State Secret Protection Act of 2009

Legislation: HR 1064 Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 1215 Immigration Oversight and Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration detention; HR 1283 the Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 1304 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, free speech; HR 1315 the Terrorist Detainees Procedures Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention/Interrogation; HR 1507 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; HR 1586 FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, First Amendment, Religious Liberty, School Vouchers; HR 1623 International Megans Law of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; HR 1800 National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, National Security Letter Power, Patriot Act Section 215; HR 1966 `Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act' - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech; HR 2200 TSA authorization/body scanning machines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy/bodily integrity; HR 2289 the Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 2517 the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 2597 Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Positive Behavior Supports; HR 2701 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - Issues Lobbied: Government oversight; open government.; HR 2847 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY10 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech (restrictions on Legal Services Corporation), Immigration courts, LOP; HR 3017 the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 3221 Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 3245 the Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy; HR 3288 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 omnibus spending bill for FY10 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech (restrictions on Legal Services Corporation), Ending abstinence-only programs, funding more comprehensive approaches, establishing OAH; HR 3335 Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Felony Voting Rights; Racial Justice; HR 3458 Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Net Neutrality; HR 3471 Real ID repeal legislation - Issues Lobbied: National ID, religious liberty; HR 3567 the Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Issues Lobbied: Abortion language, opposing MTR, Title V extension; HR 3630 The Adolescent Web Awareness Requires Education Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech; HR 3721 Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Restoration of ADEA in light of Gross Supreme Court Case; HR 374 the Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention/Interrogation; HR 3764 Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech (restrictions on Legal Services Corporation); HR 3845 USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, constitutional rights, national security.; HR 3961 To extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 until February 28, 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, constitutional rights, national security.; HR 3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act - Issues Lobbied: Opposing abortion language; due process, privacyHR 3986 the Effective Death Penalty Appeals Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Capital Punishment; HR 4005 Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools In Counterterrorism Efforts Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, constitutional rights, national security.; HR 4115 Open Access to Courts Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Due Process, Right to Petition, Equal Protection; HR 4335 Prison Abuse Remedies Act (and reform of the PLRA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Prisoners Rights; HR 4364 Anti-SLAPP bil - Issues Lobbied: right to petition, free speech; HR 4470 Strong STANDARDS Act - Issues Lobbied: Support for bill; HR 4530 the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights, Education; HR 4556 A bill to prohibit the use of Department of Justice funds for the prosecution in Article III courts of the United States of individuals involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attackS - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention/Interrogation; HR 4621 Deceptive Census bill - Issues Lobbied: civil rights; HR 476 Housing Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: civil rights; HR 4892 Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention/Interrogation; HR 894 Over-Classification Reduction Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification; HR 984 State Secret Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Separation of powers, constitutional rights, open government; HR 985 Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 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 Press, Defendants Rights; HRes 383 Establishing a Select Committee to Review National Security Laws, Policies and Practices - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence oversight; S 1261 PASS ID - Issues Lobbied: National ID, religious liberty; S 147 the Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention/Interrogation; S 1490 Personal Date Privacy and Security Act - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S 1494 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - Issues Lobbied: Government oversight; open government, Intelligence oversight; S 1504 A bill to provide that Federal courts shall not dismiss complaints under rule 12(b)(6) or (e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, except under the standards set forth by the Supreme Court of the United States in Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S 41 (1957). - Issues Lobbied: Due Process, Right to Petition, Equal Protection; S 1504 Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Due Process, Right to Petition, Equal Protection; S 1516 Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Felony Voting Rights; Racial Justice; S 1549 Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: Support for bill; S 1550 Strong STANDARDS Act - Issues Lobbied: Support for bill; S 1584 the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; S 1594 Secure and Safe Detention and Asylum Act - Issues Lobbied: Support for bill; S 1686 Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools In Counterterrorism Efforts Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, constitutional rights, national security; S 1692 USA Patriot Act Sunset Extention Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, Patriot Act issues, constitutional rights, national security; S 1756 Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Restoration of ADEA in light of Gross Supreme Court Case; S 1789 the Fair Sentencing Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy; S 182 Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, Legislation Updating the Equal Pay Act; S 2959 American Elections Act of 2010 - Issues Lobbied: free speech; S 2977 A bill to prohibit the use of Department of Justice funds for the prosecution in Article III courts of the United States of individuals involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attackS - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention/Interrogation; S 3065 the Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2010 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, First Amendment, LGBT Rights, Academic Freedom; S 3081 Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention/Interrogation; S 3113 Refugee Protection Act of 2010 - Issues Lobbied: Due Process, Immigrants Rights; S 372 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S 417 State Secrets Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Open government; S 435 the Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 448 Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 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 Press, Defendants Rights; S 449 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 A bill to protect free speech. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S 678 the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 712 Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech (restrictions on Legal Services Corporation); S 714 the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S 773 Cybersecurity - Issues Lobbied: Communications privacy, executive power; HR 2892 Homeland Security Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Detention, 287(g) report language; Other Congressional Matters: Other Congressional Matters: Airline Security - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, 4th Amendment; Appointed counsel - Issues Lobbied: civil rights; Campaign finance issues - Issues Lobbied: Free Speech; Census issues - Issues Lobbied: Civil rights; Civil Rights Act of 2009 (no bill introduced) - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Employment Discrimination; Restoring Civil Rights Protections; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: due process, profiling; Corporal Punishment - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Disability Rights; Corporal Punishment in Public Schools; Criminal Investigation, Special Prosecutor Torture Inquiry - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers; DHS/TSA Oversight - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI, ending 14 country policy; Electronic Communications Privacy - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, 4th Amendment; Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) Draft Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; FBI exigent ltr abuse - Issues Lobbied: open government; FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Federal Over-criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; Gene Patenting Legislation (no bill introduced yet) - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Women's Rights; Global gag rule - Issues Lobbied: women's rights; ICE leadership - Issues Lobbied: civil rights, detention, due process; Immigration court reform - Issues Lobbied: due process; Indigent Defense Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; Lobby restrictions - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Natl popular vote bill - Issues Lobbied: voting rights; Patriot Act Reform Legislation - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government; Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; Radical ideologies and speech rights - Issues Lobbied: Free Speech; Repro health care and EC for sexual assault victims in ICE custody - Issues Lobbied: women's rights; Torture/Detention/Interrogation Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security,Torture/Detention/Interrogation; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: USCCR; Racial Justice; Human Rights; Varick/Hudson Detention facilities - Issues Lobbied: civil rights, detention; Thompson prison facility - Issues Lobbied: indefinite detention, due process; Ideological exclusion - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Federal Agency Issues: CIS - Issues Lobbied: Terrorism-Related Inadmissibility Grounds; Commerce Department - Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: S 2977/HR 4556, National Security, Detention/Interrogation, National Security, Detention/Interrogation, Discrimination, Don't Ask Don't Tell,; Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization, Sex-Segregated Education, civil rights data collection; Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: Electronic medical records; Department of Health and Human Services, ORR - Issues Lobbied: reproductive health care for unaccompanied immigrant and refugee minors; Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Preemption, watch/no fly lists, fusion centers, immigration detention, racial profiling in immigration enforcement (including 287g agreements), Mental health of detainees, Alien Criminal Response Information Management (ACRIMe) System of Records, National Security, Privacy, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers, DHS/TSA Oversight, National ID, employment verification, privacy, Use of datamining technologies by the government, use of body scanners, Racial Profiling; DHS Privacy Office - Issues Lobbied: Immigration and Enforcement Operational Records System of Records; Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers; Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Fair Sentencing Act, the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (Draft Legislation), Operation Streamline, Faith-Based Programs, S 2977/HR 4556, Criminal Investigation, Special Prosecutor Torture Inquiry, National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation, Privacy, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers, Attorney General Guidelines, DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance , Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Issues Lobbied: the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009; Department of Labor, OSHA - Issues Lobbied: Women workers; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (Draft Legislation) ; Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: Fair Sentencing Act, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (Draft Legislation), Operation Streamline, Faith-Based Programs, S 2977/HR 4556, National Security, Privacy, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers, Cyber-security Review, Controlled Unclassified Information, Abortion riders for Medicaid-eligible women and Medicare beneficiaries, FEHBP, Peace Corps volunteers, Native American women, women in federal prisons, Medicaid Family Planning Extension, Civil Rights, 1st Amendment, Religious Liberty, Detention/Interrogation, Federal websites cookies policy, privacy, PCLOB vacancies, 14 country policy; FBI - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers, Attorney General Guidelines, exigent ltr abuse; Federal Communications Commission - Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, broadband access; Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: ICEs vision, online detainer locator, detention standards, risk assessment tool, Haiti; National Archives - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers; National Economic Counsel - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; National Security Council - Issues Lobbied: Over-Classification Reduction Act, Executive Order 12958, Improving classification policy, Controlled Unclassified Information; Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships - Issues Lobbied: Faith-Based Programs; Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: civil rights, data collection; Office of Personnel Management - Issues Lobbied: transgender discrimination; State Department - Issues Lobbied: Support for ratification, Restoration of Inter-agency working groups on human rights, Ideological Exclusion, 14 Country Policy; U.S. Sentencing Commission - Issues Lobbied: Fair Sentencing Act, Cultural Assimilation, Collateral Consequences, and Recency; US Interagency Council on Homelessness - Issues Lobbied: Prevent domestic violence and protect housing rights of survivors

