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THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

Lobbying for THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

 Filing 1st Quarter - Report
Reporting period
1st Quarter 2025
Jan 1 - Mar 31 · Posted Apr 17, 2025
Expenses
$120,000.00
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
District of Columbia

Official filing document

 Lobbyists on this filing 2
  • MACKENSIE SHERIN BURT New on this filing
    Previously held: Legislative Director Oct.2017-Sept.2022 (Sen Boozman), Projects Manager, Legislative Correspondent, Constituent Services Manager May 2011-Oct.2017 (Sen Alexander)
  • DAVID KIM VISI
    Previously held: Fellow Sep.2015-Sep.2016 (Rep Slaughter)

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 6
Budget/Appropriations

Appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, ARS, and NIFA funding. Appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, ARS, NIFA, and Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives funding. Appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, NIST, NASA, NOAA, NSF, MEP, and Manufacturing USA funding; Science, technology, and engineering funding in higher education, economic development, and COPS funding. Appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, NIST, NSF, MEP, Science, technology, and engineering funding in higher education, and COPS funding. Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, advanced materials and additive manufacturing, electric battery, energetic materials, innovative alloys, medical innovations and Army technology development, artificial intelligence and autonomous communications research funding, basic research and science and technology funding, DARPA funding. Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, advanced materials and additive manufacturing, electric battery, energetic materials, innovative alloys, medical innovations and Army technology development, artificial intelligence and autonomous communications, Anti-fungal development, and pathogen detection research funding, basic research and science and technology funding. Appropriations for Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, energy efficiency and renewable energy funding, additive manufacturing, nuclear energy and security, office of science, materials research and engineering education research, ARPA-E, and nuclear security research funding. Appropriations for Financial Services and General Government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, funding for preservation of historical documents. Appropriations for Interior, Environment and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, humanities funding, wildlife research funding and water research funding. Appropriations for Interior, Environment and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, wildlife research funding. Appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, funding for health-related research at HHS & NIH, regional biocontainment laboratory funding, HRSA Title VII and VIII funding, AHRQ funding, Pell Grant funding and student aid, and graduate education funding. Appropriations for the Department of State and Foreign Operations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, funding for USAID Innovation Labs and agriculture programs. Appropriations for the Department of State and Foreign Operations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, funding for USAID agriculture programs. Appropriations for the Department of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, funding for university transportation centers, research, technology and education program, environmental energy funding, aircraft technologies funding, economic development funding, aviation biofuels funding, and FTA funding. Appropriations for the Department of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, economic development funding.

Sports/Athletics

Legislation regarding the welfare of student athletes and college athletics.

Defense

National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, authorizations for advanced materials and additive manufacturing, electric battery, energetic materials, innovative alloys, medical innovations and Army technology development, artificial intelligence and autonomous communications, anti-fungal development, and pathogen detection research.

Agriculture

2025 Farm Bill authorizations for NIFA, cooperative extension, higher education, infrastructure and global agriculture programs.

Education

Legislation related to the cost of higher education.

Health Issues

NIH indirect cost rates

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

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