To amend the Federal Power Act to provide for Federal and State coordination of permitting for electric transmission facilities, and for other purposes.

Ensure fair and non-discriminatory labor practices in the federal workplace as well as in private industry. Protect job training programs. Increase the minimum wage (support H.R. 2). Support temporary loans to American automobile industry (support 7321). Support extension of unemployment benefits (support H.R. 6867) Support workers' right to form a union (support H.R. 800). Support the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act (H.R. 2831). Support the extension of unemployment benefits. Support pay equity (support H.R. 1338).

Client expense: $50,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Voice of America, White House Office

H.R. 2015, Employment Nondiscrimination Act H.R. 2831, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act HR 3010, the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007 S 1728, the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007 HR 800, Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 S 1041, Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 HR 1338, Paycheck Fairness Act

Client expense: $4,260,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)

HJR 0079 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, media ownership HR 0248 To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the regulations regarding the Do-not-call registry to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, privacy HR 0281 To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to allow all eligible voters to vote by mail in Federal elections. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights, discrimination HR 0372 To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the regulations regarding the Do-not-call registry to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, privacy HR 0719 bill to authorize additional appropriations for supervision of Internet access by sex offenders convicted under Federal law, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, sex offenders HR 0818 To secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified ex-offenders who have served their sentences. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights, criminal justice HR 0923 To provide for the investigation of certain unsolved civil rights crimes, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice HR 0985 To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that such policies, forms, and agreements are consistent with certain disclosure protections, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, equal protection, privacy HR 1281 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain deceptive practices in Federal elections, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights HR 1338 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, equal protection, womens rights HR 1352 To prohibit the return or other transfer of persons by the United States, for the purpose of detention, interrogation, trial, or otherwise, to countries where torture or other inhuman treatment of persons occurs, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, torture, human rights HR 1383 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for the misuse of robocalls. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, privacy, censorship HR 1415 To provide for the effective prosecution of terrorists and guarantee due process rights. Issue lobbied: national security, human rights HR 1416 To restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States and to repeal the prohibition on treaty obligations establishing grounds for certain claims. Issue lobbied: national security, criminal justice, civil rights, habeas corpus HR 1431 To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to establish provisions with respect to religious accommodation in employment, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, religious liberty HR 1955 To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 2015 To prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. . Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, equal protection, women's rights, LGBT rights HR 2102 To maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, free press, censorship HR 2638 Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, privacy, employment verification HR 2831 To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, equal protection, disability rights HR 3189 To establish reasonable procedural protections for the use of national security letters, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, privacy, government oversight HR 3195 To restore the intent and protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, disability rights HR 3356 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain electronic surveillance. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 3407 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow State and local educational agencies and schools to make greater use of early intervening services, particularly schoolwide positive behavior supports. Issue lobbied: civil rights, education, school-to-prison pipeline HR 3547 To increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: Civil rights, criminal justice, gangs HR 3548 To enhance citizen access to Government information and services by establishing plain language as the standard style for Government documents issued to the public, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, government oversight, freedom of information HR 3773 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 3782 To reiterate the exclusivity of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 as the sole authority to permit the conduct of electronic surveillance, to modernize surveillance authorities, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 3791 To modernize and expand the reporting requirements relating to child pornography, to expand cooperation in combating child pornography, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, First Amendment, criminal justice, privacy, free speech, censorship HR 3887 To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, womens rights HR 3971 To encourage States to report to the Attorney General certain information regarding the deaths of individuals in the custody of law enforcement agencies, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: Civil rights, criminal justice HR 4088 To provide immigration reform by securing America's borders, clarifying and enforcing existing laws, and enabling a practical employer verification program. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, immigration, privacy, employment verification HR 4114 To modify certain provisions of law relating to torture. Issue lobbied: civil rights, human rights, torture HR 4175 To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to data privacy and security, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy HR 4179 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish an appeal and redress process for individuals wrongly delayed or prohibited from boarding a flight, or denied a right, benefit, or privilege, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy, terror watch list HR 4279 To enhance remedies for violations of intellectual property laws, and for other purposes. Issues lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, civil forfeiture HR 4300 To establish a meaningful opportunity for parole for each child offender sentenced to life in prison, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, juvenile justice HR 4545 To target cocaine kingpins and address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, sentencing disparities, racial justice, discrimination HR 4806 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a strategy to prevent the over-classification of homeland security and other information and to promote the sharing of unclassified homeland security and other information, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, government oversight, freedom of information HR 5035 To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate increased penalties for cocaine offenses where the cocaine involved is cocaine base, to eliminate minimum mandatory penalties for offenses involving cocaine, to use the resulting savings to provide drug treatment and diversion programs for cocaine users, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, sentencing disparities, racial justice, discrimination HR 5038 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent the election practice known as caging, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, First Amendment, voting rights, free speech, criminal justice HR 5036 To direct the Administrator of General Services to reimburse certain jurisdictions for the costs of obtaining paper ballot voting systems for the general elections for Federal office to be held in November 2008, to reimburse jurisdictions for the costs incurred in conducting audits or hand counting of the results of the general elections for Federal office to be held in November 2008, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights, paper trails HR 5057 To reauthorize the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, privacy, arrestee testing HR 5353 To establish broadband policy and direct the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a proceeding and public broadband summits to assess competition, consumer protection, and consumer choice issues relating to broadband Internet access services, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, net neutrality HR 5442 To provide individuals with access to health information of which they are a subject, to ensure personal privacy, security, and confidentiality with respect to health related information in promoting the development of a nationwide interoperable health information infrastructure, to impose criminal and civil penalties for unauthorized use of personal health information, to provide for the strong enforcement of these rights, to protect States' rights, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy HR 5501 To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, women's rights, reproductive freedom, family planning, global gag rule HR 5515 To amend the Social Security Act to prevent unauthorized earnings from being credited toward benefits under title II of such Act and to make improvements in provisions governing totalization agreements, to amend the Social Security Act and the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent unauthorized employment, and to improve coordination of the provisions of such Acts, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, immigration, privacy HR 5607 To provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege. Issue lobbied: national security, privacy, government oversight HR 5803 To direct the Election Assistance Commission to establish a program to make grants to participating States and units of local government which will administer the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2008 for carrying out a program to make backup paper ballots available in the case of the failure of a voting system or voting equipment in the election or some other emergency situation, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights, paper ballots HR 5950 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish procedures for the timely and effective delivery of medical and mental health care to all immigration detainees in custody, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, immigrants rights, criminal justice HR 5994 To amend the Clayton Act with respect to competitive and nondiscriminatory access to the Internet. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, net neutrality HR 6098 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to improve the financial assistance provided to State, local, and tribal governments for information sharing activities, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 6123 To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to cyberbullying. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, civil rights, criminal justice HR 6193 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and administer policies, procedures, and programs to promote the implementation of the Controlled Unclassified Information Framework applicable to unclassified information that is homeland security information, terrorism information, weapons of mass destruction information and other information within the scope of the information sharing environment established under section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485), and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, government oversight, freedom of information HR 6304 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 6331 To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, reproductive freedom, abstinence-only programs HR 6518 To increase public confidence in the justice system and address any unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal process. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, racial justice, discrimination HR 6575 To require the Archivist of the United States to promulgate regulations to prevent the over-classification of information, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, privacy, government oversight HR 6588 To preclude searches of laptop computers and similar devices based on the power as sovereign to search at the border or upon entry to the United States. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy HR 6617 To strengthen communities through English literacy, civics, education, and immigrant integration programs. Issue lobbied: civil rights, immigrants rights HR 6680 To permit the use of Federal funds for syringe exchange programs for purposes of reducing the transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including HIV and viral hepatitis. Issue lobbied: civil rights, drug policy HR 6702 To impose requirements with regard to border searches of digital electronic devices and digital storage media, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy HR 6778 To secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified ex-offenders who have served their sentences. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights HR 6869 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue a rule with respect to border security searches of electronic devices, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy HR 6932 To amend the Fair Housing Act to prevent discrimination relating to the display of religious symbols, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, religious liberty, discrimination HR 7033 To provide safeguards with respect to the Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal background checks prepared for employment purposes, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, background checks HR 7136 To secure the Federal voting rights of persons who have been released from incarceration. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights HR 7255 To reform immigration detention procedures, and for other purposes. Issues lobbied: civil rights, immigration, detention HRES 1211 Expressing the sense of the House that the Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering Enterprise and Terrorism Enterprise Investigation as modified on May 30, 2002 ("Ashcroft Guidelines") should be rescinded and replaced by the former Guidelines ('Levi guidelines') to protect Americans from domestic Federal Bureau of Investigation spying in the absence of suspected criminal activity. Issue lobbied: national security, First Amendment, free speech S 0185 A bill to restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States. Issue lobbied: national security, habeas corpus, human rights S 0215 A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure net neutrality. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, net neutrality S 0274 A bill to amend chapter 23 of title 5, United States Code, to clarify the disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices, require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements that such policies, forms, and agreements conform with certain disclosure protections, provide certain authority for the Special Counsel, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, civil rights, criminal justice, privacy S 0453 A bill to prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, voting rights S 0456 A bill to increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, juvenile justice, gangs S 0495 A bill to prevent and mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, to provide notice of security breaches, and to enhance criminal penalties, law enforcement assistance, and other protections against security breaches, fraudulent access, and misuse of personally identifiable information. Issue lobbied: civil rights, civil liberties, criminal justice, privacy S 576 A bill to provide for the effective prosecution of terrorists and guarantee due process rights. Issue lobbied: national security, criminal justice, civil rights, habeas corpus, human rights S 0717 A bill to repeal title II of the REAL ID Act of 2005, to restore section 7212 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which provides States additional regulatory flexibility and funding authorization to more rapidly produce tamper- and counterfeit-resistant driver's licenses, and to protect privacy and civil liberties by providing interested stakeholders on a negotiated rulemaking with guidance to achieve improved 21st century licenses to improve national security. Issue lobbied: national security, civil liberties, privacy, REAL ID S 1267 A bill to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, free press, reporters shield S 1469 A bill to require the closure of the Department of Defense detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, human rights, habeas corpus S 1548 An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, habeas corpus, detention S 1711 A bill to target cocaine kingpins and address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, discrimination, racial justice S 1738 A bill to require the Department of Justice to develop and implement a National Strategy Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, to improve the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, to increase resources for regional computer forensic labs, and to make other improvements to increase the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute child predators. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, sex offenders S 1780 A bill to require the FCC, in enforcing its regulations concerning the broadcast of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may be considered indecent. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, fleeting expletives S 1843 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to clarify that an unlawful practice occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, fair pay, equal protection S 1927 A bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to provide additional procedures for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence information and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy S 1959 A bill to establish the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, privacy, civil rights S 2011 A bill entitled "The Protect America Act of 2007". Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy, government oversight S 2035 A bill to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, free press, reporters' shield S 2052 A bill to allow for certiorari review of certain cases denied relief or review by the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Issue lobbied: civil rights, due process, access to the courts S 2088 A bill to place reasonable limitations on the use of National Security Letters, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy, government oversight S 2111 A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and schools to increase implementation of early intervention services, particularly school-wide positive behavior supports. Issue lobbied: civil rights, education, school-to-prison pipeline S 2135 A bill to prohibit the recruitment or use of child soldiers, to designate persons who recruit or use child soldiers as inadmissible aliens, to allow the deportation of persons who recruit or use child soldiers, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, immigration S 2248 An original bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, to modernize and streamline the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy, government oversight S 2291 A bill to enhance citizen access to Government information and services by establishing plain language as the standard style of Government documents issued to the public, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, government oversight, freedom of information S 2533 A bill to enact a safe, fair, and responsible state secrets privilege Act. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy, government oversight S 2624 A bill to regulate political robocalls. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, civil rights S 2746 A bill to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that staturtory exemptions to the disclosure requirment of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing such exemptions, to ensure an open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explictly stat such required citations, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, First Amendment, free speech, censorship, freedom of information, government oversight S 2945 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice occurs on the date on which the aggrieved person knew or should have known that the person was affected by the decision or practice, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, womens rights, discrimination, fair pay S 2977 A bill to create a Federal cause of action to determine whether defamation exists under United States law in cases in which defamation actions have been brought in foreign courts against United States persons on the basis of publications or speech in the United States. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, civil rights, criminal justice S 3001 An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties S 3005 A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish procedures for the timely and effective delivery of medical and mental health care to all immigration detainees in custody, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, immigration, criminal justice S 3061 A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, human rights, womens rights S 3136 A bill to encourage the entry of felony warrants into the NCIC database by States and provide additional resources for extradition. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, privacy S 3140 A bill to provide that 4 of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal employee shall be paid leave, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights S 3143 A bill to assist law enforcement agencies in locating, arresting, and prosecuting fugitives from justice. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice S 3155 A bill to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, juvenile justice, gangs S 3182 An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, science, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, restrictions on legal services corporations S 3209 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to clarify the filing period applicable to charges of discrimination, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, womens rights, discrimination S 3217 A bill to provide appropriate protection to attorney-client privileged communications and attorney work product. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, attorney-client protections S 3245 A bill to increase public confidence in the justice system and address any unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal process. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, racial justice, discrimination S 3297 A bill to advance America's priorities. Issue lobbied: civil liberties S 3325 A bill to enhance remedies for violations of intellectual property laws, and for other purposes. Issues lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, civil forfeiture S 3406 A bill to restore the intent and protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Issue lobbied: civil rights, disability rights, discrimination S 3474 A bill to amend title 44, United States Code, to enhance information security of the Federal Government, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy S 3594 A bill to protect United States citizens from unlawful arrest and detention. Issue lobbied: civil rights, immigrants rights S 3612 A bill to protect citizens and legal residents of the United States from unreasonable searches and seizures of electronic equipment at the border, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy S 3628 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to establish provisions with respect to religious accommodations in employment, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, civil rights, religious liberty, discrimination S 3640 A bill to secure the Federal voting rights of persons who have been released from incarceration. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights S 3662 An original bill to establish the Controlled Unclassified Information Office, to require policies and procedures for the designation, marking, safeguarding, and dissemination of controlled unclassified information, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, national security, freedom of information, government oversight SJR 0028 A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, media ownership Repeal of HIV travel ban (CDC and HHS), expansion of federal refusal clauses (HHS), streamlining public housing programs (HUD), deaths in immigration detention (DHS, Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties), immigrant access to the courts (DHS, Office of Inspector General), immigration enforcement (ICE), improving living standards for immigrants in detention facilities (ICE), shackling of pregnant women (ICE), immigration enforcement on school campuses (DHS, Customs and Border Protection), detainee medical care (DHS, Division of Immigration Health Services), deaths of immigration detainees (DOJ), regulations for government spying and FBI investigations (DOJ), information sharing (DOJ), Ex. Order 12333 (DOJ), domestic violence on tribal lands (DOJ, Violence Against Indian Women Task Force), DOJ voting rights enforcement (DOJ, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section), medical treatment of ICE detainees (DOJ, Bureau of Prisons), commutations for non-violent crack offenses (DOJ, Office of the Pardon Attorney), PREA standards (National Prison Rape Elimination Commission), medical refusals (President's Council on Bioethics), religious discrimination in prisons (Commission on Civil Rights), crack/powder sentencing disparity (Sentencing Commission)

