Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
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Introduced
January 8, 2019
Latest Action
January 11, 2019
Primary Sponsor
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.Democratic(GA)
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Highlights: This bill provides FY2019 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture (USDA), except for the Forest Service, which is included in the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The bill also provides appropriations for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Farm Credit Administration. The bill includes both discretionary and mandatory funding. The mandatory funding levels are generally set by authorizing legislation such as the farm bill and are frequently limited in the agriculture appropriations bill. Full Summary: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 TITLE I--AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS This title provides appropriations for the following agricultural programs and services the Office of the Secretary; Executive Operations; the Office of the Chief Information Officer; the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; the Office of Civil Rights; Agriculture Buildings and Facilities; Hazardous Materials Management; the Office of Inspector General; the Office of the General Counsel; the Office of Ethics; the Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics; the Economic Research Service; the National Agricultural Statistics Service; the Agricultural Research Service; the National Institute of Food and Agriculture; the Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; the Agricultural Marketing Service; the Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety; and the Food Safety and Inspection Service. TITLE II--FARM PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS This title provides appropriations for Farm Production and Conservation programs, including the Office of the Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation, the Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, the Farm Service Agency, the Risk Management Agency, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The title also provides appropriations for (1) the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund, and (2) the Commodity Credit Corporation Fund. TITLE III--RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS This title provides appropriations for Rural Development Programs including Rural Development Salaries and Expenses, the Rural Housing Service, the Rural Business--Cooperative Service, and the Rural Utilities Service. TITLE IV--DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS This title provides appropriations for the Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services. The title provides appropriations for the Food and Nutrition Service for Child Nutrition Programs; the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program); the Commodity Assistance Program; and Nutrition Programs Administration. TITLE V--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS The title provides appropriations to the Office of the Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. It also provides appropriations to the Foreign Agricultural Service for the Food for Peace Act (P.L. 480), the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, and the Commodity Credit Corporation Export (loans) Credit Guarantee Program Account. TITLE VI--RELATED AGENCY AND FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION This title provides appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Farm Credit Administration. TITLE VII--GENERAL PROVISIONS (Sec. 701) This section permits USDA to use funds provided by this bill for the purchase, replacement, and hire of passenger motor vehicles. (Sec. 702) This section permits USDA to transfer unobligated balances to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition of plant and capital equipment for financial, administrative, and information technology services. It permits the transferred funds to remain available until expended and specifies restrictions on the use of the funds. (Sec. 703) This section prohibits appropriations provided by this bill from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless the bill expressly provides otherwise. (Sec. 704) This section limits negotiated indirect costs on cooperative agreements between USDA and nonprofit institutions to 10% of the total direct cost of the agreement when the purpose of the agreement is to carry out programs of mutual interest between the two parties. (Sec. 705) This section permits appropriations for direct and guaranteed loans to remain available until expended to disburse obligations made in the current fiscal year for (1) the Rural Development Loan Fund program account, (2) the Rural Electrification and Telecommunication Loans program account, and (3) the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account. (Sec. 706) This section prohibits USDA from using funds provided by this bill to acquire new information technology systems or significant upgrades without approval of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Executive Information Technology Investment Review Board. It also (1) restricts the transfer of funds made available by this bill to the CIO without prior approval of Congress, and (2) prohibits funds from being used for specified information technology projects without the approval of the CIO. (Sec. 707) This section permits specified funds provided under the Federal Crop Insurance Act for the Agricultural Management Assistance Program in the current fiscal year to remain available until expended to disburse obligations made in the current fiscal year. (Sec. 708) This section makes a former Rural Utility Service borrower who has repaid or prepaid a loan under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 or any not-for-profit utility qualified to receive a loan under the Act eligible for rural economic development and job creation assistance in the same manner as a borrower. (Sec. 709) This section permits specified unobligated balances of appropriations provided by this bill for salaries and expenses of the Farm Service Agency and the Rural Development mission area to remain available through FY2020 for information technology expenses. (Sec. 710) This section prohibits funds provided by this bill from being used for first-class travel by employees of agencies funded by this bill in contravention of specified regulations. (Sec. 711) This section provides that Commodity Credit Corporation funds authorized or required to be used for specified programs included in the Agricultural Act of 2014 (1) shall be available for salaries and administrative expenses associated with the programs without regard to allotment and transfer limits, and (2) the use of the funds for this purpose shall not be considered to be a fund transfer or allotment for purposes of applying the limits. (Sec. 712) This section limits funds available for USDA advisory committees, panels, commissions, and task forces, except for panels used to comply with negotiated rulemakings or to evaluate competitively awarded grants. (Sec. 713) This section prohibits funds provided by this bill from being used to pay indirect costs charged against any agricultural research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) that exceed 30% of total federal funds provided under each award. It also permits funds provided by this bill for grants awarded competitively by NIFA to be used to pay full allowable indirect costs for specified research and development grants awarded under the Small Business Act. (Sec. 714) This section prohibits funds provided by this bill from being used for a computer network unless pornography is blocked, with the exception of law enforcement, prosecution, or adjudication activities. (Sec. 715) This section limits the amount of Section 32 funds that may be used for certain domestic food assistance programs, including Child Nutrition Programs Entitlement Commodities, State Option Contracts, Removal of Defective Commodities, and Administration of Section 32 Commodity Purchases. (Section 32 is a program created to assist producers of agricultural commodities not supported by other mandatory farm support programs. It is funded by a permanent appropriation of a portion of the previous year's customs receipts less certain mandatory transfers to child nutrition and other programs.) This section also prohibits the use of Section 32 funds to reestablish farmers' purchasing power by making payments in connection with the normal production of any agricultural commodity for domestic consumption. It includes an exception for a limited amount of carryover funds. (Sec. 716) This section prohibits funds from being used to prepare proposals for the President's budget that assume savings from certain user fee proposals without identifying additional spending reductions that should occur if the proposals are not enacted. (Sec. 717) This section sets forth procedures, requirements, and restrictions for reprogramming and transferring funds provided by this bill. (Sec. 718) This section permits USDA to assess a one-time fee for any guaranteed business and industry loan and limits the fee to 3% of the guaranteed principal portion of the loan. (Sec. 719) This section prohibits funds from being used to provide reports, questions, or responses to questions that are a result of information requested for the appropriations hearing process to anyone not employed by USDA, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the Farm Credit Administration. (Sec. 720) This section prohibits any executive branch agency from using funds provided by this bill to produce a prepackaged news story for U.S. broadcast or distribution unless the story includes a clear notification that it was prepared or funded by the agency. (Sec. 721) This section prohibits USDA employees from being detailed or assigned from an agency funded by this bill to any other USDA agency or office for more than 60 days in a fiscal year unless the individual's employing agency is reimbursed by the receiving agency for the salary and expenses of the employee. (Sec. 722) This section provides appropriations for a pilot program to provide competitive grants to state departments of agriculture, state cooperative extension services, and nonprofit organizations to carry out programs to address farmer stress and suicide. (Sec. 723) This section directs the agencies funded by this bill to submit spending plans to Congress. (Sec. 724) This section rescinds specified unobligated balances from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). (Sec. 725) This section requires USDA to continue an intermediary loan packaging program based on the FY2013 pilot program for packaging and reviewing section 502 single family direct loans. (The loan program assists low-income applicants in purchasing homes in rural areas. Funds may also be used to build, repair, or renovate a house, including providing water and sewage facilities.) (Sec. 726) This section permits USDA to increase the program level by up to 25% for certain loans and loan guarantees that do not require budget authority and have program levels established by this bill. USDA must notify Congress before implementing an increase under this section. (Sec. 727) This section provides that certain credit card refunds or rebates transferred to the Working Capital Fund (1) shall not be available for obligation without congressional approval; and (2) shall only be available for the acquisition of plant and capital equipment for USDA financial, administrative, and information technology services. (Sec. 728) This section prohibits funds provided by this bill from be used for the variety requirements of the final USDA rule titled "Enhancing Retailer Standards in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)" until USDA amends the definition of "variety" to increase the number of items that qualify as acceptable varieties in each staple food category so that the total number of such items in each staple food category exceeds the number of such items in each staple food category included in the final rule. Until the amendments are promulgated, USDA must apply the requirements regarding acceptable varieties and breadth of stock to SNAP retailers that were in effect on the day before the enactment of the Agricultural Act of 2014. (Sec. 729) This section prohibits funds provided by this bill from being used (1) in contravention of a provision of the Agricultural Act of 2014 that permits an institution of higher education or a state department of agriculture to grow or cultivate industrial hemp for research purposes; or (2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, sale, or use of industrial hemp or seeds of such plant, that is grown or cultivated in accordance with the Agricultural Act of 2014, within or outside the state in which it