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Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 This bill establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties (i.e., unlicensed individuals). Specifically, it prohibits a firearm transfer between private parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer first takes possession of the firearm to conduct a background check. The prohibition does not apply to certain firearm transfers, such as a gift between spouses in good faith.
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Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 29.
February 28, 2019
Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
February 27, 2019
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
February 27, 2019
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 240 - 190 (Roll no. 99).
House
February 27, 2019
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 240 - 190 (Roll no. 99).
House
February 27, 2019
On motion to recommit with instructions Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 220 - 209 (Roll no. 98).
House
February 27, 2019
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
February 27, 2019
DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Collins (GA) motion to recommit with instructions pending a 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 insert new text on regulations in the case of a background check conducted by the national instant criminal background check system, in response to a contact from a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer, that the system notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement if the individual is in violation of subsection (g)(5). Subsequently, the reservation was withdrawn.
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The Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148, P.L. 111-152): Expanding coverage and improving Medicare benefits; Providing needed protections to guard against insurance practices that unfairly limit, deny or rescind coverage based on health status; public and private health insurers should encourage preventive health care by providing full coverage, with no cost-sharing, for preventive services recommended by an expert advisory group, such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; Ensuring access to primary care physicians; and beginning to bend the cost curve; Prohibiting insurers from excluding or charging excessive rates to children based on pre-existing conditions, which later will be expanded to all persons; Covering young adults on their parents' plans; Eliminating lifetime and annual limits on health insurance coverage; Requiring that health insurers spend more on patient care and less on administration; support enactment of S. 248, the Empowering States to Innovate Act, which amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to: (1) allow states to apply for waivers of certain health insurance coverage requirements in such Act (including requirements for the establishment of qualified health plans and health insurance exchanges) for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014 (currently, January 1, 2017), and (2) require the waiver application process to begin not later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act; Phasing out the Medicare Part D doughnut hole; Eliminating patient cost-sharing for preventive services offered by Medicare or private insurers; Increasing Medicare and Medicaid payments to primary care physicians; Supporting the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to help physicians and patients make care decisions based on the best available evidence; Supporting the Center on Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to fund pilots of delivery models to improve outcomes and reduce costs, including patient-centered medical homes; Advocated against a December 2018 ruling by a federal judge in Texas that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional.
Access to Primary Care in the Context of Comprehensive Healthcare Reform Legislation (H.R. 3962/H.R. 3590/H.R. 4872): Provide sliding scale subsidies based on income to buy coverage from qualified plans; Qualified plans should: provide evidence-based benefits, including preventive services; and be prohibited from excluding persons with pre-existing conditions, charging them more, cherry-picking enrollees, or cancelling or failing to renew coverage; Expand Medicaid to cover all persons below the Federal Poverty Level and ensure fair payments to participating physicians; As coverage becomes affordable, all persons should participate and coverage should be guaranteed; Responsibility for financing should be shared by individuals, employers and government.
Medicare payment models that re-align incentives to support effective, efficient, patient-centered, coordinated care. Priority should be given to models designed to support the value of services provided by primary care physicians as well as to models that would create incentives, across physician specialties and sites of services, to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of care provided. Policy criteria for selecting the most promising models for pilot testing should be developed, in consultation with outside experts; The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), which has shown great promise in meeting the policy objectives suggested above, should be among the models selected for broader testing on a national pilot basis; the use of the medical home model for treatment or services under private health plans, the requirement of health plans to provide incentives to promote and report on medical home services provided, the establishment of community health teams and a primary care extension program to educate and support primary care practices in the delivery of medical home services, and the establishment of a demonstration project to educate physicians and other clinicians in training in the competencies required to deliver care consistent with the medical home care model.
Medicare Payments to Physicians: Urged that Congress provide incentives to physicians who transform their practices into Advanced Alternative Payment Models and continue to provide stability for physicians in the MIPS program. Specifically, Congress should extend the five percent Qualified Alternative Payment Model participant bonus beyond the 2022 performance year, replace the zero percent baseline payment updates under Medicare with positive updates. Urged congressional committees with jurisdiction over Medicare to exercise their oversight authority and urge CMS to expedite approval of more Advanced APMS, particularly those that work for small and specialty practices and to simplify the scoring structure and reporting requirements under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in order to fulfill Congress intent of a more streamlined program that reduces burdens on physicians; Supported S.2648, the Rural ACO Improvement Act, amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the benchmarking process for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) to ensure that all ACOs have an equal opportunity to share in savings regardless of their geographic location; Provided recommendations to CMS on the Merit-based Incentive Payment System Value Pathway (MVP), which aims to reduce reporting burden and complexity within MIPS while improving the accuracy and effectiveness of performance measurement. The College noted specifically that a robust, multi-year transition period will be critical to the success of the MVP, that it does not support making the MVP mandatory, that CMS should continue to support numerous reporting mechanisms, including qualified registries and clinical data registries, which have been instrumental in developing specialty-specific performance measures, among other things. Urged support for H.R. 8505, a bill to provide for a one-year waiver of budget neutrality adjustments under the Medicare physician fee schedule; Urged that any legislation to hold some Medicare physician payment codes harmless from budget neutrality do so for just one year and to allow evaluation and management increases, along with GPC1X codes to go into effect.
Administrative Tasks on Physicians and Patients: Congress should accelerate its efforts to reduce administrative burdens on clinicians and patients, including: streamlining the prior authorization process, better integrating clinical data into clinicians electronic health records (EHRs), and working with CMS in their effort to overhaul clinical documentation guidelines; Urged Congress to cosponsor and pass the Safe Step Act (H.R. 2279), to require health insurers to provide an exceptions process for any medication step therapy protocol based on clinical decision-making, medical necessity, and other patient needs.
Prescription Drug Costs: The College advocated for greater transparency in drug pricing, the elimination of anti-competitive industry practices that create barriers to generics coming to market, the importance of accounting for value in payment and coverage for prescriptions, and providing authority to the federal government to negotiate drug discounts under the Medicare Part D program. Specifically, the College urged Congress to pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2019 (H.R. 275/S. 62) from the 116th Congress, which allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate covered Part D drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. Also urged that Congress pass the Reforming Evergreening and Manipulation that Extends Drug Years, REMEDY Act (S. 1209), from the 116th Congress, to aid in the approval of more generic drug applications by the FDA and therefore improve patient access to those medications. Also urged that Congress pass the Prescription Drug STAR Act (H.R. 2113), and the Fair Accountability and Innovative Research (FAIR) Drug Pricing Act (H.R. 2296/S. 1391), from the 116th Congress, to promote greater drug pricing transparency.
Firearms-Related Injury and Death: The College advocated for lawmakers to pass measures to strengthen the criminal background check system, ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, prevent the unlawful transfer of firearms to those who cannot legally purchase them, and remove restrictions on, and provide dedicated funding for, research by federal agencies on prevention of firearms-related injuries and death. Specifically, the College urged passage of the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 8), from the 116th Congress, which would strengthen the accuracy and reporting of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) as well as expand Brady background checks to cover all firearm sales, including unlicensed firearms sellers currently not required to use background checks, and the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act (H.R. 674/S. 184), from the 116th Congress, which would authorize funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study firearms safety and gun violence prevention. Also urged Congress to pass the Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act of 2021, which passed the House in 2021, to provide protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by those deemed a threat to them. Also urged Congress to pass the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (S. 66/H.R. 1296), from the 116th Congress, to ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines. Urged support for the enactment of extreme risk protection orders (ERPO) to allow families and law enforcement to obtain a ruling from an impartial judge within 72 hours to temporarily remove guns from individuals at imminent risk of using them to harm themselves or others, with due process.
Immigration: The College advocated against family separation at the U.S. border. Specifically, the College urged support for bills from the 116th Congress such as H.R. 541 - the Keep Families Together Act, which would help ensure that children are not separated from their parents when families unlawfully cross over the border into the United States and would ensure that the Department of Homeland Security would not be able to implement the zero tolerance policy that separated families at the border under the last administration; urged congressional oversight of family separation policies. Also urged that Congress pass H.R. 6, the Dream and Promise Act of 2019, which would provide a pathway to U.S. citizenship for undocumented children who came to the United States due to the action of their parents, also known as Dreamers.
Graduate Medical Education: Urged that Congress support medical education training and debt relief for primary care physicians and other specialties facing shortages by passing the following legislation from the 116th Congress: the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (S. 348, H.R. 1763), to lift the GME caps as needed to permit training an adequate number of primary care physicians, including internal medicine specialists, and physicians in other specialties facing shortages; passing the Resident Education Deferred Interest Act (H.R. 1554), to save physicians in residency programs thousands of dollars in interest on their loans and help incentivize the opening of practices in underserved areas; pass legislation to combine DGME and IME into a single, more functional payment program, and broaden the GME financing structure to include all payers; support funding for GME/IME and programs within the Veterans Health Administration that provide graduate medical education to ensure that physicians are adequately trained with the skills needed to treat an aging population. Urged Congress to pass the Opioid Workforce Act of 2019 (H.R. 3414), which would provide Medicare support for an additional 1,000 graduate medical education (GME) positions over five years in hospitals that have, or are in the process of establishing, accredited residency programs in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, or pain medicine. Urged Congress to pass S. 1203 and H.R. 2441, the What You Can Do For Your Country Act, which would improve and reform the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.
Vaccines: Urged Congress to pass the Vaccines Act (HR 2862), from the 116th Congress, which would provide federal funding for vaccine hesitancy surveillance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and outline a national public messaging campaign informed by this research to help improve vaccination rates.
Physician Fee Schedule: Commented to CMS and to Congress to fully implement payment increases for all evaluation and management codes, as finalized by CMS, and as scheduled for implementation on Jan. 1, 2021. Reduce the documentation burden for E/M services by allowing choice of medical decision making or time, and work to develop additional clarity and guidance on acceptable documentation to operationalize these important proposals; examination room desktop computers should be counted as a direct medical equipment cost; care management should be promoted by increasing the values of services like Transitional Care Management (TCM) and Chronic Care Management and implementing Principle Care Management (PCM) codes; require additional survey and review for any requests to increase non-outpatient E/M or other services; work with the physician community prior to finalizing any policy affecting eligibility to participate in the Medicare program; Urged congressional committees of jurisdiction to support: Higher physician work relative value units (RVUs) for new and established office visit codes, leading to increased payments for them, Reduced documentation requirements for office visit codes, which enables physicians to select and document for each visit based on medical decision-making or total time, Expanded and improved payment for care management services. Urged Congress to support waiving budget neutrality, applicable to the calendar year 2021 physician fee schedule.
COVID-19: Urged congressional appropriators to provide the highest possible funding level for research, prevention, control, and treatment of illnesses associated with the virus that is commensurate with the public health emergency that the virus represents. Urged the administration to explore regulatory and other actions that would make COVID-19 testing free-of-charge to patients covered by both public and private insurance plans, including ACA-compliant plans offered through the insurance exchanges, and to waive co-pays and deductibles for patients seeing physicians for symptoms that may be indicative of COVID-19 or who are hospitalized for treatment. Urged CMS to utilize a national disaster recovery program that would pay doctors 110% of Medicare rates for caring for uninsured patients who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. Expressed support to Congress and the administration for a variety of COVID-related bills from the 116th Congress as follows: the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, H.R. 6201, and other stimulus reforms related to COVID-19 including: Emergency paid leave benefits, paid sick days for public health emergencies, coverage of testing for COVID-19, waiving of cost sharing under Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and CHIP, increasing the federal FMAP under Medicaid, providing reimbursement for CPT codes 99441 - 99443, which are telephone evaluation and management services, expediting entrance of international medical graduates who are citizens of other nations (non-US IMGs) into the country and ensuring that lawfully present non-U.S. IMGs are not negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, funding for physician practices under the Public Health and Social Service Emergency Fund (PHSSEF), providing tax relief, grants, and loans to small and medium size practices impacted by
COVID-19, increasing funding for personal protective equipment (PPE), ensuring Medicaid pay parity with Medicare for primary care services; Urged HHS and Congress to make a targeted allocation out of the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) to support primary care physicians and their practices, sufficient to keep their doors open, by offsetting lost revenue from the COVID-19 pandemic, similar to the targeted allocation for rural hospitals; Urged support for the Student Loan Forgiveness for Frontline Health Workers Act, H.R. 6720, introduced May 5, 2020 by Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) which would eliminate graduate school debt for healthcare workers, including physicians and medical students, who are providing direct patient care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; Urged support for H.R. 7059, the Coronavirus Provider Protection Act, which extend liability protections to those who provide care in good faith during the COVID-19 public health emergency (plus a reasonable time, such as 60 days, after the emergency declaration ends), and not in situations of gross negligence or willful misconduct. The College also urged that pay parity between telephone claims and in-person visits and between all telehealth and in-person visits be maintained after the PHE is lifted. This extension-either continued by CMS or mandated by Congress-should last at least through the end of 2021, or until such a time when effective vaccines and treatments are widely available, with an option to extend it even further, or consider making permanent, based on the experience and learnings of patients and physicians who are utilizing these visits. Urged Congress to support a targeted allocation from the Provider Relief Fund specifically for primary care services.
Priorities for the Biden Administration: Urged the Biden Administration to identify and appoint physicians to health care leadership positions within his Administration. Implement approval, distribution, and funding of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine based on recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Provide support to physicians and other frontline health care workers, including ensuring access and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) to health care workers. Fund COVID-19 testing and contact tracing efforts. Reverse regulations that allow the sale of extended short-term, limited duration plans, association health plans. Take action to defend the Affordable Care Act from any litigation, including California v. Texas, that would undermine coverage and patient protections. Expand premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions. Establish a federal public option to inject competition into the health insurance marketplace. Expand Medicaid eligibility and oppose expansion waivers that limit benefits and apply high cost sharing. Permanently increase payment for Medicaid primary care services to the level of Medicare. Restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, consistent with a recent ruling from a federal judge, and identify executive actions that can be taken to ensure that it is not vulnerable to being eliminated in the future. Pursue executive actions to preserve the principles of patient autonomy regarding reproductive decision-making rights. Reverse the Title X gag rule and restore funding to family planning clinics. Establish universal access to at least six weeks of paid family and medical leave that is flexible to accommodate care for a diverse array of family structures, including updating the Family Medical and Leave Act to include grandparents or in-laws. Re-introduce and pass the George Floyd Act and other legislation focused on eliminating racism and police violence. Rejoin the Paris Agreement.
Telehealth: Urged Congress to continue existing Public Health Emergency flexibilities and waivers-including pay parity for audio-only phone calls-to support making telehealth an ongoing and continued part of medical care now and in the future, allowing time for further evaluation on which ones should be maintained as is, revised or expanded. Urged Congress to permanently extend the policy to waive geographical and originating-site restrictions after the conclusion of the PHE. Urged Congress or CMS to continue to provide flexibility in the Medicare and Medicaid programs for physician practices to reduce or waive cost-sharing requirements for telehealth services, while also making up the difference between these waived copays and the Medicare allowed amount of the service. Urged Congress or CMS to extend the interim policy to allow Remote Patient Monitoring services to be furnished to patients without an established relationship. Urged support for the Temporary Reciprocity to Ensure Access to Treatment Act or the TREAT Act (S. 168/H.R. 708), which would provide temporary licensing reciprocity for telehealth and interstate health care treatment.
American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act (H.R. 1319): Urged support for various provisions within the ARP to provide incentives for states to expand Medicaid by temporarily increasing the states base FMAP by five percentage points for two years for states that newly expand Medicaid. Urged support for allowing states, for five years, to extend Medicaid eligibility (and CHIP eligibility) to women for 12 months postpartum. Urged support to require Medicaid coverage of COVID-19 vaccines and treatment without beneficiary cost sharing with vaccines matched at a 100 percent federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) through one year after the end of the PHE. Urged support for $46 billion to HHS to detect, diagnose, trace, and monitor COVID-19 infections, and for other activities necessary to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Urged support to subsidize the health coverage of people earning up to 150 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) under the ACA and those on unemployment insurance for a period of two years. Urged support for waiving VA cost sharing and copayments for medical treatment until September 30, 2021.
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Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
The Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148, P.L. 111-152): Expanding coverage and improving Medicare benefits; Providing needed protections to guard against insurance practices that unfairly limit, deny or rescind coverage based on health status; public and private health insurers should encourage preventive health care by providing full coverage, with no cost-sharing, for preventive services recommended by an expert advisory group, such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; Ensuring access to primary care physicians; and beginning to bend the cost curve; Prohibiting insurers from excluding or charging excessive rates to children based on pre-existing conditions, which later will be expanded to all persons; Covering young adults on their parents' plans; Eliminating lifetime and annual limits on health insurance coverage; Requiring that health insurers spend more on patient care and less on administration; support enactment of S. 248, the Empowering States to Innovate Act, which amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to: (1) allow states to apply for waivers of certain health insurance coverage requirements in such Act (including requirements for the establishment of qualified health plans and health insurance exchanges) for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014 (currently, January 1, 2017), and (2) require the waiver application process to begin not later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act; Phasing out the Medicare Part D doughnut hole; Eliminating patient cost-sharing for preventive services offered by Medicare or private insurers; Increasing Medicare and Medicaid payments to primary care physicians; Supporting the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to help physicians and patients make care decisions based on the best available evidence; Supporting the Center on Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to fund pilots of delivery models to improve outcomes and reduce costs, including patient-centered medical homes; Advocated against a December 2018 ruling by a federal judge in Texas that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional.
Access to Primary Care in the Context of Comprehensive Healthcare Reform Legislation (H.R. 3962/H.R. 3590/H.R. 4872): Provide sliding scale subsidies based on income to buy coverage from qualified plans; Qualified plans should: provide evidence-based benefits, including preventive services; and be prohibited from excluding persons with pre-existing conditions, charging them more, cherry-picking enrollees, or cancelling or failing to renew coverage; Expand Medicaid to cover all persons below the Federal Poverty Level and ensure fair payments to participating physicians; As coverage becomes affordable, all persons should participate and coverage should be guaranteed; Responsibility for financing should be shared by individuals, employers and government.
Medicare payment models that re-align incentives to support effective, efficient, patient-centered, coordinated care. Priority should be given to models designed to support the value of services provided by primary care physicians as well as to models that would create incentives, across physician specialties and sites of services, to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of care provided. Policy criteria for selecting the most promising models for pilot testing should be developed, in consultation with outside experts; The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), which has shown great promise in meeting the policy objectives suggested above, should be among the models selected for broader testing on a national pilot basis; the use of the medical home model for treatment or services under private health plans, the requirement of health plans to provide incentives to promote and report on medical home services provided, the establishment of community health teams and a primary care extension program to educate and support primary care practices in the delivery of medical home services, and the establishment of a demonstration project to educate physicians and other clinicians in training in the competencies required to deliver care consistent with the medical home care model.