Client expense: $334,182 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Security Council (NSC), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives, Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)

S. 718, H.R. 3764, Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 H. R. 984, S. 417, the State Secrets Protection Act HR 429, S. 446, A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings. H.R. 156, Stop the Congressional Pay Raise Act H.R. 215, Congressional Pay Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 282, Delay Congressional Pay Raise Act S. 102, S. 317, S. 620, A bill to repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. S. 2725, Federal Judicial Fairness Act HR 569, S.357, Equal Justice for the Military Act - provides service members with the same opportunity that the government has to petition the Supreme Court for review of a court martial H.R. 1515 ,to assist State Courts in Administration of Justice H.R. 3662, S. 1653, the Federal Judgeship Act of 2009 H. Res 473, Reaffirmation of American Independence (foreign judgments) H. R. 4115, Open Access to Courts Act of 2009, to provide restoration of notice pleading S. 1504, Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2009 H.R. 2728, William Orton Law Library Improvement and Modernization Act Proposed appointment of new Chair or Acting Chair and other proposed start-up activities for the newly reconstituted Administrative Conference of the United States. H.R. 2850, the Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2009, legislation that would provide for enhanced retirement benefits for administrative law judges. The appointment and examination process for ALJssupports improvements in the process.

Client expense: $290,000 · Firm income: Not reported

S. 2977- "A bill to prohibit the use of Department of Justice funds for the prosecution in Article III courts of the United States of individuals involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks" (urging members of Congress to oppose this measure); H.R. 984 and S. 417 - "State Secrets Protection Act" (provisions requiring executive branch to submit evidence claimed to be subject to the privilege to court for an independent assesment and providing for the use of non-privileged subsitute evidence where appropriate); H.R. 1323 - "Reducing Information Control Designations Act" (provisions promoting more timely declassification of documents that no longer need to be protected); meetings with various congrssional staff on proposed reforms to the U.S.A.. Patriot Act (reforms relating to National Security Letters and to lone wolfs - suspects with no suspected link to a known foreign terrorist organization); meetings with Congressional staff advocating in favor of federal court prosecution of terrorist suspects and against prolonged preventive detention.