is grown or cultivated. (Sec. 730) This section specifies the matching requirements that apply to funds appropriated for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. (Sec. 731) This section sets forth the authorities that apply for USDA to provide loans for housing and buildings on adequate farms. (Sec. 732) This section prohibits funds provided by this bill from being used for regulations to allow or require information intended for a prescribing health care professional, in the case of a drug or biological product, to be distributed electronically (in lieu of in paper form) until a federal law is enacted to allow or require electronic distribution. (Sec. 733) This section prohibits the FDA from acknowledging applications for an exemption for investigational use of a drug or biological product in research in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification. Such a submission is deemed not to have been received, and the exemption may not go into effect. (Sec. 734) This section prohibits funds from being used to carry out provisions of the final FDA rule titled "Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals" with respect to certain requirements that apply to the production, distribution, sale, or receipt of dried spent grain by-products of the alcoholic beverage production process. (Sec. 735) This section appropriates funds for direct reimbursement payments for geographically disadvantaged farmers or ranchers to transport agricultural commodities. (Sec. 736) This section prohibits the FDA from deeming partially hydrogenated oils to be unsafe or any food containing a partially hydrogenated oil to be adulterated prior to June 18, 2018. (Sec. 737) This section provides additional funds to remain available until expended for the Rural Energy Savings Program. (The program helps rural families and small businesses achieve cost savings by providing loans to consumers to implement durable cost-effective energy efficiency measures.) USDA may allow eligible entities to offer loans to (1) customers in any part of their service territory; and (2) to replace a manufactured housing unit with another manufactured housing unit, if replacement would be more cost effective in saving energy. (Sec. 738) This section permits the Agricultural Research Service and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to make up to 50 appointments in any fiscal year during FY2019-FY2025 for employees of the agencies at the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas. (Sec. 739) This section provides appropriations for USDA to carry out a pilot program that provides forestry inventory analysis, forest management, and economic outcomes modeling for certain currently enrolled Conservation Reserve Program participants. (Sec. 740) This section prohibits the FDA from allowing the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any food that contains genetically engineered salmon until the FDA publishes final labeling guidelines for informing consumers of the content. (Sec. 741) This section provides appropriations to remain available until expended for implementing non-renewable agreements for wetlands preservation on eligible lands, including flooded agricultural lands. (Sec. 742) This section prohibits funds provided for the rural water, waste water, waste disposal, and solid waste management programs authorized by the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act from being used for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public water or wastewater system unless all of the iron and steel products used in the project are produced in the United States. The section also specifies exceptions and waiver procedures. (Sec. 743) This section directs USDA to set aside specified additional funds for Rural Economic Area Partnership (REAP) Zones. (Sec. 744) This section prohibits USDA from including incarcerated prison populations to determine eligibility or the level of program assistance for Rural Development programs. (Sec. 745) This section provides appropriations to remain available until expended for a pilot program for USDA to award grants to non-profit organizations and public housing authorities to provide technical assistance to Rural Housing Service (RHS) multi-family housing borrowers to facilitate the acquisition of RHS multi-family housing properties in areas where there is a risk of loss of affordable housing. The grants must be used to assist acquisitions by non-profit housing organizations and public housing authorities that commit to keep the properties in the RHS multi-family housing program for a period of time determined by USDA. (Sec. 746) This section prohibits funds provided by this bill from being used to influence congressional action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress. (Sec. 747) This section requires USDA to establish a pilot program to permit state Farm Service Agency offices to make county-level payments to agricultural producers under the Agriculture Risk Coverage Program using an alternate calculation method if it is necessary to ensure that there are not significant yield calculation disparities between comparable counties in the state. It also specifies requirements for the alternative calculation method and provides appropriations for the program. (Sec. 748) This section permits USDA to receive access to certain information from federal tax returns to verify the income for individuals participating in loan programs under the Housing Act of 1949. (Sec. 749) This section provides appropriations for the Farm to School Grant Program. (The program provides competitive grants and technical assistance to implement farm-to-school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools.) (Sec. 750) This section prohibits the FDA from using funds provided by this bill to develop, issue, promote, or advance any regulations applicable to food manufacturers for population-wide sodium reduction actions or to develop, issue, promote or advance final guidance applicable to food manufacturers for long term population-wide sodium reduction actions until the dietary reference intake report with respect to sodium is completed. (Sec. 751) This section provides additional funds to USDA for loans and grants that are consistent with the Healthy Food Financing Initiative and that support projects to provide access to healthy food in underserved areas, create and preserve quality jobs, and revitalize low-income communities. (Sec. 752) This section provides additional funds to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to remain available through FY2020 for one-time control and management and associated activities directly related to the multiple-agency response to citrus greening. (Sec. 753) This section prohibits the FDA from using funds to enforce the rule titled "Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption" with respect to the regulation of the production, distribution, sale, or receipt of grapes that are grown, harvested, and used solely for wine and receive commercial processing that adequately reduces the presence of microorganisms of public health significance. (Sec. 754) This section provides appropriations for telemedicine and distance learning services in rural area to help address the opioid epidemic in rural America. (Sec. 755) This section provides appropriations to the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to remain available through FY2020 for a pilot program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for programs and services to establish and enhance farming and ranching opportunities for military veterans. (Sec. 756) This section provides addition appropriations for the broadband loan and grant pilot program that was established in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018. (Sec. 757) This section provides additional appropriations for direct loans and grants made under the Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program account. (Sec. 758) This section prohibits funds from being used to inspect horses for slaughter purposes. (Sec. 759) This section prohibits funds provided by this bill from being used to revoke an exception made (1) under the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration rule titled "Exceptions to Geographic Areas for Official Agencies Under the USGSA"; and (2) before April 14, 2017. (The rule established criteria to allow more than one designated official agency to inspect or weigh grain within a single geographic area.) (Sec. 760) This section requires USDA to provide technical assistance to any state or county impacted by a volcanic eruption covered by major disaster declared by the President in 2018. The technical assistance is for (1) assessing damage to agricultural production and rural infrastructure, and (2) developing recovery plans for impacted farmers, ranchers, and rural communities. (Sec. 761) This section requires USDA, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a working group to study and report to Congress on specified issues related to ocean farming practices. (Sec. 762) This section requires USDA to report to Congress on (1) ways in which conservation programs administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) may be better used for the conservation of ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), and (2) actions taken by the NRCS relating to the conservation of ocelots. (Sec. 763) This section requires the Rural Housing Service (RHS) to submit to Congress a report including specified details regarding properties assisted under title V of the Housing Act of 1949 that are reaching the end of their loan term, the strategy to preserve the long-term affordability of the properties when the loan matures, and a description of the resources and tools that the RHS needs from Congress preserve the long-term affordability of the properties. (Sec. 764) This section requires the FDA to use funds to revise the advice provided in the notice of availability titled "Advice About Eating Fish, From the Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration; Revised Fish Advice; Availability" in a manner that is consistent with nutrition science recognized by FDA on the net effects of seafood consumption. (Sec. 765) This section specifies requirements for administering the broadband loan and grant pilot program established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018. USDA must (1) allow applicants that are determined to be ineligible for the program to appeal the determination in a timely fashion, and (2) exclude certain loans when determining whether an entity may overbuild or duplicate broadband expansion efforts made by any entity that has received a broadband loan from the Rural Utilities Service. (Sec. 767) This section increases the funding provided by this bill for extension programs and agricultural research at 1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee University. It also decreases the funding provided by this bill for Agriculture Buildings and Facilities (Sec. 768) This section prohibits funds provided by this bill from being used to enforce the requirement in the rule titled "Food Labeling: Revision of the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels" that any single ingredient sugar, honey, agave, or syrup (including maple syrup) that is packaged and offered for sale as a single ingredient food bear the declaration "Includes 'X'g Added Sugars." (Sec. 769) This section specifies that the explanatory statement printed in the Congressional Record regarding division C (Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019) of H.R. 21 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019) has the same effect, with respect to this bill, as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a conference committee. (Sec. 770) This section compensates federal employees furloughed as a result of a lapse in appropriations that began on or about December 22, 2018, and ended upon the enactment of this bill. It also ratifies and approves certain obligations incurred in anticipation of the appropriations made and the authority granted by this bill. (Sec. 771) This section reimburses or compensates certain states, federal grantees, and furloughed state employees for any period in FY2019 in which a lapse in appropriations occurs.
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 243 - 183 (Roll no. 25). (text: CR H376-388)
HousePassed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 243 - 183 (Roll no. 25).(text: CR H376-388)
HouseOn motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 197 - 229 (Roll no. 24).
HouseConsidered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H438-440)
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the motion to recommit with instructions, the Chair put the question on the motion, and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Aderholt demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the motion to recommit with instructions until a time to be announced.