Medicare Payments to Physicians: Urged that Congress provide incentives to physicians who transform their practices into Advanced Alternative Payment Models and continue to provide stability for physicians in the MIPS program. Specifically, Congress should extend the five percent Qualified Alternative Payment Model participant bonus beyond the 2022 performance year, replace the zero percent baseline payment updates under Medicare with positive updates. Urged congressional committees with jurisdiction over Medicare to exercise their oversight authority and urge CMS to expedite approval of more Advanced APMS, particularly those that work for small and specialty practices and to simplify the scoring structure and reporting requirements under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in order to fulfill Congress intent of a more streamlined program that reduces burdens on physicians; Supported S.2648, the Rural ACO Improvement Act, amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the benchmarking process for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) to ensure that all ACOs have an equal opportunity to share in savings regardless of their geographic location; Provided recommendations to CMS on the Merit-based Incentive Payment System Value Pathway (MVP), which aims to reduce reporting burden and complexity within MIPS while improving the accuracy and effectiveness of performance measurement. The College noted specifically that a robust, multi-year transition period will be critical to the success of the MVP, that it does not support making the MVP mandatory, that CMS should continue to support numerous reporting mechanisms, including qualified registries and clinical data registries, which have been instrumental in developing specialty-specific performance measures, among other things. Urged support for H.R. 8505, a bill to provide for a one-year waiver of budget neutrality adjustments under the Medicare physician fee schedule; Urged that any legislation to hold some Medicare physician payment codes harmless from budget neutrality do so for just one year and to allow evaluation and management increases, along with GPC1X codes to go into effect.
Administrative Tasks on Physicians and Patients: Congress should accelerate its efforts to reduce administrative burdens on clinicians and patients, including: streamlining the prior authorization process, better integrating clinical data into clinicians electronic health records (EHRs), and working with CMS in their effort to overhaul clinical documentation guidelines; Urged Congress to cosponsor and pass the Safe Step Act (H.R. 2279), to require health insurers to provide an exceptions process for any medication step therapy protocol based on clinical decision-making, medical necessity, and other patient needs.
Prescription Drug Costs: The College advocated for greater transparency in drug pricing, the elimination of anti-competitive industry practices that create barriers to generics coming to market, the importance of accounting for value in payment and coverage for prescriptions, and providing authority to the federal government to negotiate drug discounts under the Medicare Part D program. Specifically, the College urged Congress to pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2019 (H.R. 275/S. 62) from the 116th Congress, which allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate covered Part D drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. Also urged that Congress pass the Reforming Evergreening and Manipulation that Extends Drug Years, REMEDY Act (S. 1209), from the 116th Congress, to aid in the approval of more generic drug applications by the FDA and therefore improve patient access to those medications. Also urged that Congress pass the Prescription Drug STAR Act (H.R. 2113), and the Fair Accountability and Innovative Research (FAIR) Drug Pricing Act (H.R. 2296/S. 1391), from the 116th Congress, to promote greater drug pricing transparency.
Firearms-Related Injury and Death: The College advocated for lawmakers to pass measures to strengthen the criminal background check system, ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, prevent the unlawful transfer of firearms to those who cannot legally purchase them, and remove restrictions on, and provide dedicated funding for, research by federal agencies on prevention of firearms-related injuries and death. Specifically, the College urged passage of the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 8), from the 116th Congress, which would strengthen the accuracy and reporting of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) as well as expand Brady background checks to cover all firearm sales, including unlicensed firearms sellers currently not required to use background checks, and the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act (H.R. 674/S. 184), from the 116th Congress, which would authorize funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study firearms safety and gun violence prevention. Also urged Congress to pass the Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act of 2021, which passed the House in 2021, to provide protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by those deemed a threat to them. Also urged Congress to pass the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (S. 66/H.R. 1296), from the 116th Congress, to ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines. Urged support for the enactment of extreme risk protection orders (ERPO) to allow families and law enforcement to obtain a ruling from an impartial judge within 72 hours to temporarily remove guns from individuals at imminent risk of using them to harm themselves or others, with due process.
Immigration: The College advocated against family separation at the U.S. border. Specifically, the College urged support for bills from the 116th Congress such as H.R. 541 - the Keep Families Together Act, which would help ensure that children are not separated from their parents when families unlawfully cross over the border into the United States and would ensure that the Department of Homeland Security would not be able to implement the zero tolerance policy that separated families at the border under the last administration; urged congressional oversight of family separation policies. Also urged that Congress pass H.R. 6, the Dream and Promise Act of 2019, which would provide a pathway to U.S. citizenship for undocumented children who came to the United States due to the action of their parents, also known as Dreamers.
Graduate Medical Education: Urged that Congress support medical education training and debt relief for primary care physicians and other specialties facing shortages by passing the following legislation from the 116th Congress: the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (S. 348, H.R. 1763), to lift the GME caps as needed to permit training an adequate number of primary care physicians, including internal medicine specialists, and physicians in other specialties facing shortages; passing the Resident Education Deferred Interest Act (H.R. 1554), to save physicians in residency programs thousands of dollars in interest on their loans and help incentivize the opening of practices in underserved areas; pass legislation to combine DGME and IME into a single, more functional payment program, and broaden the GME financing structure to include all payers; support funding for GME/IME and programs within the Veterans Health Administration that provide graduate medical education to ensure that physicians are adequately trained with the skills needed to treat an aging population. Urged Congress to pass the Opioid Workforce Act of 2019 (H.R. 3414), which would provide Medicare support for an additional 1,000 graduate medical education (GME) positions over five years in hospitals that have, or are in the process of establishing, accredited residency programs in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, or pain medicine. Urged Congress to pass S. 1203 and H.R. 2441, the What You Can Do For Your Country Act, which would improve and reform the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.
Vaccines: Urged Congress to pass the Vaccines Act (HR 2862), from the 116th Congress, which would provide federal funding for vaccine hesitancy surveillance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and outline a national public messaging campaign informed by this research to help improve vaccination rates.
Physician Fee Schedule: Commented to CMS and to Congress to fully implement payment increases for all evaluation and management codes, as finalized by CMS, and as scheduled for implementation on Jan. 1, 2021. Reduce the documentation burden for E/M services by allowing choice of medical decision making or time, and work to develop additional clarity and guidance on acceptable documentation to operationalize these important proposals; examination room desktop computers should be counted as a direct medical equipment cost; care management should be promoted by increasing the values of services like Transitional Care Management (TCM) and Chronic Care Management and implementing Principle Care Management (PCM) codes; require additional survey and review for any requests to increase non-outpatient E/M or other services; work with the physician community prior to finalizing any policy affecting eligibility to participate in the Medicare program; Urged congressional committees of jurisdiction to support: Higher physician work relative value units (RVUs) for new and established office visit codes, leading to increased payments for them, Reduced documentation requirements for office visit codes, which enables physicians to select and document for each visit based on medical decision-making or total time, Expanded and improved payment for care management services. Urged Congress to support waiving budget neutrality, applicable to the calendar year 2021 physician fee schedule.
COVID-19: Urged congressional appropriators to provide the highest possible funding level for research, prevention, control, and treatment of illnesses associated with the virus that is commensurate with the public health emergency that the virus represents. Urged the administration to explore regulatory and other actions that would make COVID-19 testing free-of-charge to patients covered by both public and private insurance plans, including ACA-compliant plans offered through the insurance exchanges, and to waive co-pays and deductibles for patients seeing physicians for symptoms that may be indicative of COVID-19 or who are hospitalized for treatment. Urged CMS to utilize a national disaster recovery program that would pay doctors 110% of Medicare rates for caring for uninsured patients who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. Expressed support to Congress and the administration for a variety of COVID-related bills from the 116th Congress as follows: the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, H.R. 6201, and other stimulus reforms related to COVID-19 including: Emergency paid leave benefits, paid sick days for public health emergencies, coverage of testing for COVID-19, waiving of cost sharing under Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and CHIP, increasing the federal FMAP under Medicaid, providing reimbursement for CPT codes 99441 - 99443, which are telephone evaluation and management services, expediting entrance of international medical graduates who are citizens of other nations (non-US IMGs) into the country and ensuring that lawfully present non-U.S. IMGs are not negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, funding for physician practices under the Public Health and Social Service Emergency Fund (PHSSEF), providing tax relief, grants, and loans to small and medium size practices impacted by COVID-19, increasing funding for personal protective equipment (PPE), ensuring Medicaid pay parity with Medicare for primary care services; Urged HHS and Congress to make a targeted allocation out of the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) to support primary care physicians and their practices, sufficient to keep their doors open, by offsetting lost revenue from the COVID-19 pandemic, similar to the targeted allocation for rural hospitals; Urged support for the Student Loan Forgiveness for Frontline Health Workers Act, H.R. 6720, introduced May 5, 2020 by Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) which would eliminate graduate school debt for healthcare workers, including physicians and medical students, who are providing direct patient care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; Urged support for H.R. 7059, the Coronavirus Provider Protection Act, which extend liability protections to those who provide care in good faith during the COVID-19 public health emergency (plus a reasonable time, such as 60 days, after the emergency declaration ends), and not in situations of gross negligence or willful misconduct. The College also urged that pay parity between telephone claims and in-person visits and between all telehealth and in-person visits be maintained after the PHE is lifted. This extension-either continued by CMS or mandated by Congress-should last at least through the end of 2021, or until such a time when effective vaccines and treatments are widely available, with an option to extend it even further, or consider making permanent, based on the experience and learnings of patients and physicians who are utilizing these visits. Urged Congress to support a targeted allocation from the Provider Relief Fund specifically for primary care services.
Priorities for the Biden Administration: Urged the Biden Administration to identify and appoint physicians to health care leadership positions within his Administration. Implement approval, distribution, and funding of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine based on recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Provide support to physicians and other frontline health care workers, including ensuring access and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) to health care workers. Fund COVID-19 testing and contact tracing efforts. Reverse regulations that allow the sale of extended short-term, limited duration plans, association health plans. Take action to defend the Affordable Care Act from any litigation, including California v. Texas, that would undermine coverage and patient protections. Expand premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions. Establish a federal public option to inject competition into the health insurance marketplace. Expand Medicaid eligibility and oppose expansion waivers that limit benefits and apply high cost sharing. Permanently increase payment for Medicaid primary care services to the level of Medicare. Restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, consistent with a recent ruling from a federal judge, and identify executive actions that can be taken to ensure that it is not vulnerable to being eliminated in the future. Pursue executive actions to preserve the principles of patient autonomy regarding reproductive decision-making rights. Reverse the Title X gag rule and restore funding to family planning clinics. Establish universal access to at least six weeks of paid family and medical leave that is flexible to accommodate care for a diverse array of family structures, including updating the Family Medical and Leave Act to include grandparents or in-laws. Re-introduce and pass the George Floyd Act and other legislation focused on eliminating racism and police violence. Rejoin the Paris Agreement.
Telehealth: Urged Congress to continue existing Public Health Emergency flexibilities and waivers-including pay parity for audio-only phone calls-to support making telehealth an ongoing and continued part of medical care now and in the future, allowing time for further evaluation on which ones should be maintained as is, revised or expanded. Urged Congress to permanently extend the policy to waive geographical and originating-site restrictions after the conclusion of the PHE. Urged Congress or CMS to continue to provide flexibility in the Medicare and Medicaid programs for physician practices to reduce or waive cost-sharing requirements for telehealth services, while also making up the difference between these waived copays and the Medicare allowed amount of the service. Urged Congress or CMS to extend the interim policy to allow Remote Patient Monitoring services to be furnished to patients without an established relationship. Urged support for the Temporary Reciprocity to Ensure Access to Treatment Act or the TREAT Act (S. 168/H.R. 708), which would provide temporary licensing reciprocity for telehealth and interstate health care treatment.
American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act (H.R. 1319): Urged support for various provisions within the ARP to provide incentives for states to expand Medicaid by temporarily increasing the states base FMAP by five percentage points for two years for states that newly expand Medicaid. Urged support for allowing states, for five years, to extend Medicaid eligibility (and CHIP eligibility) to women for 12 months postpartum. Urged support to require Medicaid coverage of COVID-19 vaccines and treatment without beneficiary cost sharing with vaccines matched at a 100 percent federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) through one year after the end of the PHE. Urged support for $46 billion to HHS to detect, diagnose, trace, and monitor COVID-19 infections, and for other activities necessary to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Urged support to subsidize the health coverage of people earning up to 150 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) under the ACA and those on unemployment insurance for a period of two years. Urged support for waiving VA cost sharing and copayments for medical treatment until September 30, 2021.
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Charitable Choice Issues Ensuring Fair Access to Disaster Relief for LGBTQ Families Executive Nominations Judicial Nominations Supreme Court Nomination LGBTQ Non-Discrimination Protections LGBTQ Data Collection in Census Religious Liberty Issues, including License to Discriminate EO Sexual Harassment and Violence Voting Rights Workplace Protections for Federal Contractors DC Statehood Implementation of Bostock ruling Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping EO 21st Century President Act (H.R. 677) A resolution recognizing June 2019 as "LGBTQ Pride Month". (S.Res. 198) Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, and for other purposes (H.R. 6) Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act (H.R. 94) BE HEARD in the Workplace Act (H.R. 2148; S. 1082) Bipartisan Background Checks Act (H.R. 8; S. 42) Committing to elevate the voices, leadership, and needs of communities that face systemic barriers in the effort to end sexual violence and support all survivors...etc. (H.Res. 514; S.Res. 281) Customer Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 2687) Disability Integration Act (H.R. 555; S. 117) District of Columbia Non-Discrimination Home Rule Act (H.R. 1408) Do No Harm Act (H.R. 1450; S. 593) Elder Pride Act (H.R. 2312; S. 1225) Eliminating the HHS Discrimination Division Act (H.R. 5626) EMPOWER Act (H.R. 1521; S. 575) End Racial and Religious Profiling Act Enhanced Background Checks Act (H.R. 1112) Equality Act (H.R. 5; S. 788) Expressing support for the designation of June 26 as "LGBTQ Equality Day". (H.Res 465) Inclusive Aging Act (H.R. 2312; S. 1159) Ruthie and Connie LGBT Elder Americans Act (H.R. 1777) LGBTQ Data Inclusion Act (H.R. 3509; S. 1980) LGBTQ Essential Data Act (H.R. 3280) Original LGBTQ Pride Month Resolution (H.Res. 464) Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. (H.Res. 469; S.Res. 270) SAFE SEX Workers Study Act (H.R. 5448; S. 3165) Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (H.R. 1585) Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4; S. 561) Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51) Screening with Dignity Act of 2020 (H.R. 7430) Don't Block LGBTQ Act of 2020 (H.R. 7432) Encouraging the celebration of the month of June as LGBTQ Pride Month. (H.Res. 1014) A resolution recognizing June 2020 as "LGBTQ Pride Month" (S.Res. 627) Anthony Gonzales Equality for Survivors (AGES) Act (H.R. 7209) Equitable Data Collection and Disclosure on COVID-19 Act (S. 3850) To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Billie Jean King, in recognition of her contribution to the Nation and her courageous and groundbreaking leadership advancing equal rights for women and the LGBTQ community in athletics, education, and our society. (H.R. 6944)
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EARN IT Act (S. 3398) Chamber: Senate Break the Cycle of Violence Act (H.R. 4836, S. 2671 Chambers: House and Senate (H.R. 6453) Directs the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes. Chamber: House Appropriations advocacy on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies FY21 bills; specifically advocacy to include gun violence prevention and intervention funds in this funding cycle. Chambers: House and Senate Keep Americans Safe Act (H.R. 1186) Chamber: House the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019 (H. R. 1236) Chamber: House the Disarm Hate Act 2019 (HR. 2708) Chamber: House Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H. R. 8) Chamber: House Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 1112 Chamber: House the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (H. R.1296) Chamber: House The (H.R. 4359) Police Exercising Absolute Care With Everyone Act of 2019, Chamber: House The Safe From the Start Act (H.R. 4092, S. 4003) Chamber: House and Senate Savanna's Act (S. 227, H.R. 2733) directs the Justice Department to develop protocols to address missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG). Chamber: House The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020 Chamber: House and Senate S. Res. 725, Establishing a Senate Human Rights Commission https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-resolution/725 Chamber: Senate
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H.Res.1147 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of taking a feminist approach to all aspects of foreign policy, including foreign assistance and humanitarian response, trade, diplomacy, defense, immigration, funding, and accountability mechanisms Chamber: House EARN IT Act (S. 3398) Chamber: Senate House Amdt.561 to H.R.2500 Chamber: House The BURMA Act (H.R.3190 Chamber: House The Burma Political Prisoners Act (H.R.2327) Chamber: House The Hong Kong Protect Act (H.R. 4270) Chamber: House Uyghur Human Rights Act (S. 178 Chamber: Senate Senate J.Res.36/37/38 Chamber: Senate The NO BAN Act (H. R. 2214/ S. 1123 Chambers: House and Senate Break the Cycle of Violence Act (H.R. 4836, S. 2671 Chambers: House and Senate (H.R. 6453) Directs the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes. Chamber: House Appropriations advocacy on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies FY21 bills; specifically advocacy to include gun violence prevention and intervention funds in this funding cycle. Chambers: House and Senate Refugee Protection Act of 2019 (S.2936 Chamber: Senate S.2565 - A bill to establish a Global Climate Change Resilience Strategy, to authorize the admission of climate-displaced persons. Chamber: Senate The Guaranteed Refugee Admission Ceiling Enhancement Act/GRACE Act (H.R. 2146/S.1088 Chambers: Senate and House The Secure and Protect Act of 2019 (S. 1494 Chamber: Senate The Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 (H.R. 549) Chamber: House Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act (HR 2415/ S. 1243) Chambers: House and Senate Keep Americans Safe Act (H.R. 1186) Chamber: House the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019 (H. R. 1236) Chamber: House the Disarm Hate Act 2019 (HR. 2708) Chamber: House Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H. R. 8) Chamber: House Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 1112 Chamber: House the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (H. R.1296) Chamber: House Afghan WIN Act (H.R. 4097) Chamber: House the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2020 (H.R.2500) amendment calls Congress to strengthen, clarify, and supplement transparency and oversight requirements related to U.S. lethal strikes and resulting civilian casualties. Chamber: House The (H.R. 4359) Police Exercising Absolute Care With Everyone Act of 2019, Chamber: House The Safe From the Start Act (H.R. 4092, S. 4003) Chamber: House and Senate Savanna's Act (S. 227, H.R. 2733) directs the Justice Department to develop protocols to address missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG). Chamber: House Womens Global Development and Prosperity Act (bill not yet introduced). Chamber: House and Senate The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020 Chamber: House and Senate
February 27, 2019
Mr. Collins (GA) moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR H2260)
February 27, 2019
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. (text: CR H2254)
February 27, 2019
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
February 27, 2019
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 8.
February 27, 2019
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 145, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Van Drew amendment No. 4.
February 27, 2019
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Horn amendment No. 3, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Nadler demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
February 27, 2019
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 145, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Horn (OK) amendment No. 3.
February 27, 2019
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 145, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Dean amendment No. 2.
February 27, 2019
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Lesko amendment No. 1, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Ms. Lesko demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
February 27, 2019
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 145, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Lesko amendment No. 1.
February 27, 2019
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 8.
February 27, 2019
The Speaker designated the Honorable Earl Blumenauer to act as Chairman of the Committee.
February 27, 2019
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 145 and Rule XVIII.
February 27, 2019
Provides for one hour of debate on each measure. Only those amendments printed in the report shall be in order and the previous question shall be considered ordered without intervening motions except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
February 27, 2019
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 145. (consideration: CR H2242-2263)
February 25, 2019
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 145 Reported to House. Provides for one hour of debate on each measure. Only those amendments printed in the report shall be in order and the previous question shall be considered ordered without intervening motions except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
February 22, 2019
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 3.
February 22, 2019
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 116-11.
Congress.gov source codes: 5000, H12200
February 13, 2019
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 15.