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

Legislation: HR 1064 Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 1139 COPS Improvements Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 1215 Immigration Oversight and Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Support for Immigration reform; HR 1283 Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 1304 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press, Defendants Rights; HR 1315 Terrorist Detainees Procedures Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 1412 Justice Integrity Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice; HR 1507 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; HR 157 Fairness Doctrine Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press; HR 1726 Lap top searches at the border - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, racial discrimination; HR 1788 A bill to amend the False Claims Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Legal Representation; HR 1800 National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, National Security Letter Power, Patriot Act Section 215; HR 1966 Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech; HR 2200 - Issues Lobbied: TSA authorization/body scanning machines, Privacy/bodily integrity; HR 2289 Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 2517 Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 2597 Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Positive Behavior Supports; HR 2647 National Defense Authorization Act Conference Report - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention, Military Commissions, Civil Rights, LGBT Rights, Death Penalty, 1st Amendment, Free Speech and Association, Religious Liberty; HR 2701 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence oversight, openness and congressional oversight; HR 2847 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation, Free speech, restrictions on Legal Services Corporation, , Voting Rights, Against the Vitter Census Amendment; HR 3017 Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 3081 FY2011 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill - Issues Lobbied: Support UNFPA funding and advocate for permanent rescission of the Global Gag Rule; HR 3082 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 3170 FY 2010 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, 1st Amendment, Religious Liberty, Opposition to the DC abortion rider and FEHBP abortion rider, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Medical Marijuana; HR 3221 the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, HEA Penalty, Privacy; HR 3245 Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy; HR 3288 FY 2010 Consolidated Omnibus Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, HIV/AIDS, LGBT Rights, Free speech, restrictions on Legal Services Corporation, End funding for abstinence-only programs and fund more comprehensive sex ed programs, Support UNFPA funding and advocate for permanent rescission of the Global G; HR 3293 FY2010 Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Bill - Issues Lobbied: End funding for abstinence-only programs and fund more comprehensive sex ed programs; HR 3295 RISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, HEA Penalty; HR 3326 FY 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation, Franken Senate Amendment No. 2588, Mandatory Pre-dispute Arbitration; Title VII; Sexual Assault; HR 3335 Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Felony Voting Rights; HR 3458 Net Neutrality Legislation - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 3471 Real ID - Issues Lobbied: repeal legislation, National ID, religious liberty; HR 3531 Humane Enforcement and Legal Protections for Separated Children Act - Issues Lobbied: Support for bill and trying to get Senate counterpart; HR 3567 the Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Issues Lobbied: Oppose Nelson-Hatch amendment and anti-choice language in the managers amendment; support womens health amendment; oppose Title V extension and support Personal Responsibility Education program; HR 3630 Adolescent Web Awareness Requires Education Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech; HR 3721 Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Restoration of ADEA in light of Gross Supreme Court Case; HR 374 Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 3764 Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech, restrictions on Legal Services Corporation; HR 3845 USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: national security, privacy and constitutional rights; HR 3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act - Issues Lobbied: Oppose Stupak-Pitts anti-choice amendment; support Healthy Teen Initiative to Prevent Teen Pregnancy; HR 3986 Effective Death Penalty Appeals Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Capital Punishment; HR 4005 JUSTICE Act - Issues Lobbied: national security, privacy and constitutional rights; HR 4321 Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: Due process, judicial review of legalization decisions, e-verify, indefinite detention, prolonged detention, community-based alternatives to detention, mandatory detention, restoration of judicial review, federal preemption of state and local immigration; HR 4335 Prison Abuse Remedies Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Prisoners Rights; HR 4386 Compassionate Care for Servicewomen Act - Issues Lobbied: support for emergency contraception; HR 5577 Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Open government, access to information, over-classification; HR 894 Over-Classification Reduction Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification; HR 984 State Secret Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: national security, privacy and constitutional rights; HR 985 Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press; HRes 383 Establishing a Select Committee to Review National Security Laws, Policies and Practices - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence oversight; S 1390 the National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention, Military Commissions, Civil Rights, LGBT Rights, Death Penalty, 1st Amendment, Free Speech and Association; S 147 Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation; S 1494 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence oversight; S 1516 Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Felony Voting Rights; S 1549 Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: detention; S 1550 Strong Standards Act - Issues Lobbied: detention conditions; S 1584 Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; S 160 Fairness Doctrine Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press; S 167 COPS Improvements Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 1692 USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: national security, privacy and constitutional rights; S 1756 Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Restoration of ADEA in light of Gross Supreme Court Case; S 1789 Fair Sentencing Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy; S 1796 Americas Healthy Futures Act - Issues Lobbied: Due process, privacy; S 182 Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, Legislation Updating the Equal Pay Act; S 2904 Compassionate Care for Servicewomen Act - Issues Lobbied: support for emergency contraception; S 372 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S 417 State Secrets Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, access to information; S 428 A bill to allow travel between the United States and Cuba - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Right to Travel; S 435 Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 449 Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press; S 458 A bill to amend the False Claims Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Legal Representation; S 495 Justice Integrity Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice; S 612 FOIA Memorandum/OPEN FOIA Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Freedom of Information Act Reform; S 678 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 712 Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech, restrictions on Legal Services Corporation; S 714 National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S 773 Cybersecurity Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Cybersecurity, Communications privacy, executive power; S. 1686 JUSTICE Act - Issues Lobbied: national security, privacy and constitutional rights; S.448 Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press, Defendants Rights; S1261 PASS ID - Issues Lobbied: National ID, religious liberty; S1490 Personal Date Privacy and Security Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Other Congessional Matters: ACORN Funding - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Against the establishment of a Commission to Investigate Violent Extremism in the US - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Asylum legislative proposal - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Biometric ID - Issues Lobbied: Oppose mandatory biometric ID; Border deaths (ACLU-San Diego Report) - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights, Immigration; CEDAW - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Civil Rights Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Employment Discrimination; Restoring Civil Rights Protections; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: Due process, judicial review of legalization decisions, e-verify, indefinite detention, prolonged detention, community-based alternatives to detention, mandatory detention, restoration of judicial review, federal preemption of state and local immigration; Corporal Punishment - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Deaths in detention - Issues Lobbied: civil liberties, due process; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: national security; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy; End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) Draft Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (Draft Legislation) - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: civil liberties; Gene Patenting Legislation (no bill introduced yet) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties, First Amendment; Human Rights in the 111th Congress - Issues Lobbied: YS treaty implementation and mental illness in US jails and prisons; Human Rights Treaty Implementation Hearing - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Indigent Defense Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; Interior enforcement in CIR - Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties, Immigration; Iqbal/Twombley decision Notice Pleadings Standards - Issues Lobbied: Due Process, Right to Petition, Equal Protection; Patent Reform (no bill introduced yet) - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Privacy and domestic spying concerns with Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; Library of Congress Oversight Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, federal employees' rights; Terrorism Studies and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; The Convention on the Rights of the Child Treaty - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; National Security Issues - Issues Lobbied: Torture/Detention/Interrogation Oversight; Use of datamining technologies by the government - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Federal Agency Issues: Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Reauthorization; Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: Posse comitatus , Discrimination; Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: Support rescission of the 2006 Single-Sex Education Regulations, Human Rights, First Amendment; Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Comments on Civil Rights Data Collection; Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: Electronic medical records, Privacy, Prostitution Pledge - Oppose new proposed regulations, Supporting reproductive health care for unaccompanied minors; Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General - Issues Lobbied: Detainee transfers; Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Preemption, indefinite detention, prolonged detention, Criminalization of unlawful presence, Detainee transfers, National ID, religious liberty, employment, lap top searches at the border, 4th Amendment, Racial Discrimination, Use of datamining technologies by the government, Government Watch Lists, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers, Controlled Unclassified Information, Ideological Exclusion, Restrictions on Travel; Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Criminalization of unlawful presence, Indigent Defense Reform, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (Draft Legislation), Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform, Criminal Investigation, Special Prosecutor Torture Inquiry, National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation, Executive Order Ensuring Lawful Interrogations, Closure of Guantanamo Detention Facilities, Executive Order - Review of Detention Policy Options, National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogations, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers, Attorney General Guidelines; Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: State and local police enforcement of immigration; Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Issues Lobbied: Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009; Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers, Privacy and domestic spying concerns with Fusion Centers; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: Proposed Rulemaking RIN 3046-AA85: Regulations to Implement the Equal Employment Provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act as Amended; Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: Immigration Reform, Opposing Secure Communities, promoting alternatives to detention and enforceable detention standards, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act (Draft Legislation), Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform, JUSTICE Act, USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2009, Faith-Based Programs, Executive Branch Protections Against LGBT Discrimination, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009, National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers, Cyber-security Review, Executive Order 12958, Controlled Unclassified Information, Federal websites cookies policy; FBI - Issues Lobbied: FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers, Attorney General Guidelines; Federal Communications Commission - Issues Lobbied: Child Safe Viewing Act; National Archives - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers; National Archives, Information Security Oversight Office - Issues Lobbied: Controlled Unclassified Information; National Economic Counsel - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy; National Security Council - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification, Executive Order 12958; Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships - Issues Lobbied: Faith-Based Programs; Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 12886, Title X Funding in FY11 Budget Request, Lobbying Restrictions; Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs - Issues Lobbied: Restrictions on Travel; Office of Personnel Management - Issues Lobbied: Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (74 Fed. Reg. 46937) RIN Number 3206-AL92, Civil Rights, LGBT Rights, Executive Branch Protections Against LGBT Discrimination; Office of Personnel Management, Center for Pay and Leave Administration - Issues Lobbied: Absence and Leave' Sick Leave program (74 Fed. Reg. 46934) RIN Number 3206-AL93, Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; State Department - Issues Lobbied: Trafficking, Restoration of Inter-agency working groups on human rights, Ideological Exclusion; Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Immigration Reform, Opposing Secure Communities; promoting alternatives to detention and enforceable detention standards

S.1390 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 Title X, Subtitle D, military commissions SEC. 1033. No miranda warnings for Al Qaeda terrorists. Sec. 823. Prohibition on interrogation of detainees by contractor personnel. H.R.2647 National Defense Authorization Act Section 1041; limitation on use of funds for the transfer or release of individuals detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Section 1080: requirement for videotaping or otherwise electronically recording strategic intelligence interrogations of persons in the custody of or under the effective control of the Department of Defense Title XVIII: Military Commissions Act of 2009 Sec. 1038. Prohibition on interrogation of detainees by contractor personnel. H.R. 2892 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 Section 552 relating to Guantanamo Bay detainees H.R. 3326 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 Section 9011 relating to Guantanamo Bay detainees H.R.984 To provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege H.R. 2847 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 S.AMDT.2669: prohibiting the use of funds for the prosecution in Article III courts of the United States of individuals involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. H.R.3728 To make certain improvements in the laws applicable to the detention of individuals at United States detainment facilities, and for other purposes