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
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2020 · fourth_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs HR 6201; "The Families First Coronavirus Response Act;" provisions affecting dairy producers HR 748; "The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act" "CARES Act;" provisions affecting dairy producers HR 6800; "The Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act;" (HEROES Act); provisions affecting dairy producers HR 266; "Paycheck Protection Increases Act of 2020;" impacts for dairy producers Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools Act; impacts on dairy producers HR 8337; "Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions; impacts on dairy producers HR 133; "Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021; impacts on dairy producers
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Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
2020 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs HR 6201; "The Families First Coronavirus Response Act;" provisions affecting dairy producers HR 748; "The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act" "CARES Act;" provisions affecting dairy producers HR 6800; "The Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act;" (HEROES Act); provisions affecting dairy producers HR 266; "Paycheck Protection Increases Act of 2020;" impacts for dairy producers Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools Act; impacts on dairy producers
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Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
2020 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs HR 6201; "The Families First Coronavirus Response Act;" provisions affecting dairy producers HR 748; "The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act" "CARES Act;" provisions affecting dairy producers HR 6800; "The Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act;" (HEROES Act); provisions affecting dairy producers HR 266; "Paycheck Protection Increases Act of 2020;" impacts for dairy producers
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Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
2020 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs HR 6201; "The Families First Coronavirus Response Act;" provisions affecting dairy producers HR 748; "The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act" "CARES Act;" provisions affecting dairy producers
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
2020 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs House H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 748: CARES Act - Provisions related to Part B, Part D, vaccines, transparency, and transportation H.R. 1158: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 - Provisions related to prescription drugs, Medicare funding, and other provisions H.R. 1865: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 - Provisions related to prescription drugs, Medicare funding, and other provisions H.R. 2401: American Cures Act - Provisions related to biomedical research funding H.R. 2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 - HHS provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2745: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - VA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2968: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3055: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3164: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 4378: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019 - Provisions related to Medicare funding H.R. 6074: Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 - Provisions related to biomedical research and prescription drug pricing provisions related to vaccine reimbursement H.R. 6201: Families First Coronavirus Response Act - Provisions related to Medicare funding H.R. 6373: To increase the amount available under the Defense Production Act of 1950 to respond to the coronavirus epidemic, and for other purposes - Provisions related to the Defense Production Act and medical devices H.R. 6379: Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act - Provisions related to supplemental appropriations and federal health programs H. Res. 28: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 264) making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 265) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 266) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 267) making appropriations for the Department of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; and waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules. H. Res. 293: Providing for budget enforcement for fiscal year 2020 H. Res. 436: Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes H. 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DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Aderholt motion to recommit with instructions, pending the reservation of a point of order. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to make various reductions throughout the bill and increase funds for Rural Utilities Service - Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program. Subsequently, the point of order was withdrawn.
Mr. Aderholt moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR H397)
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 265.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 264, H.R. 265, H.R. 266 and H.R. 267. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. The rule provides one hour of debate, orders the previous question, and allows one motion to commit on each bill. The rule waives the requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII for a two-thirds vote to consider a report from the Committee on Rules on the same day it is presented to the House with respect to any resolution reported through the legislative day of January 15, 2019, relating to a measure making or continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 28. (consideration: CR H375-398)
Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 28 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 264, H.R. 265, H.R. 266 and H.R. 267. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. The rule provides one hour of debate, orders the previous question, and allows one motion to commit on each bill. The rule waives the requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII for a two-thirds vote to consider a report from the Committee on Rules on the same day it is presented to the House with respect to any resolution reported through the legislative day of January 15, 2019, relating to a measure making or continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019.
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Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2020 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 748: CARES Act - Provisions related to Part B, Part D, vaccines, transparency, and transportation H.R. 1158: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 - Provisions related to prescription drugs, Medicare funding, and other provisions H.R. 1865: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 - Provisions related to prescription drugs, Medicare funding, and other provisions H.R. 2401: American Cures Act - Provisions related to biomedical research funding H.R. 2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 - HHS provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2745: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - VA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2922: Respond NOW Act - Provisions related to funding to address opioid crisis H.R. 2968: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3055: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3164: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 4378: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019 - Provisions related to Medicare funding H.R. 6074: Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 - Provisions related to biomedical research and prescription drug pricing H.R. 6201: Families First Coronavirus Response Act - Provisions related to Medicare funding H.R. 6373: To increase the amount available under the Defense Production Act of 1950 to respond to the coronavirus epidemic, and for other purposes - Provisions related to the Defense Production Act and medical devices H.R. 6379: Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act - Provisions related to supplemental appropriations and federal health programs H. Res. 28: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 264) making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 265) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 266) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 267) making appropriations for the Department of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; and waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules. H. Res. 293: Providing for budget enforcement for fiscal year 2020 H. Res. 436: Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes H. Res. 4455: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3055) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; and providing for proceedings during the period from June 28, 2019, through July 8, 2019 S. 1215: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 1250: American Cures Act - Provisions related to biomedical research funding S. 2474: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 2522: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs S. 3161: National Biomedical Research Act - Provisions related to federal biomedical research funding S. 3370: Coronavirus Vaccine Act - Provisions related to NIH funding S. 3548: CARES Act - Provisions related to supplemental appropriations and federal health programs S. ___: Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes
Client expense: $9,020,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of the Vice President of the United States, Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.J.Res. 1 - Making further continuing appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes. H.J.Res. 27 - Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 H.J.Res. 28 - Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 21 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 264 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 266 - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 267 - Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 268 - Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 648 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 HR ___ - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2020 HR___ - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020 HR___ - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 Pub.L. 116-6/H.J.Res. 31 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 S ___ - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020 S ___ - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 S ___ - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2020 S. 572 - Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief, 2019 S. 811 - A bill to provide for additional supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, for border security and disaster relief.
Client expense: $160,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Reserve System, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Natl Economic Council (NEC), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
2019 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
FY 2020 Budget Resolution--lobbied against the President's FY 2020 budget. Lobbied in Senate and House to oppose any cuts to federal employee pay and benefits to offset increased defense spending. Lobbied against negative impact on federal employees' retirement by requiring employees pay additional salary towards retirement,privatizing of airport screening jobs, and reduction in benefits for on-the-job injuries. FY 2020 Homeland Security Appropriations--lobbied for additional funding of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Coast Guard (USCG), Federal Protective Protective Service (FPS), and Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Specifically, lobbied for retention of prohibitions against the OMB Circular A-76 process in the Coast Guard's National Vessel Documentation Center (NVDC) and on certain positions in CIS related to investigating and adjudicating immigration rights benefits. Lobbied for funding to increase number of Transportation Security Officer (TSO) full time equivalents (FTEs) and other personnel issues. FY 2020 Defense Appropriations--lobbied to clarify section 8012 carried over from FY 2019 Defense Appropriation. Section 8012 currently only prohibits managing the DoD civilian workforce to an End Strength. Clarification would return to prior language in earlier Defense Appropriations that prohibited managing the civilian workforce to arbitrary Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Caps. Clarification also returns to earlier Defense Appropriation language that would require the DoD civilian workforce to be solely managed based on workload, available funding and the total force management policies of section 129a of title 10. Clarification also would prohibit the sue of appropriated funds in reducing the civilian workforce absent an analysis of impacts on workload, fully burdened costs of the total force of military, civilian employee and contractor, and impacts on military force structure, readiness and stress on the All Volunteer Military. Clarification also would bar the sue of appropriated funds for inappropriate use of term or temporary hiring authorities for enduring functions. Lobbied to add a new policy enforcement provision that would restrict the use of appropriated funds unless the following statutory requirements were complied with: the contractor inventory statute in section 2330a of title 10; the contract services budget statute in section 235 of title 10, as well as the successor statute in section 2329 of title 10 for improved planning, programming and budgeting of contract services; as well as compliance with the requirement for standard total force management guidelines or checklists that comprehensively contain the full statutory definitions and restrictions against contracting inherently governmental functions, closely associated with inherently governmental functions, personal services lacking statutory authority, guards and firefighter positions in CONUS, publicity experts, interrogators, critical functions, including core logistics, and compliance with the moratorium against public-private competitions. This provision would be an enforcement mechanism against illegal direct conversions of government employee work to contract. FY 2020 Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs Appropriations--Lobbied for funding to hire new employees to fill vacancies; provisions to provide adequate funding for VA health and benefits programs and against further contracting out. Lobbied for the inclusion of language to prevent unilateral implementation of collective bargaining agreements. FY 2020 Interior and Environmental Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, pay, and working conditions of federal employee jobs and proposed EPA spending cuts. Lobbied in support of HR 3582, the Recognizing the Environmental Gains in Overcoming Negligence Act (REGION Act) to ensure that no EPA office be closed, consolidated, or eliminated using funds made available in any appropriation act for any fiscal year. FY 2020 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, funding cuts to services such as college aid for students, rural health care services, and funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and status of collective bargaining. Lobbied against Administration proposal to close and transfer Forest Service Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers. Lobbied for increased Social Security Administration funding and status of collective bargaining. FY 2020 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations--lobbied to continue the government-wide moratorium against public-private competitions and