THOMAS LATHAM

HECHT LATHAM SPENCER & ASSOCIATES, INC., FORMERLY KNOWN AS HECHT SPENCER & ASSOC · WASHINGTON, DC · registered since 2024

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At a glance

Registered since

2024

Senate LDA system

Clients

last 3 years

Filings

2 agencies contacted

Activity

filings by quarter

Works on

Budget/Appropriations 10 Health Issues 7 Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 4 Tobacco 4 Transportation 3 Disaster Planning/Emergencies 3 Homeland Security 3 Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries 3

Background

Career

HECHT LATHAM SPENCER & ASSOCIATES, INC., FORMERLY KNOWN AS HECHT SPENCER & ASSOC

WASHINGTON, DC

2024 - present

Specific issues

Draft - Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 - Title I - Corps of Engineers - Civil - provisions related to Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund expenditures.

Budget/Appropriations · 2024 Q3

Marine dredging issues, including coastal storm restoration and permitting issues; Offshore wind energy - infrastructure proposals; Jones Act (P.L. 66-261) - issues related to maritime vessels; Draft - Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 - Title I - Corps of Engineers - Civil - provisions related to Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund expenditures; P.L. 117-58 - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act - implementation of provisions on ports and waterways.

Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries · 2024 Q3

Draft - Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 - Title II - Department of Health and Human Services - funding and policy for development, acquisition, and procurement of medical countermeasures for the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), and Project BioShield; Opioid and heroin addiction legislation, naloxone access and awareness, and prescribing guidelines; H.R. 6243 - Overdose Reversal Medication (ORM) Act - entire bill requiring employers to keep opioid overdose drugs on site; H.R. 4421 and S. 2333 - Preparing for All Hazards and Pathogens Reauthorization Act - reauthorizes public health medical countermeasures programs; H.R. 8070 - National Defense Authorization bill (NDAA), Fiscal Year 2025 - provisions related to biological and chemical defense and access to Naloxone.

Health Issues · 2024 Q3

Draft - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 - Title VII - Food and Drug Administration - Section 733 - provisions related to federal regulation of tobacco.

Budget/Appropriations · 2024 Q3

Issues relating to tobacco excise taxes.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code · 2024 Q3

P.L. 111-31 - Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control and Federal Retirement Reform Act - implementation of provisions relating to regulation of tobacco; 81 FR 289783 (May 10, 2016) - implementation of Food and Drug Administration final rule deeming certain tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, as subject to FDA regulation.

Health Issues · 2024 Q3