Client expense: $467,669 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Employee Free Choice Act, H.R. 800 Employee Free Choice Act , S. 1041 Issues under Workforce Investment Act of 1998 Paycheck Fairness Act, H.R. 1338 Re-empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers Act, S. 969 Protecting America's Workers Act, S. 1244 Fair Pay Restoration Act, S. 1843 Re-empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers Act, H.R. 1644 Protecting America's Workers Act, H.R. 2049 Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007, H.R. 2831 Bush Administration "Midnight" Rulemaking DOL Risk Assessment Rule Possible Legislative Responses to DOL Family Medical Leave Act Rules

Client expense: $260,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE

S 1782/H.R. 3010 - Arbitration Fairness Act, supported HR 5312 - Automobile Arbitration Fairness Act, supported S 2838/HR 6126, Fairness in Nursing Homes Arbitration, supported H.R. 1338/S. 766 - Paycheck Fairness Act H.R. 7033 - Fairness and Accuracy Employment Background Checks Act of 22008 H.R. 800/S.1041 - Employee Free Choice Act

Client expense: $158,411 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R. 5129/S.2554 Civil Rights Act of 2008, supported S. 1843 - Fair Pay Restoration Act/Fair Pay Act, supported H.R. 2831 - Fair Pay Restoration Act/Fair Pay Act, supported S. 2481/H.R. 4611 - End Racial Profiling Act H.R. 1338/S. 766 - Paycheck Fairness Act H.R. 2638 - Appropriations Continuing Resolution, Census Bureau funding H.R. 1399, the District of Columbia Personal Protection Act H.R. 6842, the National Capital Security and Safety Act H.R. 7033 - Fairness and Accuracy Employment Background Checks Act of 22008 Census Appropiations - expressed concerns regarding census funding levels HR 1592 Local Law Enforcement Hate Crime Prevention Act S 1105 Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act

Client expense: $158,411 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Opposed the Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers Act, HR 1644. Opposed the Paycheck Fairness Act, HR 1338.