to clarify that the moratorium also applies to any conversion of federal government employee jobs to contract performance, including through privatization o facilities and infrastructure, and is not just limited to prohibiting public-private competitions pursuant to OMB Circular A-76. FY 2020 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations--lobbied for higher funding levels for Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and continued prohibition of closure of minimum security camps; lobbied for funding to hire adequate numbers of correctional staff; end the use of augmentation to compensate for lack of hiring correctional officer positions; alleviating overcrowding at high-security institutions; need to increase unit officer staff at high security institutions; and reduce the use of BOP contract prisons. FY 2020 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, pay, benefits, and working conditions of federal employees. FY 2020 Agriculture Appropriations--lobbied on provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs and funding cuts to the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Lobbied against Administration's proposal to relocate and reorganize the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Lobbied against Administrations proposal to implement the New Swine Inspection System FY 2020 Energy and Water Appropriations--lobbied against any cuts in funding for fossil fuel research conducted at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Lobbied to restore adequate funding to the Social Security Administration. Lobbied against any limitation or elimination of official time to all appropriations bills. Lobbied for prohibition of realigning the Army Civilian Works program from Corps of engineers to Department of transportation and Department of Interior. Lobbied in support of H.R. 3351, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, to provide FY 2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies, including Treasury, Executive office of the President, the Judiciary, DC, and several independent agencies. Lobbied in H.R. 3351 to prohibit the merger of OPM and GSA. Lobbied in support of H.R. 264, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, which provides FY 2019 appropriations to agencies responsible for regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings and the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, and the District of Columbia. Lobbied in support of H.R. 265, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture (USDA), except for the Forest Service, which is included in the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The bill also provides appropriations for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Farm Credit Administration. Lobbied in support of H.R. 266, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY 2019 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. The bill provides annual appropriations for most of the Department of the Interior Lobbied in support of H.R. 267, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY 2019 appropriations for the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and several related agencies. Lobbied in support of H.R. 2740, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Legislative Branch, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, providing FY 2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 4 of the 12 regular FY 2020 appropriations bills Lobbied in support of H.R. 3055, the Commerce, Justice, Science, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, providing FY 2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 5 of the 12 regular FY 2020 appropriations bills
Client expense: $487,000 · 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), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), 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. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2019 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
FY 2020 Budget Resolution--lobbied against the President's FY 2020 budget. Lobbied in Senate and House to oppose any cuts to federal employee pay and benefits to offset increased defense spending. Lobbied against negative impact on federal employees' retirement by requiring employees pay additional salary towards retirement,privatizing of airport screening jobs, and reduction in benefits for on-the-job injuries. FY 2020 Homeland Security Appropriations--lobbied for additional funding of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Coast Guard (USCG), Federal Protective Protective Service (FPS), and Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Specifically, lobbied for retention of prohibitions against the OMB Circular A-76 process in the Coast Guard's National Vessel Documentation Center (NVDC) and on certain positions in CIS related to investigating and adjudicating immigration rights benefits. Lobbied for funding to increase number of Transportation Security Officer (TSO) full time equivalents (FTEs) and other personnel issues. FY 2020 Defense Appropriations--lobbied to clarify section 8012 carried over from FY 2019 Defense Appropriation. Section 8012 currently only prohibits managing the DoD civilian workforce to an End Strength. Clarification would return to prior language in earlier Defense Appropriations that prohibited managing the civilian workforce to arbitrary Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Caps. Clarification also returns to earlier Defense Appropriation language that would require the DoD civilian workforce to be solely managed based on workload, available funding and the total force management policies of section 129a of title 10. Clarification also would prohibit the sue of appropriated funds in reducing the civilian workforce absent an analysis of impacts on workload, fully burdened costs of the total force of military, civilian employee and contractor, and impacts on military force structure, readiness and stress on the All Volunteer Military. Clarification also would bar the sue of appropriated funds for inappropriate use of term or temporary hiring authorities for enduring functions. Lobbied to add a new policy enforcement provision that would restrict the use of appropriated funds unless the following statutory requirements were complied with: the contractor inventory statute in section 2330a of title 10; the contract services budget statute in section 235 of title 10, as well as the successor statute in section 2329 of title 10 for improved planning, programming and budgeting of contract services; as well as compliance with the requirement for standard total force management guidelines or checklists that comprehensively contain the full statutory definitions and restrictions against contracting inherently governmental functions, closely associated with inherently governmental functions, personal services lacking statutory authority, guards and firefighter positions in CONUS, publicity experts, interrogators, critical functions, including core logistics, and compliance with the moratorium against public-private competitions. This provision would be an enforcement mechanism against illegal direct conversions of government employee work to contract. FY 2020 Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs Appropriations--Lobbied for funding to hire new employees to fill vacancies; provisions to provide adequate funding for VA health and benefits programs and against further contracting out. Lobbied for the inclusion of language to prevent unilateral implementation of collective bargaining agreements. FY 2020 Interior and Environmental Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, pay, and working conditions of federal employee jobs and proposed EPA spending cuts. Lobbied in support of HR 3582, the Recognizing the Environmental Gains in Overcoming Negligence Act (REGION Act) to ensure that no EPA office be closed, consolidated, or eliminated using funds made available in any appropriation act for any fiscal year. FY 2020 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, funding cuts to services such as college aid for students, rural health care services, and funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and status of collective bargaining. Lobbied against Administration proposal to close and transfer Forest Service Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers. Lobbied for increased Social Security Administration funding and status of collective bargaining. FY 2020 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations--lobbied to continue the government-wide moratorium against public-private competitions and to clarify that the moratorium also applies to any conversion of federal government employee jobs to contract performance, including through privatization o facilities and infrastructure, and is not just limited to prohibiting public-private competitions pursuant to OMB Circular A-76. FY 2020 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations--lobbied for higher funding levels for Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and continued prohibition of closure of minimum security camps; lobbied for funding to hire adequate numbers of correctional staff; end the use of augmentation to compensate for lack of hiring correctional officer positions; alleviating overcrowding at high-security institutions; need to increase unit officer staff at high security institutions; and reduce the use of BOP contract prisons. FY 2020 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, pay, benefits, and working conditions of federal employees. FY 2020 Agriculture Appropriations--lobbied on provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs and funding cuts to the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Lobbied against Administration's proposal to relocate and reorganize the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Lobbied against Administrations proposal to implement the New Swine Inspection System FY 2020 Energy and Water Appropriations--lobbied against any cuts in funding for fossil fuel research conducted at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Lobbied to restore adequate funding to the Social Security Administration. Lobbied against any limitation or elimination of official time to all appropriations bills. Lobbied for prohibition of realigning the Army Civilian Works program from Corps of engineers to Department of transportation and Department of Interior. Lobbied in support of H.R. 3351, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, to provide FY 2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies, including Treasury, Executive office of the President, the Judiciary, DC, and several independent agencies. Lobbied in H.R. 3351 to prohibit the merger of OPM and GSA. Lobbied in support of H.R. 264, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, which provides FY 2019 appropriations to agencies responsible for regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings and the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, and the District of Columbia. Lobbied in support of H.R. 265, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture (USDA), except for the Forest Service, which is included in the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The bill also provides appropriations for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Farm Credit Administration. Lobbied in support of H.R. 266, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY 2019 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. The bill provides annual appropriations for most of the Department of the Interior Lobbied in support of H.R. 267, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY 2019 appropriations for the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and several related agencies. Lobbied in support of H.R. 2740, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Legislative Branch, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, providing FY 2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 4 of the 12 regular FY 2020 appropriations bills Lobbied in support of H.R. 3055, the Commerce, Justice, Science, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, providing FY 2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 5 of the 12 regular FY 2020 appropriations bills
Client expense: $487,000 · 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), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), 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. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2019 · first_quarter · Health Issues
H.R.582, the Raise the Wage Act, related to providing for increases in the Federal minimum wage, and for other purposes, all provisions; H.R.873 / S.260, the Transformation to Competitive Employment Act, related to assisting employers providing employment under special certificates issued under section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to transform their business and program models, to support individuals with disabilities to transition to competitive integrated employment, to phase out the use of such special certificates, and for other purposes, all provisions; H.R. 989, the Promoting Apprenticeships through Regional Training Networks for Employers Required Skills (PARTNERS) Act of 2019, related to promoting registered apprenticeships and other work-based learning programs for small and medium-sized businesses within in-demand industry sectors, through the establishment and support of industry or sector partnerships, all provisions; H.R.1058 / S.427, the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (Autism CARES) Act, related to amending the Public Health Service Act to enhance activities of the National Institutes of Health with respect to research on autism spectrum disorder and enhance programs relating to autism, and for other purposes, all provisions; H.R.1226 / S.317, the Advancing Care for Exceptional (ACE) Kids Act, related to amending title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide States with the option of providing coordinated care for children with complex medical conditions through a health home, all provisions; H.R. 1342 / S.548, the Ensuring Medicaid Provides Opportunities for Widespread Equity, Resources, and Care (EMPOWER Care) Act, related to reauthorizing the Money Follows the Person Demonstration Program, all provisions; H.R.1434 / S.634, the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act, related to amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish tax credits to encourage individual and corporate taxpayers to contribute to scholarships for elementary and secondary students through eligible scholarship-granting organizations, and for other purposes, all provisions; H.R. 1662, the Cultivating Learning Assistance for Student Success Act, related to directing the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program to provide grants to secondary schools for assistive technology devices and assistive technology services and to create programs to benefit students with autism or apraxia, and for other purposes, all provisions; H.R. 21 / H.R. 264 / H.R.265 / H.R.266 / H.R.267 / H.R. 648, related to appropriations; A bill not yet introduced to amend the Small Business Act (P.L. 85-536) A bill not yet introduced to amend portions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (P.L. 89-10) A bill not yet introduced to amend the Social Security Amendments of 1965 (P.L. 89-97); A bill not yet introduced to amend the Higher Education Act (P.L. 89-329); A bill not yet introduced to reauthorize the Education Sciences Reform Act (P.L. 107-279); A bill not yet introduced to prohibit and prevent the use of seclusion and reduce of the use of physical restraint in schools, and for other purposes; Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (P.L. 89-10); Implementation of the Social Security Amendments of 1965 (P.L. 89-97); Implementation of the National Apprenticeship Act (P.L. 89-554); Implementation of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-112); Implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (P.L. 113-128); and Implementation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (P.L. 114-95).
