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LLP, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Announces Energy, 27 Secretary of the Senate, 2011 Quarter 2 Amended Lobbying Environment and Resource Strategies Department, 10 April 2013, Report Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP: Access Industries, 26 available at April 2017, available at https://www.bhfs.com/news/2013/BrownsteinHyattFarberSchreckAn https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingI nouncesEnergyEnvironmentandResourceStrategiesDepartment. D=9C29AE33-7676-4C76-A38D-B428DD5FB082&filingTypeID=64; 34 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, Archived Biography: David Secretary of the Senate, 2011 Quarter 3 Amended Lobbying Report L. 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Senate, 2012 Quarter 1 Lobbying Report Brownstein Hyatt Farber
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Baxter HealthCare Corporation, 19 April 2012, available at https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingI
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Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP: Sentrillion, 19 April 2012, available at https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingI
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February 2019.
38 For a list of lobbyists listed on BHFS’s Access account, see note
25. For a list of BHFS staffers who practiced in the firm’s Natural
Resources and Energy departments, see note 33.
39 For language included in each 2011 and 2012 quarterly lobbying report, see note 25.
40 Secretary of the Senate, 2012 Quarter 2 Amended Lobbying
Report Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP: Access Industries, 26
September 2012, available at https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingI
D=CEDF786B-08FB-436E-838C-D3B402AF08CF&filingTypeID=64.
41 For a list of lobbyists included in the 2017 lobbying amendments, see note 27.
42 New York Times, Top Leader at Interior Dept. Pushes a Policy
Favoring His Former Client, 12 February 2019, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/climate/david-bernhardt- endangered-species.html.
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