydrogen, STEM Education, advanced materials, Hydrogen, cyber security, fusion

Natural Resources

WSU bioproducts, sciences & engineering laboratory partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Research Agenda, Forestry Management, wildfire on federal lands, invasive species, water, stormwater and endangered species

Science/Technology

Grid security, sciences & engineering laboratory, partnerships with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Research Agenda and Development, federal research funding, FAA center of excellence, aviation biofuels, STEM, DOE Office of Science, cyber security, artificial intelligence, hydrogen

Agriculture

Farm bill, agriculture research funding, global animal health, Snap ED, trade, conservation, agriculture infrastructure, extension, opioids, facilities and infrastructure, specialty crop research initiative, functional genomics, herbicide initiative, digital agriculture, food supply chain, Food is Medicine, artificial intelligence

Immigration

DACA pathways program (1-17) (1-20) Visas H 1B visas and duration of status, F1/F2 Visa for international student

Aviation/Airlines/Airports

Noise emissions, FAA implementation, unmanned aerial systems, sustainable aviation fuels, hydrogen

Small Business

Small business development center funding

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.

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