Rebalance for an Effective Defense Uniform and Civilian Employees Act (REDUCE Act)

FY 2015 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out and downsizing of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities.Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2015 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. FY 2015 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). Lobbied for amendments that would prevent arbitrary downsizing, sourcing, and workforce management of the civilian workforce: --Senate NDAA Amendment 3432, Cardin--extending cap on service contract spending to offset cap on civilian workforce. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3419, Walsh-Tester--requiring DoD adoption of Army checklist in order to prevent illegal privatization. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3644, Begich--treating Non-Appropriated civilian employees the same as Appropriated civilian employees only for purposes of privatization. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3756, Hirono--requiring DoD to use its own cost comparison process to assign new work on the basis of cost-efficiency. Lobbied against: Jenkins (KS) Amendment - to force DoD to use contractors for the performance of inherently governmental functions regardless of the risk to the public interest. HR 4257 to slash the size of DoD civilian workforce by 15%, or almost 120,000 positions. Lobbied against the bill because it would not reduce the Departments workloadinstead, DoD would do the same with less.

Client expense: $402,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)

Rebalance for an Effective Defense Uniform and Civilian Employees Act (HR 4257), (REDUCE Act) - calls for cutting nearly 115,000 civilian jobs from the Department of Defense (DoD). Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act (H.R. 4306) - legislation to provide federal workers with a 3.3 percent pay adjustment in 2015. Postal Reform Postal Reform Act of 2014 (S 1486) Postal Reform Postal Reform Act of 2014 (HR 2748) Equal Healthcare Access Act (HR 3319) Health Care Regulator Accountability Act (HR 3170) Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act (HR 1362) Law Enforcement Officers Retirement Equity Act of 2013 (S 1172) - Law Enforcement Officers Retirement Equity Act of 2013 - Amends the definition of the term "law enforcement officer" under provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). HR 273 - Bill would eliminate federal pay adjustment. Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2013 (HR 249) - would provide that persons having seriously delinquent tax debts shall be ineligible for federal employment. Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2013 (S 1045) - Would provide that persons having seriously delinquent tax debts shall be ineligible for federal employment. Federal Hiring Freeze Act of 2013 (HR 237) - Would reduce the number of civil service positions within the executive branch. Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013 (HR 107) - would limit the circumstances in which official time may be used by a federal employee. Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013 (S 1312) - would limit the circumstances in which official time may be used by a federal employee. Public-Private Employee Retirement Parity Act (S 1678) - would make new federal employees ineligible for the defined benefit pension portion of the Federal Employees Retirement System. Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2013 (S 1529) - would provide benefits to domestic partners of federal employees. HR 1795 - would amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions. S 896 - would amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions. Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2013 (HR 3135) - Amends provisions of federal civil service law to extend employment-related and retirement benefits to domestic partners of federal employees. Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2013 (S 1529) - Amends provisions of federal civil service law to extend employment-related and retirement benefits to domestic partners of federal employees. Federal Firefighter Pay Equity Act (HR 471) - Includes in the determination of a federal firefighter's average pay for purposes of computing retirement and annuity benefits one-half of a firefighter's basic hourly rate times the number of overtime hours included in such firefighter's regular tour of duty for a year. Federal Firefighter Flexibility and Fairness Act (HR 1141) - Requires disregard of any hours worked by a firefighter under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement for purposes of any determination relating to federal eligibility for or the amount of any overtime pay. Federal Firefighters Fairness Act (HR 3718) - Provides that: (1) specified diseases, including heart disease, lung disease, tuberculosis, hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus, and specified cancers, of federal employees in fire protection activities shall be presumed to be proximately caused by such employment if the employee is diagnosed with the disease within 10 years of the last active date of employment in fire protection activities; (2) the disability or death of such an employee due to such a disease shall be presumed to result from personal injury sustained while in the performance of duty; and (3) such presumptions may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence. Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (HR 533) - Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act - Makes an employee of a land management agency who served under a time-limited appointment in the competitive service eligible to compete for a permanent appointment in the agency if the original appointment was competitive, totaled a period of at least 24 months, and the employee's performance was at an acceptable level. Requires such an employee's appointment to a full-time position, if such a position is offered and the employee agrees to such employment, if the original position stated that there was the potential for the position to become permanent. Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (S 1120) - Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act - Makes an employee of a land management agency who served under a time-limited appointment in the competitive service eligible to compete for a permanent appointment in the agency if the original appointment was competitive, totaled a period of at least 24 months, and the employee's performance was at an acceptable level. Requires such an employee's appointment to a full-time position, if such a position is offered and the employee agrees to such employment, if the original position stated that there was the potential for the position to become permanent. Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2013 (HR 517) - To provide that 4 of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal employee shall be paid leave, and for other purposes. S 1556 - A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify authorities relating to the collective bargaining of employees in the Veterans Health Administration. Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets Act (HR 4580) - Repeals provisions excluding any matter or question concerning professional conduct or competence, peer review, or the establishment, determination, or adjustment of employee compensation from the applicability of collective bargaining rights for Veterans Health Administration employees. Let Me Google That For You Act (S 2206) - Repeals the National Technical Information Act of 1988, effective one year after the enactment of this Act (thus abolishes the National Technical Information Service [NTIS]). Let Me Google That For You Act Companion (HR 4382) - Repeals the National Technical Information Act of 1988, effective one year after the enactment of this Act (thus abolishes the National Technical Information Service [NTIS]).

