Roberts makes a correction ( Admits He Registered as Lobbyist)

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- John G. Roberts yesterday conceded he should have said he was registered to lobby on behalf of the cosmetics industry in the completed questionnaire he submitted Tuesday to the Senate for his Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

In an amendment filed yesterday in response to a Newsday story about the omission, Roberts confirmed he was registered to lobby for the Cosmetics, Toiletry and Fragrance Association and had met with two agencies on its behalf in 2001.
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Some in the Senate expressed surprise at Roberts' failure to include a publicly available lobbying disclosure form.

In his letter amending his answers yesterday, Roberts said the cosmetics association retained Hogan & Hartson in 2001 to oppose a proposed FDA sunscreen labeling regulation.

"I was asked to prepare a legal analysis of how the proposed regulation would violate the First Amendment," he wrote. "In meetings with the general counsels of the Office of Management and Budget and the Food and Drug Administration, the latter attended by other FDA employees, I made clear my client's position that implementing the regulation would result in litigation."

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