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Honeywell Lobbied on Medicare Issues
Associated Press via _Houston Chronicle
February 28, 2008
Diversified manufacturer Honeywell International Inc. paid Sidley Austin LLP $220,000 in 2007 to lobby the federal government.
The firm lobbied Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Medicare reimbursement issues. Morristown, N.J.-based Honeywell paid the firm $120,000 in the second half of 2007, according to according to a disclosure form posted online Feb. 13 by the Senate's public records office.
Dean Clancy, a former program associate director at the White House's Office of Management and Budget, and Patrick Morrisey, former deputy staff director and chief health counsel for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, were among those lobbying on behalf of Honeywell.
Lobbyists are required to disclose activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative branches, under a federal law enacted in 1995.
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