Key to lobbying Congress according to a Senator- Persistence
Feb 18, 2017 13:53:53 GMT
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"The answer was surprisingly simple: A constituent bothered him about the topic. Repeatedly.
“I used to use her as an example of how to be effective at lobbying Congress,” Dorgan, now a senior policy adviser at law firm Arent Fox, says. “She caught my attention, I cared about it, and it became personal.”
The woman was named Brenda Neubauer. Her son Jack has hemophilia, a blood disease that requires regular injections of an expensive blood clotting agent. The medication cost $30,000 each month.
Jack was in elementary school when he capped out of his dad’s (Neubauer’s ex-husband’s) health plan, which had a $1 million limit. He switched to his mom’s plan, which had a $2 million ceiling. By age 12, he was already halfway through that second policy. Neubauer estimated her son would run out of benefits by time he turned 16.
She started to write letters to the editor in the mid-2000s and attended Dorgan’s events, where she would ask about the issue."
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/17/14638292/how-to-lobby-senate-congress
“I used to use her as an example of how to be effective at lobbying Congress,” Dorgan, now a senior policy adviser at law firm Arent Fox, says. “She caught my attention, I cared about it, and it became personal.”
The woman was named Brenda Neubauer. Her son Jack has hemophilia, a blood disease that requires regular injections of an expensive blood clotting agent. The medication cost $30,000 each month.
Jack was in elementary school when he capped out of his dad’s (Neubauer’s ex-husband’s) health plan, which had a $1 million limit. He switched to his mom’s plan, which had a $2 million ceiling. By age 12, he was already halfway through that second policy. Neubauer estimated her son would run out of benefits by time he turned 16.
She started to write letters to the editor in the mid-2000s and attended Dorgan’s events, where she would ask about the issue."
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/17/14638292/how-to-lobby-senate-congress