Client expense: $100,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Education, Dept of, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), SENATE
2019 · fourth_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R.265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 and related draft Senate bill for FY 20 appropriations to fund the Food and Drug Administration. H.R.2740 - Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 and related draft Senate bill for FY 20 appropriations for the National Institute of Health. H.R.2500 and S.1790, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020. These bills authorize FY2020 appropriations and sets forth policies for Department of Defense (DOD) programs and activities, including military personnel strengths. FY20 appropriations to fund EPAs Diesel Emissions Reduction program.
Client expense: $220,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · fourth_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs House H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 1158: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 - Provisions related to prescription drugs, Medicare funding, and other provisions H.R. 1865: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 - Provisions related to prescription drugs, Medicare funding, and other provisions H.R. 2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 - HHS provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2745: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - VA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2968: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3055: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3164: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 4378: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019 - Provisions related to Medicare funding H. Res. 28: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 264) making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 265) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 266) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 267) making appropriations for the Department of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; and waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules. H. Res. 293: Providing for budget enforcement for fiscal year 2020 House/Senate Omnibus H. Res. 436: Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes H. Res. 4455: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3055) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; and providing for proceedings during the period from June 28, 2019, through July 8, 2019 S. 1215: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 1790: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 2474: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 2522: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs S. ___: Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes
Client expense: $700,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · fourth_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 1158: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 - Provisions related to prescription drugs, Medicare funding, and other provisions H.R. 1865: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 - Provisions related to prescription drugs, Medicare funding, and other provisions H.R. 2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 - HHS provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2745: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - VA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2968: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3055: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3164: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 4378: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019 - Provisions related to Medicare funding H. Res. 28: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 264) making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 265) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 266) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 267) making appropriations for the Department of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; and waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules H. Res. 293: Providing for budget enforcement for fiscal year 2020 H. Res. 436: Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes H. Res. 4455: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3055) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; and providing for proceedings during the period from June 28, 2019, through July 8, 2019 S. 1215: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 1790: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 2474: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 2522: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs S. ___: Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes
Client expense: $6,450,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of the Vice President of the United States, Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · fourth_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
Legislation and policies relating to: Authorization and appropriations of Title VIII funding for nurse education and nurse workforce development programs in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for antimicrobial research programs FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for the Childrens Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Program FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for the FDA Pediatric Device Consortia Grant Program Impact of sequestration on the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and other discretionary Department of Health and Human Services spending Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.J. Res. 28) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.J. Res. 31) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 21) Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 264) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 265) Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 266) Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 267) Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 268) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 648) Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (H.R. 1865) Investing for the People Act of 2019 (H.R. 2021) Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (H.R. 2157) Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 (H.R. 2740) Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 (H.R. 3055) Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 (H.R. 3877) Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019 (H.R. 4378) An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2020 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2021 through 2024 (S. Con. Res. 12) Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019 (S. 1900) Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act (S. 2765)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $24,000
Government targets: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Education, Dept of, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FDA Appropriations funding for Generic Drugs Certified Importer Program (CIP) Reconciliation Gx Drug Labeling Biosimilars Importation Drug Pricing Value of Medicine Blocking Act H.R.21 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.648 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.2500 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 H.R.2740 - Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R.1158 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R.1865 - Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R.3164 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R.4378 - Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019 H.Res.436 - Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Heath and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.
Client expense: $620,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2019 · fourth_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food an Durg Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 648 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 21 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.J. Res. 31 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 2157 - Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.1770 - Student Agriculture Protection Act of 2019 S. 572 - Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief, 2019 S. 811 - Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Border Security and Disaster Relief, 2019 Issues other than legislation: Emergency economic assistance for farmers and ranchers Funding for USDA programs Appropriations and budget requests for USDA/other agencies with an ag-related mission or responsibility Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) No-cost wireless EBT processing for SNAP-authorized markets Food for Peace Food for Progress McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Office of urban agriculture Urban agriculture data collection initiative USDA-Economic Research Service funding USDA-National Agriculture Statistics Service funding Agriculture and Food Reserach Initiative (AFRI) public cultivar development Hatch, Evans-Allen, and McIntire-Stennis Acts Formula Grants ARS/National Plant Germplasm System Funding and reprogramming restriction for ERS and NIFA relocation and reorganization Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) funding Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP) funding PFAS/PFOA contamination Origin of livestock proposed rule
Client expense: $50,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Farm Credit Administration, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Intl Trade Administration (ITA), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $15,000
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2019 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
2019 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
___ H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs ___ H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs House ___ H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs ___ H.R. 2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs ___ H.R. 2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 - HHS provisions related to prescription drugs ___ H.R. 2745: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - VA Provisions related to prescription drugs ___ H.R. 2968: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs ___ H.R. 3055: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs ___ H.R. 3164: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs _H.R. 3877 Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 ___ H.R. 4378: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019 - Provisions related to Medicare funding ___ H. Res. 28: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 264) making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 265) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 266) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 267) making appropriations for the Department of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; and waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules. ___ H. Res. 293: Providing for budget enforcement for fiscal year 2020 ___ H. Res. 436: Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes ___ H. Res. 4455: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3055) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; and providing for proceedings during the period from June 28, 2019, through July 8, 2019 ___ S. 1215: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs ___ S. 1790: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs ___ S. 2474: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs ___ S. 2522: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs ___ S. ___: Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes
Client expense: $1,360,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
Legislation and policies relating to: Authorization and appropriations of Title VIII funding for nurse education and nurse workforce development programs in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for antimicrobial research programs FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for the Childrens Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Program FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for the FDA Pediatric Device Consortia Grant Program Impact of sequestration on the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and other discretionary Department of Health and Human Services spending Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.J. Res. 28) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.J. Res. 31) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 21) Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 264) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 265) Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 266) Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 267) Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 268) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 648) Investing for the People Act of 2019 (H.R. 2021) Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (H.R. 2157) Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 (H.R. 2740) Commerce, Justice, Science, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2020 (H.R. 3055) Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 (H.R. 3877) Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019 (H.R. 4378) An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2020 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2021 through 2024 (S. Con. Res. 12) Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019 (S. 1900)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $24,000
