University of Pittsburgh

Based in PA

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AI Overview

With $5.8M in lobbying spend across 33 quarterly filings, University of Pittsburgh is one of the biggest lobbying spenders in Washington. Their lobbying covers 12 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$5.8M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$670K
2019	$680K
2020	$690K
2021	$720K
2022	$860K
2023	$760K
2024	$820K
2025	$600K

Issues Lobbied

Manufacturing Defense Copyright/Patent Health Issues Budget/Appropriations Energy Education Homeland Security Science/Technology Sports Transportation MED

Lobbying Firms

University of Pittsburgh

Lobbyists

John Ringler Anthony Gibson

What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Manufacturing, Defense, Copyright/Patent, Health Issues, Budget/Appropriations and 7 more

•Generally supportive of federal initiatives related to Advanced Manufacturing.

•In support of collaboration with the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration on research related to the diagnosis and treatment of TBI, PTSD, transplantation, tissue/organ regeneration,

•In support of provisions that would address abusive patent practices on university technology transfer programs and policies. Opposed to proposals that would undermine the ability of legitimate paten

•In support of Title VII and Title VIII funding in HHS appropriations. In support of the replacement of automatic spending reductions known as sequestration because of the harm it would do the biomedi

•In support of amending the caps on discretionary spending imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L. # 112-25) which disproportionately harms programs including academic research and federal stud