Client expense: $30,000 · Firm income: Not reported

H.R. 429, S. 446, A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings. H.R. 156, Stop the Congressional Pay Raise Act H.R. 3662, S. 1653, the Federal Judgeship Act of 2009 H.R. 215, Congressional Pay Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 282, Delay Congressional Pay Raise Act S. 102, S. 317, S. 620, A bill to repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. HR 569, S.357, Equal Justice for the Military Act (provides service members with the same opportunity that the government has to petition the Supreme Court for review of a court martial that carries serious consequences to the Supreme Court H.R. 984, S. 417, the State Secrets Protection Act H.R. 157, S. 160, the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 S. 718, H.R. 3764, Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 Draft legislation to establish a new Administrative Law Judge Conference of the United States as an independent agency to assume the responsibility of the United States Office of Personnel Management with respect to Administrative Law Judges, including their testing, selection, and appointment Draft legislation to amend various adjudication provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act Legislative recommendations related to: attorney-client privilege and the Rules Enabling Act H.R. 1515, to assist courts in the States and territories with improving the administration of justice H.Res. 473, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that judicial determinations regarding the meaning of the Constitution of the United States should not be based on judgments, laws, or pronouncements of foreign institutions unless such foreign judgments, laws, or pronouncements inform an understanding of the original meaning of the Constitution of the United States. Draft legislation to encourage greater use of federal agency E-rulemaking (electronic rulemaking) Proposed appointment of new Chair or Acting Chair and other proposed start-up activities for the newly reconstituted Administrative Conference of the United States H.R. 2850, the Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2009-legislation that would provide for enhanced retirement benefits for administrative law judges Urged the OPM and to use its authority to make locality adjustments to the basic pay of administrative law judges (ALJs) and to grant ALJs the same national pay raise that was expected to be authorized for the General Schedule for fiscal year 2010. The appointment and examination process for ALJssupports improvements in the process. H. R. 4115, Open Access to Courts Act of 2009, S. 1504, Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2009 -to provide restoration of notice pleading

a.H.R. 1024 & S. 424 - Uniting American Families Act of 2009 b.H.R. 1604 - Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2009 c.Hate crimes prevention/enforcement, incl. H.R. 1913 & S. 909, as well as possible addition of S. 909 as an amendment to other pending legislation such as FY10 Defense Authorization c.Hate crimes prevention/enforcement, incl. H.R. 1913 & S. 909, as well as possible addition of S. 909 as an amendment to other pending legislation such as FY10 Defense Authorization Defense Authorization/Support passage of bill-entire d.Employment Non-Discrimination Act, incl. H.R. 2981 & H.R. 3017/Supporting passage of bills-entire e.Reauthorization of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (pushing for removal of Anti-discrimination language and Access to Recovery drug treatment vouchers) f.Reauthorization of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) (Remove Anti-discrimination language ensure civil rights of program beneficiaries are protected) g.Domestic surveillance by executive branch agencies and implementation of the Protect America Act (Public Law No. 110-55), the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law No. 110-261), and the surveillance guidelines set by the previous Administration under its Attorney General and FBI-monitoring for possible changes to laws h.H.R. 984 State Secret Protection Act of 2009; S. 417 State Secrets Protection Act-looking for potential changes i.Reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law No: 107-56)-monitoring for future action j.Ex-felon enfranchisement, incl. the Democracy Restoration Act k.Implementation of the Dont Ask, Dont Tell provisions in Public Law No: 103-160, Title V, Subtitle G, incl. H.R. 1283- l.Marriage equality and implementation of the Defense of Marriage Act (Public Law No: 104-99), incl. Administration legal briefs in DOMA litigation, as well as amendments offered (but not taken up) during consideration of FY10 Commerce, Justice, Science Approps (H.R. 2847), which would have regulated federal and Supreme Court jurisdiction and access to those courts for DOMA and other marriage-related cases--urging the repeal of DOMA m.Legal and policy issues related to national security detainees, incl. implementation of the Military Commissions Act (Public Law No: 109-366), H.R. 104 and the establishment of a truth commission to investigate detainee treatment and other actions taken by the previous Administration--monitoring any potential changes n.Election preparedness and contingency plans, incl. lessons learned from the 2004 and 2008 election cycles o.Development of a 2009 Civil Rights Act that would close loopholes created by recent Supreme Court decisions p.Deceptive practices in voting, incl. H.R. 97 and oversight of the Voting Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, as well as caging (H.R. 103 & S. 528) legislation and vote challenging practices q.Voter registration and implementation of the National Voter Registration Act (Public Law No: 103-31), incl. voter registration modernization (VRM) proposals r.Funding and implementation of the Help America Vote Act (Public Law No: 107-252), incl. FY10 Budget Resolution (H.Con.Res. 85 & S.Con.Res. 13) and FY10 Appropriations s.Healthcare reform (no specific legislation) and its impacts on civil rights and privacy rights, incl. any potential it may have to positively broaden protections or negatively promote discrimination--Healthcare reform targeted at lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans t. Electoral reform proposals not mentioned above, incl. those that take a comprehensive approach, such as the Count Every Vote Act

a.Domestic surveillance by executive branch agencies and implementation of the Protect America Act (Public Law No. 110-55), the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law No. 110-261), and the surveillance guidelines set by the previous Administration under its Attorney General and FBI--monitor b.H.R. 984 State Secret Protection Act of 2009; S. 417 State Secrets Protection Act-monitor c.Reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law No: 107-56)-monitor d.Legal and policy issues related to national security detainees, incl. implementation of the Military Commissions Act (Public Law No: 109-366), Congressional response to the Boumediene v. Bush and al Odah v. United States decisions, as well as H.R. 104 and the establishment of a truth commission to investigate detainee treatment and other actions taken by the previous Administration--monitor

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $15,000

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Election Assistance Commission (EAC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives, SENATE, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, White House Office