Client expense: $150,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

S 1782/H.R. 3010 - Arbitration Fairness Act, supported HR 5312 - Automobile Arbitration Fairness Act, supported S 2838/HR 6126, Fairness in Nursing Homes Arbitration, supported H.R. 1338/S. 766 - Paycheck Fairness Act H.R. 7033 - Fairness and Accuracy Employment Background Checks Act of 22008 H.R. 800/S.1041 - Employee Free Choice Act

Client expense: $401,441 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R. 5129/S.2554 Civil Rights Act of 2008, supported S. 1843 - Fair Pay Restoration Act/Fair Pay Act, supported H.R. 2831 - Fair Pay Restoration Act/Fair Pay Act, supported S. 2481/H.R. 4611 - End Racial Profiling Act H.R. 1338/S. 766 - Paycheck Fairness Act H.R. 2638 - Appropriations Continuing Resolution, Census Bureau funding H.R. 1399, the District of Columbia Personal Protection Act H.R. 6842, the National Capital Security and Safety Act H.R. 7033 - Fairness and Accuracy Employment Background Checks Act of 22008 Census Appropiations - expressed concerns regarding census funding levels HR 1592 Local Law Enforcement Hate Crime Prevention Act S 1105 Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act

Client expense: $401,441 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Hate crimes prevention/enforcement, incl. H.R. 1592 & S. 1105 Implementation of the Help America Vote Act (Public Law No: 107-252), incl. provisional ballots, enforcement authority of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), and pollworker training Federal voting representation for the District of Columbia, incl. H.R. 1905 & S. 1257 Pay equity and Congressional response to the Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision, incl. H.R. 2831 & S. 1843, as well as the Paycheck Fairness Act, incl. H.R. 1338 & S. 766 Voter fraud issues and Congressional response to the Crawford v. Marion County Election Board and Democratic Party v. Rokita decisions, incl. report by the government and oversight of the Voting Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice Deceptive practices in voting, incl. H.R. 1281 & S. 453 and oversight of the Voting Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, as well as caging (H.R. 5038 & S. 2305) legislation and vote challenging practices Voter identification and Congressional response to the Crawford v. Marion County Election Board and Democratic Party v. Rokita decisions, incl. H.R. 4026 Voter registration, incl. implementation of the National Voter Registration Act (Public Law No: 103-31) Early voting Oversight of the Department of Justices Civil Rights Division, incl. its Voting Rights Section Marriage promotion and responsible fatherhood initiatives, incl. H.R. 3395 & S. 1626 Implementation of the Voting Rights Act (Public Law No: 89-110), incl. deployment of federal observers and attorney monitors, and use of criminal prosecutors in such deployment, as well as language assistance and polling place accessibility Development of a 2009 Civil Rights Act that would close loopholes created by recent Supreme Court decisions Ex-felon enfranchisement Election preparedness and contingency plans, incl. lessons learned from the 2004 and 2008 election cycles

Client expense: $20,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Election Assistance Commission (EAC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE

Pay equity and Congressional response to the Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision, incl. H.R. 2831 & S. 1843, as well as the Paycheck Fairness Act, incl. H.R. 1338 & S. 766

Client expense: $20,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Election Assistance Commission (EAC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE

Workplace Health and Safety, Minimum Wage, EFCA, National Labor Standards; Fair Labor Standards Act; Wage & Hour Enforcement; National Labor Relations Act; Job Training; Prevailing Wage/Minimum Wage and Jurisdictional issues of rail workers; H.R. 2693, "Popcorn Workers Lung Disease Prevention Act; H.R. 800, Employee Free Choice Act; S. 1041, Employee Free Choice Act; Worker misclassification as independent contractors; S. 2044, Independent Contractor Proper Classification Act of 2007; construction safety, under-reporting of workplace injuries, illnesses, multi-site employees; H.R. 5804, Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability & Consistency Act; OSHA enforcement and coverage: Organizing rights of workers at FedEx, Worker misclassification at FedEx; S. 1244, Protecting America's Workers Act; Workplace safety/organizing rights of workers at Waste Management Inc.; Paid Sick Leave legislation; H.R. 3796/S. 1792 WARN Act; S. 1843, Fair Pay Restoration Act; Extension of Unemployment Insurance Benefits; H.R. 6111, Employee Misclassification Prevention Act of 2008; H.R. 2831, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2008; Anti-trust issues in package delivery industry; H.R. 1338, Paycheck Fairness Act; NPRM re: DOL Revisions for Fair Labor Standards Act Regulations. DOL Worker Health Risk Assessment Proposal; H.R. 6867, Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008; Anti-trust issues with solid waste industry mergers; DOL Worker Health Risk Assessment proposal; H.R. 6660, Prohibiting the Department of Labor's Secret Rule Act; Antitrust issues concerning merger between Allied Waste and Republic; Organizing rights for Workers at Atlantic Southeast Airlines.

Client expense: $373,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

H.R. 2015, Employment Nondiscrimination Act H.R. 2831, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act HR 3010, the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007 S 1728, the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007 HR 800, Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 S 1041, Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 HR 1338, Paycheck Fairness Act

Client expense: $4,260,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)

Workplace Health and Safety, Minimum Wage, EFCA, National Labor Standards; Fair Labor Standards Act; Wage & Hour Enforcement; National Labor Relations Act; Job Training; Prevailing Wage/Minimum Wage and Jurisdictional issues of rail workers; H.R. 2693, "Popcorn Workers Lung Disease Prevention Act; H.R. 800, Employee Free Choice Act; S. 1041, Employee Free Choice Act; Worker misclassification as independent contractors; S. 2044, Independent Contractor Proper Classification Act of 2007; construction safety, under-reporting of workplace injuries, illnesses, multi-site employees; H.R. 5804, Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability & Consistency Act; OSHA enforcement and coverage: Organizing rights of workers at FedEx, Worker misclassification at FedEx; S. 1244, Protecting America's Workers Act; Workplace safety/organizing rights of workers at Waste Management Inc.; Paid Sick Leave legislation; H.R. 3796/S. 1792 WARN Act; S. 1843, Fair Pay Restoration Act; Extension of Unemployment Insurance Benefits; H.R. 6111, Employee Misclassification Prevention Act of 2008; H.R. 2831, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2008; Anti-trust issues in package delivery industry; H.R. 1338, Paycheck Fairness Act; NPRM re: DOL Revisions for Fair Labor Standards Act Regulations. DOL Worker Health Risk Assessment Proposal; H.R. 6867, Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008; Anti-trust issues with solid waste industry mergers; DOL Worker Health Risk Assessment proposal; H.R. 6660, Prohibiting the Department of Labor's Secret Rule Act; Antitrust issues concerning merger between Allied Waste and Republic; Organizing rights for Workers at Atlantic Southeast Airlines.

Client expense: $373,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

HR 2831/ S 1843, The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, oppose over concerns over elimination of statute of limitations; The ADA Amendments Act, concern over litigation and limited resources to meet accomodation requirements; HR 1338, The Paycheck Fairness Act, oppose over concerns over unlimited punitive and compensatory damages for EPA violations.

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE

HR. 2831/ S 1843, The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, opposed over concerns over elimination of statute of limitations; The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, section 202, concern over conflicts with other laws and employee benefit programs; The ADA Amendments Act, concern over litigation and limited resources to meet accomodation requirements; HR 1338, The Paycheck Fairness Act, oppose over concerns over unlimited punitive and compensatory damages for EPA violations.

Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), Social Security Administration (SSA), White House Office

Ensure fair and non-discriminatory labor practices in the federal workplace as well as in private industry. Protect job training programs. Increase the minimum wage (support H.R. 2). Support temporary loans to American automobile industry (support 7321). Support extension of unemployment benefits (support H.R. 6867) Support workers' right to form a union (support H.R. 800). Support the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act (H.R. 2831). Support the extension of unemployment benefits. Support pay equity (support H.R. 1338).

Client expense: $50,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Voice of America, White House Office

Fair Labor Standards Act Ledbetter Fair Pay Act- HR 2813, S. 1843 Paycheck Fairness Act- HR 1338, S. 766 Labor/HHS Appropriations bill - HR 3043 Family Leave Insurance Act- HR 1369, S. 1681 Protecting Amercai's Workers Act- HR 2049, S. 1244 OSHA Reform Employee Free Choice Act- HR 800, S. 1041 Secret Ballot Protection Act, HR 866, S. 1312 Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007- HR 2, HR 239, HR 509, S. 2, S. 347 ADA Restoration Act- HR 3195, S. 1881, S. 3064 RESPECT Act- HR 1644, S. 969 Healthy Families Act- HR 1542, S. 910

Client expense: $207,327 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE

- H.R. 576, Federal Mine Ventilation Safety Act of 2007, All Titles - H.R. 800 and S. 1041, Employee Free Choice Act, All Titles. - H.R. 866 and S. 1312, Secret Ballot Protection Act of 2007, All Titles. - H.R. 2768 and H.R. 2769, S-MINER Act, All Titles. -S. 1655, Miner Health and Safety Enhancement Act of 2007, All Titles. -S. 742, Ban Asbestos in America Act of 2007 -S. 2127, Mine Disaster Family Assistance Act of 2007 -Mine Safety & Health Administration Staffing and Resource Allocation; Mine Safety Emergency Training Standard; Metal/Nonmetal Diesel Particulate Emissions (DPM); Crystalline Silica; Respirable Coal Mine Dust; MINER Act Implementation; Mine Seal Rule; Mine Rescue Rule; Drug Testing Rules -HR 3915, ADA Amendments Act, provisions regarding ameliorative measures and discrimination against those regarded as having a disability - H.R. 1644/S. 969, RESPECT Act, definition of supervisor - H.R. 2831/S.1843, Lilly Ledbetter legislation, all provisions - H.R. 1643/S. 1898, FMLA expansion, provision relating to leave for volunteers - H.R. 1369, FMLA expansion, provision relating to parent teacher meetings or school field trips - H.R. 3662/S. 1792, expansion of WARN Act, provisions requiring 90 days notice; S. 606, blacklisting for federal contractors, provisions relating to blacklisting - S.1928, provisions relating to elimination of caps on punitive and compensatory damages under civil rights laws - H.R. 1338/S. 766, Paycheck Fairness Act, all provisions. -S.742, Ban Asbestos in America Act of 2007 -H.R. 6093, Bruce Vento Ban Asbestos and Prevent Mesothelioma Act of 2008