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), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), President of the U.S., SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS)
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Government targets: Education, Dept of, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), White House Office
Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Natl Security Council (NSC), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS)
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House Amdt.561 to H.R.2500 imposes one-year prohibition of sales of air-to-ground munitions that could be used in Yemen to Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E Chamber: House The BURMA Act (H.R.3190) the bill imposes sanctions, limits security assistance, authorizes assistance, and requires the establishment of various programs and strategies related to Burma (Myanmar), including the authorization of humanitarian aid for Burma, Bangladesh, and the surrounding region for various purposes, including aid for ethnic minorities targeted by Burma's military and support for voluntary resettlement of displaced persons. Chamber: House The Burma Political Prisoners Act (H.R.2327) the bill directs the Department of State to assist civil society organizations in Burma (Myanmar) working to release political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. Such assistance shall include support for (1) documenting human rights violations against such prisoners, (2) raising awareness of prisoner issues, and (3) helping former prisoners resume a normal life. Chamber: House The Hong Kong Protect Act (H.R. 4270) the bill places restrictions on Teargas exports and Crowd Control Technology to Hong Kong Chamber: House Uyghur Human Rights Act (S. 178) - This bill directs the President to impose sanctions and export restrictions related to China's treatment of the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic ethnic group. Chamber: Senate Senate J.Res.36/37/38: blocks arms sales to the U.A.E and Saudi Arabia Chamber: Senate The NO BAN Act (H. R. 2214/ S. 1123) This bill limits the President's authority to suspend or restrict aliens from entering the United States and terminates certain presidential actions implementing such restrictions. It also prohibits religious discrimination in various immigration-related decisions, such as whether to issue an immigrant or non-immigrant visa, with certain exceptions. Chambers: House and Senate Break the Cycle of Violence Act (H.R. 4836, S. 2671) This bill authorizes new grant programs to support violence intervention initiatives. Specifically, the Bureau of Justice Assistance must award grants for coordinated violence reduction initiatives in units of local government that are disproportionately impacted by gun and group-related violence. Additionally, the National Institutes of Health must award grants for hospital-based violence intervention programs that reduce the risk of violent injury and retaliation among high-risk patients. Chambers: House and Senate Directs the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes. (H.R. 6453) Requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report comparative data on background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the public health emergency declared on January 31, 2020, relating to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), and background checks conducted during the equivalent period of 2019. Chamber: House Appropriations advocacy on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies FY21 bills; specifically advocacy to include gun violence prevention and intervention funds in this funding cycle. Chambers: House and Senate Refugee Protection Act of 2019 (S.2936) is a comprehensive blueprint for restoring and reinvigorating our refugee and asylum systems Chamber: Senate S.2565 - A bill to establish a Global Climate Change Resilience Strategy, to authorize the admission of climate-displaced persons. Chamber: Senate The Guaranteed Refugee Admission Ceiling Enhancement Act/GRACE Act (H.R. 2146/S.1088 bill would prevent a U.S. President from setting a Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions at a level below 95,000 in a given fiscal year. Bill also ensures that each officer responsible for refugee admissions or resettlement treats the Presidential Determination as a goal, and mandates quarterly reports to Congress with specific oversight requirements. Chambers: Senate and House The Secure and Protect Act of 2019 (S. 1494) the bill would return refugees to their countries of persecution by imposing an unduly high screening standard to block many from even applying for asylum, impose a process for Central Americans asylum seekers, requiring them to remain in countries where their lives are at risk to seek resettlement, bar refugees from asylum if they do not and are not able to request asylum at a port of entry, jail families and adult asylum seekers and subject asylum seekers to rocket docket hearings. Chamber: Senate The Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 (H.R. 549) the bill would permit Venezuelan nationals to qualify for temporary protected status, would prevent their removal from the United States and allow them to obtain employment and travel authorization. Chamber: House Northern Triangle and Border Stabilization (H.R. 3524) would support the people of Central America and strengthen United States national security by addressing the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Chamber: House Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act (HR 2415/ S. 1243) would provide standards for facilities at which aliens in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security are detained, and for other purposes. Chambers: House and Senate Keep Americans Safe Act (H.R. 1186), bill would ban high capacity magazines Chamber: House the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019 (H. R. 1236) bill would provide funds to support programs facilitate the ability of law enforcement (in all states), family members to petition courts to temporarily remove guns from someone who is behaving dangerously and at risk of suicide or harming others. Chamber: House the Disarm Hate Act 2019 (HR. 2708) bill would prohibit firearm sale or transfer to and receipt, possession, shipment, or the transport of a firearm by a person (1) who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or (2) who has received an enhanced hate crime misdemeanor sentence. Chamber: House Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H. R. 8) The bill establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties and prohibits a firearm transfer between private parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer first takes possession of the firearm to conduct a background check. Chamber: House Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 1112) The bill strengthens background check requirements applicable to proposed firearm transfers from a federal firearms licensed gun dealer to an unlicensed person. Chamber: House the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (H. R.1296) bill makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD). Chamber: House Afghan WIN Act (H.R. 4097) calls on the State Department to submit a formal report accounting for what its doing to include women in the peace talks and for the Trump Administration to develop a plan to support Afghan womens rights in reconstruction. Chamber: House the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2020 (H.R.2500) amendment calls Congress to strengthen, clarify, and supplement transparency and oversight requirements related to U.S. lethal strikes and resulting civilian casualties. Chamber: House The (H.R. 4359) Police Exercising Absolute Care With Everyone Act of 2019, would change the use of force to be a last resort, rather than a first resort, and require officers to employ de-escalation techniques. The bill would also require states who wish to get federal funding for law enforcement to enact similar legislation. Chamber: House The Safe From the Start Act ((H.R. 4092, S. 4003); directs the Department of State to direct U.S. foreign assistance to address humanitarian crises in a manner that aims to prevent and respond to gender-based violence at the onset of an emergency. We have lobbied for Senate introduction and co-sponsors in House and Senate. Chamber: House and Senate Savanna's Act (S. 227, H.R. 2733) directs the Justice Department to develop protocols to address missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG). This legislation is necessary to better coordinate law enforcement and build necessary data regarding MMIWG. Savannas Act has passed the Senate, but now waits for House passage. We have lobbied for House introduction and co-sponsors. Chamber: House Womens Global Development and Prosperity Act (bill not yet introduced). The WGDP bill is a bi-partisan, bicameral bill that is championed by the White House to codify the WDGP Initiative, including establishing an Office of Womens Economic Equality at the State Department. The bill drafts include dangerous rollbacks on US gender definitions as well as cutting response from Gender-based violence prevention and response initiatives. We oppose this bill and have been working with both chambers to prevent introduction and mitigate harm. Chamber: House and Senate The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020 Chamber: House and Senate
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EARN IT Act (S. 3398)
Chamber: Senate
Break the Cycle of Violence Act (H.R. 4836, S. 2671
Chambers: House and Senate
(H.R. 6453) Directs the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes.
Chamber: House
Appropriations advocacy on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies FY21 bills; specifically advocacy to include gun violence prevention and intervention funds in this funding cycle.
Chambers: House and Senate
Keep Americans Safe Act (H.R. 1186)
Chamber: House
the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019 (H. R. 1236)
Chamber: House
the Disarm Hate Act 2019 (HR. 2708)
Chamber: House
Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H. R. 8)
Chamber: House
Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 1112
Chamber: House
the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (H. R.1296)
Chamber: House
The (H.R. 4359) Police Exercising Absolute Care With Everyone Act of 2019,
Chamber: House
The Safe From the Start Act (H.R. 4092, S. 4003)
Chamber: House and Senate
Savanna's Act (S. 227, H.R. 2733) directs the Justice Department to develop protocols to address missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).
Chamber: House
The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020
Chamber: House and Senate
S. Res. 725, Establishing a Senate Human Rights Commission
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-resolution/725
Chamber: Senate
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H.R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
S. 42 - Background Check Expansion Act
Unnumbered bill on extreme risk protection orders
Unnumbered bill on background checks
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Background checks;
Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System;
Intimate partner violence and violence against women, as related to firearms;
Mental health, as related to firearms;
Trafficking of firearms;
National concealed carry reciprocity;
Preventing terrorists from acquiring firearms;
Hate crimes with firearms;
National Firearms Act;
Supreme Court of the United States;
Presidential Cabinet appointments;
ATF white paper - Options to Reduce or Modify Firearms Regulations;
Deregulation of silencers;
Interstate transport of firearms;
Federal firearm licensee break-ins;
Appropriations;
Guns in schools;
Microstamping;
Smart gun technology;
Bump stocks;
Semiautomatic firearms;
Firearm accessories;
Gun permitting;
Firearm tracing;
3D printing of firearms;
Lost and stolen firearms;
Firearm prohibitors;
Child access prevention laws;
Violence Against Women Act;
Consumer product safety;
Gun dealer regulation;
Local regulation of firearms;
Fugitives from justice;
Federal Judicial Nominations;
ATF leadership;
Guns in the hands of law enforcement;
Ammunition regulation;
Recordkeeping;
Data sharing;
Point of contact states;
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS);
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program;
Criminal Justice Response Program/Grants to Encourage Arrest and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program;
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP);
Community violence intervention;
H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1112, Enhanced Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1297, Law Enforcement Protection Act;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 1156, LEOSA Reform Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
H.R. 155, Hearing Protection Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 33, Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act;
H.R. 1670, Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
S. 202, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 775, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 1437, Securing DHS Firearms Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1705, Jamies Law;
H.R. 1324, FAST NICS Act;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
S. Res. 110, A resolution keeping guns out of classrooms;
H. Res. 231, Keeping guns out of classrooms;
H.R. 1186, Keep Americans Safe Act;
H.R. 1236, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
S. 506, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
H.R. 1262, 21 to Buy Act;
H.R. 1266, Ghost Guns are Guns Act;
H.R. 1279, Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act;
H.R. 1287, No Guns for Abusers Act;
H.R. 282, SAFER Now Act;
H.R. 744, Protecting Our Communities and Rights Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
H.R. 1134, Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act;
H.R. 1263, National Firearms Amendment Act;
H.R. 1296, Assault Weapons Ban;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 569, Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2019;
H.R. 717, Raise the Age Act;
S. 42, Background Check Expansion Act;
S. 447, Keep Americans Safe Act;
S. 66, Assault Weapons Ban;
S. 69, Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act;
S. 120, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
S. 459, Stopping the Trafficking in Overseas Proliferation of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 320, SECURE Firearm Storage Act;
S. 7, Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 94, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 1671, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1397, Notice ICE Act;
H.R. 1412, Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act;
H.R. 820, Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2019;
H.R. 821, NICS Review Act of 2019;
H.R. 822, Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2019;
H.R. 869, Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act;
H.R. 939, SECURE Firearms Act;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 952, Armor-Piercing Bullets Act of 2019;
H.R. 1115, Firearm Safety Act;
H.R. 1116, Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act;
H.R. 511, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
H.R. 686, Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
S. 193, Ethans Law;
S. 47, John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act;
H.R. 1454, COOL OFF Act;
H.R. 49, Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2019;
S. 443, A bill to modify the definition of antique firearm;
H.R. 2319, 21st Century NICS Act;
S. 1395, Age 21 Act;
H.R. 2634, Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act;
H.R. 2621, Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Ghost Guns Act;
H.R. 2674, Gun Theft Prevention Act;
H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate Act;
S. 1462, Disarm Hate Act;
H.R. 2867, Ethans Law;
H.R. 3214, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1779, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1788, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 3234, Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act;
H.R. 3265, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
S. 1831, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
H.R. 3285, Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act;
S. 1844, Handgun Purchase Licensing Act;
S. 1884, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 3404, Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act;
H.R. 3435, Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act;
S. 1943, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3454, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3284, To require the Attorney General to study whether an individuals history of domestic violence can be used to determine the likelihood of such individual committing a mass shooting;
S. 1519, Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2019;
H.R. 2670, Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act;
H.R. 3055, 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;
S. 2014, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3569, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3552, To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3553, To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3554, To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3599, Law Enforcement Need to Know Act;
H.R. 3606, High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act;
S. 2376, Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act;
H.R. 4062, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2272, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2449, Federal Firearm Licensing Act;
H.R. 4116, Prevent Gun Trafficking Act;
H.R. 4324, Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act;
H.R. 4594, Bumpstocks and Acceleration Devices Act;
H.R. 4600, Domestic Violence Records Reporting Improvement Act of 2019;
S. 2690, Restoring, Enhancing, Securing, and Promoting Our Nation's Safety Efforts Act of 2019;
H.R. 4789, To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes;
H.R. 4872, Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act;
H.R. 4939, STOP Straw Purchases Act;
H.R. 5132, Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act;
H.R. 5385, To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to deploy and implement gunfire detection and location technology, and for other purposes;
H.R. 5507, Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act;
H.R. 5717, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
S. 3254, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
H.R. 5866, Gun Trafficker Detection Act;
S. 3299, Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act;
H.R. 5917, Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act;
H.R. 5949, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020;
H.R. 6006, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
S. 3348, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
H.R. 7667, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021;
H.R. 7614, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021;
H.R. 748, CARES Act;
H.R. 6800, HEROES Act;
H.R. 6318, Urban Progress Act of 2020;
H.R. 6453, To direct the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes;
S. 3743, Untraceable Firearms Act;
S. 4068, Background Check Completion Act;
H.R. 7468, Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 4271, Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 7120, George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020;
H.R. 7977, Firearms Retailer Code of Conduct Act;
H.R. 2071, Second Amendment Protection Act;
S. 4718, Stopping the Fraudulent Sales of Firearms Act;
H.R. 3884, Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019
Client expense: $150,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Background checks;
Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System;
Intimate partner violence and violence against women, as related to firearms;
Mental health, as related to firearms;
Trafficking of firearms;
National concealed carry reciprocity;
Preventing terrorists from acquiring firearms;
Hate crimes with firearms;
National Firearms Act;
Supreme Court of the United States;
Presidential Cabinet appointments;
Judicial appointments;
ATF white paper - Options to Reduce or Modify Firearms Regulations;
Deregulation of silencers;
Interstate transport of firearms;
Federal firearm licensee break-ins;
Appropriations;
Guns in schools;
Firearm suicide;
Hospital-based violence intervention programs;
Microstamping;
Smart gun technology;
Bump stocks;
Semiautomatic firearms;
Firearm accessories;
Extreme risk protection orders;
Gun permitting;
Firearm exports;
Firearm tracing;
3D printing of firearms;
Firearm permitting;
Lost and stolen firearms;
Firearm prohibitors;
Child access prevention laws;
Safe storage laws;
Violence Against Women Act;
Consumer product safety;
Gun dealer regulation;
Local regulation of firearms;
Essential operations of firearms dealers and manufacturers;
An interagency task force on gun violence prevention;
Guns in the hands of law enforcement;
Ammunition regulation;
Recordkeeping;
Data sharing;
Point of contact states;
Office of Victims of Crime;
H.R. 1186, Keep Americans Safe Act;
H.R. 1236, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
S. 506, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
H.R. 1262, 21 to Buy Act;
H.R. 1266, Ghost Guns are Guns Act;
H.R. 1279, Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act;
H.R. 1287, No Guns for Abusers Act;
H.R. 155, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 282, SAFER Now Act;
H.R. 435, National Gun Violence Research Act;
H.R. 674, Gun Violence Prevention Research Act;
H.R. 744, Protecting Our Communities and Rights Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
H.R. 1112, Enhanced Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1134, Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act;
H.R. 1263, National Firearms Amendment Act;
H.R. 1296, Assault Weapons Ban;
H.R. 1297, Law Enforcement Protection Act;
H.R. 33, Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 569, Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2019;
H.R. 717, Raise the Age Act;
H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act;
S. 42, Background Check Expansion Act;
S. 447, Keep Americans Safe Act;
S. 66, Assault Weapons Ban;
S. 69, Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act;
S. 120, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
S. 459, Stopping the Trafficking in Overseas Proliferation of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 184, Gun Violence Prevention Research Act;
S. 320, SECURE Firearm Storage Act;
S. 7, Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 94, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 1670, Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019;
H.R. 1671, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1397, Notice ICE Act;
H.R. 1412, Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act;
H.R. 820, Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2019;
H.R. 821, NICS Review Act of 2019;
H.R. 822, Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2019;
H.R. 869, Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act;
H.R. 939, SECURE Firearms Act;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 952, Armor-Piercing Bullets Act of 2019;
H.R. 971, Animal Violence Exposes Real Threat of Future Gun Violence Act of 2019;
H.R. 1114, Recognizing Gun Violence as a Public Health Emergency Act;
H.R. 1115, Firearm Safety Act;
H.R. 1116, Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act;
H.R. 511, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
H.R. 686, Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 1324, FAST NICS Act;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
S. 193, Ethans Law;
H.R. 1156, LEOSA Reform Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
S. 202, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 775, SHUSH Act;
S. 47, John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act;
H.R. 1454, COOL OFF Act;
H.R. 49, Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2019;
H.R. 1437, Securing DHS Firearms Act of 2019;
S. 443, A bill to modify the definition of antique firearm;
H.R. 1705, Jamies Law;
H.R. 2179, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 2319, 21st Century NICS Act;
S. 1395, Age 21 Act;
H.R. 2634, Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act;
S. 1352, Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 2585, Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 2621, Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Ghost Guns Act;
H.R. 2674, Gun Theft Prevention Act;
H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate Act;
S. 1462, Disarm Hate Act;
H.R. 2786, Jake Laird Act;
H.R. 2867, Ethans Law;
H.R. 3076, Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act;
H.R. 3214, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1779, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1788, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 3234, Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act;
H.R. 3265, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
S. 1831, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
H.R. 3285, Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act;
S. 1844, Handgun Purchase Licensing Act;
S. 1884, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 3404, Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act;
H.R. 3435, Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act;
S. 1943, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3454, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3284, To require the Attorney General to study whether an individuals history of domestic violence can be used to determine the likelihood of such individual committing a mass shooting;
S. 1519, Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2019;
H.R. 1222, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
H.R. 2670, Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act;
H.R. 1745, Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 2014, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3569, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3552, To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3553, To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3554, To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3599, Law Enforcement Need to Know Act;
H.R. 3606, High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act;
S. 2376, Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act;
H.R. 4062, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2272, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
H.R. 4080, Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act;
H.R. 4081, Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act;
H.R. 4082, Santa Fe High School Victims Act;
H.R. 4116, Prevent Gun Trafficking Act;
H.R. 4177, Gun Safety Board and Research Act;
S. 2449, Federal Firearm Licensing Act;
H.R. 4324, Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act;
S. 2554, A bill to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on mass violence;
H.R. 4264, Safe Homefront Act;
H.R. 4594, Bumpstocks and Acceleration Devices Act;
H.R. 4600, Domestic Violence Records Reporting Improvement Act of 2019;
S. 2690, Restoring, Enhancing, Securing, and Promoting Our Nation's Safety Efforts Act of 2019;
H.R. 4730, Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act of 2019;
H.R. 4789, To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes;
S. 2671, Break the Cycle of Violence Act;
H.R. 4836, Break the Cycle of Violence Act;
H.R. 4872, Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act;
H.R. 4926, Prevent Family Fire Act of 2019;
H.R. 4939, STOP Straw Purchases Act;
S. 2843, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 5132, Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act;
S. 2843, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
S. Res. 110, A resolution keeping guns out of classrooms;
H.R. 5385, To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to deploy and implement gunfire detection and location technology, and for other purposes;
H.R. 5507, Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act;
H.R. 1865, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020;
H.R. 1158, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020;
S. 1790, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020;
H. Res. 231, Keeping guns out of classrooms;
H. Res. 391, Supporting the goals and ideals of National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend and National Gun Violence Awareness Month;
S. Res. 217, A resolution expressing support for the designation of June 7 through June 9, 2019, as "National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend" and June 2019 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month;