Legislation: HR 1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Lobbying Restrictions, Ethics Executive Order; HR 157 Fairness Doctrine Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press; HR 374 Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 894 Over-Classification Reduction Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, over-classification; HR 984 To provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege. - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, due process; HR 985 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press, Defendants Rights; HR 1064 Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 1139 COPS Improvements Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 1215 Immigration Oversight & Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration, due process, detention conditions; HR 1283 Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR1304 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press, Defendants Rights; HR 1315 Terrorist Detainees Procedures Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 1412 Justice Integrity Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice; HR 1467 To extend certain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 for 10 years. - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties, surveillance; HR 1507 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; HR 1604 Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Absentee Voting Rights; HR 1788 A bill to amend the False Claims Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Legal Representation; HR 1800 National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, National Security Letter Power, Patriot Act Section 215; HR 1966 Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech; HR 2289 Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 2517 Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 2597 Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, No Child Left Behind, Juvenile Justice, Positive Behavior Supports; HR 2647 National Defense Authorization Act Conference Report - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention, Military Commissions, Civil Rights, LGBT Rights, Death Penalty, Free Speech and Association, Religious Liberty; HR 2701 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence oversight; HR 2847 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY10 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech,restrictions on Legal Services Corporations; HR 2892 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act for FY 2010 Conference Report - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 3017 Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 3081 State-Foreign Ops Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Global Gag Rule; HR 3170 FY 2010 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Medical Marijuana, 1st Amendment, Religious Liberty, Federal Employees Health Benefits, DC abortion funding bans; HR 3200 Americas Affordable Health Choices Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Abortion restrictions, abstinence-only programs, comprehensive sex ed, gender rating, womens health amendment; HR 3221 Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, HEA Penalty; HR 3245 Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy; HR 3293 Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Abstinence-only, comprehensive sex ed, Title X/PPFA funding; HR 3295 RISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, HEA Penalty; HR 3312 Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; HR 3335 Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Felon Voting Rights; HR 3531 HELP Separated Children Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; HR 3567 Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; HR 3630 Adolescent Web Awareness Requires Education Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech; HR 3721 Gross Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Restoration of ADEA in light of Gross Supreme Court Case; HR 3764 Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech, restrictions on Legal Services Corporations; HR 5577 Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Open government, access to information, over-classification; HRes 383 Establishing a Select Committee to Review National Security Laws, Policies and Practices - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence oversight; S 147 Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogation; S 160 Fairness Doctrine Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press; S 167 COPS Improvements Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 182 Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, Legislation Updating the Equal Pay Act; S 372 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S 417 State Secrets Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; S 428 A bill to allow travel between the United States and Cuba. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Right to Travel; S 435 Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 448 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press, Defendants Rights; S 449 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press, Defendants Rights; S 458 A bill to amend the False Claims Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Legal Representation; S 495 Justice Integrity Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice; S 612 FOIA Memorandum/OPEN FOIA Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Freedom of Information Act Reform; S 678 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 712 Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech, restrictions on Legal Services Corporations; S 714 National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S.1220 Patient Access to Critical Lab Tests Act Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties, First Amendment; S 1390 National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Mandatory Minimums, National Security, Detention, Military Commissions, LGBT Rights, 1st Amendment, Free Speech and Association; S 1494 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence oversight; S 1516 Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Felon Voting Rights; S 1549 Protect Citizens from Unlawful Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: Detention conditions; S 1550 Strong STANDARDS Act - Issues Lobbied: Detention conditions; S 1584 Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights; S 1594 Secure and Safe Detention and Asylum Act - Issues Lobbied: Detention conditions; S 1679 Health care reform - Issues Lobbied: Abortion restrictions, abstinence-only programs, comprehensive sex ed, gender rating, womens health amendment, immigration status, LGBT discrimination; S 1686 JUSTICE ACT - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, Patriot Act issues; S 1692 USA Patriot Act Sunset Extention Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, Patriot Act issues; S 1756 Gross Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Restoration of ADEA; Other Congressional Matters: Biometric ID - Issues Lobbied: Oppose mandatory biometric ID; Civil Rights Act of 2009 draft legislation- Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Employment Discrimination; Restoring Civil Rights Protections; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: privacy/border security, Biometric ID, E-verify, immigration court reform, 287(g); Corporal Punishment - Issues Lobbied: Corporal Punishment in Public Schools; NCLB Reauthorization; End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) Draft Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; E-Verify - Issues Lobbied: employment verification, immigration status; Health Care Reform - Issues Lobbied: Verification requirements; Immigration detention reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties, due process; Indigent Defense Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, due process; Iqbal/Twombley decision/ Notice Pleadings Standards - Issues Lobbied: Due Process, Right to Petition, Equal Protection; Medicaid family planning expansion - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Patent Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties, First Amendment; Prison Abuse Remedies Act draft legislation(and reform of the PLRA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Prisoners Rights; Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying; Convention on the Rights of the Child Treaty - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; TVPRA of 2008 draft bill - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Federal Agency Issues: Centers for Disease Control - Issues Lobbied: Lift the HIV Travel Ban; Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: Posse comitatus , Discrimination; Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, DHS oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, domestic spying , fusion centers; Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Privacy, National Security, Torture/Detention/Interrogations, Indigent Defense Reform, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009, Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform, Executive Order Ensuring Lawful Interrogations, Executive Order Review of Detention Policy Options, Executive Order Closure of Guantanamo Detention Facilities, Executive Order Ensuring Lawful Interrogations, Executive Order Closure of Guantanamo Detention Facilities, Executive Order Review of Detention Policy Options, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, FBI Oversight, domestic spying concerns with Fusion Centers, FOIA Memorandum/OPEN FOIA Act of 2009, Attorney General Guidelines, Faith-Based Programs, Special Prosecutor Torture Inquiry; Federal Bureau of Investigation - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, open government, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, FBI oversight, DHS oversight, law enforcement oversight, domestic spying concerns with Fusion Centers, Attorney General Guidelines; Federal Communication Commission - Issues Lobbied: Child Safe Viewing Act; Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Ideological Exclusion, Restrictions on Travel, Racial profiling concerns, opposing 287(g), HELP Separated Children Act, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, Privacy and domestic spying concerns with Fusion Centers; Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: 287(g) agreements, local enforcement of immigration laws, detention conditions, due process; Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: OCR Enforcement, Positive Behavior Supports, Corporal Punishment, NCLB Reauthorization; Office of Safe Schools Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: OCR Enforcement, Positive Behavior Supports, Corporal Punishment, NCLB Reauthorization; Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: Restrictions on Travel, Lobbying Restrictions, Open government, regulatory review, Executive Order 12886; Office of Personnel Management - Issues Lobbied: Executive Branch Protections Against LGBT Discrimination; State Department - Issues Lobbied: Restoration of Inter-agency working groups on human rights, Ideological Exclusion, TVPRA of 2008; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: USCCR Reauthorization; Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: OCR Enforcement, Positive Behavior Supports, Corporal Punishment, NCLB Reauthorization; Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: Federal websites cookies policy , Privacy, Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Executive Branch Protections Against LGBT Discrimination, Cyber-security Review, Faith-Based Programs, Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform Civil Rights, 1st Amendment, Religious Liberty, Office of Science and Technology and Scientific Integrity; National Security Council - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, over-classification

H.R. 429, S. 446, A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings. S. 657, Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2009 H.R. 156, Stop the Congressional Pay Raise Act H.R. 3662, S. 1653, the Federal Judgeship Act of 2009 H.R. 215, Congressional Pay Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 282, Delay Congressional Pay Raise Act S. 102, S. 317, S. 620, A bill to repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. HR 569, S.357, Equal Justice for the Military Act (provides service members with the same opportunity that the government has to petition the Supreme Court for review of a court martial that carries serious consequences to the Supreme Court H.R. 984, S. 417, the State Secrets Protection Act H.R. 157, S. 160, the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 S. 718, Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 Draft legislation to establish a new Administrative Law Judge Conference of the United States as an independent agency to assume the responsibility of the United States Office of Personnel Management with respect to Administrative Law Judges, including their testing, selection, and appointment Draft legislation to amend various adjudication provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act Legislative recommendations related to: attorney-client privilege and the Rules Enabling Act H.R. 2661, the Court Security Enhancement Act of 2009 H.R. 1515, to assist courts in the States and territories with improving the administration of justice H.Res. 473, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that judicial determinations regarding the meaning of the Constitution of the United States should not be based on judgments, laws, or pronouncements of foreign institutions unless such foreign judgments, laws, or pronouncements inform an understanding of the original meaning of the Constitution of the United States. H.R. 1107, To enact certain laws relating to public contracts as title 41, United States Code, "Public Contracts" Draft legislation to encourage greater use of federal agency E-rulemaking (electronic rulemaking) Proposed appointment of new Chair or Acting Chair and other proposed start-up activities for the newly reconstituted Administrative Conference of the United States H.R. 2850, the Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2009-legislation that would provide for enhanced retirement benefits for administrative law judges