Government targets: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Education, Dept of, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2019 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 - HHS provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2745: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - VA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2968: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3055: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3164: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 4378: Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019 - Provisions related to Medicare funding H. Res. 28: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 264) making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 265) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 266) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 267) making appropriations for the Department of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; and waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules H. Res. 293: Providing for budget enforcement for fiscal year 2020 H. Res. 436: Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes H. Res. 4455: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3055) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; and providing for proceedings during the period from June 28, 2019, through July 8, 2019 S. 1215: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 1790: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 2474: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 2522: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs S. ___: Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes
Client expense: $6,230,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), President of the U.S., SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · third_quarter · Chemicals/Chemical Industry
HR265-Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: SENATE
FDA Appropriations funding for Generic Drugs Certified Importer Program (CIP) Reconciliation Gx Drug Labeling Biosimilars Importation Drug Pricing Value of Medicine Blocking Act H.R.21 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.648 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.2500 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 H.R.2740 - Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020
Client expense: $1,140,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2019 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food an Durg Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 648 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 21 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.J. Res. 31 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 2157 - Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.1770 - Student Agriculture Protection Act of 2019 S. 572 - Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief, 2019 S. 811 - Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Border Security and Disaster Relief, 2019 Issues other than legislation: Emergency economic assistance for farmers and ranchers Funding for USDA programs Appropriations and budget requests for USDA/other agencies with an ag-related mission or responsibility Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) No-cost wireless EBT processing for SNAP-authorized markets Food for Peace Food for Progress McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Office of urban agriculture Urban agriculture data collection initiative USDA-Economic Research Service funding USDA-National Agriculture Statistics Service funding Agriculture and Food Reserach Initiative (AFRI) public cultivar development Hatch, Evans-Allen, and McIntire-Stennis Acts Formula Grants ARS/National Plant Germplasm System Funding and reprogramming restriction for ERS and NIFA relocation and reorganization Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) funding Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP) funding PFAS/PFOA contamination
Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Farm Credit Administration, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Intl Trade Administration (ITA), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
FY 2020 Budget Resolution--lobbied against the President's FY 2020 budget and House FY 2020 Budget Resolution. Lobbied in Senate and House to oppose any cuts to federal employee pay and benefits to offset increased defense spending. Lobbied against negative impact on federal employees' retirement by requiring employees pay additional salary towards retirement,privatizing of airport screening jobs, and reduction in benefits for on-the-job injuries. FY 2020 Homeland Security Appropriations--lobbied for additional funding of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Coast Guard (USCG), Federal Protective Protective Service (FPS), and Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Specifically, lobbied for retention of prohibitions against the OMB Circular A-76 process in the Coast Guard's National Vessel Documentation Center (NVDC) and on certain positions in CIS related to investigating and adjudicating immigration rights benefits. Lobbied for funding to increase number of Transportation Security Officer (TSO) full time equivalents (FTEs) and other personnel issues. FY 2020 Defense Appropriations--lobbied to clarify section 8012 carried over from FY2019 Defense Appropriation. Section 8012 currently only prohibits managing the DoD civilian workforce to an End Strength. Clarification would return to prior language in earlier Defense Appropriations that prohibited managing the civilian workforce to arbitrary Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Caps. Clarification also returns to earlier Defense Appropriation language that would require the DoD civilian workforce to be solely managed based on workload, available funding and the total force management policies of section 129a of title 10. Clarification also would prohibit the sue of appropriated funds in reducing the civilian workforce absent an analysis of impacts on workload, fully burdened costs of the total force of military, civilian employee and contractor, and impacts on military force structure, readiness and stress on the All Volunteer Military. Clarification also would bar the sue of appropriated funds for inappropriate use of term or temporary hiring authorities for enduring functions. Lobbied to add a new policy enforcement provision that would restrict the use of appropriated funds unless the following statutory requirements were complied with: the contractor inventory statute in section 2330a of title 10; the contract services budget statute in section 235 of title 10, as well as the successor statute in section 2329 of title 10 for improved planning, programming and budgeting of contract services; as well as compliance with the requirement for standard total force management guidelines or checklists that comprehensively contain the full statutory definitions and restrictions against contracting inherently governmental functions, closely associated with inherently governmental functions, personal services lacking statutory authority, guards and firefighter positions in CONUS, publicity experts, interrogators, critical functions, including core logistics, and compliance with the moratorium against public-private competitions. This provision would be an enforcement mechanism against illegal direct conversions of government employee work to contract. FY 2020 Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs Appropriations--Lobbied for funding to hire new employees to fill vacancies; provisions to provide adequate funding for VA health and benefits programs and against further contracting out. Lobbied for the inclusion of language to prevent unilateral implementation of collective bargaining agreements. FY 2020 Interior and Environmental Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, pay, and working conditions of federal employee jobs and proposed EPA spending cuts. Lobbied in support of HR 3582, the Recognizing the Environmental Gains in Overcoming Negligence Act (REGION Act) to ensure that no EPA office be closed, consolidated, or eliminated using funds made available in any appropriation act for any fiscal year. FY 2020 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, funding cuts to services such as college aid for students, rural health care services, and funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and status of collective bargaining. Lobbied against Administration proposal to close and transfer Forest Service Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers FY 2020 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations--lobbied to continue the government-wide moratorium against public-private competitions and to clarify that the moratorium also applies to any conversion of federal government employee jobs to contract performance, including through privatization o facilities and infrastructure, and is not just limited to prohibiting public-private competitions pursuant to OMB Circular A-76. FY 2020 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations--lobbied for higher funding levels for Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and continued prohibition of closure of minimum security camps; lobbied for funding to hire adequate numbers of correctional staff; end the use of augmentation to compensate for lack of hiring correctional officer positions; alleviating overcrowding at high-security institutions; need to increase unit officer staff at high security institutions; and reduce the use of BOP contract prisons. FY 2020 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, pay, benefits, and working conditions of federal employees. FY 2020 Agriculture Appropriations--lobbied on provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs and funding cuts to the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Lobbied against Administration's proposal to relocate and reorganize the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Lobbied against Administrations proposal to implement the New Swine Inspection System FY 2020 Energy and Water Appropriations--lobbied against any cuts in funding for fossil fuel research conducted at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Lobbied to restore adequate funding to the Social Security Administration. Lobbied against any limitation or elimination of official time to all appropriations bills. Lobbied for prohibition of realigning the Army Civilian Works program from Corps of engineers to Department of transportation and Department of Interior. Lobbied in support of H.R. 3351, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, to provide FY2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies, including Treasury, Executive office of the President, the Judiciary, DC, and Several independent agencies Lobbied in support of H.R. 264, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, which provides FY2019 appropriations to agencies responsible for regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings and the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, and the District of Columbia. Lobbied in support of H.R. 265, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture (USDA), except for the Forest Service, which is included in the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The bill also provides appropriations for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Farm Credit Administration. Lobbied in support of H.R. 266, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. The bill provides annual appropriations for most of the Department of the Interior Lobbied in support of H.R. 267, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and several related agencies. Lobbied in support of H.R. 268, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, providing $12.1 billion in FY2019 supplemental appropriations to several federal departments and agencies for expenses related to the consequences of recent wildfires, hurricanes, volcanos, earthquakes, typhoons, and other natural disasters. Lobbied in support of H.J. Res. 28 - Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, providing continuing FY2019 appropriations to several federal agencies through the earlier of February 15, 2019, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations legislation. It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and ends the partial government shutdown that began after the existing CR expired on December 21, 2018, because seven of the remaining FY2019 appropriations bills have not been enacted. Lobbied in support of H.R. 648, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 6 of the 12 regular FY2019 appropriations bills Lobbied in support of H.R. 2157, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, providing $17.2 billion in FY2019 supplemental appropriations to several federal departments and agencies for expenses related to the consequences of recent wildfires, hurricanes, volcanos, earthquakes, typhoons, and other natural disasters. Lobbied in support of H.R. 2740, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Legislative Branch, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, providing FY2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 4 of the 12 regular FY2020 appropriations bills Lobbied in support of H.R. 3055, the Commerce, Justice, Science, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, providing FY2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 5 of the 12 regular FY2020 appropriations bills
Client expense: $560,000 · 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), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), 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. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2019 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
