UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Lobbying for UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Filing 3rd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

3rd Quarter 2025

July 1 - Sep 30 · Posted Oct 20, 2025

Expenses

$30,000.00

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

Arizona

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 2

JENELL BIGGS SMOLOVA

Previously held: Matt Margulies, Evan Mulbry, Pieter Wingerden (House Select Committee on China) Robert MacGregor, Jacob Greenberg (House Naturial Resources Committee) Maya Hermann, Katie Roberts (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee)
ADAM CHRISTOPHER FOUNTAINE New on this filing

Previously held: AZ members: Ciscomani, Biggs, Crane, Gosar, Hamadeh

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 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE

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

Lobbying activity 8

Sports/Athletics

strategy meetings and calls Big 12, college athletics and policies we support/don't with UA Athletics director

Natural Resources

Strategy meetings relating to mining schools coalition, Critical Minerals/Mining priorities; Advocacy hill meetings on importance of mining workforce and research

Aerospace

Discussions, advocacy and strategy meetings relating to NASA related projects

Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

AAMC, ABPS, NIH Kidney Education grant and Integrative Med strategy and discussion calls

Budget/Appropriations

Advocacy/appropriations requests relating to University of Arizona priorities and initiatives to Arizona Senate and House members. Issues relating to critical minerals, NASA, NSF, education research, NIH and research and development.

Education

Strategy meetings for education research, F&A allocation, LEARN Coalition, APLU CGA and AAU CFR, and ACE

Environment/Superfund

strategy related to Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program Re-Authorization, NEPAccess, and EPA WEST EJ Center

Veterans

Strategy, background calls and planning for stafdel campus visit; info calls for Joint Service Transcripts meeting

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