FY 2015 Budget Resolution - provisions to increase the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget with regard to budget reconciliation, legislation, blue collar pay, white collar pay, minimum wage, retirement, part-time annuity computations, and compensatory time.FY 2015 Budget Resolution - conference agreement providing for an increase for veterans health care programs. Lobbied against H. Con. Res. 96 that would negatively impact federal employees' retirement by workers paying additional 5.5% of salary toward retirement; working conditions by replacing one employee for every three who leave; elimination of student loan reimbursements; continued and increased staffing cuts; privatizing of more airport screening jobs and reduction in benefits for on the job injuries. FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on funding for Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Federal Emergency Management Agency. DHS Personnel Plan - provisions to halt the Administration's plan to reduce the Federal Protective Service workforce. Retention of longstanding prohibitions against the use of the OMB Circular A-76 process in the Coast Guard's National Vessel Documentation Center (NVDC) and on certain positions in the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) related to investigation and adjudication of immigration rights and benefits. FY 2015 Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs Appropriations - provisions to provide funding for VA health and benefits programs, and contracting out. FY 2015 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. FY 2015 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations - provisions on contracting out, cuts in funding for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health and contracting out at NIH, and the increase in Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. FY 2015 Financial Services Appropriations - contractor compensation provisions to make the A-76 process less unfair to federal employees and more accountable to taxpayers, establish a reliable contractor inventory, and promote insourcing. Lobbying to ensure A-76 prohibitions and the DoD cost comparison requirement retained in the comparable Senate bills as well as in the ultimate conference reports. HR 2786 and exclusion of the government-wide prohibition on new A-76 studies. FY 2015 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any EEOC office or make any reductions in force stemming from workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC; to continue with provision preventing use of CJS funds for A-76 competition for BOP/FPI work; and funding for BOP "Salaries and Expenses" as it relates to prison inmate overcrowding; correctional understaffing; and the ever increasing prison inmate assaults showing the need to improve safety and security at BOP institutions. Also necessary funding for BOP Building and Facilities account for modernization and repair of existing BOP institutions. Ensure there is no provision for funding for new Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) prison beds owned by private prison companies to incarcerate illegal/undocumented immigrants. FY 2015 Agriculture Appropriations - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs and funding cuts for the Food Safety and Inspection Service. FY 2015 Defense Appropriations - lobbied on issues of concern to civilian personnel related to sourcing and workforce management.Lobbied for floor amendments that would prevent arbitrary downsizing, sourcing, and workforce management of the civilian workforce: Hanabusa (HI)/Bishop (UT) Amendment - to extend a cap on service contract spending to offset cap on civilian workforce. Bordallo (GU) Amendment - impose guidelines to regulate conversions from civilian and contractor to military. Shea-Porter (NH) - to require DoD to use costing methodology to assign new work where sole criterion is cost and give this work to civilian employees when they are most cost-effective. Loebsack (IA) Amendment - to promote compliance with sourcing laws department-wide to prevent illegal and wasteful contracting out. Barber (AZ) Amendment: to prohibit the Air Force from retiring the A-10 close air support aircraft. Lobbied against: Jenkins (KS) Amendment - to force DoD to use contractors for the performance of inherently governmental functions regardless of the risk to the public interest. HR 4257 to slash the size of DoD civilian workforce by 15%, or almost 120,000 positions. Lobbied against the bill because it would not reduce the Departments workloadinstead, DoD would do the same with less. Lobbied against any amendments that would have a detrimental impact on the Federal Prison Industries prison inmate work program. FY 2015 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations -- proposed reorganization of HUD office or multifamily housing.