Client expense: $200,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA), Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, White House Office

H.R. 800/S. 1041, the Employee Free Choice Act H.R. 2831/S. 1843, the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act S. 3209, the Title VII Fairness Act H.R. 1338/S. 766, the Paycheck Fairness Act

Client expense: $274,290 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

S. Con Res 70 - Budget Resolution; H.Con Reg 312 ; H.Res 153; S. Report 110-39; H. Report 110-543 Disaster relief Defense authorization (S. 3001) Labor, HHS appropriations (S. 3230) Supplemental appropriations for FY 2008 (H.R. 2638, P.L. 110-39) Supplemental appropriations for FY 2008 (P.L. 110-252) FY09 Military construction - VA appropriations (H.R. 1338) Supplemental appropriations for the National Institutes of Health (S. 3272) Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 (H.R. 2638) Stimulus bill (H.R. 7110, S. 3604), additional funding for infrastructure, Medicaid FEMA funding for flood recovery, cost sharing obligations Title VII House appropriations for Area Health Education Centers Economic stimulus package (S. 3689) Financial rescue legislation (H.R. 1424) including Senate tax bill (H.R. 6049) with tax extenders

Client expense: $110,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

HR 1338/S. 766, Paycheck Fairness Act S. 3406, ADA Amendments Act of 2008 HR 2831, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007 S 1843, Fair Pay Restoration Act

Client expense: $383,438 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

HJR 0079 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech, Media Ownership. HR 0248 To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the regulations regarding the Do-not-call registry to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, privacy. HR 0281 To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to allow all eligible voters to vote by mail in Federal elections. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Voting Rights, absentee voting. HR 0372 To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the regulations regarding the Do-not-call registry to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, privacy. HR 0800 To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Labor Rights. HR 0923 To provide for the investigation of certain unsolved civil rights crimes, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Voting Rights, DOJ prosecution of Civil Rights era crimes. HR 0985 To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that such policies, forms, and agreements are consistent with certain disclosure protections, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers. HR 0985 To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that such policies, forms, and agreements are consistent with certain disclosure protections, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: human rights. HR 1281 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain deceptive practices in Federal elections, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Voting Rights. HR 1338 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, legislation enhancing the Equal Pay Act. HR 1352 To prohibit the return or other transfer of persons by the United States, for the purpose of detention, interrogation, trial, or otherwise, to countries where torture or other inhuman treatment of persons occurs, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: human rights. HR 1383 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for the misuse of robocalls. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, privacy, censorship. HR 1415 To provide for the effective prosecution of terrorists and guarantee due process rights. Issues Lobbied: human rights. HR 1416 To restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States and to repeal the prohibition on treaty obligations establishing grounds for certain claims. Issues Lobbied: human rights. HR 1431 To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to establish provisions with respect to religious accommodation in employment, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: civil rights. HR 1889 To require prisons and other correctional facilities holding Federal prisoners under a contract with the Federal Government to make the same information available to the public that Federal prisons and correctional facilities are required to do by law. Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties. HR 1955 To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, First Amendment. HR 2015 To prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Issues Lobbied: civil rights. HR 2102 To maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech, free press, censorship. HR 2831 To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, Legislation responding to the Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision . HR 3013 To provide appropriate protection to attorney-client privileged communications and attorney work product. Issues Lobbied: attorney-client privilege. HR 3189 To establish reasonable procedural protections for the use of national security letters, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, National Security Letter Power, Patriot Act Section 215 power. HR 3356 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain electronic surveillance. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Surveillance, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. HR 3547 To increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, gangs. HR 3773 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Surveillance, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. HR 3782 To reiterate the exclusivity of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 as the sole authority to permit the conduct of electronic surveillance, to modernize surveillance authorities, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Surveillance, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. HR 3887 To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Human Rights. HR 3971 To encourage States to report to the Attorney General certain information regarding the deaths of individuals in the custody of law enforcement agencies, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice. HR 4114 To modify certain provisions of law relating to torture. Issues Lobbied: human rights. HR 4545 To target cocaine kingpins and address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Issues Lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, sentencing disparities, racial justice, discrimination. HR 4806 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a strategy to prevent the over-classification of homeland security and other information and to promote the sharing of unclassified homeland security and other information, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification. HR 5035 To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate increased penalties for cocaine offenses where the cocaine involved is cocaine base, to eliminate minimum mandatory penalties for offenses involving cocaine, to use the resulting savings to provide drug treatment and diversion programs for cocaine users, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, sentencing disparities, racial justice, discrimination. HR 5038 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent the election practice known as caging, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Voting Rights, ban on voter caging. HR 5057 To reauthorize the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, privacy, arrestee testing. HR 5353 To establish broadband policy and direct the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a proceeding and public broadband summits to assess competition, consumer protection, and consumer choice issues relating to broadband Internet access services, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: first amendment, free speech, censorship, net neutrality. HR 5607 To provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, State Secrets Privilege. HR 5803 To direct the Election Assistance Commission to establish a program to make grants to participating States and units of local government which will administer the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2008 for carrying out a program to make backup paper ballots available in the case of the failure of a voting system or voting equipment in the election or some other emergency situation, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Voting Rights, paper ballots . HR 5994 To amend the Clayton Act with respect to competitive and nondiscriminatory access to the Internet. Issues Lobbied: first amendment, free speech, censorship, net neutrality. HR 6098 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to improve the financial assistance provided to State, local, and tribal governments for information sharing activities, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Fusion Center Funding. HR 6123 To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to cyberbullying. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech, censorship, civil rights, criminal justice. HR 6143 To make technical corrections to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 relating to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties. HR 6193 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and administer policies, procedures, and programs to promote the implementation of the Controlled Unclassified Information Framework applicable to unclassified information that is homeland security information, terrorism information, weapons of mass destruction information and other information within the scope of the information sharing environment established under section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485), and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, controlled but unclassified information. HR 6304 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Surveillance, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. HR 6358 To require certain standards and enforcement provisions to prevent child abuse and neglect in residential programs, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Human Rights. HR 6518 To increase public confidence in the justice system and address any unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal process. Issues Lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, racial justice, discrimination. HR 6575 To require the Archivist of the United States to promulgate regulations to prevent the over-classification of information, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification. HR 6932 To amend the Fair Housing Act to prevent discrimination relating to the display of religious symbols, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, religious liberty, discrimination. HR 7016 To prohibit discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex or race, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Human Rights. HR 7033 To provide safeguards with respect to the Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal background checks prepared for employment purposes, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, background checks. HR 7136 To secure the Federal voting rights of persons who have been released from incarceration. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Sentencing Reform, Voting Rights, Felon Voting Rights. HR 7227 To encourage States to report to the Attorney General certain information regarding the deaths of individuals in the custody of law enforcement agencies, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Requiring federal detention facilities to report in-custody deaths to the attorney general. HR 7255 To reform immigration detention procedures, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Immigration Detention Conditions. HR 7296 To delay the implementation of agency rules adopted within the final 90 days of the final term a President serves. Issues Lobbied: Due Process. HR 7311 To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Human Rights. HR 7322 Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Free Speech (restrictions on Legal Services Corporations). HRES 1211 Expressing the sense of the House that the Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering Enterprise and Terrorism Enterprise Investigation as modified on May 30, 2002 ("Ashcroft Guidelines") should be rescinded and replaced by the former Guidelines ('Levi guidelines') to protect Americans from domestic Federal Bureau of Investigation spying in the absence of suspected criminal activity Issues Lobbied: National Security, First Amendment, Free speech. S 0020 A bill to prohibit the implementation or enforcement of certain regulations. Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties. S 0185 A bill to restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States. Issues Lobbied: human rights. S 0215 A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure net neutrality. Issues Lobbied: Frist Amendment, free speech, censorship, net neutrality. S 0215 A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure net neutrality. Issues Lobbied: Frist Amendment, free speech, censorship, net neutrality. S 0274 A bill to amend chapter 23 of title 5, United States Code, to clarify the disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices, require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements that such policies, forms, and agreements conform with certain disclosure protections, provide certain authority for the Special Counsel, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers. S 0453 A bill to prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections. Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. S 0456 A bill to increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, juvenile justice, gangs. S 0766 A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies of victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, legislation enhancing the Equal Pay Act. S 1267 A bill to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, free press, reporters shield. S 1469 A bill to require the closure of the Department of Defense detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: human rights. S 1548 An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: human rights. S 1711 A bill to target cocaine kingpins and address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Issues Lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, racial justice, discrimination. S 1780 A bill to require the FCC, in enforcing its regulations concerning the broadcast of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may be considered indecent. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, fleeting explatives. S 1843 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to clarify that an unlawful practice occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, Legislation responding to the Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision . S 1927 A bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to provide additional procedures for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence information and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Surveillance, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. S 1959 A bill to establish the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, First Amendment. S 2011 "The Protect America Act of 2007" Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Surveillance, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. S 2035 A bill to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, free press, reporters shield. S 2088 A bill to place reasonable limitations on the use of National Security Letters, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, National Security Letter Power, Patriot Act Section 215 power. S 2111 A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and schools to increase implementation of early intervention services, particularly school-wide positive behavior supports. Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties. S 2248 An original bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, to modernize and streamline the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Surveillance, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. S 2533 A bill to enact a safe, fair, and responsible state secrets privilege Act. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, State Secrets Privilege. S 2624 A bill to regulate political robocalls. Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties. S 2746 A bill to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that statutory exemptions to the disclosure requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing such exemptions, to ensure an open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explicitly state such required citations, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Freedom of Information Act Reform. S 2945 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice occurs on the date on which the aggrieved person knew or should have known that the person was affected by the decision or practice, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination. S 2977 A bill to create a Federal cause of action to determine whether defamation exists under United States law in cases in which defamation actions have been brought in foreign courts against United States persons on the basis of publications or speech in the United States. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. S 3061 A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Human Rights. S 3155 A bill to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, juvenile justice, gangs. S 3182 An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, science, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Free Speech (restrictions on Legal Services Corporations). S 3209 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to clarify the filing period applicable to charges of discrimination, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination. S 3217 A bill to provide appropriate protection to attorney-client privileged communications and attorney work product. Issues Lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, attorney-client protections. S 3245 A bill to increase public confidence in the justice system and address any unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal process. Issues Lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, racial justice, discrimination. S 3594 A bill to protect United States citizens from unlawful arrest and detention. Issues Lobbied: Immigration Due Process. S 3628 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to establish provisions with respect to religious accommodations in employment, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: civil rights. S 3640 A bill to secure the Federal voting rights of persons who have been released from incarceration. Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Sentencing Reform, Voting Rights, Felon Voting Rights. S 3662 An original bill to establish the Controlled Unclassified Information Office, to require policies and procedures for the designation, marking, safeguarding, and dissemination of controlled unclassified information, and for other purposes. Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, controlled but unclassified information. S 576 A bill to provide for the effective prosecution of terrorists and guarantee due process rights. Issues Lobbied: human rights. SJR 0028 A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership. Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, media ownership. Additional Congressional issues lobbied: FBI Background Check legislation, Attorney General Guidelines for FBI Activities, Universal Voter Registration, Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, Immigration Raids, E-Verify, Public Protection From False or Fraudulent Information and Science Act, Vote Caging bills, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Prison Re-entry Work Proposals, Restrictions on Public Advocacy Litigation. Other Issues lobbied: Department of Defense Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Separation of Powers, Military Deployment/Posse Comitatus. Department of Homeland Security Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Government Spying, Information Sharing, E-Verify, detention conditions, and immigration due process. Department of Justice Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 12333, National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Government Spying, Regulation of intelligence agencies, Information Sharing, Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Oversight and Commutations for non-violent crack offenses. Executive Office for Immigration Review Issues Lobbied: improving pro bono representation before the agency. Federal Bureau of Investigations Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Constitutional rights and Attorney General Guidelines. Federal Communications Commission Issues Lobbied: Internet filtering and Expanding use of white spaces and undeveloped areas of the broadcast spectrum. Health and Human Services Issues Lobbied: Refusal Regulation. Department of Housing and Urban Development Issues Lobbied: Streamlining Public Housing. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Issues Lobbied: Immigration detention standards. National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Issues Lobbied: PREC Standards for Lockups, Juvenile and Community Corrections Facilities. Office of the Director of National Intelligence Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 12333, National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Government Spying, Regulation of intelligence agencies and Information Sharing Office of Management and Budget Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties and Community-Based Abstinence Education Performance Progress Report. Commission on Civil Rights Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, religious discrimination in prisons, felony enfranchisement