FY 2020 Budget Resolution--lobbied against the President's FY 2020 budget. Lobbied in Senate and House to oppose any cuts to federal employee pay and benefits to offset increased defense spending. Lobbied against negative impact on federal employees' retirement by requiring employees pay additional salary towards retirement,privatizing of airport screening jobs, and reduction in benefits for on-the-job injuries. FY 2020 Homeland Security Appropriations--lobbied for additional funding of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Coast Guard (USCG), Federal Protective Protective Service (FPS), and Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Specifically, lobbied for retention of prohibitions against the OMB Circular A-76 process in the Coast Guard's National Vessel Documentation Center (NVDC) and on certain positions in CIS related to investigating and adjudicating immigration rights benefits. Lobbied for funding to increase number of Transportation Security Officer (TSO) full time equivalents (FTEs) and other personnel issues. FY 2020 Defense Appropriations--lobbied to clarify section 8012 carried over from FY 2019 Defense Appropriation. Section 8012 currently only prohibits managing the DoD civilian workforce to an End Strength. Clarification would return to prior language in earlier Defense Appropriations that prohibited managing the civilian workforce to arbitrary Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Caps. Clarification also returns to earlier Defense Appropriation language that would require the DoD civilian workforce to be solely managed based on workload, available funding and the total force management policies of section 129a of title 10. Clarification also would prohibit the sue of appropriated funds in reducing the civilian workforce absent an analysis of impacts on workload, fully burdened costs of the total force of military, civilian employee and contractor, and impacts on military force structure, readiness and stress on the All Volunteer Military. Clarification also would bar the sue of appropriated funds for inappropriate use of term or temporary hiring authorities for enduring functions. Lobbied to add a new policy enforcement provision that would restrict the use of appropriated funds unless the following statutory requirements were complied with: the contractor inventory statute in section 2330a of title 10; the contract services budget statute in section 235 of title 10, as well as the successor statute in section 2329 of title 10 for improved planning, programming and budgeting of contract services; as well as compliance with the requirement for standard total force management guidelines or checklists that comprehensively contain the full statutory definitions and restrictions against contracting inherently governmental functions, closely associated with inherently governmental functions, personal services lacking statutory authority, guards and firefighter positions in CONUS, publicity experts, interrogators, critical functions, including core logistics, and compliance with the moratorium against public-private competitions. This provision would be an enforcement mechanism against illegal direct conversions of government employee work to contract. FY 2020 Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs Appropriations--Lobbied for funding to hire new employees to fill vacancies; provisions to provide adequate funding for VA health and benefits programs and against further contracting out. Lobbied for the inclusion of language to prevent unilateral implementation of collective bargaining agreements. FY 2020 Interior and Environmental Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, pay, and working conditions of federal employee jobs and proposed EPA spending cuts. Lobbied in support of HR 3582, the Recognizing the Environmental Gains in Overcoming Negligence Act (REGION Act) to ensure that no EPA office be closed, consolidated, or eliminated using funds made available in any appropriation act for any fiscal year. FY 2020 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, funding cuts to services such as college aid for students, rural health care services, and funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and status of collective bargaining. Lobbied against Administration proposal to close and transfer Forest Service Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers. Lobbied for increased Social Security Administration funding and status of collective bargaining. FY 2020 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations--lobbied to continue the government-wide moratorium against public-private competitions and to clarify that the moratorium also applies to any conversion of federal government employee jobs to contract performance, including through privatization o facilities and infrastructure, and is not just limited to prohibiting public-private competitions pursuant to OMB Circular A-76. FY 2020 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations--lobbied for higher funding levels for Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and continued prohibition of closure of minimum security camps; lobbied for funding to hire adequate numbers of correctional staff; end the use of augmentation to compensate for lack of hiring correctional officer positions; alleviating overcrowding at high-security institutions; need to increase unit officer staff at high security institutions; and reduce the use of BOP contract prisons. FY 2020 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, pay, benefits, and working conditions of federal employees. FY 2020 Agriculture Appropriations--lobbied on provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs and funding cuts to the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Lobbied against Administration's proposal to relocate and reorganize the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Lobbied against Administrations proposal to implement the New Swine Inspection System FY 2020 Energy and Water Appropriations--lobbied against any cuts in funding for fossil fuel research conducted at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Lobbied to restore adequate funding to the Social Security Administration. Lobbied against any limitation or elimination of official time to all appropriations bills. Lobbied for prohibition of realigning the Army Civilian Works program from Corps of engineers to Department of transportation and Department of Interior. Lobbied in support of H.R. 3351, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, to provide FY 2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies, including Treasury, Executive office of the President, the Judiciary, DC, and several independent agencies. Lobbied in H.R. 3351 to prohibit the merger of OPM and GSA. Lobbied in support of H.R. 264, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, which provides FY 2019 appropriations to agencies responsible for regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings and the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, and the District of Columbia. Lobbied in support of H.R. 265, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture (USDA), except for the Forest Service, which is included in the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The bill also provides appropriations for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Farm Credit Administration. Lobbied in support of H.R. 266, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY 2019 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. The bill provides annual appropriations for most of the Department of the Interior Lobbied in support of H.R. 267, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY 2019 appropriations for the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and several related agencies. Lobbied in support of H.R. 2740, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Legislative Branch, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, providing FY 2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 4 of the 12 regular FY 2020 appropriations bills Lobbied in support of H.R. 3055, the Commerce, Justice, Science, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, providing FY 2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 5 of the 12 regular FY 2020 appropriations bills
Client expense: $467,000 · 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), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), 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. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2019 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food an Durg Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 648 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 21 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.J. Res. 31 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 2157 - Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.1770 - Student Agriculture Protection Act of 2019 S. 572 - Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief, 2019 S. 811 - Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Border Security and Disaster Relief, 2019 Issues other than legislation: Emergency economic assistance for farmers and ranchers Funding for USDA programs Appropriations and budget requests for USDA/other agencies with an ag-related mission or responsibility Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) No-cost wireless EBT processing for SNAP-authorized markets Food for Peace Food for Progress McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Office of urban agriculture Urban agriculture data collection initiative USDA-Economic Research Service funding USDA-National Agriculture Statistics Service funding Agriculture and Food Reserach Initiative (AFRI) public cultivar development Hatch, Evans-Allen, and McIntire-Stennis Acts Formula Grants ARS/National Plant Germplasm System Funding and reprogramming restriction for ERS and NIFA relocation and reorganization Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) funding Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP) funding PFAS/PFOA contamination
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Farm Credit Administration, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Intl Trade Administration (ITA), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $15,000
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 - HHS provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3055: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3164: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H. Res. 436: Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes H. Res. 4455: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3055) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; and providing for proceedings during the period from June 28, 2019, through July 8, 2019 S. 1215: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 1790: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs Presidents FY 2020 Budget Request - Medicare and Medicaid provisions and other issues
Client expense: $6,310,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
Legislation and policies relating to: Authorization and appropriations of Title VIII funding for nurse education and nurse workforce development programs in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for antimicrobial research programs FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for the Childrens Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Program FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for the FDA Pediatric Device Consortia Grant Program Impact of sequestration on the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and other discretionary Department of Health and Human Services spending Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.J. Res. 28) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.J. Res. 31) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 21) Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 264) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 265) Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 266) Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 267) Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 268) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 648) Investing for the People Act of 2019 (H.R. 2021) Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019 (H.R. 2157) Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 (H.R. 2740) Commerce, Justice, Science, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2020 (H.R. 3055) An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2020 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2021 through 2024 (S. Con. Res. 12) Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, 2019 (S. 1900)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $24,000
Government targets: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Education, Dept of, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 1922 Restoring Access to Medicine Act H.R. 2470 - FY20 Defense Appropriations - Lupus research funding in Defense Health Account - Draft H.R. 2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 - HHS provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3055: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3164: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H. Res. 436: Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes H. Res. 4455: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3055) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; and providing for proceedings during the period from June 28, 2019, through July 8, 2019 S. 1215: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 1790: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs Presidents FY 2020 Budget Request - Medicare and Medicaid provisions and other issues HIV Epidemic Funding
Client expense: $870,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · second_quarter · Chemicals/Chemical Industry
HR265-Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: SENATE
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 - HHS provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3055: Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 3164: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H. Res. 436: Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes H. Res. 4455: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3055) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; relating to consideration of the bill (H.R. 2740) making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; and providing for proceedings during the period from June 28, 2019, through July 8, 2019 S. 1215: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs S. 1790: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - DoD provisions related to prescription drugs Presidents FY 2020 Budget Request - Medicare and Medicaid provisions and other issues
Client expense: $6,220,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R.265 - Appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY'19 Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 implementation issues for Foreign Market Development (FMD) H.R.3055 FY20 Appropriations : Commerce-Justice-Science H.R.3164 FY20 Appropriations: Agricultural-Rural Development-FDA (Foreign Market Development Program) H.R.3052 FY20 Appropriations: Interior-Environment H.R.2747 FY20 Appropriations: Military Construction-Veterans Affairs H.R.3163 FY20 Appropriations: Transportation-Housing and Urban Development
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R.265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 and related draft Senate bill for FY 20 appropriations to fund the Food and Drug Administration. H.R.2740 - Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 and related draft Senate bill for FY 20 appropriations for the National Institute of Health. H.R.2500 and S.1790, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020. These bills authorize FY2020 appropriations and sets forth policies for Department of Defense (DOD) programs and activities, including military personnel strengths. FY20 appropriations to fund EPAs Diesel Emissions Reduction program.
