WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY

Lobbying for WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · West Virginia University - state government

Filing 1st Quarter - Report

Reporting period

1st Quarter 2026

Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted Apr 20, 2026

Expenses

$50,000.00

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

West Virginia

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 1

SUZANNE BENTZEL

Previously held: Director of Federal Relations

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 1

Budget/Appropriations

I participated in a number of meetings involving WVU leaders and the WV delegation advocating for robust funding for WVU's priority science and student support programs, and later submitted WVU's programmatic and CDS requests to Senators Capito and Justice, and Congressman Moore.

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