Client expense: $341,982 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)

H.R. 800, S. 1041, Employee Free Choice Act Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) OSHA standards Employer flexibility S. 1843, H.R. 2831, Ledbetter Fair Pay Act H.R. 1644, "RESPECT" Act H.R. 3796, to expand the Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification (WARN) Act H.R. 3195, S. 1881, S. 3406, ADA Amendments Act H.R. 2768, S-Minor Act H.R. 5522, Combustible Dust Explosion & Fire Prevention Act of 2008 H.R. 5444, Job Investment & Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 H.R. 5749, re. unemployment compensation benefits S. 776, H.R. 1338, Paycheck Fairness Act Requirements for DOL Agencies "Assessment of Occupational Health Risks" RIN-1290-AA23 ADA Title II Regulations Healthy Families Act

Client expense: $980,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Natl Security Council (NSC), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), President of the U.S., SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

S.1041/H.R. 800, Employee Free Choice Act, all provisions relating to the National Labor Relations Act. S. 70/H. Con. Res. 312, Budget Resolution, provisions related to the United States Government for fiscal year 2008(revised) and 2009 - 2013. H.R. 1327, Protective Equipment for America's Worker Act, all provisions relating to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the complete rulemaking on Employer Payment for Personal Protective Equipment for workers. H.R. 2642, Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008, opposition to amendment offered by Senator Mikulski to the supplemental appropriations bill that would build an exemption to the cap for returning H-2B guest workers. H.R. 3831, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007, all provisions related to title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. H.R. 3840/H.R. 3841, Atlantic Menhaden Conservation Act, al provisions prohibiting commercial fishing of Atlantic menhaden for reduction purposes in inland, State, and Federal waters along the Atlantic coast of the United States. H.R. 4047, Private Sector Whistleblower Protection Streamlining Act of 2007, al provisions related to whistleblower protections for private sector, state, and municipal employees who are retaliated or discriminated against by an employer for disclosing threats to public safety or violations of federal law. H.R. 5522, Combustible Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention Act of 2008, all provisions relating to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the standards regarding workers exposure to combustible dust. H.R. 5873, Family Leave Insurance Act of 2008, all provisions of the bill establishing a paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program for certain covered employers. H.R. 6029, Family Fairness Act of 2008, all provisions of an amendment to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to eliminate an hours of service requirement for benefits under that Act. H.R. 1338, Paycheck Fairness Act, all provisions relating to the amendment of the Equal Pay Act (E PA) by revising remedies for and enforcement of prohibitions against sex discrimination in the payment of wages.

Client expense: $150,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R. 1338 - Paycheck Fairness Act

Client expense: $186,837 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Administration on Aging, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Indian Health Service, Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office

S. 186, Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act of 2007 HR. 3013/S. 3217, Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act of 2007 S. 2450, To amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to address the waiver of the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine S. 2449, Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2007 H.R. 1338 / S. 766, Paycheck Fairness Act H.R. 2019 / S. 1087, Fair Pay Act of 2007 H.R. 2831, Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007 S. 1843, Fair Pay Restoration Act S. 3209, Title VII Fairness Act Department of Justice regulations implementing revised guidelines for making public facilities accessible under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (73 Fed. Reg. 34,508, June 17, 2008) Potential regulations amending 29 CFR 1630 (implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act) as a result of enactment of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (Pub.L. 110-325).

Client expense: $24,030,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), General Services Administration (GSA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Natl Security Council (NSC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Postal Regulatory Commission, SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

H.R. 493, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 S. 3406, ADA Amendments Act of 2008 Trade Adjustment Assistance program and legislative reauthorization proposals All labor and employment provisions of the following bills: H.R. 2831, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007 S. 1843, Fair Pay Restoration Act H.R. 1644 / S. 969, Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act HR 3796, Early Warning and Health Care for Workers Affected by Globalization Act HR 3920, Trade and Globalization Assistance Act of 2007 H.R. 800 / S. 1041, Employee Free Choice Act H.R. 1542 / S. 910, Healthy Families Act H.R. 3662 / S. 1792, Forewarn Act of 2007 H.R. 1338, Paycheck Fairness Act FTC Part 3 and 4 Rules of Practice Rulemaking: Parts 3 and 4 Rules of Practice Rulemaking Implementation and oversight of the National Labor Relations Act National Labor Relations Board jurisdiction and preemption of conflicting state actions Regulations codified at 29 C.F.R. 541 (related to the exemption under section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and computer employees) and their interpretation. Regulations promulgated by DOL to clarify employer duty to provide personal protective equipment and train each employee, codified at 29 CFR Parts 1910, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1926. Regulations finalized by DOL revising requirements under the Family and Medical Leave Act, codified at 29 CFR 825, including new leave provisions benefiting families of military personnel. Regulations proposed by DOL standardizing requirements for a drug and alcohol testing program for mine operators, to be codified at 30 CFR Part 66.