DOD Design Teams: performance management Labor/Management Roundtable H.R. 1960, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014: factor monitoring in supply chain H.R. 4257, REDUCE Act H.R. 3547: Defense Appropriations H.R. 4435: DOD re authorization, worker safety/funding

Client expense: $900,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank), Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

DOD Design Teams: performance management Labor/Management Roundtable H.R. 1960, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014: factor monitoring in supply chain H.R. 4257, REDUCE Act H.R. 3547: Defense Appropriations H.R. 4435: DOD re authorization, worker safety/funding

Client expense: $900,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank), Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

Improvements in personnel programs, compensation, and benefits. HR 2841, HR 3214, HR 4257, HR 4305, HR 4435, HR 4630, HR 4818, S 1076, S 2075, S 2231, S 2289, S 2410, PL 113-66

Client expense: $523,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) H.R. 3523; Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) H.R. 4257; cybersecurity R&D H.R. 2096 and H.R. 3834; PRECISE Act of 2011 HR 3674; Intelligence Authorization Act, H.R. 1892; S. 2151 Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity by Using Research, Education, Information, and Technology Act of 2012 (SECURE IT Act of 2012); S. 2105 Cybersecurity Act of 2012; H.R. 4228, DHS Acquisition Accountability & Efficiency Act;DHS implementation of Cybersecurity Executive Order 13636, budget, and appropriations

Client expense: $270,000 · Firm income: Not reported

DoD Design Teams: performance management Labor/Mangement Roundtable H.R. 1960, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014: factory monitoring in supply chain H.R. 4257, REDUCE ActDoD Authorization National Nuclear Security Administration: worker health and safety

