U.S. Government PR Contracts
According to the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform Minority Office, Fleishman-Hillard received the following amounts per year, for federal PR contracts:
- $39,000 in 1998
- $33,589,000 in 1999
- $2,344,000 in 2000
- $5,011,996 in 2001
- $23,903,419 in 2002
- $3,433,690 in 2003
- $8,686,529 in 2004
The firm's federal work has included the Social Security Administration, on the “Ticket to Work” program for disabled and blind Social Security recipients; Library of Congress; Environmental Protection Agency; Department of Defense, to introduce “managed care” to 8.3 million current and former employees, at a time of “rising medical costs” and “decreasing resources”; and Office of National Drug Control Policy, to “debunk the misconception that marijuana was harmless."
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