H. Res. 555, A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationships between firearm violence, misogyny, and violence against women and reaffirming the importance of preventing individuals with a history of violence against women from accessing a firearm;
H.R. 5717, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
S. 3254, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
H.R. 5866, Gun Trafficker Detection Act;
S. 3299, Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act;
H.R. 5917, Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act;
H.R. 5949, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020;
H.R. 6006, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
S. 3348, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
H.R. 6318, Urban Progress Act of 2020;
H.R. 6453, To direct the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes;
S. 3743, Untraceable Firearms Act;
S. 4068, Background Check Completion Act;
H.R. 7468, Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 4271, Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 7120, George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020;
H.R. 6395, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021;
S. 4049, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021;
H.R. 8461, To amend the Arms Export Control Act relating to export licenses for firearm silencers;
S. 4768, A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to make fraudulent dealings in firearms and ammunition unlawful, and for other purposes;
H.R. 5836, Prosecuting Gun Crimes Saves Lives Act;
H.R. 7977, Firearms Retailer Code of Conduct Act;
S. 4443, Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act;
H.R. 7930, Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act;
S. 4841, AIM Act of 2020;
H.R. 8822, AIM Act of 2020;
H.R. 8929, Default Proceed Sale Transparency Act;
H.R. 2071, Second Amendment Protection Act;
S. 4718, Stopping the Fraudulent Sales of Firearms Act
Client expense: $150,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Background checks;
Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System;
Intimate partner violence and violence against women, as related to firearms;
Mental health, as related to firearms;
Trafficking of firearms;
National concealed carry reciprocity;
Preventing terrorists from acquiring firearms;
Hate crimes with firearms;
National Firearms Act;
Supreme Court of the United States;
Presidential Cabinet appointments;
Judicial appointments;
ATF white paper - Options to Reduce or Modify Firearms Regulations;
Deregulation of silencers;
Interstate transport of firearms;
Federal firearm licensee break-ins;
Appropriations;
Guns in schools;
Firearm suicide;
Hospital-based violence intervention programs;
Microstamping;
Smart gun technology;
Bump stocks;
Semiautomatic firearms;
Firearm accessories;
Extreme risk protection orders;
Gun permitting;
Firearm exports;
Firearm tracing;
3D printing of firearms;
Firearm permitting;
Lost and stolen firearms;
Firearm prohibitors;
Child access prevention laws;
Safe storage laws;
Violence Against Women Act;
Consumer product safety;
Gun dealer regulation;
Local regulation of firearms;
Essential operations of firearms dealers and manufacturers;
Judicial nominees;
Nominees to the United States Supreme Court;
H.R. 1186, Keep Americans Safe Act;
H.R. 1236, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
S. 506, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
H.R. 1262, 21 to Buy Act;
H.R. 1266, Ghost Guns are Guns Act;
H.R. 1279, Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act;
H.R. 1287, No Guns for Abusers Act;
H.R. 155, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 282, SAFER Now Act;
H.R. 435, National Gun Violence Research Act;
H.R. 674, Gun Violence Prevention Research Act;
H.R. 744, Protecting Our Communities and Rights Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
H.R. 1112, Enhanced Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1134, Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act;
H.R. 1263, National Firearms Amendment Act;
H.R. 1296, Assault Weapons Ban;
H.R. 1297, Law Enforcement Protection Act;
H.R. 33, Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 569, Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2019;
H.R. 717, Raise the Age Act;
H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act;
S. 42, Background Check Expansion Act;
S. 447, Keep Americans Safe Act;
S. 66, Assault Weapons Ban;
S. 69, Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act;
S. 120, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
S. 459, Stopping the Trafficking in Overseas Proliferation of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 184, Gun Violence Prevention Research Act;
S. 320, SECURE Firearm Storage Act;
S. 7, Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 94, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 1670, Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019;
H.R. 1671, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1397, Notice ICE Act;
H.R. 1412, Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act;
H.R. 820, Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2019;
H.R. 821, NICS Review Act of 2019;
H.R. 822, Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2019;
H.R. 869, Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act;
H.R. 939, SECURE Firearms Act;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 952, Armor-Piercing Bullets Act of 2019;
H.R. 971, Animal Violence Exposes Real Threat of Future Gun Violence Act of 2019;
H.R. 1114, Recognizing Gun Violence as a Public Health Emergency Act;
H.R. 1115, Firearm Safety Act;
H.R. 1116, Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act;
H.R. 511, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
H.R. 686, Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 1324, FAST NICS Act;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
S. 193, Ethans Law;
H.R. 1156, LEOSA Reform Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
S. 202, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 775, SHUSH Act;
S. 47, John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act;
H.R. 1454, COOL OFF Act;
H.R. 49, Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2019;
H.R. 1437, Securing DHS Firearms Act of 2019;
S. 443, A bill to modify the definition of antique firearm;
H.R. 1705, Jamies Law;
H.R. 2179, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 2319, 21st Century NICS Act;
S. 1395, Age 21 Act;
H.R. 2634, Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act;
S. 1352, Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 2585, Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 2621, Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Ghost Guns Act;
H.R. 2674, Gun Theft Prevention Act;
H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate Act;
S. 1462, Disarm Hate Act;
H.R. 2786, Jake Laird Act;
H.R. 2867, Ethans Law;
H.R. 3076, Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act;
H.R. 3214, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1779, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1788, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 3234, Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act;
H.R. 3265, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
S. 1831, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
H.R. 3285, Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act;
S. 1844, Handgun Purchase Licensing Act;
S. 1884, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 3404, Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act;
H.R. 3435, Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act;
S. 1943, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3454, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3284, To require the Attorney General to study whether an individuals history of domestic violence can be used to determine the likelihood of such individual committing a mass shooting;
S. 1519, Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2019;
H.R. 1222, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
H.R. 2670, Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act;
H.R. 1745, Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 2014, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3569, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3552, To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3553, To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3554, To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3599, Law Enforcement Need to Know Act;
H.R. 3606, High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act;
S. 2376, Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act;
H.R. 4062, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2272, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
H.R. 4080, Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act;
H.R. 4081, Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act;
H.R. 4082, Santa Fe High School Victims Act;
H.R. 4116, Prevent Gun Trafficking Act;
H.R. 4177, Gun Safety Board and Research Act;
S. 2449, Federal Firearm Licensing Act;
H.R. 4324, Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act;
S. 2554, A bill to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on mass violence;
H.R. 4264, Safe Homefront Act;
H.R. 4594, Bumpstocks and Acceleration Devices Act;
H.R. 4600, Domestic Violence Records Reporting Improvement Act of 2019;
S. 2690, Restoring, Enhancing, Securing, and Promoting Our Nation's Safety Efforts Act of 2019;
H.R. 4730, Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act of 2019;
H.R. 4789, To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes;
S. 2671, Break the Cycle of Violence Act;
H.R. 4836, Break the Cycle of Violence Act;
H.R. 4872, Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act;
H.R. 4926, Prevent Family Fire Act of 2019;
H.R. 4939, STOP Straw Purchases Act;
S. 2843, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 5132, Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act;
S. 2843, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
S. Res. 110, A resolution keeping guns out of classrooms;
H.R. 5385, To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to deploy and implement gunfire detection and location technology, and for other purposes;
H.R. 5507, Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act;
H.R. 1865, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020;
H.R. 1158, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020;
S. 1790, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020;
H. Res. 231, Keeping guns out of classrooms;
H. Res. 391, Supporting the goals and ideals of National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend and National Gun Violence Awareness Month;
S. Res. 217, A resolution expressing support for the designation of June 7 through June 9, 2019, as "National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend" and June 2019 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month;"
H. Res. 555, A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationships between firearm violence, misogyny, and violence against women and reaffirming the importance of preventing individuals with a history of violence against women from accessing a firearm;
H.R. 5717, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
S. 3254, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
H.R. 5866, Gun Trafficker Detection Act;
S. 3299, Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act;
H.R. 5917, Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act;
H.R. 5949, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020;
H.R. 6006, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
S. 3348, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
H.R. 6318, Urban Progress Act of 2020;
H.R. 6453, To direct the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes;
S. 3743, Untraceable Firearms Act;
S. 4068, Background Check Completion Act;
H.R. 7468, Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 4271, Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 7120, George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020;
H.R. 6395, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021;
S. 4049, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021;
H.R. 8461, To amend the Arms Export Control Act relating to export licenses for firearm silencers;
S. 4718, A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to make fraudulent dealings in firearms and ammunition unlawful, and for other purposes;
H.R. 5836, Prosecuting Gun Crimes Saves Lives Act;
H.R. 7977, Firearms Retailer Code of Conduct Act;
S. 4443, Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act;
H.R. 7930, Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Client expense: $80,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Background checks;
Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System;
Intimate partner violence and violence against women, as related to firearms;
Mental health, as related to firearms;
Trafficking of firearms;
National concealed carry reciprocity;
Preventing terrorists from acquiring firearms;
Hate crimes with firearms;
National Firearms Act;
Supreme Court of the United States;
Presidential Cabinet appointments;
ATF white paper - Options to Reduce or Modify Firearms Regulations;
Deregulation of silencers;
Interstate transport of firearms;
Federal firearm licensee break-ins;
Appropriations;
Guns in schools;
Microstamping;
Smart gun technology;
Bump stocks;
Semiautomatic firearms;
Firearm accessories;
Gun permitting;
Firearm tracing;
3D printing of firearms;
Lost and stolen firearms;
Firearm prohibitors;
Child access prevention laws;
Violence Against Women Act;
Consumer product safety;
Gun dealer regulation;
Local regulation of firearms;
Fugitives from justice;
Federal Judicial Nominations;
Nominees to the United States Supreme Court;
H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1112, Enhanced Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1297, Law Enforcement Protection Act;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 1156, LEOSA Reform Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
H.R. 155, Hearing Protection Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 33, Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act;
H.R. 1670, Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
S. 202, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 775, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 1437, Securing DHS Firearms Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1705, Jamies Law;
H.R. 1324, FAST NICS Act;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
S. Res. 110, A resolution keeping guns out of classrooms;
H. Res. 231, Keeping guns out of classrooms;
H.R. 1186, Keep Americans Safe Act;
H.R. 1236, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
S. 506, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
H.R. 1262, 21 to Buy Act;
H.R. 1266, Ghost Guns are Guns Act;
H.R. 1279, Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act;
H.R. 1287, No Guns for Abusers Act;
H.R. 282, SAFER Now Act;
H.R. 744, Protecting Our Communities and Rights Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
H.R. 1134, Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act;
H.R. 1263, National Firearms Amendment Act;
H.R. 1296, Assault Weapons Ban;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 569, Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2019;
H.R. 717, Raise the Age Act;
S. 42, Background Check Expansion Act;
S. 447, Keep Americans Safe Act;
S. 66, Assault Weapons Ban;
S. 69, Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act;
S. 120, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
S. 459, Stopping the Trafficking in Overseas Proliferation of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 320, SECURE Firearm Storage Act;
S. 7, Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 94, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 1671, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1397, Notice ICE Act;
H.R. 1412, Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act;
H.R. 820, Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2019;
H.R. 821, NICS Review Act of 2019;
H.R. 822, Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2019;
H.R. 869, Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act;
H.R. 939, SECURE Firearms Act;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 952, Armor-Piercing Bullets Act of 2019;
H.R. 1115, Firearm Safety Act;
H.R. 1116, Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act;
H.R. 511, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
H.R. 686, Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
S. 193, Ethans Law;
S. 47, John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act;
H.R. 1454, COOL OFF Act;
H.R. 49, Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2019;
S. 443, A bill to modify the definition of antique firearm;
H.R. 2319, 21st Century NICS Act;
S. 1395, Age 21 Act;
H.R. 2634, Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act;
H.R. 2621, Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Ghost Guns Act;
H.R. 2674, Gun Theft Prevention Act;
H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate Act;
S. 1462, Disarm Hate Act;
H.R. 2867, Ethans Law;
H.R. 3214, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1779, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1788, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 3234, Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act;
H.R. 3265, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
S. 1831, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
H.R. 3285, Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act;
S. 1844, Handgun Purchase Licensing Act;
S. 1884, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 3404, Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act;
H.R. 3435, Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act;
S. 1943, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3454, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3284, To require the Attorney General to study whether an individuals history of domestic violence can be used to determine the likelihood of such individual committing a mass shooting;
S. 1519, Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2019;
H.R. 2670, Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act;
H.R. 3055, 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;
S. 2014, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3569, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3552, To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3553, To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3554, To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3599, Law Enforcement Need to Know Act;
H.R. 3606, High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act;
S. 2376, Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act;
H.R. 4062, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2272, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2449, Federal Firearm Licensing Act;
H.R. 4116, Prevent Gun Trafficking Act;
H.R. 4324, Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act;
H.R. 4594, Bumpstocks and Acceleration Devices Act;
H.R. 4600, Domestic Violence Records Reporting Improvement Act of 2019;
S. 2690, Restoring, Enhancing, Securing, and Promoting Our Nation's Safety Efforts Act of 2019;
H.R. 4789, To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes;
H.R. 4872, Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act;
H.R. 4939, STOP Straw Purchases Act;
H.R. 5132, Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act;
H.R. 5385, To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to deploy and implement gunfire detection and location technology, and for other purposes;
H.R. 5507, Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act;
H.R. 5717, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
S. 3254, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
H.R. 5866, Gun Trafficker Detection Act;
S. 3299, Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act;
H.R. 5917, Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act;
H.R. 5949, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020;
H.R. 6006, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
S. 3348, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
H.R. 7667, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021;
H.R. 7614, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021;
H.R. 748, CARES Act;
H.R. 6800, HEROES Act;
H.R. 6318, Urban Progress Act of 2020;
H.R. 6453, To direct the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes;
S. 3743, Untraceable Firearms Act;
S. 4068, Background Check Completion Act;
H.R. 7468, Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 4271, Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 7120, George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020;
H.R. 7977, Firearms Retailer Code of Conduct Act
Client expense: $80,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Background checks;
Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System;
Intimate partner violence and violence against women, as related to firearms;
Mental health, as related to firearms;
Trafficking of firearms;
National concealed carry reciprocity;
Preventing terrorists from acquiring firearms;
Hate crimes with firearms;
National Firearms Act;
Supreme Court of the United States;
Presidential Cabinet appointments;
Judicial appointments;
ATF white paper - Options to Reduce or Modify Firearms Regulations;
Deregulation of silencers;
Interstate transport of firearms;
Federal firearm licensee break-ins;
Appropriations;
Guns in schools;
Firearm suicide;
Hospital-based violence intervention programs;
Microstamping;
Smart gun technology;
Bump stocks;
Semiautomatic firearms;
Firearm accessories;
Extreme risk protection orders;
Gun permitting;
Firearm exports;
Firearm tracing;
3D printing of firearms;
Firearm permitting;
Lost and stolen firearms;
Firearm prohibitors;
Child access prevention laws;
Safe storage laws;
Violence Against Women Act;
Consumer product safety;
Gun dealer regulation;
Local regulation of firearms;
Essential operations of firearms dealers and manufacturers;
H.R. 1186, Keep Americans Safe Act;
H.R. 1236, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
S. 506, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
H.R. 1262, 21 to Buy Act;
H.R. 1266, Ghost Guns are Guns Act;
H.R. 1279, Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act;
H.R. 1287, No Guns for Abusers Act;
H.R. 155, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 282, SAFER Now Act;
H.R. 435, National Gun Violence Research Act;
H.R. 674, Gun Violence Prevention Research Act;
H.R. 744, Protecting Our Communities and Rights Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
H.R. 1112, Enhanced Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1134, Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act;
H.R. 1263, National Firearms Amendment Act;
H.R. 1296, Assault Weapons Ban;
H.R. 1297, Law Enforcement Protection Act;
H.R. 33, Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 569, Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2019;
H.R. 717, Raise the Age Act;
H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act;
S. 42, Background Check Expansion Act;
S. 447, Keep Americans Safe Act;
S. 66, Assault Weapons Ban;
S. 69, Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act;
S. 120, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
S. 459, Stopping the Trafficking in Overseas Proliferation of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 184, Gun Violence Prevention Research Act;
S. 320, SECURE Firearm Storage Act;
S. 7, Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 94, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 1670, Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019;
H.R. 1671, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1397, Notice ICE Act;
H.R. 1412, Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act;
H.R. 820, Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2019;
H.R. 821, NICS Review Act of 2019;
H.R. 822, Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2019;
H.R. 869, Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act;
H.R. 939, SECURE Firearms Act;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 952, Armor-Piercing Bullets Act of 2019;
H.R. 971, Animal Violence Exposes Real Threat of Future Gun Violence Act of 2019;
H.R. 1114, Recognizing Gun Violence as a Public Health Emergency Act;
H.R. 1115, Firearm Safety Act;
H.R. 1116, Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act;
H.R. 511, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
H.R. 686, Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 1324, FAST NICS Act;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
S. 193, Ethans Law;
H.R. 1156, LEOSA Reform Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
S. 202, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 775, SHUSH Act;
S. 47, John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act;
H.R. 1454, COOL OFF Act;
H.R. 49, Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2019;
H.R. 1437, Securing DHS Firearms Act of 2019;
S. 443, A bill to modify the definition of antique firearm;
H.R. 1705, Jamies Law;
H.R. 2179, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 2319, 21st Century NICS Act;
S. 1395, Age 21 Act;
H.R. 2634, Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act;
S. 1352, Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 2585, Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 2621, Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Ghost Guns Act;
H.R. 2674, Gun Theft Prevention Act;
H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate Act;
S. 1462, Disarm Hate Act;
H.R. 2786, Jake Laird Act;
H.R. 2867, Ethans Law;
H.R. 3076, Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act;
H.R. 3214, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1779, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1778, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 3234, Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act;
H.R. 3265, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
S. 1831, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
H.R. 3285, Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act;
S. 1844, Handgun Purchase Licensing Act;
S. 1884, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 3404, Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act;
H.R. 3435, Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act;
S. 1943, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3454, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3284, To require the Attorney General to study whether an individuals history of domestic violence can be used to determine the likelihood of such individual committing a mass shooting;
S. 1519, Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2019;
H.R. 1222, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
H.R. 2670, Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act;
H.R. 1745, Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 2014, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3569, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3552, To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3553, To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3554, To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3599, Law Enforcement Need to Know Act;
H.R. 3606, High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act;
S. 2376, Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act;
H.R. 4062, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2272, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
H.R. 4080, Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act;
H.R. 4081, Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act;
H.R. 4082, Santa Fe High School Victims Act;
H.R. 4116, Prevent Gun Trafficking Act;
H.R. 4177, Gun Safety Board and Research Act;
S. 2449, Federal Firearm Licensing Act;
H.R. 4324, Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act;
S. 2554, A bill to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on mass violence;
H.R. 4264, Safe Homefront Act;
H.R. 4594, Bumpstocks and Acceleration Devices Act;
H.R. 4600, Domestic Violence Records Reporting Improvement Act of 2019;
S. 2690, Restoring, Enhancing, Securing, and Promoting Our Nation's Safety Efforts Act of 2019;
H.R. 4730, Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act of 2019;
H.R. 4789, To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes;
S. 2671, Break the Cycle of Violence Act;
H.R. 4836, Break the Cycle of Violence Act;
H.R. 4872, Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act;
H.R. 4926, Prevent Family Fire Act of 2019;
H.R. 4939, STOP Straw Purchases Act;
S. 2843, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 5132, Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act;
S. 2920, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
S. Res. 110, A resolution keeping guns out of classrooms;
H.R. 5385, To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to deploy and implement gunfire detection and location technology, and for other purposes;