S.1390 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 Title X, Subtitle D, military commissions S.A. 1559: prohibition on the transfer of Guantanamo detainees; S.A. 1533: to clarify that the definition of unprivileged enemy belligerent includes members of al Qaeda; S.1390 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (continued) S. Amend 1657: to preempt requirements that Al Qaeda terrorists who are captured by the United States military or intelligence services be given Miranda warnings. H.R.2647 National Defense Authorization Act, Conference Report Section 1041; limitation on use of funds for the transfer or release of individuals detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Section 1080: requirement for videotaping or otherwise electronically recording strategic intelligence interrogations of persons in the custody of or under the effective control of the Department of Defense Title XVIII: Military Commissions Act of 2009 H.R. 2892 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 Section 552 relating to Guantanamo Bay detainees H.R. 3326 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 Section 8119 relating to Guantanamo Bay detainees H.R. 2847 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 Section 532 relating to Guantanamo Bay detainees H.R.984 To provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege, all provisions S. 417 To enact a safe, fair, and responsible state secrets privilege Ac, all provisions H.R.3728 To make certain improvements in the laws applicable to the detention of individuals at United States detainment facilities, and for other purposes, all provisions

Client expense: $30,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Executive privilege and states secrets, modernization of the voter registration system, public financing of Congressional elections, Department of Justice reform, fairness in sentencing for cocaine posession, access to civil counsel, funding of th eLegal Services Corporation Fair Elections Now ActH 1826 Voter Registration ModernizationNone yet Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment ActS. 1390 State Interpreter Grant Program ActNone yet Democracy Restoration ActS. 1516 H 3335 State Secrets Protection ActS. 417, H.R. 984 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ActNone yet PATRIOT ActS. 1692 JUSTICE Act of 2009S. 1686 Checks and Balances Restoration and Revitalization ActH 3362 Justice Integrity ActH 1412, S. 495 National Criminal Justice Commission ActS. 714 Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2009H.R. 3245 FY 2010 Transportation HUD appropriations bill (funding for legal services in foreclosure cases)H 3288 FY 2010 Commerce Justice Science appropriations bill (funding and restrictions re Legal Services Corp.)H 2847 Civil Access to Justice ActH.R. 3764, S. 718 Senate Military Appropriations: Military CommissionsS1390

Client expense: $8,987 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Natl Security Agency (NSA), Office of the Vice President of the United States, SENATE, White House Office

a.Domestic surveillance by executive branch agencies and implementation of the Protect America Act (Public Law No. 110-55), the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law No. 110-261), and the surveillance guidelines set by the previous Administration under its Attorney General and FBI--monitor b.H.R. 984 State Secret Protection Act of 2009; S. 417 State Secrets Protection Act-monitor c.Reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law No: 107-56)-monitor d.Legal and policy issues related to national security detainees, incl. implementation of the Military Commissions Act (Public Law No: 109-366), Congressional response to the Boumediene v. Bush and al Odah v. United States decisions, as well as H.R. 104 and the establishment of a truth commission to investigate detainee treatment and other actions taken by the previous Administration--monitor

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $15,000

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Election Assistance Commission (EAC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives, Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of Policy Development, SENATE, Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, White House Office

a.H.R. 1024 & S. 424 - Uniting American Families Act of 2009 b.H.R. 1604 - Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2009 c.Hate crimes prevention/enforcement, incl. H.R. 1913 & S. 909, as well as possible addition of S. 909 as an amendment to other pending legislation such as FY10 Defense Authorization c.Hate crimes prevention/enforcement, incl. H.R. 1913 & S. 909, as well as possible addition of S. 909 as an amendment to other pending legislation such as FY10 Defense Authorization Defense Authorization/Support passage of bill-entire d.Employment Non-Discrimination Act, incl. H.R. 2981 & H.R. 3017/Supporting passage of bills-entire e.Reauthorization of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (pushing for removal of Anti-discrimination language and Access to Recovery drug treatment vouchers) f.Reauthorization of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) (Remove Anti-discrimination language ensure civil rights of program beneficiaries are protected) g.Domestic surveillance by executive branch agencies and implementation of the Protect America Act (Public Law No. 110-55), the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (Public Law No. 110-261), and the surveillance guidelines set by the previous Administration under its Attorney General and FBI-monitoring for possible changes to laws h.H.R. 984 State Secret Protection Act of 2009; S. 417 State Secrets Protection Act-looking for potential changes i.Reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law No: 107-56)-monitoring for future action j.Ex-felon enfranchisement, incl. the Democracy Restoration Act k.Implementation of the Dont Ask, Dont Tell provisions in Public Law No: 103-160, Title V, Subtitle G, incl. H.R. 1283- l.Marriage equality and implementation of the Defense of Marriage Act (Public Law No: 104-99), incl. Administration legal briefs in DOMA litigation, as well as amendments offered (but not taken up) during consideration of FY10 Commerce, Justice, Science Approps (H.R. 2847), which would have regulated federal and Supreme Court jurisdiction and access to those courts for DOMA and other marriage-related cases--urging the repeal of DOMA m.Legal and policy issues related to national security detainees, incl. implementation of the Military Commissions Act (Public Law No: 109-366), H.R. 104 and the establishment of a truth commission to investigate detainee treatment and other actions taken by the previous Administration--monitoring any potential changes n.Election preparedness and contingency plans, incl. lessons learned from the 2004 and 2008 election cycles o.Development of a 2009 Civil Rights Act that would close loopholes created by recent Supreme Court decisions p.Deceptive practices in voting, incl. H.R. 97 and oversight of the Voting Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, as well as caging (H.R. 103 & S. 528) legislation and vote challenging practices q.Voter registration and implementation of the National Voter Registration Act (Public Law No: 103-31), incl. voter registration modernization (VRM) proposals r.Funding and implementation of the Help America Vote Act (Public Law No: 107-252), incl. FY10 Budget Resolution (H.Con.Res. 85 & S.Con.Res. 13) and FY10 Appropriations s.Healthcare reform (no specific legislation) and its impacts on civil rights and privacy rights, incl. any potential it may have to positively broaden protections or negatively promote discrimination--Healthcare reform targeted at lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans t. Electoral reform proposals not mentioned above, incl. those that take a comprehensive approach, such as the Count Every Vote Act

H.R. 429, S. 446, A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings. S. 657, Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2009 H.R. 1626, S. 630, Statutory Time-Periods Technical Amendments Act of 2009 H.R. 156, Stop the Congressional Pay Raise Act H.R. 215, Congressional Pay Reform Act of 2009 H.R. 282, Delay Congressional Pay Raise Act S. 102, S. 317, S. 620, A bill to repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. H.R. 191, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2009 S. 220, H.R. 486, Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2009 HR 569, S.357 -- Equal Justice for the Military Act (provides service members with the same opportunity that the government has to petition the Supreme Court for review of a court martial that carries serious consequences to the Supreme Court H.R. 984, S. 417, the State Secrets Protection Act H.R. 157, S. 160, the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 S. 718, Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 Draft legislation to establish a new Administrative Law Judge Conference of the United States as an independent agency to assume the responsibility of the United States Office of Personnel Management with respect to Administrative Law Judges, including their testing, selection, and appointment Draft legislation to amend various adjudication provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act P.L. 110-343, formerly, H.R. 1424, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Section 114 (Market Transparency) relating to possible future federal agency regulations leading to waiver of attorney-client privilege and work product protections Legislative recommendations related to: attorney-client privilege and the Rules Enabling Act H.R. 2661, the Court Security Enhancement Act of 2009 H.R. 1515, to assist courts in the States and territories with improving the administration of justice H.Res. 473, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that judicial determinations regarding the meaning of the Constitution of the United States should not be based on judgments, laws, or pronouncements of foreign institutions unless such foreign judgments, laws, or pronouncements inform an understanding of the original meaning of the Constitution of the United States. H.R. 1272, To provide for the conversion of a temporary judgeship for the district of Hawaii to a permanent judgeship. S. 193, A bill to create and extend certain temporary district court judgeships. Final Rule on Identity Theft Red Flags and Address Discrepancies Under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003, 16 C.F.R. 681.1 (2007)proposed Federal Trade Commission finding and/or draft legislation clarifying that the rule is not applicable to lawyers providing legal services to clients H.R. 1107, To enact certain laws relating to public contracts as title 41, United States Code, "Public Contracts" Draft legislation to encourage greater use of federal agency E-rulemaking (electronic rulemaking) Proposed appointment of new Chair or Acting Chair and other proposed start-up activities for the newly reconstituted Administrative Conference of the United States