Client expense: $900,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

HR 3573 - To ensure that the percentage increase in rates of basic pay for prevailing wage employees shall be equal to the percentage increase received by other Federal employees in the same pay locality, and for other purposes. Rebalance for an Effective Defense Uniform and Civilian Employees Act (HR 4257), (REDUCE Act) - calls for cutting nearly 115,000 civilian jobs from the Department of Defense (DoD). Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act (H.R. 4306) - legislation to provide federal workers with a 3.3 percent pay adjustment in 2015. Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act (HR 3223) Postal Reform Postal Reform Act of 2014 (S 1486) Postal Reform Postal Reform Act of 2014 (HR 2748) Equal Healthcare Access Act (HR 3319) Health Care Regulator Accountability Act (HR 3170) Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act (HR 1362) Law Enforcement Officers Retirement Equity Act of 2013 (S 1172) - Law Enforcement Officers Retirement Equity Act of 2013 - Amends the definition of the term "law enforcement officer" under provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). HR 273 - Bill would eliminate federal pay adjustment. Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2013 (HR 249) - would provide that persons having seriously delinquent tax debts shall be ineligible for federal employment. Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2013 (S 1045) - Would provide that persons having seriously delinquent tax debts shall be ineligible for federal employment. Federal Hiring Freeze Act of 2013 (HR 237) - Would reduce the number of civil service positions within the executive branch. Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013 (HR 107) - would limit the circumstances in which official time may be used by a federal employee. Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013 (S 1312) - would limit the circumstances in which official time may be used by a federal employee. Public-Private Employee Retirement Parity Act (S 1678) - would make new federal employees ineligible for the defined benefit pension portion of the Federal Employees Retirement System. Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2013 (S 1529) - would provide benefits to domestic partners of federal employees. HR 1795 - would amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions. S 896 - would amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions. Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2013 (HR 3135) - Amends provisions of federal civil service law to extend employment-related and retirement benefits to domestic partners of federal employees. Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2013 (S 1529) - Amends provisions of federal civil service law to extend employment-related and retirement benefits to domestic partners of federal employees. Federal Firefighter Pay Equity Act (HR 471) - Includes in the determination of a federal firefighter's average pay for purposes of computing retirement and annuity benefits one-half of a firefighter's basic hourly rate times the number of overtime hours included in such firefighter's regular tour of duty for a year. Federal Firefighter Flexibility and Fairness Act (HR 1141) - Requires disregard of any hours worked by a firefighter under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement for purposes of any determination relating to federal eligibility for or the amount of any overtime pay. Federal Firefighters Fairness Act (HR 3718) - Provides that: (1) specified diseases, including heart disease, lung disease, tuberculosis, hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus, and specified cancers, of federal employees in fire protection activities shall be presumed to be proximately caused by such employment if the employee is diagnosed with the disease within 10 years of the last active date of employment in fire protection activities; (2) the disability or death of such an employee due to such a disease shall be presumed to result from personal injury sustained while in the performance of duty; and (3) such presumptions may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence. Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (HR 533) - Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act - Makes an employee of a land management agency who served under a time-limited appointment in the competitive service eligible to compete for a permanent appointment in the agency if the original appointment was competitive, totaled a period of at least 24 months, and the employee's performance was at an acceptable level. Requires such an employee's appointment to a full-time position, if such a position is offered and the employee agrees to such employment, if the original position stated that there was the potential for the position to become permanent. Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (S 1120) - Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act - Makes an employee of a land management agency who served under a time-limited appointment in the competitive service eligible to compete for a permanent appointment in the agency if the original appointment was competitive, totaled a period of at least 24 months, and the employee's performance was at an acceptable level. Requires such an employee's appointment to a full-time position, if such a position is offered and the employee agrees to such employment, if the original position stated that there was the potential for the position to become permanent. Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2013 (HR 517) - To provide that 4 of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal employee shall be paid leave, and for other purposes. S 1556 - A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify authorities relating to the collective bargaining of employees in the Veterans Health Administration.

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) H.R. 3523; Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) H.R. 4257; cybersecurity R&D H.R. 2096 and H.R. 3834; PRECISE Act of 2011 HR 3674; Intelligence Authorization Act, H.R. 1892; S 2151 Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity by Using Research, Education, Information, and Technology Act of 2012 (SECURE IT Act of 2012); S 2105 Cybersecurity Act of 2012; DHS acquisition accountability and efficiency legislation;DHS implementation of Cybersecurity Executive Order 13636, budget, and appropriations

Client expense: $270,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Intl Trade Administration (ITA), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) H.R. 3523; Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) H.R. 4257; cybersecurity R&D H.R. 2096 and H.R. 3834; PRECISE Act of 2011 HR 3674; Intelligence Authorization Act, H.R. 1892; S 2151 Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity by Using Research, Education, Information, and Technology Act of 2012 (SECURE IT Act of 2012); S 2105 Cybersecurity Act of 2012

Client expense: $270,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Intl Trade Administration (ITA), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) H.R. 3523; Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) H.R. 4257; cybersecurity R&D H.R. 2096 and H.R. 3834; PRECISE Act of 2011 HR 3674; Intelligence Authorization Act, H.R. 1892; S 2151 Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity by Using Research, Education, Information, and Technology Act of 2012 (SECURE IT Act of 2012); S 2105 Cybersecurity Act of 2012

Client expense: $270,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Intl Trade Administration (ITA), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) H.R. 3523; Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) H.R. 4257; cybersecurity R&D H.R. 2096 and H.R. 3834; PRECISE Act of 2011 HR 3674; Intelligence Authorization Act, H.R. 1892; S 2151 Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity by Using Research, Education, Information, and Technology Act of 2012 (SECURE IT Act of 2012); S 2105 Cybersecurity Act of 2012

Client expense: $270,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Intl Trade Administration (ITA), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office