Penn State University
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is a multicampus state-related, land-grant, space-grant public research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania, in the United States.
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Campaign Finance
$708,877 GivenFigures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
- corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
- organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.
For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.
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Lobbying
$3,670,000 SpentFigures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.
Lobbying on Behalf of Penn State University
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Firm Hired Amount Penn State University $3,670,000 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Fed Budget & Appropriations,
- Defense,
- Education,
- Health Issues,
- Agriculture,
- Transportation,
- Science & Technology,
- Taxes,
- Copyright, Patent & Trademark,
- Energy & Nuclear Power
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title S.365 Budget Control Act of 2011 H.R.2117 Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act H.R.2674 340B Program Improvement Act S.1297 A bill to preserve State and institutional authority relating to State authorization and the definition of credit hour. H.R.4872 Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 H.R.3433 GRANT Act H.R.3664 Healthcare Innovation Zone Pilot Act of 2009 S.23 Patent Reform Act of 2011 S.515 Patent Reform Act of 2009 H.R.1249 America Invents Act
Regulations
Mentioned in 454 dockets; Submitted to 22 docketsAll data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.
Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.
Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.
Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.
The tables show occurrences of "Penn State University" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Documents Submitted by the Organization
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Mentions in Document Text
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Earmarks
$6,509,000 ReceivedFigures are based on both committee earmark disclosures and on analysis of appropriations bill text. Table shows top 10 earmarks, ordered by dollar amount in the final version of the bill.
For more information, see our Earmark Methodology page.
Top Earmarks
| Fiscal Year | Amount | Description |
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| 2008 | $5,600,000 | Penn State University: Medical Development -- Penn State Cancer Institute |
| 2008 | $587,000 | Penn State University: Milk Safety, PA |
| 2008 | $248,000 | Penn State University: Agricultural Entrepreneurial Alternatives, PA |
| 2008 | $74,000 | Penn State University: Center for Dairy Excellence, PA |
Advisory Committees
195 people on 91 committeesData is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.
The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.
Table shows employees of "Penn State University" that sat on federal advisory committees.
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