Legislation: HR 1064 Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 1139 COPS Improvements Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 1215 Immigration Oversight & Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration detention standards; HR 1256 A bill to protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech; HR 1283 Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; HR 1304 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 1315 Terrorist Detainees Procedures Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 1409 The Employee Free Choice Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Employee Rights; HR 1412 Justice Integrity Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; HR 1429 Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Prisoners Rights, HIV/AIDS, Privacy; HR 157 Fairness Doctrine Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press; HR 1604 Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Absentee Voting Rights; HR 1788 A bill to amend the False Claims Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Legal Representation; HR 1800 National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, National Security Letter Power, Patriot Act Section 215; HR 1913 Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, 1st Amendment, Free Speech, Free Association; HR 1966 Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech; HR 2028 New Employee Verification Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 2289 Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 2346 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 2460 Healthy Families Act - Issues Lobbied: paid sick leave; HR 2597 Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Education Reform, Juvenile Justice, Positive Behavior Supports; HR 2647 FY 2010 National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 265 Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy; HR 2701 Intelligence Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: National security, constitutional rights, open government; HR 2847 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY10 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech, restrictions on Legal Services Corporations; HR 2894 The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Electronic Voting, Disability Access; HR 3017 Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; HR 3170 FY 2010 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Medical Marijuana, Religious Liberty, Civil Rights; HR 374 Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 383 Establishing a select committee to review national security laws, policies, and practices. - Issues Lobbied: National security, privacy, constitutional rights, balance of powers; HR 4109 Prison Abuse Remedies Act of 2007 (and reform of the PLRA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; HR 5577 Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Open government, access to information, over-classification; HR 894 Over-Classification Reduction Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification; HR 984 State Secrets Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: National security, access to justice; HR 985 Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press, Defendants Rights; HR 1507 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S 1152 Healthy Families Act - Issues Lobbied: paid sick leave; S 1390 FY 2010 National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, 1st Amendment, Free Speech, Free Association, Detention; S 147 awful Interrogation and Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: Torture/Detention/Interrogation; S 160 Fairness Doctrine Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press; S 167 COPS Improvements Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 182 Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, Legislation Updating the Equal Pay Act; S 324 Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Health; S 372 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S 417 State Secrets Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: National security, access to justice; S 424 Uniting American Families Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigrants Rights, LGBT rights; S 428 A bill to allow travel between the United States and Cuba. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Right to Travel; S 435 Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 448 Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Press, Defendants Rights; S 449 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 A bill to protect free speech. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S 458 A bill to amend the False Claims Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Legal Representation; S 495 Justice Integrity Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; S 560 The Employee Free Choice Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Employee Rights; S 612 FOIA Memorandum/OPEN FOIA Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Freedom of Information Act Reform; S 678 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 712 Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech, restrictions on Legal Services Corporations; S 714 National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S 909 Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, 1st Amendment, Free Speech, Free Association; S 982 A bill to protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products. - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech; Other Congressional Matters: Abstinence-only-until marriage programs and sex ed - Issues Lobbied: End funding for the programs, Reproductive Rights; Attorney General Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Census Funding - Issues Lobbied: Census Funding, FY10 Budget; Civil Rights Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Employment Discrimination; Restoring Civil Rights Protections; Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: due process, employment verification; Corporal Punishment - Issues Lobbied: Corporal Punishment in Public Schools; NCLB Reauthorization; DC abortion ban and FEHBP abortion ban - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Felony Voting Rights; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers; End Racial Profiling Draft Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; English Only Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Immigrants Rights; E-Verify - Issues Lobbied: Immigrants Rights, Workers Rights; Family and Medical Leave Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Gene Patenting Legislation - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Gross Decision - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Restoration of ADEA in light of Gross Supreme Court Case; Indigent Defense Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; Intelligence Oversight and Accountability - Issues Lobbied: Abuse of authority; Oversight Hearings for Attorney General - Issues Lobbied: ACLU Civil Rights Issues; Patent Reform - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Patriot Act Reform - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, surveillance issues; Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Privacy and domestic spying concerns with Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; Prolonged and indefinite detention - Issues Lobbied: due process; Sandoval Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Restoration of Title VI in light Sandoval Supreme Court Case; State and Foreign Ops appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Permanent rescission of the Global Gag Rule; The Convention on the Rights of the Child Treaty - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Universal Voter Registration - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Violence Against Women Act - Issues Lobbied: Housing for victims of domestic violence; Voting Rights - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, NAMUNDO and Bartlett Supreme Court Case; Net Neutrality Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment; Real ID/Pass ID Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Electronic Employment Verification Issues Lobbied: Large scale databases, National ID; Federal Agency Issues: Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: Allocation of stimulus funds, CERD Compliance, OCR Enforcement, Positive Behavior Supports, Corporal Punishment, NCLB Reauthorization; Census Bureau - Issues Lobbied: Limited English Proficiency; Center for Disease Control - Issues Lobbied: HPV Vaccine for immigrants; Citizenship and Immigration Services - Issues Lobbied: SSA No-Match; Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: Discrimination; Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Oppose 287(g), Napolitano review, Secure Communities, Raids,Ideological Exclusion, Restrictions on Travel, Real ID/Pass ID, Medical Records; Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Limited English Proficiency, Ideological exclusion, Criminal Investigation/Special Prosecutor Torture Inquiry, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009, Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform, privacy, National Security, Privacy, Open Government, Freedom of Information Act Reform; Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers; Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: Lobbying Restrictions, Ethics Executive Order, Restrictions on Travel, Reproductive Rights, End funding of Abstinence Only Programs, DC abortion ban, FEHBP abortion ban, Executive Order Ensuring Law Interrogations, Executive Order Closure of Guantanamo Detention Facilities, Executive Order Review of Detention Policy Options, Executive Order Amendments to Executive Order 13199 and Establishment of the Presidents Advisory Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Torture, Detention, Interrogation, Religious Liberty, Civil Rights, Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform, Cyber-security Review; Federal Bureau of Investigations - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers; Federal Communication Commission - Issues Lobbied: Child Safe Viewing Act; Food and Drug Administration - Issues Lobbied: Plan B, EC over the counter status; Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: Ensuring That Department of Health and Human Services Funds Do Not Support Coercive or Discriminatory Policies or Practices in Violation of Federal Law (73 Fed. Reg. 78,072) , Rescind healthcare denial regulation, American Health Choices Act, Limited English Proficiency, Ideological exclusion; Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Immigration Detention Conditions, Oppose 287(g); National Security Council - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification, interagency working group on human rights; Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs - Issues Lobbied: Restrictions on Travel; Office of Justice Programs - Issues Lobbied: Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Issues Lobbied: Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009; Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: Lobbying Restrictions, Reproductive Rights, End funding of Abstinence Only Programs, DC abortion ban, FEHBP abortion ban, Executive Order 12886; Office of Science and Technology Policy - Issues Lobbied: Scientific Integrity; State Department - Issues Lobbied: Restoration of Inter-agency working groups on human rights, Ideological Exclusion, TVPRA of 2008 (PL 110-457); U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: USCCR Reauthorization; U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; EEOC Enforcement; Office of Personnel Management Issues Lobbied: employment criminal background checks

H.R. 984: To provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege. S. 417: A bill to enact a safe, fair, and responsible state secrets privilege Act. S.1390: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010; Section 1031, military commissions. H.R.2647 National Defense Authorization Act; H.AMDT.270 Amendment requires the videotaping of all military interrogations, with appropriate security classifications.

Client expense: $30,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Natl Security Council (NSC), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), White House Office

State Secrets Protection Act (S. 417, H.R. 984)

Client expense: $8,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, U.S. Copyright Office

Legislation: HR 1 the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Drug Policy, Criminal Justice, Privacy, E-Medical Records, E-Verify, Net Neutrality, Religious Liberty, Medicaid Family Planning Waiver, Title V Ab-Only; H.Con.Res. 85 Budget Resolution - Issues Lobbied: Opposing Bunning amendment to extend Title V ab-only and Coburn amendment to prevent rescission of the Health Care Denial Reg; HR 1029 Alien Smuggling and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Harboring/alien smuggling criminalization; push for exemption of humanitarian assistance organizations; HR 1064 the Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; HR 11 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, legislation responding to the Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision; HR 1105 Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty, Vouchers, Ending abstinence-only funding; opposing anti-choice amendments; HR 12 Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, legislation enhancing the Equal Pay Act; HR 1215 Immigration Oversight and Fairness Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Humane immigration detention standards; HR 1283 Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; HR 1304 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; HR 1315 Terrorist Detainees Procedures Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 1409 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Labor, Employee rights; HR 1412 the Justice Integrity Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; HR 1429 the Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Prisoners Rights, HIV/AIDS, Privacy; HR 146 the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; HR 1507 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; HR 1604 Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Voting Rights, absentee voting; HR 1617 Privacy Officer Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; HR 1651 Access to Justice Act - Issues Lobbied: Opposing Moran bill aimed at fixing Compean; HR 1788 False Claims Act Correction Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Legal Representation; HR 1800 National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: protections for recipients of NSLs and limiting gag provision; HR 1913 Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, 1st Amendment, Free Speech, Free Association; HR 2 Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Hatch amendment to reinstate 5-year bar; HR 265 the Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy; HR 374 Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: Torture/Detention/Interrogation; HR 2857 GIVE Act - Issues Lobbied: Opposing anti-choice amendments; HR 5577 Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Open government, access to information, over-classification; HR 7322 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY09 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech, legal representation; HR 894 Over-Classification Reduction Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification; HR 984 State Secret Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Support bill/limits on governments ability to assert state secrets to end lawsuits without court oversight; HR 985 Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, free press, defendant's rights; S 128 Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, legislation enhancing the Equal Pay Act; S 147 Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act - Issues Lobbied: Torture/Detention/Interrogation; S 160 District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty, Vouchers; S 181 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Womens Rights, Employment Discrimination, legislation responding to the Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision; S 3182 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY09 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech, legal representation; S 372 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S 417 State Secret Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Support bill/limits on governments ability to assert state secrets to end lawsuits without court oversight; S 428 Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, right to travel; S 435 the Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 448 Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, free press, defendant's rights; S 449 Free Speech Protection Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S 458 False Claims Act Clarification Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Legal Representation; S 495 the Justice Integrity Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; S 560 Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Labor, employee rights; S 612 FOIA Memorandum/OPEN FOIA Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Freedom of Information Act Reform; S 678 the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S 712 Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech, legal representation; S 714 the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S.CON.RES.13 Senate Budget Resolution - Issues Lobbied: Immigration, Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Employment Discrimination, EEOC funding, Opposing Bunning amendment to extend Title V ab-only and Coburn amendment to prevent rescission of the Health Care Denial Regulations Other Congressional Matters: Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY10 - Issues Lobbied: Free speech, legal representation; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: Immigration, due process rights, employment verification; Asylum bill - Issues Lobbied: Immigration detention; Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Voting Rights, Felon Voting Rights; Draft Omnibus Privacy Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, consumer privacy rights; Immigration Court Reform bill - Issues Lobbied: Immigration Court Reform and federal jurisdiction, due process; Electronic Voting Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Voting Rights, electronic voting, disability access; End Racial Profiling Draft Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices, racial profiling; FY 2010 Concurrent Budget Resolution - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty, Vouchers, Ending abstinence-only funding; funding comprehensive sex ed; Global Gag Rule - Issues Lobbied: rescission, supporting codifying rescission; Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Denial Regulation - Issues Lobbied: Encouraging support for rescission of regulation; Homeland Security Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Report language re 287(g) and similar local immigration enforcement programs; House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment hearings on fusion centers and homeland security intelligence - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying , fusion centers; Intelligence Oversight and Accountability - Issues Lobbied: Abuse of authority; Unlawful Detention bill - Issues Lobbied: Unlawful detention and immigration due process; Net Neutrality Draft Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, 1st Amendment, free speech, equal access rights; Patriot Act Reform - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, Patriot Act issues, surveillance; Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Racial Justice, No Child Left Behind, Juvenile Justice, Positive Behavior Support; Privacy and domestic spying concerns with Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; Real ID Draft Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Senate Judiciary Committee Confirmation Hearing for Eric Holder - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Submitted Qs to SJC staff for Holder Confirmation on ACLU issues; Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Torture Oversight - Issues Lobbied: Torture/Detention/Interrogation; Universal Voter Registration - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Voting Rights, Voter Registration; Voting Rights Hearings in House Judiciary Constitution Civil Right and Civil Liberties Subcommittee , House Administration Elections Subcommittee and Senate Rules Committee - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Voting Rights, Election Administration in the 2008 election. Federal Agency Issues: Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Lobbyist Restrictions, HIV/AIDS, Prisoner Rights, LGBT Rights Rights, Executive Order Ensuring Law Interrogations , Executive Order Closure of Guantanamo Detention Facilities, Executive Order Review of Detention Policy Options, Executive Order Amendments to Executive Order 13199 and Establishment of the Presidents Advisory Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Global Gag Rule; Federal Communication Commission - Issues Lobbied: Media ownership, net neutrality, ownership diversity; Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: funding for CERD compliance; Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Special Prosecutor Torture Inquiry, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Opposing Moran bill aimed at fixing Compean, Torture/Detention/Interrogation, Attorney General Guidelines; Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Local and police enforcement of immigration laws, Racial Profiling, National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; US Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: US Commission on Civil Rights Reauthorization, Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, USCCR Reauthorization; Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; Federal Bureau of Investigation - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers, Attorney General Guidelines; Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 12886, FY2010 budget and appropriations, Open government, regulatory review, Ending abstinence-only funding,comprehensive sex ed; Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: rescission of HHS Health Care Denial Regulation, and the misuse of funding to promote abstinence-only in the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood initiative; State Department - Issues Lobbied: rescission of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act; Department of Housing and Urban Development - Issues Lobbied: Violence Against Women Act

H.R. 984: to provide safe, fair, and responsible procedures and standards for resolving claims of state secret privilege. S. 417: A bill to enact a safe, fair, and responsible state secrets privilege. Lobbied for private security contractor accountability.

Client expense: $30,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), SENATE