H.R. 5507, Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act;
H.R. 1865, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020;
H.R. 1158, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020;
S. 1790, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020;
H. Res. 231, Keeping guns out of classrooms;
H. Res. 391, Supporting the goals and ideals of National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend and National Gun Violence Awareness Month;
S. Res. 217, A resolution expressing support for the designation of June 7 through June 9, 2019, as "National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend" and June 2019 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month;"
H. Res. 555, A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationships between firearm violence, misogyny, and violence against women and reaffirming the importance of preventing individuals with a history of violence against women from accessing a firearm;
H.R. 5717, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
S. 3254, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
H.R. 5866, Gun Trafficker Detection Act;
S. 3299, Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act;
H.R. 5917, Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act;
H.R. 5949, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020;
H.R. 6006, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
S. 3348, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
H.R. 6318, Urban Progress Act;
H.R. 6453, To direct the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes;
S. 3743, Untraceable Firearms Act;
S. 3815, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020;
S. 4068, Background Check Completion Act;
S. Res. 592, A resolution expressing support for the designation of June 5, 2020, as "National Gun Violence Awareness Day" and June 2020 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month;
H. Res. 977, Expressing support for the designation of June 5, 2020, as "National Gun Violence Awareness Day" and June 2020 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month
Client expense: $100,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Background checks;
Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System;
Intimate partner violence and violence against women, as related to firearms;
Mental health, as related to firearms;
Trafficking of firearms;
National concealed carry reciprocity;
Preventing terrorists from acquiring firearms;
Hate crimes with firearms;
National Firearms Act;
Supreme Court of the United States;
Presidential Cabinet appointments;
ATF white paper - Options to Reduce or Modify Firearms Regulations;
Deregulation of silencers;
Interstate transport of firearms;
Federal firearm licensee break-ins;
Appropriations;
Guns in schools;
Microstamping;
Smart gun technology;
Bump stocks;
Semiautomatic firearms;
Firearm accessories;
Gun permitting;
Firearm tracing;
3D printing of firearms;
Lost and stolen firearms;
Firearm prohibitors;
Child access prevention laws;
Violence Against Women Act;
Consumer product safety;
Gun dealer regulation;
Local regulation of firearms;
Fugitives from justice;
Federal Judicial Nominations;
H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1112, Enhanced Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1297, Law Enforcement Protection Act;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 1156, LEOSA Reform Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
H.R. 155, Hearing Protection Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 33, Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act;
H.R. 1670, Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
S. 202, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 775, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 1437, Securing DHS Firearms Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1705, Jamies Law;
H.R. 1324, FAST NICS Act;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
S. Res. 110, A resolution keeping guns out of classrooms;
H. Res. 231, Keeping guns out of classrooms;
H.R. 1186, Keep Americans Safe Act;
H.R. 1236, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
S. 506, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
H.R. 1262, 21 to Buy Act;
H.R. 1266, Ghost Guns are Guns Act;
H.R. 1279, Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act;
H.R. 1287, No Guns for Abusers Act;
H.R. 282, SAFER Now Act;
H.R. 744, Protecting Our Communities and Rights Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
H.R. 1134, Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act;
H.R. 1263, National Firearms Amendment Act;
H.R. 1296, Assault Weapons Ban;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 569, Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2019;
H.R. 717, Raise the Age Act;
S. 42, Background Check Expansion Act;
S. 447, Keep Americans Safe Act;
S. 66, Assault Weapons Ban;
S. 69, Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act;
S. 120, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
S. 459, Stopping the Trafficking in Overseas Proliferation of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 320, SECURE Firearm Storage Act;
S. 7, Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 94, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 1671, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1397, Notice ICE Act;
H.R. 1412, Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act;
H.R. 820, Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2019;
H.R. 821, NICS Review Act of 2019;
H.R. 822, Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2019;
H.R. 869, Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act;
H.R. 939, SECURE Firearms Act;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 952, Armor-Piercing Bullets Act of 2019;
H.R. 1115, Firearm Safety Act;
H.R. 1116, Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act;
H.R. 511, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
H.R. 686, Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
S. 193, Ethans Law;
S. 47, John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act;
H.R. 1454, COOL OFF Act;
H.R. 49, Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2019;
S. 443, A bill to modify the definition of antique firearm;
H.R. 2319, 21st Century NICS Act;
S. 1395, Age 21 Act;
H.R. 2634, Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act;
H.R. 2621, Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Ghost Guns Act;
H.R. 2674, Gun Theft Prevention Act;
H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate Act;
S. 1462, Disarm Hate Act;
H.R. 2867, Ethans Law;
H.R. 3214, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1779, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1788, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 3234, Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act;
H.R. 3265, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
S. 1831, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
H.R. 3285, Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act;
S. 1844, Handgun Purchase Licensing Act;
S. 1884, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 3404, Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act;
H.R. 3435, Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act;
S. 1934, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3454, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3284, To require the Attorney General to study whether an individuals history of domestic violence can be used to determine the likelihood of such individual committing a mass shooting;
S. 1519, Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2019;
H.R. 2670, Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act;
H.R. 3055, 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;
S. 2014, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3569, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3552, To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3553, To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3554, To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3599, Law Enforcement Need to Know Act;
H.R. 3606, High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act;
S. 2376, Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act;
H.R. 4062, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2272, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2449, Federal Firearm Licensing Act;
H.R. 4116, Prevent Gun Trafficking Act;
H.R. 4324, Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act;
H.R. 4594, Bumpstocks and Acceleration Devices Act;
H.R. 4600, Domestic Violence Records Reporting Improvement Act of 2019;
S. 2690, Restoring, Enhancing, Securing, and Promoting Our Nation's Safety Efforts Act of 2019;
H.R. 4789, To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes;
H.R. 4872, Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act;
H.R. 4939, STOP Straw Purchases Act;
H.R. 5132, Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act;
H.R. 5385, To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to deploy and implement gunfire detection and location technology, and for other purposes;
H.R. 5507, Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act;
H.R. 5717, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
S. 3254, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
H.R. 5866, Gun Trafficker Detection Act;
S. 3299, Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act;
H.R. 5917, Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act;
H.R. 5949, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020;
H.R. 6006, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
S. 3348, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
S. 495, EAGLES Act of 2019;
S. 3743, Untraceable Firearms Act;
S. 3815, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020;
S. 4068, Background Check Completion Act;
H.R. 7120, George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020;
H. Res. 988, Condemning all acts of police brutality, racial profiling, and the use of excessive and militarized force throughout the country
Client expense: $100,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Background checks;
Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System;
Intimate partner violence and violence against women, as related to firearms;
Mental health, as related to firearms;
Trafficking of firearms;
National concealed carry reciprocity;
Preventing terrorists from acquiring firearms;
Hate crimes with firearms;
National Firearms Act;
Supreme Court of the United States;
Presidential Cabinet appointments;
ATF white paper - Options to Reduce or Modify Firearms Regulations;
Deregulation of silencers;
Interstate transport of firearms;
Federal firearm licensee break-ins;
Appropriations;
Guns in schools;
Microstamping;
Smart gun technology;
Bump stocks;
Semiautomatic firearms;
Firearm accessories;
Gun permitting;
Firearm tracing;
3D printing of firearms;
Lost and stolen firearms;
Firearm prohibitors;
Child access prevention laws;
Violence Against Women Act;
Consumer product safety;
Gun dealer regulation;
Local regulation of firearms;
Fugitives from justice;
Federal Judicial Nominations;
H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1112, Enhanced Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1297, Law Enforcement Protection Act;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 1156, LEOSA Reform Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act
H.R. 155, Hearing Protection Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 33, Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act;
H.R. 1670, Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
S. 202, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 775, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 1437, Securing DHS Firearms Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1705, Jamies Law;
H.R. 1324, FAST NICS Act;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
S. Res. 110, A resolution keeping guns out of classrooms;
H. Res. 231, Keeping guns out of classrooms;
H.R. 1186, Keep Americans Safe Act;
H.R. 1236, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
S. 506, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
H.R. 1262, 21 to Buy Act;
H.R. 1266, Ghost Guns are Guns Act;
H.R. 1279, Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act;
H.R. 1287, No Guns for Abusers Act;
H.R. 282, SAFER Now Act;
H.R. 744, Protecting Our Communities and Rights Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
H.R. 1134, Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act;
H.R. 1263, National Firearms Amendment Act;
H.R. 1296, Assault Weapons Ban;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 569, Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2019;
H.R. 717, Raise the Age Act;
S. 42, Background Check Expansion Act;
S. 447, Keep Americans Safe Act;
S. 66, Assault Weapons Ban;
S. 69, Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act;
S. 120, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
S. 459, Stopping the Trafficking in Overseas Proliferation of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 320, SECURE Firearm Storage Act;
S. 7, Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 94, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 1671, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1397, Notice ICE Act;
H.R. 1412, Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act;
H.R. 820, Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2019;
H.R. 821, NICS Review Act of 2019;
H.R. 822, Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2019;
H.R. 869, Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act;
H.R. 939, SECURE Firearms Act;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 952, Armor-Piercing Bullets Act of 2019;
H.R. 1115, Firearm Safety Act;
H.R. 1116, Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act;
H.R. 511, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
H.R. 686, Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
S. 193, Ethans Law;
S. 47, John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act;
H.R. 1454, COOL OFF Act;
H.R. 49, Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2019;
S. 443, A bill to modify the definition of antique firearm;
H.R. 2319, 21st Century NICS Act;
S. 1395, Age 21 Act;
H.R. 2634, Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act;
H.R. 2621, Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Ghost Guns Act;
H.R. 2674, Gun Theft Prevention Act;
H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate Act;
S. 1462, Disarm Hate Act;
H.R. 2867, Ethans Law;
H.R. 3214, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1779, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1788, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 3234, Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act;
H.R. 3265, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
S. 1831, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
H.R. 3285, Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act;
S. 1844, Handgun Purchase Licensing Act;
S. 1884, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 3404, Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act;
H.R. 3435, Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act;
S. 1943, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3454, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3284, To require the Attorney General to study whether an individuals history of domestic violence can be used to determine the likelihood of such individual committing a mass shooting;
S. 1519, Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2019;
H.R. 2670, Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act;
H.R. 3055, 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;
S. 2014, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3569, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3552, To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3553, To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3554, To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3599, Law Enforcement Need to Know Act;
H.R. 3606, High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act;
S. 2376, Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act;
H.R. 4062, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2272, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2449, Federal Firearm Licensing Act;
H.R. 4116, Prevent Gun Trafficking Act;
H.R. 4324, Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act;
H.R. 4594, Bumpstocks and Acceleration Devices Act;
H.R. 4600, Domestic Violence Records Reporting Improvement Act of 2019;
S. 2690, Restoring, Enhancing, Securing, and Promoting Our Nation's Safety Efforts Act of 2019;
H.R. 4789, To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes;
H.R. 4872, Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act;
H.R. 4939, STOP Straw Purchases Act;
H.R. 5132, Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act;
H.R. 5385, To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to deploy and implement gunfire detection and location technology, and for other purposes;
H.R. 5507, Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act;
H.R. 5717, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
S. 3254, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
H.R. 5866, Gun Trafficker Detection Act;
S. 3299, Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act;
H.R. 5917, Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act;
H.R. 5949, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020;
H.R. 6006, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
S. 3348, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020.
Client expense: $100,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Background checks;
Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System;
Intimate partner violence and violence against women, as related to firearms;
Mental health, as related to firearms;
Trafficking of firearms;
National concealed carry reciprocity;
Preventing terrorists from acquiring firearms;
Hate crimes with firearms;
National Firearms Act;
Supreme Court of the United States;
Presidential Cabinet appointments;
Judicial appointments;
ATF white paper - Options to Reduce or Modify Firearms Regulations;
Deregulation of silencers;
Interstate transport of firearms;
Federal firearm licensee break-ins;
Appropriations;
Guns in schools;
Firearm suicide;
Hospital-based violence intervention programs;
Microstamping;
Smart gun technology;
Bump stocks;
Semiautomatic firearms;
Firearm accessories;
Extreme risk protection orders;
Gun permitting;
Firearm exports;
Firearm tracing;
3D printing of firearms;
Firearm permitting;
Lost and stolen firearms;
Firearm prohibitors;
Child access prevention laws;
Safe storage laws;
Violence Against Women Act;
Consumer product safety;
Gun dealer regulation;
Local regulation of firearms;
Essential operations of firearms dealers and manufacturers;
H.R. 1186, Keep Americans Safe Act;
H.R. 1236, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
S. 506, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019;
H.R. 1262, 21 to Buy Act;
H.R. 1266, Ghost Guns are Guns Act;
H.R. 1279, Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act;
H.R. 1287, No Guns for Abusers Act;
H.R. 155, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 282, SAFER Now Act;
H.R. 435, National Gun Violence Research Act;
H.R. 674, Gun Violence Prevention Research Act;
H.R. 744, Protecting Our Communities and Rights Act of 2019;
H.R. 157, Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act;
H.R. 1112, Enhanced Background Checks Act;
H.R. 1134, Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act;
H.R. 1263, National Firearms Amendment Act;
H.R. 1296, Assault Weapons Ban;
H.R. 1297, Law Enforcement Protection Act;
H.R. 33, Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act;
H.R. 38, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019;
H.R. 569, Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2019;
H.R. 717, Raise the Age Act;
H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act;
S. 42, Background Check Expansion Act;
S. 447, Keep Americans Safe Act;
S. 66, Assault Weapons Ban;
S. 69, Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act;
S. 120, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
S. 459, Stopping the Trafficking in Overseas Proliferation of Ghost Guns Act;
S. 184, Gun Violence Prevention Research Act;
S. 320, SECURE Firearm Storage Act;
S. 7, Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 94, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
S. 817, Hearing Protection Act;
H.R. 1670, Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019;
H.R. 1671, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
H.R. 1397, Notice ICE Act;
H.R. 1412, Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act;
H.R. 820, Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2019;
H.R. 821, NICS Review Act of 2019;
H.R. 822, Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2019;
H.R. 869, Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act;
H.R. 939, SECURE Firearms Act;
H.R. 942, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 952, Armor-Piercing Bullets Act of 2019;
H.R. 971, Animal Violence Exposes Real Threat of Future Gun Violence Act of 2019;
H.R. 1114, Recognizing Gun Violence as a Public Health Emergency Act;
H.R. 1115, Firearm Safety Act;
H.R. 1116, Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act;
H.R. 511, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act;
H.R. 686, Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2019;
H.R. 687, Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019;
H.R. 719, Make Identifiable Criminal Rounds Obvious Act;
H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 1324, FAST NICS Act;
S. 875, NICS Denials Notifications Act;
S. 193, Ethans Law;
H.R. 1156, LEOSA Reform Act;
H.R. 1501, Police Officers Protecting Children Act;
S. 202, SHUSH Act;
H.R. 775, SHUSH Act;
S. 47, John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act;
H.R. 1454, COOL OFF Act;
H.R. 49, Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2019;
H.R. 1437, Securing DHS Firearms Act of 2019;
S. 443, A bill to modify the definition of antique firearm;
H.R. 1705, Jamies Law;
H.R. 2179, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 2319, 21st Century NICS Act;
S. 1395, Age 21 Act;
H.R. 2634, Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act;
S. 1352, Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 2585, Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
H.R. 2621, Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Ghost Guns Act;
H.R. 2674, Gun Theft Prevention Act;
H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate Act;
S. 1462, Disarm Hate Act;
H.R. 2786, Jake Laird Act;
H.R. 2867, Ethans Law;
H.R. 3076, Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act;
H.R. 3214, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1779, Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act;
S. 1788, Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act;
H.R. 3234, Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act;
H.R. 3265, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
S. 1831, 3D Printed Gun Safety Act;
H.R. 3285, Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act;
S. 1844, Handgun Purchase Licensing Act;
S. 1884, SAFETY Act;
H.R. 3404, Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act;
H.R. 3435, Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act;
S. 1943, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3454, Help Empower Americans to Respond (HEAR) Act;
H.R. 3284, To require the Attorney General to study whether an individuals history of domestic violence can be used to determine the likelihood of such individual committing a mass shooting;
S. 1519, Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2019;
H.R. 1222, Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act;
H.R. 2670, Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act;
H.R. 1745, Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2019;
S. 2014, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3569, Making America Safe and Secure Act;
H.R. 3552, To amend the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 to provide notification to relevant law enforcement agencies in the event that a background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System determines that a person may not receive a firearm, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3553, To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that all firearms are traceable, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3554, To incentivize State reporting systems that allow mental health professionals to submit information on certain individuals deemed dangerous for purposes of prohibiting firearm possession by such individuals, and for other purposes;
H.R. 3599, Law Enforcement Need to Know Act;
H.R. 3606, High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act;
S. 2376, Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act;
H.R. 4062, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
S. 2272, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act;
H.R. 4080, Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act;
H.R. 4081, Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act;
H.R. 4082, Santa Fe High School Victims Act;
H.R. 4116, Prevent Gun Trafficking Act;
H.R. 4177, Gun Safety Board and Research Act;
S. 2449, Federal Firearm Licensing Act;
H.R. 4324, Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act;
S. 2554, A bill to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on mass violence;
H.R. 4264, Safe Homefront Act;
H.R. 4594, Bumpstocks and Acceleration Devices Act;
H.R. 4600, Domestic Violence Records Reporting Improvement Act of 2019;
S. 2690, Restoring, Enhancing, Securing, and Promoting Our Nation's Safety Efforts Act of 2019;
H.R. 4730, Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act of 2019;
H.R. 4789, To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes;
S. 2671, Break the Cycle of Violence Act;
H.R. 4836, Break the Cycle of Violence Act;
H.R. 4872, Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act;
H.R. 4926, Prevent Family Fire Act of 2019;
H.R. 4939, STOP Straw Purchases Act;
S. 2920, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
H.R. 5132, Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act;
S. 2843, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019;
S. Res. 110, A resolution keeping guns out of classrooms;
H.R. 5385, To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States and units of local government to deploy and implement gunfire detection and location technology, and for other purposes;
H.R. 5507, Foreign National Firearms Background Check Enhancement Act;
H.R. 1865, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020;
H.R. 1158, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020;
S. 1790, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020;
H. Res. 231, Keeping guns out of classrooms;
H. Res. 391, Supporting the goals and ideals of National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend and National Gun Violence Awareness Month;
S. Res. 217, A resolution expressing support for the designation of June 7 through June 9, 2019, as "National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend" and June 2019 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month;"
H. Res. 555, A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationships between firearm violence, misogyny, and violence against women and reaffirming the importance of preventing individuals with a history of violence against women from accessing a firearm;
H.R. 5717, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
S. 3254, Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act;
H.R. 5866, Gun Trafficker Detection Act;
S. 3299, Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act;
H.R. 5917, Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act;
H.R. 5949, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020;
H.R. 6006, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020;
S. 3348, Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020.
Client expense: $100,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
H.R. 1 For the People Act of 2019
H.R. 8 Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
H.R. 21 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019
H.R. 33 Gun Trafficking Prohibition Act
H.R. 38 Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019
H.R. 49 Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2019
H.R. 110 To provide an exception to certain mandatory minimum sentence requirements for a person employed outside the United States by a Federal agency, who uses, carries, or possesses the firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence committed while on-duty with a firearm required to be carried while on-duty
H.R. 119 National Statistics on Deadly Force Transparency Act of 2019
H.R. 121 Fresh Start Act of 2019
H.R. 155 Hearing Protection Act
H.R. 157 Gun Manufacturers Accountability Act
H.R. 167 To prohibit the transfer of a firearm at a gun show by a person who is not a licensed dealer.
H.R. 175 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition.