Client expense: $130,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Natl Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
FDA Appropriations funding for Generic Drugs Certified Importer Program (CIP) Reconciliation Gx Drug Labeling Biosimilars Importation Drug Pricing Value of Medicine Blocking Act H.R.21 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.648 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.2500 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 H.R.2740 - Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020
Client expense: $1,010,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2019 · second_quarter · Tobacco
S.1048-Preventing Opportunities for Teen E-Cigarette & Tobacco Addiction; HR 2084-SCOTT Act of 2019; HR 2111-PROTECT Act; HR 1897-MOMMA's Act; S.9/HR 1854-Traditional Cigar Manufacturing & Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2019; S.1965/HR 1642-Combating the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products Act; S.655/HR 1498-SAFE Kids Act; S.616-E-Cigarette Youth Protection Act; HR 293-Youth Vaping Prevention Act of 2019; HR 282-SAFER Now Act; HR 2411/S.1258-Tobacco 21 Act; S.1541-Tabacco-Free Youth Act; HR 2339-Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019; HR 265-Agriculture, Rural Development, Food & Drug Admin. and Related Agencies Appropriations Act;HR 21-Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $60,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
FY 2020 Budget Resolution--lobbied against the President's FY 2020 budget and House FY 2020 Budget Resolution. Lobbied in Senate and House to oppose any cuts to federal employee pay and benefits to offset increased defense spending. Lobbied against negative impact on federal employees' retirement by requiring employees pay additional salary towards retirement,privatizing of airport screening jobs, and reduction in benefits for on-the-job injuries. FY 2020 Homeland Security Appropriations--lobbied for additional funding of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Coast Guard (USCG), Federal Protective Protective Service (FPS), and Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Specifically, lobbied for retention of prohibitions against the OMB Circular A-76 process in the Coast Guard's National Vessel Documentation Center (NVDC) and on certain positions in CIS related to investigating and adjudicating immigration rights benefits. Lobbied for funding to increase number of Transportation Security Officer (TSO) full time equivalents (FTEs) and other personnel issues. FY 2020 Defense Appropriations--lobbied to clarify section 8012 carried over from FY2019 Defense Appropriation. Section 8012 currently only prohibits managing the DoD civilian workforce to an End Strength. Clarification would return to prior language in earlier Defense Appropriations that prohibited managing the civilian workforce to arbitrary Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Caps. Clarification also returns to earlier Defense Appropriation language that would require the DoD civilian workforce to be solely managed based on workload, available funding and the total force management policies of section 129a of title 10. Clarification also would prohibit the sue of appropriated funds in reducing the civilian workforce absent an analysis of impacts on workload, fully burdened costs of the total force of military, civilian employee and contractor, and impacts on military force structure, readiness and stress on the All Volunteer Military. Clarification also would bar the sue of appropriated funds for inappropriate use of term or temporary hiring authorities for enduring functions. Lobbied to add a new policy enforcement provision that would restrict the use of appropriated funds unless the following statutory requirements were complied with: the contractor inventory statute in section 2330a of title 10; the contract services budget statute in section 235 of title 10, as well as the successor statute in section 2329 of title 10 for improved planning, programming and budgeting of contract services; as well as compliance with the requirement for standard total force management guidelines or checklists that comprehensively contain the full statutory definitions and restrictions against contracting inherently governmental functions, closely associated with inherently governmental functions, personal services lacking statutory authority, guards and firefighter positions in CONUS, publicity experts, interrogators, critical functions, including core logistics, and compliance with the moratorium against public-private competitions. This provision would be an enforcement mechanism against illegal direct conversions of government employee work to contract. FY 2020 Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs Appropriations--Lobbied for funding to hire new employees to fill vacancies; provisions to provide adequate funding for VA health and benefits programs and against further contracting out. Lobbied for the inclusion of language to prevent unilateral implementation of collective bargaining agreements. FY 2020 Interior and Environmental Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, pay, and working conditions of federal employee jobs and proposed EPA spending cuts. Lobbied in support of HR 3582, the Recognizing the Environmental Gains in Overcoming Negligence Act (REGION Act) to ensure that no EPA office be closed, consolidated, or eliminated using funds made available in any appropriation act for any fiscal year. FY 2020 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, funding cuts to services such as college aid for students, rural health care services, and funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and status of collective bargaining. Lobbied against Administration proposal to close and transfer Forest Service Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers FY 2020 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations--lobbied to continue the government-wide moratorium against public-private competitions and to clarify that the moratorium also applies to any conversion of federal government employee jobs to contract performance, including through privatization o facilities and infrastructure, and is not just limited to prohibiting public-private competitions pursuant to OMB Circular A-76. FY 2020 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations--lobbied for higher funding levels for Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and continued prohibition of closure of minimum security camps; lobbied for funding to hire adequate numbers of correctional staff; end the use of augmentation to compensate for lack of hiring correctional officer positions; alleviating overcrowding at high-security institutions; need to increase unit officer staff at high security institutions; and reduce the use of BOP contract prisons. FY 2020 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations--lobbied on contracting out, pay, benefits, and working conditions of federal employees. FY 2020 Agriculture Appropriations--lobbied on provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs and funding cuts to the Food Safety and Inspection Service. Lobbied against Administration's proposal to relocate and reorganize the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Lobbied against Administrations proposal to implement the New Swine Inspection System FY 2020 Energy and Water Appropriations--lobbied against any cuts in funding for fossil fuel research conducted at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Lobbied to restore adequate funding to the Social Security Administration. Lobbied against any limitation or elimination of official time to all appropriations bills. Lobbied for prohibition of realigning the Army Civilian Works program from Corps of engineers to Department of transportation and Department of Interior. Lobbied in support of H.R. 3351, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, to provide FY2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies, including Treasury, Executive office of the President, the Judiciary, DC, and Several independent agencies Lobbied in support of H.R. 264, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, which provides FY2019 appropriations to agencies responsible for regulating the financial, telecommunications, and consumer products industries; collecting taxes and assisting taxpayers; managing federal buildings and the federal workforce; and operating the Executive Office of the President, the judiciary, and the District of Columbia. Lobbied in support of H.R. 265, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture (USDA), except for the Forest Service, which is included in the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The bill also provides appropriations for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Farm Credit Administration. Lobbied in support of H.R. 266, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. The bill provides annual appropriations for most of the Department of the Interior Lobbied in support of H.R. 267, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and several related agencies. Lobbied in support of H.R. 268, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, providing $12.1 billion in FY2019 supplemental appropriations to several federal departments and agencies for expenses related to the consequences of recent wildfires, hurricanes, volcanos, earthquakes, typhoons, and other natural disasters. Lobbied in support of H.J. Res. 28 - Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, providing continuing FY2019 appropriations to several federal agencies through the earlier of February 15, 2019, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations legislation. It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and ends the partial government shutdown that began after the existing CR expired on December 21, 2018, because seven of the remaining FY2019 appropriations bills have not been enacted. Lobbied in support of H.R. 648, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, providing FY2019 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 6 of the 12 regular FY2019 appropriations bills Lobbied in support of H.R. 2157, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, providing $17.2 billion in FY2019 supplemental appropriations to several federal departments and agencies for expenses related to the consequences of recent wildfires, hurricanes, volcanos, earthquakes, typhoons, and other natural disasters. Lobbied in support of H.R. 2740, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Legislative Branch, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, providing FY2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 4 of the 12 regular FY2020 appropriations bills Lobbied in support of H.R. 3055, the Commerce, Justice, Science, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, providing FY2020 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 5 of the 12 regular FY2020 appropriations bills
Client expense: $560,000 · 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), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), 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. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food an Durg Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 648 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 21 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.J. Res. 31 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R. 2157 - Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 H.R.1770 - Student Agriculture Protection Act of 2019 S. 572 - Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief, 2019 S. 811 - Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Border Security and Disaster Relief, 2019 Issues other than legislation: Emergency economic assistance for farmers and ranchers Funding for USDA programs Appropriations and budget requests for USDA/other agencies with an ag-related mission or responsibility Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) No-cost wireless EBT processing for SNAP-authorized markets Food for Peace Food for Progress McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Office of urban agriculture Urban agriculture data collection initiative USDA-Economic Research Service funding USDA-National Agriculture Statistics Service funding Agriculture and Food Reserach Initiative (AFRI) public cultivar development Hatch, Evans-Allen, and McIntire-Stennis Acts Formula Grants ARS/National Plant Germplasm System Funding and reprogramming restriction for ERS and NIFA relocation and reorganization Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) funding Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP) funding PFAS/PFOA contamination
Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Farm Credit Administration, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Intl Trade Administration (ITA), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · second_quarter · Government Issues
General matters pertaining to county governmental operations, including Fiscal Year 2020 Budgetary and Appropriations bills and funding of federal agencies, as well as trade and immigration matters and USDAs proposed relocation of Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) outside of the National Capital Region ; H.R. 265, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019. *Meetings on upcoming BUILD grant application.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2019 · second_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
Appropriations. H.R.265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE
2019 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $15,000
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2019 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" funding for farm conservation programs
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
2019 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
HR 265; "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2019;" Funding for farm conservation programs
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
2019 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
Appropriations for Labor and Health and Human Services agencies. H.R.265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE
2019 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R.265 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
2019 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA provisions related to prescription drugs H. J. Res. 31: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 - FDA funding H. Res. 293: Providing for budget enforcement for fiscal year 2020 S. Con. Res. 12: An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2020 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2021 through 2024 - Provisions related to prescription drugs Presidents FY 2020 Budget Request - Provisions related to prescription drugs FY 2020 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations FY 2020 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Client expense: $1,490,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), SENATE, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
2019 · first_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
Legislation and policies relating to: Authorization and appropriations of Title VIII funding for nurse education and nurse workforce development programs in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for antimicrobial research programs FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for the Childrens Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Program FY 2019 and 2020 appropriations for the FDA Pediatric Device Consortia Grant Program Impact of sequestration on the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and other discretionary Department of Health and Human Services spending Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.J. Res. 28) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.J. Res. 31) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 21) Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 264) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 265) Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 266) Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 267) Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 268) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.R. 648)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $24,000
Government targets: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Education, Dept of, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE