Brett Loper

Before he became one of Speaker John Boehner’s closest aides, Brett Loper led efforts to block the Affordable Care Act medical device tax as the director of government affairs for the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), a trade association for medical device companies, including Baxter International and Medtronic. As Loper took his congressional job in January of 2011, he filed an ethics form that showed that AdvaMed paid him $100,147 in bonus. Forms filed with the IRS show that AdvaMed had already paid Loper a $72,500 bonus in addition to the $466,366 in compensation he earned for the year ending December 31, 2010. The ethics form filed by Loper states he earned only $449,661 from his AdvaMed position the year he began work in Congress. Read more: How Did These Five Lobbyists Become Congressional Staffers? | The Nation http://www.thenation.com/article/174003/how-did-these-five-lobbyists-become-congressional-staffers#ixzz2XF9sKuUK Follow us: @thenation on Twitter | TheNationMagazine on Facebook