H.R. 282 SAFER Now Act
H.R. 435 National Gun Violence Research Act
H.R. 489 SHIELD Act of 2019
H.R. 493 Sensible Enforcement of Cannabis Act of 2019
H.R. 511 Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act
H.R. 569 Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2019
H.R. 606 Fairness in Firearm Testing Act
H.R. 608 School Watch and Tactics Act of 2019
H.R. 648 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019
H.R. 659 Buyback Our Safety Act
H.R. 664 Recreational Lands Self-Defense Act of 2019
H.R. 674 Gun Violence Prevention Research Act of 2019
H.R. 686 Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2019
H.R. 687 Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2019
H.R. 717 Raise the Age Act
H.R. 719 MICRO Act
H.R. 743 Securing Our Children Act of 2019
H.R. 744 Protecting Our Communities and Rights Act of 2019
H.R. 775 SHUSH Act
H.R. 820 Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2019
H.R. 821 NICS Review Act of 2019
H.R. 822 Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2019
H.R. 838 Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act of 2019
H.R. 869 Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act
H.R. 877 Modernizing the Pittman-Robertson Fund for Tomorrow's Needs Act
H.R. 930 Stopping the Iron Pipeline Act of 2019
H.R. 939 SECURE Firearm Storage Act
H.R. 942 SAFETY Act
H.R. 1112 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to strengthen the background check procedures to be followed before a Federal firearms licensee may transfer a firearm to a person who is not such a licensee.
H.R. 1115 To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to remove the exclusion of pistols, revolvers, and other firearms from the definition of consumer product in order to permit the issuance of safety standards for such articles by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
H.R. 1116 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the sale or other disposition of a firearm to, and the possession, shipment, transportation, or receipt of a firearm by, certain classes of high risk individuals.
H.R. 2071 Second Amendment Protection Act
H.R. 2251 Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act
H.R. 2319 21st Century NICS Act
H.R. 2364 Investor Choice Against Gun Proliferation Act
H.R. 2443 Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act
H.R. 2364 Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act
H.R. 2959 Freedom from Assault Weapons Act
H.R. 3076 Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019
H.R. 3200 Safe Students Act
H.R. 3265 3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2019
H.R. 3285 Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act
H.R. 3552 Unlawful Gun Buyer Alert Act
H.R. 3553 Untraceable Firearms Act of 2019
H.R. 3554 End Purchase of Firearms by Dangerous Individuals Act of 2019
H.R. 3606 High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act
H.R. 4062 Blair Holt Firearm Owner Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2019
H.R. 4116 Prevent Gun Trafficking Act
H.R. 4255 Trafficking Reduction And Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act
H.R. 4324 Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act of 2019
H.R. 4490 To require the Inspector General, Department of Justice, to submit a report to the Congress on the number of firearm transaction denials issued by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that are referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives for investigation, the number of prosecutions resulting from such investigations, and the number of firearms recovered by the Bureau in cases in which such a denial was issued after the firearm was transferred.
H.R. 4594 Bumpstocks and Acceleration Devices Act
H.R. 4691 Safe Gun Storage Act of 2019
H.R. 4730 Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act of 2019
H.R. 4872 Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act
H.R. 5132 Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act
H.R. 5289 Home Defense and Competitive Shooting Act of 2019
H.R. 5301 To amend title 18, United States Code, to permit certain individuals complying with State law to possess firearms
H.R. 5713 Safe Bases Act
H.R. 5716 SAFER Voter Act
H.R. 5717 Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020
H.R. 5875 Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act
H.R. 5935 Lawful Interstate Transportation of Firearms Act
H.R. 6453 To direct the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes.
H.R.7468 Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns Act of 2020
H.R.7667 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021
H.R.7702 Background Check Point of Contact Act of 2020
H.R.7715 U.S. Military Right to Carry Act
H.R. 8631 Responsible Ownership of Firearms Act of 2020
H.R. 8681 Stopping the Fraudulent Sales of Firearms Act
H.R. 8821 Keeping Guns From Criminals Act
H.R. 8837 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a study on perpetrators of mass killings, and for other purposes.
H.R. 9053 No Congressional Gun Loophole Act
S. 7 Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019
S. 42 Background Check Expansion Act
S. 47 Natural Resources Management Act
S. 66 Assault Weapons Ban of 2019
S. 69 Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2019
S. 94 Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act
S. 120 Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2019
S. 166 A bill to provide provisional protected presence status for certain aliens and to provide mandatory appropriations relating to border security.
S. 184 Gun Violence Prevention Research Act
S. 193 Ethan's Law
S. 202 SHUSH Act
S. 265 Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act of 2019
S. 320 A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to require federally licensed firearms importers, manufacturers, and dealers to meet certain requirements with respect to securing their firearms inventory, business records, and business premises.
S. 351 A bill to prohibit Federal funding of State firearm ownership databases, and for other purposes.
S. 443 A bill to modify the definition of an antique firearm.
S. 506 Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019
S. 817 Hearing Protection Act
S. 875 NICS Denial Notification Act of 2019
S. 1331 Veterans' Second Amendment Rights Restoration Act of 2019
S. 1395 Age 21 Act
S. 1506 A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to permit certain individuals complying with State law to possess firearms.
S. 1519 Protecting Communities and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2019
S. 1831 3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2019
S. 1844 Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act
S. 2013 A bill to protect the right of individuals to bear arms at water resources development projects.
S. 2272 Blair Holt Firearm Owner Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2019
S. 2376 Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2019
S. 2449 Federal Firearm Licensing Act
S. 3065 Safe Gun Storage Act of 2019
S. 3130 Servicemembers Self-Defense Act of 2019
S. 3139 Lawful Interstate Transportation of Firearms Act
S. 3254 Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020
S. 3348 Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2020
S. 3493 Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act
S.3743 Untraceable Firearms Act of 2020
S.3815 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Data Integrity Act of 2020
S.4040 Gun Owner Privacy Act
S.4068 Background Check Completion Act of 2020
S.4271 Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2020
S.4301 U.S. Military Right to Carry Act
S. 4888 Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
Client expense: $566,611 · Firm income: Not reported
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Legislation and policies related to:
Firearms and gun violence protections for children, families, and health care providers, including schools and health care facilities
Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 8)
Raise the Age Act (H.R. 717)
Keep Americans Safe Act (H.R. 1186)
Background Check Expansion Act (S. 42)
Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2019 (S. 66)
Gun Violence Prevention Research Act (S. 184/H.R. 674)
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, Treasury, Dept of, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), Vice President of the U.S., White House Office
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H.R. 2438, Not Invisible Act, in support of ending gender-based violence against American Indian/Alaska Native women;
S. 648/H.R. 3563, Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act, in support of ending shackling of pregnant women;
S. 3037/H.R. 5267, International Violence Against Women Act of 2019; in support of ending international gender-based violence;
S. 2043/ H.R. 3545/H.R. 1566, Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act, in support of strengthening hate crime reporting;
H.R. 569, Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act, in support of ending gender-based violence and protecting survivors;
S. 42/H.R. 8, Background Check Expansion Act, in support of establishing background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties;
S.2355/H.R. 4339, End Racial and Religious Profiling Act, in support of ending racial and religious profiling by law enforcement officials;
H.R. 511, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act, in support of protecting survivors by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms;
H.R. 35, Emmett Till Antilynching Act, in support of establishing a new criminal civil rights violation for lynching;
H.R. 3536, Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2019, in support of a new criminal rights violation for lynching;
S. 3912/H.R. 7120, Justice in Policing Act of 2020/George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020, in support of a federal standard for police use of force; in support of requiring use of de-escalation techniques and the duty to intervene; in support of banning neck holds, chokeholds and similar excessive force; in support of prohibiting racial profiling and religious profiling by law enforcement officials with robust data collection including disaggregated demographic categories; in support of eliminating federal programs that provide military equipment to law enforcement; in support of prohibiting no-knock warrants, especially for drug searches; in support of holding law enforcement accountable for the deprivation of civil rights and civil liberties; in support of a national public database covering all police agencies; in support of ending qualified immunity;
S. 3895, Eric Garner Excessive Force Prevention Act, in support of banning chokeholds and similar excessive force;
H.R. 4359, Police Exercising Absolute Care With Everyone Act of 2019, in support of prohibiting the use of deadly or lethal force by a Federal law enforcement officer;
H.R. 3545, National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality Act of 2019, in support increasing and incentivizing hate crime reporting;
S. 697, Next Step Act of 2019, in support of reforming sentencing, prisons, re-entry of prisoners, and law enforcement practices;
S. 3985, JUSTICE Act, in opposition to the lack of comprehensive reform needed to address policing accountability and reform;
In support of ending criminalization of women and girls of color;
In opposition to filling the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy until after the January 2021 Presidential Inauguration;
in opposition to the nomination and confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Client expense: $80,000 · Firm income: Not reported
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Preserve Medicaid funding and Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments. Support increased FY 2020 appropriations for Centers for Disease Control sexually transmitted disease prevention and control, Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Hospital Preparedness programs. Support easing the Medicaid IMD exclusion and the Medicaid inmate exclusion. Support amending 42 C.F.R Part 2 to align with HIPAA (H.R. 2062 and S. 1012). Support the Prevention and Public Health Fund, including HR 3447. Support medically assisted treatment , including H.R. 2482 and S. 2017. Support H.R. 2848 to address "Valley Fever." Support school based mental health programs, including H.R. 1109. Support women's cancer screenings, including H.R. 3129. Support TB elimination, including H.R. 3080 and S. 834. Support gun safety legislation from a public health perspective, including H.R. 8/S. 42, H.R 1186/S. 447, H.R. 1236/S. 506, H.R. 2708/S. 1462. Support a moratorium on the Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation (MFAR), emergency public health funding, Medicaid federal medical assistance percentage increase, and funding for public hospitals in coronavirus relief legislation including the Heroes Act (H.R. 6800) and subsequent developing legislation. Support equitable distribution of Provider Relief Fund to public hospital systems.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $40,000
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Issue: Educate Congress and the administration on academic medicines missions, including education, research, patient care, GME, workforce, and physician shortages in rural and urban communities.
Draft Bipartisan Emergency COVID Relief Act of 2020
H.R. 6650, S. 3634, Health Heroes 2020 Act
S. 4055, Strengthening Americas Health Care Readiness Act
Issue: Support increased funding for the National Health Service Corps, and National Disaster Medical Service (NDMS) demonstration pilot.
Issues: Educate Congress and the administration about academic medicines response to the opioid epidemic. Support funding for training on substance use disorders, pain management, and safe prescribing practices. Support suspension of DATA waivers. Support continuation of telehealth flexibilities allowing authorized practitioners to prescribe buprenorphine.
P.L. 116-22, Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019
Issues: Support the Hospital Preparedness Program and the reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act. Support increased funding authorization levels.
Issue: Support high-quality affordable health insurance. Support programs and funds for safety-net providers.
Issue: Support measures to preserve and strengthen the 340B Drug Pricing Program and oppose efforts to reduce the scope of the program, including instituting a moratorium, increasing reporting requirements on covered entities, imposing user fees, changing the program from an up-front discount to a post-sale rebate, and not providing 340B discounts on covered drugs purchased at community pharmacies.
Issue: Oppose efforts to create new requirements for FQHC grantees that participate in the 340B program.
Issue: Oppose efforts to reduce OPPS reimbursements to hospitals for drugs acquired under the 340B program.
Issue: Oppose efforts to allow certain grandfathered health care plans to increase consumer cost sharing without losing their grandfathered status.
Issue: Oppose State relief and empowerment waivers that allow states to offer insurance plans that do not meet the requirements set forth under the Affordable Care Act.
Issue: Oppose efforts to expand the availability of Association Health Plans.
Issue: Oppose efforts to direct HHS to update the Medicare.gov Hospital Compare website.
Issue: Support increased interoperability and exchange of electronic health information and delayed enforcement of information blocking rule until comprehensive guidance is issued.
Issue: Oppose efforts to finalize two new mandatory alternative payment models, the Radiation Oncology Model and the End-stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Model
Issue: Oppose burdensome regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests
S. 1895, Lower Health Care Costs Act
H.R. 3630, No Surprises Act
S. 1531, Stopping The Outrageous Practice of Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2019
H.R. 3502, Protecting People From Surprise Medical Bills Act
Issues: Educate Congress on surprise medical bills and price transparency or disclosure. Support general principles for surprise medical bills draft legislation. Oppose statutory benchmark rate setting. Oppose Senate hospital/insurer contracting provisions and onerous reporting burden.
S. 1895, Lower Health Care Costs Act, Title IV
Issue: Prescription drug pricing, public health, maternal mortality, and health information technology.
Issue: Oppose restrictions on diversity training for federal grantees and employees.
Issue: Development of Enhanced Primary Care Pilot Act proposal
Issue: Educate Congress about medical education on nutrition, consent, implicit bias, and maternal health.
H.R. 6637, Health Equity and Accountability Act
Issue: Support programs to improve health equity and address social determinants of health.
Issue: Support initiatives of hospitals to promote affordable housing in local communities and eliminate other social determinants of health to improve health equity.
P.L. 116-260, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
H.R. 4004, S. 2986 Social Determinants Accelerator Act of 2019
Issue: Support grants to address social determinants of health
Issue: Support congressional investment in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) models to reduce maternal mortality and improve maternal health.
H.R. 4995 Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act of 2020
H.R. 4996 Helping MOMS Act of 2020
Issue: Support maternal health initiatives to expand coverage for postpartum women and expand demonstration project grants.
S. 3750/H.R. 6837, Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment Improvement Act of 2020
Issue: Support improvements to the Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment Programs.
Draft, firearm safety legislation
Issue: Support universal background checks, violence prevention programs, extreme risks protection orders, child access safety laws, and reinstating assault weapons ban.
H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
Issue: Support universal background checks
Issue: Support aligning 42 CFR Part 2 regulations with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for the purposes of treatment, payment, and healthcare operations.
S. 4349/H.R. 8094, Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act
Issue: Support grants directed at improving physician burnout and well-being.
P.L. 116-260, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
P.L. 116-123, Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2020
P.L. 116-127, Families First Coronavirus Response Act
P.L. 116-136, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Act H.R.6379, Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act
H.R. 6800, the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act
Draft Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools (HEALS) Act
S. 178 with Amendment No. 2652 HEALS Act
S. 4322, Safely Back to School and Back to Work Act
S. 178, Delivering Immediate Relief to Americas Families, Schools and Small Businesses Act
H.R. 8406, The Heroes Act
Draft Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020
Draft Bipartisan State and Local Support and Small Business Protection Act of 2020
Issues: Support emergency supplemental funding and policies for federal agencies to support coronavirus preparedness, response, relief, vaccine development and distribution, and testing and contact tracing. Ensure access to research samples. Support funding for and provide recommendations for disbursement of provider relief fund. Support revised Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement policies and increased provider flexibility. Support improvements to the Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment Programs. Support inclusion of Medicare-supported graduate medical education positions. Support fixes to Medicare GME Rural Training Track programs. Support Medicare GME per resident amount and cap-setting technical corrections and administrative relief. Support an increase in the Federal Medicaid Assistance Program. Support for current telehealth waivers to be made permanent. Support for extension of Medicare sequester moratorium. Support changes to CY 2021 Physician Fee Schedule evaluation and management payments. Provide recommendations on personal protective equipment, testing, social distancing, clinical care, and other COVID related preparedness and response efforts of the federal government. Avoid imposing standards that would encourage depletion of scarce PPE and other resources. Support enhanced national COVID-19 data collection to better address health disparities. Support public health infrastructure. See other additions under BUD.
Issue: Support extension of public health emergency declaration.
Issue: Provide feedback on COVID-19 and pandemic response centers of excellence legislation.
Issue: Support establishment of regional pandemic response centers, stronger linkages between public health and academic medicine, and the role of medical students in administering covid vaccines.
Issue: Urge establishment and implementation of robust national COVID-19 testing strategy and functional and transparent supply chain. Urge CDC to update testing guidelines.
Issue: Describe medical education approach on womens health and support efforts to promote trauma-informed care.
Issue: Support science and data driven approach to HHS and EPA decision making.
Issue: Support CDC mission
S 4248 / HR 7618 COVID-19 Bias and Anti-Racism Training Act
Issue: Support grant for anti-racism training in health professions programs.
H.R. 8017, Mobile Options for Testing In Our Neighborhoods (MOTION) Act
Issue: Support grants for mobile COVID-testing units.
S. 4160, To enable certain hospitals that were participating in or applied for the drug discount program under section 340B of the Public Health Service Act prior to the COVID-19 public health emergency to temporarily maintain eligibility for such program, and for other purposes.
Issue: Support protections for hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program to temporarily allow them to remain eligible for the program.
H.R. 8283 S. 4421, Temporary Reciprocity to Ensure Access to Treatment (TREAT) Act
Issue: Support for a temporary uniform licensing standard for all practitioners in all states throughout a national emergency.
Issue: Support the rescission of the Department of Homeland Securitys Public Charge rule.
Issue: Participate in Resilient American Communities initiative
S. 4740 Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act
Issue: Support investments in core public health infrastructure.
Issue: Rescind the Executive Order on Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service.
Issue: Rescind Executive Orders 13771 and 13777, and support re-implementation of directives under Executive Order 13563, Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review.
Issue: Support establishment of a Presidential Bioethics Commission.
Issue: Support ensuring patients are put first and that conscience protections align with medical professionalism standards.
Issue: Support prompt establishment of the Research Policy Board and implementation of the additional reform efforts required by Section 2034 of the 21st Century Cures Act (P.L. 114-255).
Issue: Support increased interoperability and exchange of electronic health information. Support delay of enforcement beyond April 2021.
Issue: Support identification of specific federal regulations for review for disproportionate administrative impacts.
Issue: Support independence of the US Food and Drug Administration.
Issue: Support FDA rulemaking to harmonize protection of human research subjects.
Issue: Support promotion of data sharing and clinical trials results reporting.
Client expense: $1,035,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Education, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Natl Drug Control Policy (NDCP), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Office of the Vice President of the United States, SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Treasury, Dept of, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Issues relating to universal background checks for the sale of firearms; H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act; H.R. 1112, Background Check Completion Act; S. 42, Background Check Expansion Act; Issues related to research on firearm safety; H.R. 674 and S. 184, Gun Violence Research Prevention Act; Issues related to notifying law enforcement when a prohibited purchaser fails a NICS background check; H.R. 1671 and S. 875, NICS Denial Notification Act; Issues related to federal red flag laws; H.R. 1236 and S. 509, Emergency Risk Protection Order Act; S.7 Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act; H.R. 744, Protecting Communities and Rights Act; Issues related to closing loopholes that permit unmarried individuals convicted of domestic violence to purchase and possess firearms; HR 459, Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act; S. 12, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act; H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act; H.R. 3076, Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act; H.R. 3214 and S. 1179, PLCAA Repeal aka Equal Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act; H.R. 3055, FY2020 Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations; H.R. 2740, FY2020 Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations; H.R. 2500, FY 2020 Defense Authorization Act; S.2584, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020; H.R. 1186, Keep Americans Safe Act; H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate Act; H.R. 4301, School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act; HR 7120, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act; HR 6800, the HEROES Act; issues related to the Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process
Client expense: $330,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Background checks; Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System; Intimate partner violence and domestic violence, as related to firearms; Mental health, as related to firearms; firearm suicide; microstamping; other gun violence prevention measures; extreme risk protection orders; assault weapons; high capacity magazines; HR1297 Law Enforcement Protection Act; HR1236 Extreme Risk Protection Order Act; HR1112 Enhanced Background Checks Act; HR511 Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act; HR569 Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act; HR8 a bill to require a background check for every firearm sale; S120 Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act; HR1186 Keep Americans Safe Act; S42 Background Check Expansion Act; S506 Extreme Risk Protection Order Act; HR1585 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act; Vote 156; Vote 103; Vote 102; Vote 101; Vote 100; Vote99, Vote 98; Vote 97; Vote 96; HR971 Animal Violence Exposes Real Threat of (AVERT) Future Gun Violence Act;S1462 A bill to prevent a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in the commission, from obtaining a firearm; S1395 Age 21 Act; HR2708 Disarm Hate Act; H.R.4568 Responsible Body Armor Possession Act; H.R.4324 Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act of 2019; H.Res.555 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationships between firearm violence, misogyny, and violence against women and reaffirming the importance of preventing individuals with a history of violence against women from accessing a firearm; H.R.4271 Gun Suicide Prevention Act; S 1844 Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act; H.R.3076 Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019; S2843 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019; HR3435 Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act; HR3285 Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act; police violence as it relates to firearms; H.R.7120 - George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Background checks; Improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System; Intimate partner violence and domestic violence, as related to firearms; Mental health, as related to firearms; firearm suicide; impacted communities, as related to firearms; microstamping; other gun violence prevention measures; extreme risk protection order; lethal means safety counseling; assault weapons; high capacity magazines; HR1296 Assault Weapons Ban; HR1297 Law Enforcement Protection Act; HR1236 Extreme Risk Protection Order Act; HR1112 Enhanced Background Checks Act; HR511 Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act; HR569 Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act; HR8 a bill to require a background check for every firearm sale; S120 Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act; HR1186 Keep Americans Safe Act; S42 Background Check Expansion Act; S506 Extreme Risk Protection Order Act; S66 a bill to regulate assault weapons; HR869 Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act; HR1 For the People Act; HR1585 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act; Vote 156; Vote 118; Vote 103; Vote 102; Vote 101; Vote 100; Vote99, Vote 98; Vote 97; Vote 96; HR971 Animal Violence Exposes Real Threat of (AVERT) Future Gun Violence Act; HR435 National Gun Violence Research Act; S1462 A bill to prevent a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in the commission, from obtaining a firearm; S1395 Age 21 Act; S1352/HR2585 Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act; HR51 Washington, D.C. Admission Act; HR2708 Disarm Hate Act; H.R.4568 Responsible Body Armor Possession Act; H.R.4324 Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act of 2019; H.Res.555 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the relationships between firearm violence, misogyny, and violence against women and reaffirming the importance of preventing individuals with a history of violence against women from accessing a firearm; H.R.4271 Gun Suicide Prevention Act; S 1844 Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act; H.R.3076 Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019; S2843 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019; HR3435 Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act; HR3285 Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act; HR 7120 George Floyd Justice in Policing Act;HR 6714 Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes; police violence as it relates to firearms; COVID-19 relief as it relates to firearms; HR 8084 Lethal Means Safety Training Act; S4443 Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Support legislation designed to promote common sense solutions to gun violence including background checks and curbs on assault weapons and high capacity magazines
Oppose legislation to weaken gun safety laws.