Client expense: $24,030,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), General Services Administration (GSA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Natl Security Council (NSC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Postal Regulatory Commission, SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

H.R. 2019/S. 1087: Fair Pay Act S. 1649: Military Family Support Act H.R. 2744: Airline Flight Crew Technical Correction Act S. 880: Family Leave Act S. 80: Executive Branch Family Leave Act H.R. 2049: Protecting America's Workers Act H.R. 2831: Ledbetter Fair Pay Act H.R. 2015: Employment Non-Discrimination Act H.R. 1431: Workplace Religious Freedom Act S. 606: Honest Leadership and Accountability in Contracting Act S. 221: Fair Contracts for Growers Act H.R. 3010/ S. 1782: Arbitration Fairness Act H.R. 800/S. 1041: Employee Free Choice Act H.R. 1644/S. 969: Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act H.R. 2206: Fair Minimum Wage Act H.R. 1338/S. 766: Paycheck Fairness Act H.R. 2202/S. 1330: Worker Empowerment Act H.R. 3747: Workforce Investment Act H.R. 1322: Emergency Retiree Health Benefits Act of 2007 H.R. 4296/S. 2408: Medicare Electronic Medication & Safety Protection (E-MGOS) Act of 2007

Client expense: $280,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Free Flow of Information Act, H.R. 2102, S. 2035 Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, H.R. 2831, S. 1843 Paycheck Fairness Act, H.R. 1338, S. 766

Client expense: $176,530 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)

H.R.800, Employee Free Choice Act; H.R.1542, Healthy Families Act; H.R.1369, Family & Medical Leave Act Expansion; S.1681, Family Leave Insurance Act of 2007; H.R.2831, Ledbetter Fair Pay Act; H.R.1338, Paycheck Fairness Act

Client expense: $57,578 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of

HR 6331 Medicare Physican Payments HR 1338 Paycheck Equity HR 6842 District of Columbia Gun Laws HR 6304 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance

Client expense: $43,800 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office

Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments (HR 3195/S 1881) Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act (HR 6842) Paycheck Fairness Act (HR 1338/S 766)

Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE

HJR 0079 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, media ownership HR 0248 To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the regulations regarding the Do-not-call registry to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, privacy HR 0281 To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to allow all eligible voters to vote by mail in Federal elections. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights, discrimination HR 0372 To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the regulations regarding the Do-not-call registry to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, privacy HR 0719 bill to authorize additional appropriations for supervision of Internet access by sex offenders convicted under Federal law, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, sex offenders HR 0818 To secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified ex-offenders who have served their sentences. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights, criminal justice HR 0923 To provide for the investigation of certain unsolved civil rights crimes, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice HR 0985 To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that such policies, forms, and agreements are consistent with certain disclosure protections, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, equal protection, privacy HR 1281 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain deceptive practices in Federal elections, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights HR 1338 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, equal protection, womens rights HR 1352 To prohibit the return or other transfer of persons by the United States, for the purpose of detention, interrogation, trial, or otherwise, to countries where torture or other inhuman treatment of persons occurs, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, torture, human rights HR 1383 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for the misuse of robocalls. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, privacy, censorship HR 1415 To provide for the effective prosecution of terrorists and guarantee due process rights. Issue lobbied: national security, human rights HR 1416 To restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States and to repeal the prohibition on treaty obligations establishing grounds for certain claims. Issue lobbied: national security, criminal justice, civil rights, habeas corpus HR 1431 To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to establish provisions with respect to religious accommodation in employment, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, religious liberty HR 1955 To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 2015 To prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. . Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, equal protection, women's rights, LGBT rights HR 2102 To maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, free press, censorship HR 2638 Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, privacy, employment verification HR 2831 To amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to the discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, equal protection, disability rights HR 3189 To establish reasonable procedural protections for the use of national security letters, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, privacy, government oversight HR 3195 To restore the intent and protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, disability rights HR 3356 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain electronic surveillance. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 3407 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow State and local educational agencies and schools to make greater use of early intervening services, particularly schoolwide positive behavior supports. Issue lobbied: civil rights, education, school-to-prison pipeline HR 3547 To increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: Civil rights, criminal justice, gangs HR 3548 To enhance citizen access to Government information and services by establishing plain language as the standard style for Government documents issued to the public, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, government oversight, freedom of information HR 3773 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 3782 To reiterate the exclusivity of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 as the sole authority to permit the conduct of electronic surveillance, to modernize surveillance authorities, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 3791 To modernize and expand the reporting requirements relating to child pornography, to expand cooperation in combating child pornography, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, First Amendment, criminal justice, privacy, free speech, censorship HR 3887 To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, womens rights HR 3971 To encourage States to report to the Attorney General certain information regarding the deaths of individuals in the custody of law enforcement agencies, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: Civil rights, criminal justice HR 4088 To provide immigration reform by securing America's borders, clarifying and enforcing existing laws, and enabling a practical employer verification program. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, immigration, privacy, employment verification HR 4114 To modify certain provisions of law relating to torture. Issue lobbied: civil rights, human rights, torture HR 4175 To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to data privacy and security, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy HR 4179 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish an appeal and redress process for individuals wrongly delayed or prohibited from boarding a flight, or denied a right, benefit, or privilege, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy, terror watch list HR 4279 To enhance remedies for violations of intellectual property laws, and for other purposes. Issues lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, civil forfeiture HR 4300 To establish a meaningful opportunity for parole for each child offender sentenced to life in prison, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, juvenile justice HR 4545 To target cocaine kingpins and address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, sentencing disparities, racial justice, discrimination HR 4806 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a strategy to prevent the over-classification of homeland security and other information and to promote the sharing of unclassified homeland security and other information, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, government oversight, freedom of information HR 5035 To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate increased penalties for cocaine offenses where the cocaine involved is cocaine base, to eliminate minimum mandatory penalties for offenses involving cocaine, to use the resulting savings to provide drug treatment and diversion programs for cocaine users, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, sentencing disparities, racial justice, discrimination HR 5038 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent the election practice known as caging, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, First Amendment, voting rights, free speech, criminal justice HR 5036 To direct the Administrator of General Services to reimburse certain jurisdictions for the costs of obtaining paper ballot voting systems for the general elections for Federal office to be held in November 2008, to reimburse jurisdictions for the costs incurred in conducting audits or hand counting of the results of the general elections for Federal office to be held in November 2008, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights, paper trails HR 5057 To reauthorize the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, privacy, arrestee testing HR 5353 To establish broadband policy and direct the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a proceeding and public broadband summits to assess competition, consumer protection, and consumer choice issues relating to broadband Internet access services, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, net neutrality HR 5442 To provide individuals with access to health information of which they are a subject, to ensure personal privacy, security, and confidentiality with respect to health related information in promoting the development of a nationwide interoperable health information infrastructure, to impose criminal and civil penalties for unauthorized use of personal health information, to provide for the strong enforcement of these rights, to protect States' rights, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy HR 5501 To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, women's rights, reproductive freedom, family planning, global gag rule HR 5515 To amend the Social Security Act to prevent unauthorized earnings from being credited toward benefits under title II of such Act and to make improvements in provisions governing totalization agreements, to amend the Social Security Act and the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent unauthorized employment, and to improve coordination of the provisions of such Acts, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, immigration, privacy HR 5607 To provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege. Issue lobbied: national security, privacy, government oversight HR 5803 To direct the Election Assistance Commission to establish a program to make grants to participating States and units of local government which will administer the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2008 for carrying out a program to make backup paper ballots available in the case of the failure of a voting system or voting equipment in the election or some other emergency situation, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights, paper ballots HR 5950 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish procedures for the timely and effective delivery of medical and mental health care to all immigration detainees in custody, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, immigrants rights, criminal justice HR 5994 To amend the Clayton Act with respect to competitive and nondiscriminatory access to the Internet. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, net neutrality HR 6098 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to improve the financial assistance provided to State, local, and tribal governments for information sharing activities, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 6123 To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to cyberbullying. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, civil rights, criminal justice HR 6193 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and administer policies, procedures, and programs to promote the implementation of the Controlled Unclassified Information Framework applicable to unclassified information that is homeland security information, terrorism information, weapons of mass destruction information and other information within the scope of the information sharing environment established under section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 485), and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, government oversight, freedom of information HR 6304 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy HR 6331 To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, reproductive freedom, abstinence-only programs HR 6518 To increase public confidence in the justice system and address any unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal process. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, racial justice, discrimination HR 6575 To require the Archivist of the United States to promulgate regulations to prevent the over-classification of information, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, privacy, government oversight HR 6588 To preclude searches of laptop computers and similar devices based on the power as sovereign to search at the border or upon entry to the United States. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy HR 6617 To strengthen communities through English literacy, civics, education, and immigrant integration programs. Issue lobbied: civil rights, immigrants rights HR 6680 To permit the use of Federal funds for syringe exchange programs for purposes of reducing the transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including HIV and viral hepatitis. Issue lobbied: civil rights, drug policy HR 6702 To impose requirements with regard to border searches of digital electronic devices and digital storage media, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy HR 6778 To secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified ex-offenders who have served their sentences. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights HR 6869 To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue a rule with respect to border security searches of electronic devices, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy HR 6932 To amend the Fair Housing Act to prevent discrimination relating to the display of religious symbols, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, religious liberty, discrimination HR 7033 To provide safeguards with respect to the Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal background checks prepared for employment purposes, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, background checks HR 7136 To secure the Federal voting rights of persons who have been released from incarceration. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights HR 7255 To reform immigration detention procedures, and for other purposes. Issues lobbied: civil rights, immigration, detention HRES 1211 Expressing the sense of the House that the Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering Enterprise and Terrorism Enterprise Investigation as modified on May 30, 2002 ("Ashcroft Guidelines") should be rescinded and replaced by the former Guidelines ('Levi guidelines') to protect Americans from domestic Federal Bureau of Investigation spying in the absence of suspected criminal activity. Issue lobbied: national security, First Amendment, free speech S 0185 A bill to restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States. Issue lobbied: national security, habeas corpus, human rights S 0215 A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure net neutrality. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, net neutrality S 0274 A bill to amend chapter 23 of title 5, United States Code, to clarify the disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices, require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements that such policies, forms, and agreements conform with certain disclosure protections, provide certain authority for the Special Counsel, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, civil rights, criminal justice, privacy S 0453 A bill to prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, voting rights S 0456 A bill to increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, juvenile justice, gangs S 0495 A bill to prevent and mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, to provide notice of security breaches, and to enhance criminal penalties, law enforcement assistance, and other protections against security breaches, fraudulent access, and misuse of personally identifiable information. Issue lobbied: civil rights, civil liberties, criminal justice, privacy S 576 A bill to provide for the effective prosecution of terrorists and guarantee due process rights. Issue lobbied: national security, criminal justice, civil rights, habeas corpus, human rights S 0717 A bill to repeal title II of the REAL ID Act of 2005, to restore section 7212 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which provides States additional regulatory flexibility and funding authorization to more rapidly produce tamper- and counterfeit-resistant driver's licenses, and to protect privacy and civil liberties by providing interested stakeholders on a negotiated rulemaking with guidance to achieve improved 21st century licenses to improve national security. Issue lobbied: national security, civil liberties, privacy, REAL ID S 1267 A bill to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, free press, reporters shield S 1469 A bill to require the closure of the Department of Defense detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, human rights, habeas corpus S 1548 An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, habeas corpus, detention S 1711 A bill to target cocaine kingpins and address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, discrimination, racial justice S 1738 A bill to require the Department of Justice to develop and implement a National Strategy Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, to improve the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, to increase resources for regional computer forensic labs, and to make other improvements to increase the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute child predators. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, sex offenders S 1780 A bill to require the FCC, in enforcing its regulations concerning the broadcast of indecent programming, to maintain a policy that a single word or image may be considered indecent. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, fleeting expletives S 1843 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to clarify that an unlawful practice occurs each time compensation is paid pursuant to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, discrimination, fair pay, equal protection S 1927 A bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to provide additional procedures for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence information and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy S 1959 A bill to establish the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, privacy, civil rights S 2011 A bill entitled "The Protect America Act of 2007". Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy, government oversight S 2035 A bill to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, free press, reporters' shield S 2052 A bill to allow for certiorari review of certain cases denied relief or review by the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Issue lobbied: civil rights, due process, access to the courts S 2088 A bill to place reasonable limitations on the use of National Security Letters, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy, government oversight S 2111 A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and schools to increase implementation of early intervention services, particularly school-wide positive behavior supports. Issue lobbied: civil rights, education, school-to-prison pipeline S 2135 A bill to prohibit the recruitment or use of child soldiers, to designate persons who recruit or use child soldiers as inadmissible aliens, to allow the deportation of persons who recruit or use child soldiers, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, immigration S 2248 An original bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, to modernize and streamline the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy, government oversight S 2291 A bill to enhance citizen access to Government information and services by establishing plain language as the standard style of Government documents issued to the public, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, government oversight, freedom of information S 2533 A bill to enact a safe, fair, and responsible state secrets privilege Act. Issue lobbied: national security, civil rights, privacy, government oversight S 2624 A bill to regulate political robocalls. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, civil rights S 2746 A bill to amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that staturtory exemptions to the disclosure requirment of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing such exemptions, to ensure an open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explictly stat such required citations, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: national security, First Amendment, free speech, censorship, freedom of information, government oversight S 2945 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice occurs on the date on which the aggrieved person knew or should have known that the person was affected by the decision or practice, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, womens rights, discrimination, fair pay S 2977 A bill to create a Federal cause of action to determine whether defamation exists under United States law in cases in which defamation actions have been brought in foreign courts against United States persons on the basis of publications or speech in the United States. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, civil rights, criminal justice S 3001 An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties S 3005 A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish procedures for the timely and effective delivery of medical and mental health care to all immigration detainees in custody, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, immigration, criminal justice S 3061 A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, human rights, womens rights S 3136 A bill to encourage the entry of felony warrants into the NCIC database by States and provide additional resources for extradition. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, privacy S 3140 A bill to provide that 4 of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal employee shall be paid leave, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights S 3143 A bill to assist law enforcement agencies in locating, arresting, and prosecuting fugitives from justice. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice S 3155 A bill to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, juvenile justice, gangs S 3182 An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, science, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, restrictions on legal services corporations S 3209 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to clarify the filing period applicable to charges of discrimination, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil rights, womens rights, discrimination S 3217 A bill to provide appropriate protection to attorney-client privileged communications and attorney work product. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, attorney-client protections S 3245 A bill to increase public confidence in the justice system and address any unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal process. Issue lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, racial justice, discrimination S 3297 A bill to advance America's priorities. Issue lobbied: civil liberties S 3325 A bill to enhance remedies for violations of intellectual property laws, and for other purposes. Issues lobbied: civil rights, criminal justice, civil forfeiture S 3406 A bill to restore the intent and protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Issue lobbied: civil rights, disability rights, discrimination S 3474 A bill to amend title 44, United States Code, to enhance information security of the Federal Government, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy S 3594 A bill to protect United States citizens from unlawful arrest and detention. Issue lobbied: civil rights, immigrants rights S 3612 A bill to protect citizens and legal residents of the United States from unreasonable searches and seizures of electronic equipment at the border, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, privacy S 3628 A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to establish provisions with respect to religious accommodations in employment, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, civil rights, religious liberty, discrimination S 3640 A bill to secure the Federal voting rights of persons who have been released from incarceration. Issue lobbied: civil rights, voting rights S 3662 An original bill to establish the Controlled Unclassified Information Office, to require policies and procedures for the designation, marking, safeguarding, and dissemination of controlled unclassified information, and for other purposes. Issue lobbied: civil liberties, national security, freedom of information, government oversight SJR 0028 A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership. Issue lobbied: First Amendment, free speech, censorship, media ownership Repeal of HIV travel ban (CDC and HHS), expansion of federal refusal clauses (HHS), streamlining public housing programs (HUD), deaths in immigration detention (DHS, Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties), immigrant access to the courts (DHS, Office of Inspector General), immigration enforcement (ICE), improving living standards for immigrants in detention facilities (ICE), shackling of pregnant women (ICE), immigration enforcement on school campuses (DHS, Customs and Border Protection), detainee medical care (DHS, Division of Immigration Health Services), deaths of immigration detainees (DOJ), regulations for government spying and FBI investigations (DOJ), information sharing (DOJ), Ex. Order 12333 (DOJ), domestic violence on tribal lands (DOJ, Violence Against Indian Women Task Force), DOJ voting rights enforcement (DOJ, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section), medical treatment of ICE detainees (DOJ, Bureau of Prisons), commutations for non-violent crack offenses (DOJ, Office of the Pardon Attorney), PREA standards (National Prison Rape Elimination Commission), medical refusals (President's Council on Bioethics), religious discrimination in prisons (Commission on Civil Rights), crack/powder sentencing disparity (Sentencing Commission)

Client expense: $467,669 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Opposed the Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers Act, HR 1644. Opposed the Combustible Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention Act of 2008, HR 5522. Opposed the Supplemental Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act, HR 2768. Opposed the Paycheck Fairness Act, HR 1338.

