Title: Patrick Morrisey - Wikipedia
Headings: Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
Contents
Early life and education
Career in law and lobbying
Attorney General
Federal lawsuits
DEA opioid lawsuit
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Power Plan litigation
Second Amendment
Supreme Court
2020 Presidential election intervention
Political positions
Abortion
Opioid addiction
Sanctuary cities
Guns
Immigration
Drug companies
Sex trafficking
2018 U.S. Senate election
Personal life
Electoral history
References
External links

Content: Career in law and lobbying
After graduating from Rutgers, Morrisey lived in Westfield, New Jersey and opened a private law firm in 1992. He practiced health care, election, regulatory and communications law at the lobbying group Arent Fox from 1995 to 1999. Morrisey served as deputy staff director and chief health counsel for the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce from 1999 to 2004, where he worked on the passage of the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness Response Act and the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (establishing Medicare Part D ). He ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in New Jersey's 7th congressional district in 2000, receiving 9% of the vote in the Republican primary. From 2004 to 2012, Morrisey worked as a lobbyist in Washington D.C. He worked for the corporate law firm Sidley Austin before he joined King & Spalding in 2010, becoming a partner. As a lobbyist, he was viewed as an expert on health and drug-related regulations and legislation. He was paid $250,000 to lobby on behalf of a pharmaceutical trade group. The group was funded by some of the same opioid distributors that West Virginia sued for flooding the state with opioids. Attorney General
In 2012, Morrisey ran for Attorney General of West Virginia against Darrell McGraw, a five-term incumbent. He defeated McGraw and was sworn in on January 14, 2013, making him the first Republican state Attorney General to serve in West Virginia since 1933.