Support CDC data collection around gun deaths Support HR8 and S42 Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
Urged Congress to include HR 6851, legislation to require each U.S. Executive Director at an international financial institution to take certain actions in support of the global response to COVID-19
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau of the Census, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Election Assistance Commission (EAC), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Election Commission (FEC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), White House Office
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H.R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
S. 42 - Background Check Expansion Act
Unnumbered bill on extreme risk protection orders
Unnumbered bill on background checks
Client expense: $1,000,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Various issues relating to reporting and transfer requirements for National Instant Criminal History Background Checks (NICS); the interstate transportation of firearms; the National Firearms Act; firearm storage; licensing and registration of firearms; funding and implementation of school security; enhanced criminal penalties for violent crime; studies; and related matters.
H.R. 8, H.R. 175, H.R. 838, H.R. 1324, H.R. 1339, H.R. 1397, H.R. 1671, H.R. 1761, H.R. 1817, H.R. 2319, H.R. 2383, H.R. 2621, H.R. 2837, H.R. 3023, H.R. 3285, H.R. 3450, H.R. 3552, H.R. 3554, H.R. 3569, H.R. 3665, H.R. 3826, H.R. 4062, H.R. 4080, H.R. 4081, H.R. 4082, H.R. 4177, H.R. 4199, H.R. 4207, H.R. 4301, H.R. 4465, H.R. 4490, H.R. 5132, H.R. 5229, H.R. 5836, H.R. 5875, H.R. 5935, H.R. 5949, H.R. 6006, H.R. 8929, S. 42, S. 265, S. 351, S. 875, S. 1519, S. 1547, S. 1788, S. 1844, S. 2272, S. 2376, S. 2449, S. 2530, S. 2554, S. 2779, S. 2843, S. 2920, S. 3139, S. 3254, S. 3299, S. 3348, S. 3815, S. 4068, S. 4271, S 4888
Client expense: $540,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Natl Park Service (NPS), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Forest Service, White House Office
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
Monitor gun safety related issues, as follows:
S.2671, Break the Cycle of Violence Act
H.R.2867, Ethans Law
H.R.8/S.42, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act
H.R.717, Raise the Age Act
H.R. 1236, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act, Gun violence issues
H.R. 2708, Disarm Hate Act, Entirety
H.R. 3539, Behavioral Intervention Guidelines Act, Entirety
H.R. 4301, School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act, Entirety
H.R. 838, Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act, Entirety
H.R.1112, the Enhanced Background Checks Act, Entirety
H.R.1296/S. 66, Assault Weapons Ban Act, Gun Safety related issues
School Safety and gun control related issues and initiatives
Gun Violence Trauma related issues
Assault Weapons related issues and initiatives
Gun sellers deemed as essential during COVID pandemic
Client expense: $370,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), General Services Administration (GSA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE
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Immigration reform; DACA program; H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019.
H.R. 1345, the Restoring the Partnership for County Health Care Costs Act - entire bill
H.R. 1708/S. 774, the Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act,
Violence Against Women Act reauthorization
H.R. 279, the California Clean Coast Act - entire bill
H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act,
H.R. 2199/S. 1111, the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act
H.R. 1943, the Community Health Center and Primary Care Workforce Expansion Act of 2019 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program
H.R. 279, the California Clean Coast Act, to permanently ban future offshore oil and gas leasing in areas of the OCS off the coast of California.
FY 2021 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations bill: CDCs Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Hospital Preparedness funding; CDCs Community Prevention Grants; Community health centers; 340B Drug Discount Program; Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant; Tuberculosis control and prevention; Title X Family planning; Substance abuse block grants; Section 317 immunization programs; Mental health Block grants; Preventative health services block grants; Prevention & Public Health Fund; Ryan White HIV/AIDS programs, including ADAP (Part B); Health care safety net grants; and Community-based health and nutrition services for Older Americans.
FY 2021 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill: The Community Development Block Grant program; The HOME Investment Partnerships Act Program; McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance; Elderly Housing; and Housing for People With AIDS.
FY 2021 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill: Reimbursement for the costs of adjudicating and incarcerating criminal illegal aliens under the SCAAP program; Multi-jurisdictional methamphetamine enforcement efforts; Local law enforcement technology and communications interoperability; DNA Cold Case prosecution and forensic laboratory services; Adult probation, prisoner reentry, and diversion and recidivism prevention activities, including those addressing the mentally ill; Youth delinquency prevention and diversion, and other juvenile justice needs, including anti-gang efforts; Violence against women and human trafficking; Public defender responsibilities; and Crime Victims programs.
Legislation to reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
S.192, the Community and Public Health Programs Extension Act.
Funding to underground transmission lines in fire prone areas.
H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
H.R.674, the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act of 2019
Legislation to make it illegal to buy or possess firearms that fire like military-style assault rifles; ban firearms with detachable high capacity ammunition magazines and a limit on magazine capacity to no more than 10 rounds;
Providing the Center for Disease Control with the necessary funding and political freedom to study gun violence.
Airport Improvement Program/Contract Tower Program
FY 2021 Agriculture Appropriations - Agricultural Pests, APHIS funding
Infrastructure funding
S. 192, the Community and Public Health Programs Extension Act
funding to underground transmission lines in fire prone areas
H.R. 1345, Restoring the Partnership for County Health Care Costs Act
H.R. 1708, the Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act
reauthorization and full funding of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program and other child nutrition programs
H.R. 1943, the Community Health Center and Primary Care Workforce Expansion Act of 2019
S. 1111/H.R. 2199, the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act
S. 1377, the Ensuring Quality Access to Legal Defense (EQUAL Defense) Act of 2019
Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments
H.R. 2470, the Clean Water Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Act
H.R. 763, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (EICDA)
S. 192, the Community and Public Health Programs Extension Act
H.R. 3043, the Permanently Authorizing PILT Act
S. 774, the Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act
H.R. 1943, the Community Health Center and Primary Care Workforce Expansion Act of 2019
S. 265, the Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act of 2019 (TAPS Act)
H.R. 1236/S. 506, Extreme Risk Protection Order Act
H.R. 3040, the Safe And Friendly for the Environment (SAFE) Streets Act
S. 923, Fighting Homelessness Through Services and Housing Act
Elder Justice Act reauthorization
Older Americans Act Reauthorization
S. 1703 Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act
Gun Control legislation: H.R. 1236, H.R. 3076 and H.R. 1186.
H.R. 4334, the Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020,
Local government stabilization funding/Coronavirus Relief Fund
Community Health Center Funding for pandemic response
Expanded Federal support for local Medicaid programs/Disproportionate Share Hospitals
Legislative moratorium on Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation
County eligibility for paid sick leave and family leave tax credits
Supplemental Funding for Public Health Emergency Preparedness Grants
Emergency supplemental appropriations for coronavirus response.
FEMA Disaster Relief Fund
Hospital and healthcare provider relief for coronavirus response through the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund
Library Stabilization Act
H.R. 6800 HEROES Act - local government pandemic relief
HEALS Act - local government pandemic relief
H.R. 133, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act
H.R. 4447, the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act
H.R. 7947, the Supporting Foster Youth & Families through the Pandemic Act
S. 4182 the Emergency Support for Nursing Homes and Elder Justice Reform Act of 2020
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $50,000
Government targets: Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), SENATE
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Americas Conservation Enhancement Act (S.3051);
Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (S.66 / H.R.1296);
Background Check Completion Act of 2020 (S.4068);
Background Check Expansion Act (S.42);
Bipartisan Background Checks Act (H.R.8);
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Guidance on Third Party Processor E-forms;
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Guidance on Objective Factors for Classifying Weapons with Stabilizing Braces;
Bureau of Land Management Policy on Recreational Shooting on Public Lands;
Chronic Wasting Disease (S.689, H.R.1550, S.613, H.R. 1919, S.382, H.R.837);
Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act (H.R.2634);
Commercial Export of Suppressors / USML to CCL Transition;
Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act (S.69 / H.R.38);
COVID-19 Emergency Relief (FBI & ATF Funding / Limited Liability Protection);
Department of Veterans Affairs Transmission of Certain PII to the DOJ for use by NICS;
Disarm Hate Act (H.R.2708);
Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer Firearm Transfers Act of 2019 (H.R.3404);
End the Normalized Delay of Suppressors Act of 2020 (H.R.6126);
Enhanced Background Checks Act (H.R.1112);
Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act (S.1779 / H.R.3214);
Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act (S.1788, H.R.2179);
Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act (H.R.2443);
Firearm Safety Act of 2019 (H.R.1115);
Firearm Safety and Education / Responsible Ownership of Firearms Act of 2020 (H.R.8631);
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 (H.R.3055 / Amendment No. 133);
Freedom Financing Act (S.821 / H.R.2079) / FDIC Act (S.3298) / Banking Discrimination / Operation Choke Point;
FY21 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations;
FY21 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations;
Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act (H.R.5917);
Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020 (S.3254 / H.R.5717);
Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act (H.R.5132);
Hearing Protection Act (S.817/H.R.155);
High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act (H.R.3606);
Home Defense and Competitive Shooting Act of 2019 (H.R.5289);
Increasing Access and Multiple Use Act of 2020 (H.R.5705);
John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (S.47);
Keep Americans Safe Act (S.447 / H.R.1186);
Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act of 2019 (S.1795 / H.R.3234);
Lawful Interstate Transportation of Firearms Act (S.3139 / H.R.5935);
Local Public Health And Safety Protection Act (H.R.3435);
MICRO Act (H.R.719);
Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act of 2019 (H.R.4324);
National Defense Authorization Act (H.R.2500 / Red Flag Laws / Export Control Reform / Availability of Records for NICS);
National Suicide Hotline Designation Act (S.2661 / H.R.4194);
Nomination of Aurelia Skipwith (Director of the USWFS);
Nomination of David Bernhardt (Secretary of the Interior);
Nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett (SCOTUS);
Nomination of Katharine MacGregor (Deputy Secretary of the Interior);
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Proposed Rule on Fair Access to Bank Services, Capital, and Credit [Docket ID OCC-2020-0042];
Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act (S.3493);
Raise the Age Act (H.R.717);
Recovering America's Wildlife Act of 2019 (H.R.3742);
Reviving the Economy Sustainably Towards a Recovery in 2020 (RESTART) Act (S.3814) / Expand PPP eligibility to 501(C)(6) trade associations;
Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2019 (H.R.686);
Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act (S.3983) / Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Liability Reform;
SAFER Voter Act (H.R.5716);
SECURE Firearm Storage Act (S.320 / H.R.939);
SOAR Act (S.1665);
Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act (S.94 / H.R.1222);
Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act (S.3299);
Trafficking Reduction And Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act (H.R.4255);
Treasury, Small Business Administration, Federal Reserve Clarification on Eligibility of PPP funding, Main Street Loans / Banking Discrimination;
Untraceable Firearms Act of 2020 (S.3743);
Wild Game Donation Act of 2019 (H.R.2291).
Client expense: $1,190,000 · Firm income: Not reported
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Bipartisan Background Check Acts of 2019 (H.R. 8, S. 42) - Supported universal background checks for all firearm purchases.
Supported funding in Appropriations legislation for gun research.
Client expense: $196,341 · Firm income: Not reported
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), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of the Vice President of the United States, President of the U.S., SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury, Dept of
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H.R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
S. 42 - Background Check Expansion Act
Unnumbered bill on extreme risk protection orders
Unnumbered bill on background checks
Client expense: $1,000,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
H.Res.1147 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of taking a feminist approach to all aspects of foreign policy, including foreign assistance and humanitarian response, trade, diplomacy, defense, immigration, funding, and accountability mechanisms
Chamber: House
EARN IT Act (S. 3398)
Chamber: Senate
House Amdt.561 to H.R.2500
Chamber: House
The BURMA Act (H.R.3190
Chamber: House
The Burma Political Prisoners Act (H.R.2327)
Chamber: House
The Hong Kong Protect Act (H.R. 4270)
Chamber: House
Uyghur Human Rights Act (S. 178
Chamber: Senate
Senate J.Res.36/37/38
Chamber: Senate
The NO BAN Act (H. R. 2214/ S. 1123
Chambers: House and Senate
Break the Cycle of Violence Act (H.R. 4836, S. 2671
Chambers: House and Senate
(H.R. 6453) Directs the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes.
Chamber: House
Appropriations advocacy on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies FY21 bills; specifically advocacy to include gun violence prevention and intervention funds in this funding cycle.
Chambers: House and Senate
Refugee Protection Act of 2019 (S.2936
Chamber: Senate
S.2565 - A bill to establish a Global Climate Change Resilience Strategy, to authorize the admission of climate-displaced persons.
Chamber: Senate
The Guaranteed Refugee Admission Ceiling Enhancement Act/GRACE Act (H.R. 2146/S.1088
Chambers: Senate and House
The Secure and Protect Act of 2019 (S. 1494
Chamber: Senate
The Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 (H.R. 549)
Chamber: House
Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act (HR 2415/ S. 1243)
Chambers: House and Senate
Keep Americans Safe Act (H.R. 1186)
Chamber: House
the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019 (H. R. 1236)
Chamber: House
the Disarm Hate Act 2019 (HR. 2708)
Chamber: House
Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H. R. 8)
Chamber: House
Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 1112
Chamber: House
the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (H. R.1296)
Chamber: House
Afghan WIN Act (H.R. 4097)
Chamber: House
the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2020 (H.R.2500) amendment calls Congress to strengthen, clarify, and supplement transparency and oversight requirements related to U.S. lethal strikes and resulting civilian casualties.
Chamber: House
The (H.R. 4359) Police Exercising Absolute Care With Everyone Act of 2019,
Chamber: House
The Safe From the Start Act (H.R. 4092, S. 4003)
Chamber: House and Senate
Savanna's Act (S. 227, H.R. 2733) directs the Justice Department to develop protocols to address missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).
Chamber: House
Womens Global Development and Prosperity Act (bill not yet introduced).
Chamber: House and Senate
The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020
Chamber: House and Senate
Client expense: $21,600 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Natl Security Council (NSC), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS)
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Charitable Choice Issues
Ensuring Fair Access to Disaster Relief for LGBTQ Families
Executive Nominations
Judicial Nominations
Supreme Court Nomination
LGBTQ Non-Discrimination Protections
LGBTQ Data Collection in Census
Religious Liberty Issues, including License to Discriminate EO
Sexual Harassment and Violence
Voting Rights
Workplace Protections for Federal Contractors
DC Statehood
Implementation of Bostock ruling
Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping EO
21st Century President Act (H.R. 677)
A resolution recognizing June 2019 as "LGBTQ Pride Month". (S.Res. 198)
Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, and for other purposes (H.R. 6)
Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act (H.R. 94)
BE HEARD in the Workplace Act (H.R. 2148; S. 1082)
Bipartisan Background Checks Act (H.R. 8; S. 42)
Committing to elevate the voices, leadership, and needs of communities that face systemic barriers in the effort to end sexual violence and support all survivors...etc. (H.Res. 514; S.Res. 281)
Customer Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 2687)
Disability Integration Act (H.R. 555; S. 117)
District of Columbia Non-Discrimination Home Rule Act (H.R. 1408)
Do No Harm Act (H.R. 1450; S. 593)
Elder Pride Act (H.R. 2312; S. 1225)
Eliminating the HHS Discrimination Division Act (H.R. 5626)
EMPOWER Act (H.R. 1521; S. 575)
End Racial and Religious Profiling Act Enhanced Background Checks Act (H.R. 1112)
Equality Act (H.R. 5; S. 788)
Expressing support for the designation of June 26 as "LGBTQ Equality Day". (H.Res 465)
Inclusive Aging Act (H.R. 2312; S. 1159)
Ruthie and Connie LGBT Elder Americans Act (H.R. 1777)
LGBTQ Data Inclusion Act (H.R. 3509; S. 1980)
LGBTQ Essential Data Act (H.R. 3280)
Original LGBTQ Pride Month Resolution (H.Res. 464)
Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. (H.Res. 469; S.Res. 270)
SAFE SEX Workers Study Act (H.R. 5448; S. 3165)
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (H.R. 1585)
Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4; S. 561)
Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51)
Screening with Dignity Act of 2020 (H.R. 7430)
Don't Block LGBTQ Act of 2020 (H.R. 7432)
Encouraging the celebration of the month of June as LGBTQ Pride Month. (H.Res. 1014)
A resolution recognizing June 2020 as "LGBTQ Pride Month" (S.Res. 627)
Anthony Gonzales Equality for Survivors (AGES) Act (H.R. 7209)
Equitable Data Collection and Disclosure on COVID-19 Act (S. 3850)
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Billie Jean King, in recognition of her contribution to the Nation and her courageous and groundbreaking leadership advancing equal rights for women and the LGBTQ community in athletics, education, and our society. (H.R. 6944)
Client expense: $160,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Administration on Aging, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Natl AIDS Policy, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office on Violence Against Women, SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
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The Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148, P.L. 111-152): Expanding coverage and improving Medicare benefits; Providing needed protections to guard against insurance practices that unfairly limit, deny or rescind coverage based on health status; public and private health insurers should encourage preventive health care by providing full coverage, with no cost-sharing, for preventive services recommended by an expert advisory group, such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; Ensuring access to primary care physicians; and beginning to bend the cost curve; Prohibiting insurers from excluding or charging excessive rates to children based on pre-existing conditions, which later will be expanded to all persons; Covering young adults on their parents' plans; Eliminating lifetime and annual limits on health insurance coverage; Requiring that health insurers spend more on patient care and less on administration; support enactment of S. 248, the Empowering States to Innovate Act, which amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to: (1) allow states to apply for waivers of certain health insurance coverage requirements in such Act (including requirements for the establishment of qualified health plans and health insurance exchanges) for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014 (currently, January 1, 2017), and (2) require the waiver application process to begin not later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act; Phasing out the Medicare Part D doughnut hole; Eliminating patient cost-sharing for preventive services offered by Medicare or private insurers; Increasing Medicare and Medicaid payments to primary care physicians; Supporting the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to help physicians and patients make care decisions based on the best available evidence; Supporting the Center on Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to fund pilots of delivery models to improve outcomes and reduce costs, including patient-centered medical homes; Advocated against a December 2018 ruling by a federal judge in Texas that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional.