Client expense: $150,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Employee Free Choice Act, H.R. 800 Employee Free Choice Act , S. 1041 Family Fairness Act of 2008, H.R. 6029 Combustible Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention Act of 2008, H.R. 5522 Family Leave Insurance Act of 2008, H.R. 5873 Joint Economic Committee Hearing re Davis Bacon Pension Plans Issues under Workforce Investment Act of 1998 Paycheck Fairness Act, S. 766 SECTORS Act of 2008, S. 3368 Promoting Innovation to 21st Century Careers Act, S. 3573 Paycheck Fairness Act, H.R. 1338 Act Prohibiting Department of Labor's Secret Rule Act of 2008, H.R. 6660 Department of Labor Regulations (wage and hour) Oversight of Wage and Hour Division of DOL Proposed FLSA Regulations Oversight of General DOL Rulemaking Processes Discussions re wage and hour enforcement

Client expense: $420,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

Tax Reform and Relief: General advocacy continues regarding fundamental tax reform, and tax relief permanency, re: 2001 and 2003 tax relief packages. Research & Development tax credit permanency. Home Office Deduction Simplification Act (H.R. 6214) -- support Tax Reform and Relief (continued): Continue to oppose tax increases on small businesses and tax gap proposals that increase taxes/reg burden on firms. For example, expressed concern regarding provisions in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (H.R. 3221), which mandated information reporting on merchant card payments to the IRS. Support AMT patch, minus various tax increases . Trade/Global Market Access: U.S.-Columbia Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA) -- continue to support and press for passage. General advocacy continues on opening new markets for small businesses through trade agreements, while opposing efforts to re-negotiate existing agreements such as NAFTA. Health Coverage/Affordable Health Insurance: Continue to voice support for individual and small business tax credits; tax parity and fairness for the self-employed; nationwide marketplace for health insurance; pooling mechanisms for small businesses; health savings account (HSA) improvement and expansion. Government Procurement: H.R. 1023/S.777: Continue to express support for these bills to repeal Section 511 of Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act (P.L. 109-222), the 3 percent withholding mandate on government contractors. Employee Eligibility Verification Mandate on Government Contractors (FAR Case No 2007-013): Sent comments to GSA in opposition to mandated approach to e-verify for small government contractors as this would put such firms at a competitive disadvantage and increase costs. Regulatory Burden: "SAVE Act", H.R. 4088 -- continue to express opposition to the legislation in general. "Independent Office of Advocacy and Regulatory Reform Act," S. 2902 -- support regulatory measures in the legislation. Continue to express concern regarding "tax gap" measures that will increase paperwork burden and costs on small firms (for example, credit card, e-payments income reporting). Paycheck "Fairness" Act -- H.R. 1338 -- Urged opposition in House due to cost/legal impact on small firms. Affordable Energy: Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) development and exploration -- Support allowing ban to expire of OCS and oils shale recovery to help increase supply of U.S. (home-grown) energy resources, and economic opportunities for small business. Continue to express general support for domestic exploration and development; increased incentives for companies to accelerate bringing alternatives to market; lower gas taxes. Oppose tax increases on U.S. oil and gas firms. Comprehensive American Energy Security Act, H.R. 6899 -- opposed portions of bill that work against enabling increased energy supply, including higher taxes on U.S. energy companies. MMS 5 Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program -- supported MMS consideration of expanding offshore oil and gas development for periods 2010-2015 to help increase U.S.-based energy supply, and increase opportunities for small business. Property Rights: "Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2008," H.R. 6219 -- support. General Issues: Supported Mr. Sandy Baruha's nomination as SBA Administrator (Acting Administrator). Urged Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to suspend mark-to-market rules to help quell instability in markets. E-Verify Basic Pilot Program -- supported extension of pilot (not mandatory e-verify for all employers), including study of federal government's e-verify program related to cost impact on small businesses. Access to Credit/Capital: In comments to the Federal Reserve, as well as a letter to the House regarding H.R. 5244 -- expressed concerns and unintended consequences of overregulating low-limit credit cards, re: would decrease access to credit and capital for consumers and small businesses, while preventing these consumers to rebuild their credit.

Client expense: $45,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Federal Reserve System, General Services Administration (GSA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), White House Office

S. Con Res 70 - Budget Resolution; H.Con Reg 312 ; H.Res 153; S. Report 110-39; H. Report 110-543 Disaster relief Defense authorization (S. 3001) Labor, HHS appropriations (S. 3230) Supplemental appropriations for FY 2008 (H.R. 2638, P.L. 110-39) Supplemental appropriations for FY 2008 (P.L. 110-252) FY09 Military construction - VA appropriations (H.R. 1338) Supplemental appropriations for the National Institutes of Health (S. 3272) Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 (H.R. 2638) Stimulus bill (H.R. 7110), additional funding for infrastructure, Medicaid FEMA funding for flood recovery, cost sharing obligations

Client expense: $110,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

H.R. 5129/S.2554 Civil Rights Act of 2008, supported S. 1843 - Fair Pay Restoration Act/Fair Pay Act, supported H.R. 2831 - Fair Pay Restoration Act/Fair Pay Act, supported H.R. 662/S. 381 - The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Desent Act 2007 H.R. 3685 - Employment Non-Discrimination Act 2007 H.R. 2015 - Employment Non-Discrimination Act 2007 S. 2481 - End Racial Profiling Act H.R. 4611 - End Racial Profiling Act HR 3195 - ADA Amendments Act S 1881 - ADA Restoration Act S. 3212 - Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act H.R. 1338/S. 766 - Paycheck Fairness Act H.R. 2638 - Appropriations Continuing Resolution, Census Bureau funding H.R. 1399, the District of Columbia Personal Protection Act H.R. 6691, the Second Amendment Enforcement Act H.R. 6842, the National Capital Security and Safety Act S. 3212 - Bipartisan Election Voting Reform Act S. 3308 - Vetern Voting Support Act

Client expense: $401,441 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

S. 1881 - American with Disabilities Act Restoration Act 2007, supported H.R.3195 - American with Disabilities Act Restoration Act, supported S 1782/H.R. 3010 - Arbitration Fairness Act, supported S. 3406 - ADA Amendments Act HR 5312 - Automobile Arbitration Fairness Act, supported S 2838/HR 6126, Fairness in Nursing Homes Arbitration, supported H.R. 1338/S. 766 - Paycheck Fairness Act

Client expense: $401,441 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R. 800, S. 1041, Employee Free Choice Act Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) OSHA Standards Employer flexibility S. 1843, H.R. 2831, Ledbetter Fair Pay Act H.R. 1644, "RESPECT" Act H.R. 3796, to expand the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act H.R. 3195, S. 1881, S. 3406, ADA Amendments Act H.R. 2768, S-Minor Act H.R. 5522, Combustible Dust Explosion & Fire Prevention Act of 2008 H.R. 5444, Job Investment and Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 H.R. 5749, re. unemployment compensation benefits H.R. 980, Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act S. 776, H.R. 1338, Paycheck Fairness Act Requirements for DOL Agencies "Assessment of Occupational Health Risks" RIN-1290-AA23 ADA Title III Regulations H.R. 6660, Risk Assessment legislation

Client expense: $1,330,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Natl Security Council (NSC), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), President of the U.S., SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

H.R. 1338, the Paycheck Fairness Act-opposition to making it easier to sue employers and file class action lawsuits H.R. 1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 the bill contained the economic stabilization act, the Alternative Minimum Tax one-year patch, and the business tax extenders bill NFIB supportive H.R. 3221, Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, this bill contained a revenue raiser to require merchant card companies to report to the IRS the amount that businesses collect in credit card income. NFIB opposed this provision but worked to make it less burdensome. HR 6049, Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Act, second version of the AMT tax fix NFIB supportive H.R. 6126, the Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2008-supporting pre-disputed arbitration agreements H.R. 6113, the Paperwork Assistance Act-supporting contact telephone number in all government paperwork H.R. 6487, the Diesel Tax Parity Act -supporting reducing the federal diesel tax H.R. 6275, the Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act, concerns on new taxes for small businesses S. 3268, the Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act of 2008- supporting increases offshore and onshore domestic production of oil and natural gas S. 1693, the Wired for Health Care Quality Act- supporting health information technology S. 2886 the Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Act of 2008-supporting the 1 year AMT patch and 15 year depreciation S. 3121, a bill that would provide relief to small businesses for failure to report certain transactions to the IRS - NFIB supportive S. 3335, Jobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief Act, one version of the Alternative Minimum tax fix NFIB supportive S. 3371, a bill that creates an optional standard home-office deduction and provides clarity to the rules making it easier for businesses to claim the deduction NFIB supportive

Client expense: $1,005,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Energy, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), Social Security Administration (SSA), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Postal Service (USPS)

Workplace Health and Safety, Minimum Wage, EFCA, National Labor Standards; Fair Labor Standards Act; Wage & Hour Enforcement; National Labor Relations Act; Job Training; Prevailing Wage/Minimum Wage and Jurisdictional issues of rail workers; H.R. 2693, "Popcorn Workers Lung Disease Prevention Act; H.R. 800, Employee Free Choice Act; S. 1041, Employee Free Choice Act; H.R. 980/S.2123, Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act; Worker misclassification as independent contractors; S. 2044, Independent Contractor Proper Classification Act of 2007; construction safety, under-reporting of workplace injuries, illnesses, multi-site employees; H.R. 5804, Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability & Consistency Act; OSHA enforcement and coverage: Organizing rights of workers at FedEx, Worker misclassification at FedEx; S. 1244, Protecting America's Workers Act; Workplace safety/organizing rights of workers at Waste Management Inc.; Paid Sick Leave legislation; H.R. 3796/S. 1792 WARN Act; H.R. 5522, Combustible Dust Explosion & Fire Prevention Act of 2008; S. 1843, Fair Pay Restoration Act; H.R. 2703, Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2007; Extension of Unemployment Insurance Benefits; H.R. 5749, Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act; H.R. 6111, Employee Misclassification Prevention Act of 2008; H.R. 2831, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2008; Anti-trust issues in package delivery industry; H.R. 1338, Paycheck Fairness Act; NPRM re: DOL Revisions for Fair Labor Standards Act Regulations. DOL Worker Health Risk Assessment Proposal; H.R. 6867, Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008; Anti-trust issues with solid waste industry mergers

Client expense: $227,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

Paycheck Fairness (HR 1338); Employee Free Choice Act (HR 800); Sector Bill (S 3368)

Client expense: $475,204 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), SENATE