DARREN BENJAMIN

Client	Filings	Years
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM)	11	2024–2026
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY)	9	2023–2024
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO ASOCIACION DE GRANJAS DE COCODRILUS ACUTUS)	8	2025–2026
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO PORT OF BROWNSVILLE)	4	2026
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE)	4	2025–2026
BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE	4

Firm	Filings	Years
RELATION STRATEGY, LLC	55	2022–2026

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · third_quarter · Q3

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 Appropriations

Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

PEEBLES BERGIN FKA PEEBLES KIDDER (OBO OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · third_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 appropriations for Bureau of Indian Affairs

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO PORT OF BROWNSVILLE) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · second_quarter · Q2

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 appropriations

Filing targets: Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · second_quarter · Q2

Firm income: $20,000Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 and Inflation Reduction Act appropriations

Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), SENATE, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO ASOCIACION DE GRANJAS DE COCODRILUS ACUTUS) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · second_quarter · Q2

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

APP

Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles

Issues relating to the reclassification of the American crocodile species in the Federal Register.

Filing targets: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · second_quarter · Q2

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 Appropriations

Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO PORT OF BROWNSVILLE) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · first_quarter · Q1

Firm income: $12,325Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 appropriations

Filing targets: Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO NATIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · first_quarter · Q1

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 appropriations

Filing targets: Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · first_quarter · Q1

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 and Inflation Reduction Act appropriations

Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · first_quarter · Q1

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 Appropriations

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · first_quarter · Q1

Firm income: $8,300Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 appropriations

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO PORT OF BROWNSVILLE) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · first_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 appropriations

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO NATIONAL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · first_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY27 appropriations

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO ASOCIACION DE GRANJAS DE COCODRILUS ACUTUS) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · first_quarter · Q1

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

APP

Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles

Issues relating to the reclassification of the American crocodile species in the Federal Register.

Filing targets: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2026 · first_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (4 issues)

NAT

Natural Resources

Annual Appropriations; Farm Bill; Fish and Wildlife Programs; Agriculture Conservation Programs

RES

Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation

Annual Appropriations; Farm Bill; Fish and Wildlife Programs; Agriculture Conservation Programs

AGR

Agriculture

Annual Appropriations; Farm Bill; Fish and Wildlife Programs; Agriculture Conservation Programs

BUD

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO ASOCIACION DE GRANJAS DE COCODRILUS ACUTUS) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · fourth_quarter · Q4

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

APP

Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles

Issues relating to the reclassification of the American crocodile species in the Federal Register.

Filing targets: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · fourth_quarter · Q4

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY26 Appropriations

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO ASOCIACION DE GRANJAS DE COCODRILUS ACUTUS) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · third_quarter · Q3

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

APP

Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles

Issues relating to the reclassification of the American crocodile species in the Federal Register.

Filing targets: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · third_quarter · Q3

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY26 Appropriations

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO HUMANE WORLD ACTION FUND (FKA HUMANE SOCIETY via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · second_quarter · 2A

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY26 Appropriations

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO ASOCIACION DE GRANJAS DE COCODRILUS ACUTUS) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · second_quarter · 2A

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

APP

Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles

Issues relating to the reclassification of the American crocodile species in the Federal Register.

Filing targets: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO ASOCIACION DE GRANJAS DE COCODRILUS ACUTUS) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · first_quarter · RA

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (2 issues)

APP

Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles

Issues relating to the reclassification of the American crocodile species in the U.S. Federal Register.

TRD

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Issues relating to the reclassification of the American crocodile species in the U.S. Federal Register.

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO ASOCIACION DE GRANJAS DE COCODRILUS ACUTUS) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · second_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

ANI

Animals

American crocodile

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO HUMANE WORLD ACTION FUND (FKA HUMANE SOCIETY via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · second_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY26 Appropriations

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · second_quarter · Q2

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY26 appropriations

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · second_quarter · Q2

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY26 Appropriations

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · first_quarter · Q1

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY26 appropriations

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · first_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

Monitor appropriations issues.

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2025 · first_quarter · Q1

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY26 Appropriations

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · fourth_quarter · Q4

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY25 appropriation bills

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO SHARDA USA, LLC) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · third_quarter · Q3

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY25 Appropriations

Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · third_quarter · Q3

Firm income: $14,500Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY25 appropriation bills

Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Indian Health Service, Interior, Dept of (DOI), SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · third_quarter · Q3

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY25 appropriation bills

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO SHARDA USA, LLC) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · third_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY25 appropriations bills

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · second_quarter · Q2

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY appropriation bills

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO 1-800 CONTACTS) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · second_quarter · Q2

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY25 appropriation bills

Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · second_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY25 appropriation bills

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO 1-800 CONTACTS) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · second_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY25 appropriation bills

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · second_quarter · Q2

Firm income: $20,000Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY25 appropriation bills

Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Indian Health Service, Interior, Dept of (DOI), SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2024 · second_quarter · RA

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY25 appropriation bills

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO CHICKAHOMINY INDIAN TRIBE) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2023 · third_quarter · 3T

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY 2024 Appropriation Bills

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2023 · third_quarter · 3T

Firm income: $10,000Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY 2024 Appropriations Bills

Filing targets: Interior, Dept of (DOI), SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO CHICKAHOMINY INDIAN TRIBE) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2023 · third_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY 2024 appropriations bills

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2023 · second_quarter · 2A

Firm income: $10,000Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY 2024 Appropriations Bills

Filing targets: Interior, Dept of (DOI), SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2023 · second_quarter · 2A

Firm income: $10,000Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY 2024 Appropriations Bills

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2023 · second_quarter · RA

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY 2024 Appropriations

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2023 · second_quarter · Q2

Firm income: $10,000Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

FY 2024 Appropriations Bills

Filing targets: SENATE

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD (OBO GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY) via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2023 · second_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

Congressional appropriations

NATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2022 · fourth_quarter · 4T

Firm income: $40,000Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

IND

Indian/Native American Affairs

Indian health

Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

NATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2022 · third_quarter · Q3

Firm income: $10,000Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (1 issues)

IND

Indian/Native American Affairs

Indian health

Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

NATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD via RELATION STRATEGY, LLC

2022 · third_quarter · RR

Firm income: —Client expense: —Open original LDA filing ↗

Assigned issues and filing targets (3 issues)

BUD

Budget/Appropriations

Healthcare-related programs for federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes.

HCR

Health Issues

Healthcare-related programs for federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes.

IND

Indian/Native American Affairs

Healthcare-related programs for federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes.

Clients represented

Lobbying firms

Original LDA source filings (55)