Access to Primary Care in the Context of Comprehensive Healthcare Reform Legislation (H.R. 3962/H.R. 3590/H.R. 4872): Provide sliding scale subsidies based on income to buy coverage from qualified plans; Qualified plans should: provide evidence-based benefits, including preventive services; and be prohibited from excluding persons with pre-existing conditions, charging them more, cherry-picking enrollees, or cancelling or failing to renew coverage; Expand Medicaid to cover all persons below the Federal Poverty Level and ensure fair payments to participating physicians; As coverage becomes affordable, all persons should participate and coverage should be guaranteed; Responsibility for financing should be shared by individuals, employers and government.
Medicare payment models that re-align incentives to support effective, efficient, patient-centered, coordinated care. Priority should be given to models designed to support the value of services provided by primary care physicians as well as to models that would create incentives, across physician specialties and sites of services, to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of care provided. Policy criteria for selecting the most promising models for pilot testing should be developed, in consultation with outside experts; The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), which has shown great promise in meeting the policy objectives suggested above, should be among the models selected for broader testing on a national pilot basis; the use of the medical home model for treatment or services under private health plans, the requirement of health plans to provide incentives to promote and report on medical home services provided, the establishment of community health teams and a primary care extension program to educate and support primary care practices in the delivery of medical home services, and the establishment of a demonstration project to educate physicians and other clinicians in training in the competencies required to deliver care consistent with the medical home care model.
Medicare Payments to Physicians: Urged that Congress provide incentives to physicians who transform their practices into Advanced Alternative Payment Models and continue to provide stability for physicians in the MIPS program. Specifically, Congress should extend the five percent Qualified Alternative Payment Model participant bonus beyond the 2022 performance year, replace the zero percent baseline payment updates under Medicare with positive updates. Urged congressional committees with jurisdiction over Medicare to exercise their oversight authority and urge CMS to expedite approval of more Advanced APMS, particularly those that work for small and specialty practices and to simplify the scoring structure and reporting requirements under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in order to fulfill Congress intent of a more streamlined program that reduces burdens on physicians; Supported S.2648, the Rural ACO Improvement Act, amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the benchmarking process for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) to ensure that all ACOs have an equal opportunity to share in savings regardless of their geographic location; Provided recommendations to CMS on the Merit-based Incentive Payment System Value Pathway (MVP), which aims to reduce reporting burden and complexity within MIPS while improving the accuracy and effectiveness of performance measurement. The College noted specifically that a robust, multi-year transition period will be critical to the success of the MVP, that it does not support making the MVP mandatory, that CMS should continue to support numerous reporting mechanisms, including qualified registries and clinical data registries, which have been instrumental in developing specialty-specific performance measures, among other things. Urged support for H.R. 8505, a bill to provide for a one-year waiver of budget neutrality adjustments under the Medicare physician fee schedule; Urged that any legislation to hold some Medicare physician payment codes harmless from budget neutrality do so for just one year and to allow evaluation and management increases, along with GPC1X codes to go into effect.
Administrative Tasks on Physicians and Patients: Congress should accelerate its efforts to reduce administrative burdens on clinicians and patients, including: streamlining the prior authorization process, better integrating clinical data into clinicians electronic health records (EHRs), and working with CMS in their effort to overhaul clinical documentation guidelines; Urged Congress to cosponsor and pass the Safe Step Act (H.R. 2279), to require health insurers to provide an exceptions process for any medication step therapy protocol based on clinical decision-making, medical necessity, and other patient needs.
Prescription Drug Costs: The College advocated for greater transparency in drug pricing, the elimination of anti-competitive industry practices that create barriers to generics coming to market, the importance of accounting for value in payment and coverage for prescriptions, and providing authority to the federal government to negotiate drug discounts under the Medicare Part D program. Specifically, the College urged Congress to pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2019 (H.R. 275/S. 62), which allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate covered Part D drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries, and the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act of 2019, (H.R. 965/S. 340), which would improve patient access to alternative low-cost prescription drugs and biological products by preventing prescription drug manufacturers from misusing the FDAs Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) process to make it difficult for competing generics to be brought to the market. Also urged that Congress pass the Reforming Evergreening and Manipulation that Extends Drug Years, REMEDY Act (S. 1209), to aid in the approval of more generic drug applications by the FDA and therefore improve patient access to those medications. Also urged that Congress pass the Prescription Drug STAR Act (H.R. 2113), and the Fair Accountability and Innovative Research (FAIR) Drug Pricing Act (H.R. 2296/S. 1391), to promote greater drug pricing transparency; Expressed appreciation to the House speaker for introduction of H.R. 3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, noting encouragement for its provisions to empower the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices and to cap out-of-pocket costs for seniors enrolled in the Medicare Part D program. Commented to the FDA on its prescription drug reimportation proposed rule noting that while the College is generally supportive of drug importation as laid out in the proposed rule as a means to control the cost of prescription drugs, the FDA must guarantee that the design and implementation of the rule includes numerous measures and safeguards to ensure patient safety. By limiting the origin of imported drugs to Canadian-certified and FDA-approved and registered drugs and entities, the College believes the proposed rule meets the required U.S. standards to assure high-quality drugs and patient safety. Any final drug importation system must also be one that is a closed system and has a tightly controlled and documented supply chain to assure authenticity and avoid degradation of the drug.
Workforce, Medical and Health Services Research, Public Health Initiatives: Congress should ensure funding in FY 2021 for federal programs/initiatives designed to support primary care including Title VII Health Professions grants and the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). Equally important is the need to fund essential health services and medical research by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and public health programs supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Firearms-Related Injury and Death: The College advocated for lawmakers to pass measures to strengthen the criminal background check system, ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, prevent the unlawful transfer of firearms to those who cannot legally purchase them, and remove restrictions on, and provide dedicated funding for, research by federal agencies on prevention of firearms-related injuries and death. Specifically, the College urged passage of the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 8), which would strengthen the accuracy and reporting of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) as well as expand Brady background checks to cover all firearm sales, including unlicensed firearms sellers currently not required to use background checks, and the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act (H.R. 674/S. 184), which would authorize funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study firearms safety and gun violence prevention. Also urged Congress to pass the Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act of 2019 (H.R. 1585), to provide protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by those deemed a threat to them. Also urged Congress to pass the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (S. 66/H.R. 1296), to ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines.
Immigration: The College advocated against family separation at the U.S. border. Specifically, the College urged support for H.R. 541 - the Keep Families Together Act, which would help ensure that children are not separated from their parents when families unlawfully cross over the border into the United States and would ensure that the Department of Homeland Security would not be able to implement the zero tolerance policy that separated families at the border last summer; urged congressional oversight of family separation policies. Also urged that Congress pass H.R. 6, the Dream and Promise Act of 2019, which would provide a pathway to U.S. citizenship for undocumented children who came to the United States due to the action of their parents, also known as Dreamers. Expressed concern to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with the recent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) policy change to no longer accept or adjudicate non-military deferred action requests including those for individuals with serious medical conditions; Urged USCIS to reverse this decision immediately and resume consideration of deferred action requests for medical reasons; Opposed the proposed rule, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media. This rule would change the process to extend the period of authorized stay in the United States for certain categories of nonimmigrants by eliminating the long-standing "duration of status and replacing it with a specific end date. The College urged the Department of Homeland Security to exclude physicians in the Department of States (DOS) Exchange Visitor Program in J-1 visa status from this rule change because it will otherwise disrupt the training of thousands of physicians - physicians who already have been thoroughly vetted, already are serving on our nations health care teams, and already are carefully monitored during their time in the U.S.
Graduate Medical Education: Urged that Congress support medical education training and debt relief for primary care physicians and other specialties facing shortages by passing the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (S. 348, H.R. 1763), to lift the GME caps as needed to permit training an adequate number of primary care physicians, including internal medicine specialists, and physicians in other specialties facing shortages; passing the Resident Education Deferred Interest Act (H.R. 1554), to save physicians in residency programs thousands of dollars in interest on their loans and help incentivize the opening of practices in underserved areas; pass legislation to combine DGME and IME into a single, more functional payment program, and broaden the GME financing structure to include all payers; support funding for GME/IME and programs within the Veterans Health Administration that provide graduate medical education to ensure that physicians are adequately trained with the skills needed to treat an aging population. Urged Congress to pass the Opioid Workforce Act of 2019 (H.R. 3414), which would provide Medicare support for an additional 1,000 graduate medical education (GME) positions over five years in hospitals that have, or are in the process of establishing, accredited residency programs in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, or pain medicine. Urged Congress to pass S. 1203 and H.R. 2441, the What You Can Do For Your Country Act, which would improve and reform the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.
Vaccines: Urged Congress to pass the Vaccines Act (HR 2862), which would provide federal funding for vaccine hesitancy surveillance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and outline a national public messaging campaign informed by this research to help improve vaccination rates; Supported H.R. 592, recognizing the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox and the importance of vaccination in the United States and worldwide; Urged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reconsider its decision to not vaccinate families in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) against influenza (flu). Urged Congress to support payments for vaccines, as finalized by CMS, and set for implementation on Jan. 1, 2021.
Surprise Medical Billing: Urged Congress to pass legislation that would protect patients from surprise out-of-network medical bills in both emergency and non-emergency settings that includes the following principles: hold patients harmless from surprise medical bills for out-of-network services, address narrow insurance networks, abandon efforts to establish an in-network median rate for services in these settings and instead opt for an independent dispute resolution process to determine payment.
Appropriations: Urged Congress to fund Title VII, Section 747, Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE) at $71 million for fiscal year 2021; Fund the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) at $460 million for fiscal year 2021; Fund the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) at $830 million for fiscal year 2021; Fund the Title X Family Planning Program at $400 million for fiscal year 2021 and include language to remove barriers to care that interfere with the patient-physician relationship; Fund Research on Prevention of Firearms-related Injuries and Deaths at $50 million for Fiscal Year 2021; Fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at $44.7 billion for fiscal year 2021; Fund the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at $8.3 billion for fiscal year 2021; Urged the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to support provisions in any final FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act to prevent cuts to the Military Health Service and the military medical workforce without requiring appropriate congressional oversight and review.
Physician Fee Schedule: Commented to CMS and to Congress to fully implement payment increases for all evaluation and management codes, as finalized by CMS, and as scheduled for implementation on Jan. 1, 2021. Reduce the documentation burden for E/M services by allowing choice of medical decision making or time, and work to develop additional clarity and guidance on acceptable documentation to operationalize these important proposals; examination room desktop computers should be counted as a direct medical equipment cost; care management should be promoted by increasing the values of services like Transitional Care Management (TCM) and Chronic Care Management and implementing Principle Care Management (PCM) codes; require additional survey and review for any requests to increase non-outpatient E/M or other services; work with the physician community prior to finalizing any policy affecting eligibility to participate in the Medicare program; Urged congressional committees of jurisdiction to support: Higher physician work relative value units (RVUs) for new and established office visit codes, leading to increased payments for them, Reduced documentation requirements for office visit codes, which enables physicians to select and document for each visit based on medical decision-making or total time, Expanded and improved payment for care management services. Urged Congress to support waiving budget neutrality, applicable to the calendar year 2021 physician fee schedule.
COVID-19: Urged congressional appropriators to provide the highest possible funding level for research, prevention, control, and treatment of illnesses associated with the virus that is commensurate with the public health emergency that the virus represents. Urged the administration to explore regulatory and other actions that would make COVID-19 testing free-of-charge to patients covered by both public and private insurance plans, including ACA-compliant plans offered through the insurance exchanges, and to waive co-pays and deductibles for patients seeing physicians for symptoms that may be indicative of COVID-19 or who are hospitalized for treatment. Urged CMS to utilize a national disaster recovery program that would pay doctors 110% of Medicare rates for caring for uninsured patients who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. Expressed support to Congress and the administration for the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, H.R. 6201, and other stimulus reforms related to COVID-19 including: Emergency paid leave benefits, paid sick days for public health emergencies, coverage of testing for COVID-19, waiving of cost sharing under Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and CHIP, increasing the federal FMAP under Medicaid, providing reimbursement for CPT codes 99441 - 99443, which are telephone evaluation and management services, expediting entrance of international medical graduates who are citizens of other nations (non-US IMGs) into the country and ensuring that lawfully present non-U.S. IMGs are not negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, funding for physician practices under the Public Health and Social Service Emergency Fund (PHSSEF), providing tax relief, grants, and loans to small and medium size practices impacted by COVID-19, increasing funding for personal protective equipment (PPE), ensuring Medicaid pay parity with Medicare for primary care services; Urged HHS and Congress to make a targeted allocation out of the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) to support primary care physicians and their practices, sufficient to keep their doors open, by offsetting lost revenue from the COVID-19 pandemic, similar to the targeted allocation for rural hospitals; Urged support for the Student Loan Forgiveness for Frontline Health Workers Act, H.R. 6720, introduced May 5, 2020 by Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) which would eliminate graduate school debt for healthcare workers, including physicians and medical students, who are providing direct patient care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; Urged support for H.R. 7059, the Coronavirus Provider Protection Act, which extend liability protections to those who provide care in good faith during the COVID-19 public health emergency (plus a reasonable time, such as 60 days, after the emergency declaration ends), and not in situations of gross negligence or willful misconduct. The College also urged that pay parity between telephone claims and in-person visits and between all telehealth and in-person visits be maintained after the PHE is lifted. This extension-either continued by CMS or mandated by Congress-should last at least through the end of 2021, or until such a time when effective vaccines and treatments are widely available, with an option to extend it even further, or consider making permanent, based on the experience and learnings of patients and physicians who are utilizing these visits. Urged Congress to support a targeted allocation from the Provider Relief Fund specifically for primary care services.
Priorities for New Administration: Urged the incoming Biden Administration to identify and appoint physicians to health care leadership positions within your Administration. Implement approval, distribution, and funding of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine based on recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Provide support to physicians and other frontline health care workers, including ensuring access and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) to health care workers. Fund COVID-19 testing and contact tracing efforts. Reverse regulations that allow the sale of extended short-term, limited duration plans, association health plans. Take action to defend the Affordable Care Act from any litigation, including California v. Texas, that would undermine coverage and patient protections. Expand premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions. Establish a federal public option to inject competition into the health insurance marketplace. Expand Medicaid eligibility and oppose expansion waivers that limit benefits and apply high cost sharing. Permanently increase payment for Medicaid primary care services to the level of Medicare. Restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, consistent with a recent ruling from a federal judge, and identify executive actions that can be taken to ensure that it is not vulnerable to being eliminated in the future. Pursue executive actions to preserve the principles of patient autonomy regarding reproductive decision-making rights. Reverse the Title X gag rule and restore funding to family planning clinics. Establish universal access to at least six weeks of paid family and medical leave that is flexible to accommodate care for a diverse array of family structures, including updating the Family Medical and Leave Act to include grandparents or in-laws. Re-introduce and pass the George Floyd Act and other legislation focused on eliminating racism and police violence. Rejoin the Paris Agreement.
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The Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148, P.L. 111-152): Expanding coverage and improving Medicare benefits; Providing needed protections to guard against insurance practices that unfairly limit, deny or rescind coverage based on health status; public and private health insurers should encourage preventive health care by providing full coverage, with no cost-sharing, for preventive services recommended by an expert advisory group, such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; Ensuring access to primary care physicians; and beginning to bend the cost curve; Prohibiting insurers from excluding or charging excessive rates to children based on pre-existing conditions, which later will be expanded to all persons; Covering young adults on their parents' plans; Eliminating lifetime and annual limits on health insurance coverage; Requiring that health insurers spend more on patient care and less on administration; support enactment of S. 248, the Empowering States to Innovate Act, which amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to: (1) allow states to apply for waivers of certain health insurance coverage requirements in such Act (including requirements for the establishment of qualified health plans and health insurance exchanges) for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014 (currently, January 1, 2017), and (2) require the waiver application process to begin not later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act; Phasing out the Medicare Part D doughnut hole; Eliminating patient cost-sharing for preventive services offered by Medicare or private insurers; Increasing Medicare and Medicaid payments to primary care physicians; Supporting the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to help physicians and patients make care decisions based on the best available evidence; Supporting the Center on Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to fund pilots of delivery models to improve outcomes and reduce costs, including patient-centered medical homes; Advocated against a December 2018 ruling by a federal judge in Texas that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional.
Access to Primary Care in the Context of Comprehensive Healthcare Reform Legislation (H.R. 3962/H.R. 3590/H.R. 4872): Provide sliding scale subsidies based on income to buy coverage from qualified plans; Qualified plans should: provide evidence-based benefits, including preventive services; and be prohibited from excluding persons with pre-existing conditions, charging them more, cherry-picking enrollees, or cancelling or failing to renew coverage; Expand Medicaid to cover all persons below the Federal Poverty Level and ensure fair payments to participating physicians; As coverage becomes affordable, all persons should participate and coverage should be guaranteed; Responsibility for financing should be shared by individuals, employers and government.
Medicare payment models that re-align incentives to support effective, efficient, patient-centered, coordinated care. Priority should be given to models designed to support the value of services provided by primary care physicians as well as to models that would create incentives, across physician specialties and sites of services, to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of care provided. Policy criteria for selecting the most promising models for pilot testing should be developed, in consultation with outside experts; The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), which has shown great promise in meeting the policy objectives suggested above, should be among the models selected for broader testing on a national pilot basis; the use of the medical home model for treatment or services under private health plans, the requirement of health plans to provide incentives to promote and report on medical home services provided, the establishment of community health teams and a primary care extension program to educate and support primary care practices in the delivery of medical home services, and the establishment of a demonstration project to educate physicians and other clinicians in training in the competencies required to deliver care consistent with the medical home care model.
Medicare Payments to Physicians: Urged that Congress provide incentives to physicians who transform their practices into Advanced Alternative Payment Models and continue to provide stability for physicians in the MIPS program. Specifically, Congress should extend the five percent Qualified Alternative Payment Model participant bonus beyond the 2022 performance year, replace the zero percent baseline payment updates under Medicare with positive updates. Urged congressional committees with jurisdiction over Medicare to exercise their oversight authority and urge CMS to expedite approval of more Advanced APMS, particularly those that work for small and specialty practices and to simplify the scoring structure and reporting requirements under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in order to fulfill Congress intent of a more streamlined program that reduces burdens on physicians; Supported S.2648, the Rural ACO Improvement Act, amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the benchmarking process for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) to ensure that all ACOs have an equal opportunity to share in savings regardless of their geographic location; Provided recommendations to CMS on the Merit-based Incentive Payment System Value Pathway (MVP), which aims to reduce reporting burden and complexity within MIPS while improving the accuracy and effectiveness of performance measurement. The College noted specifically that a robust, multi-year transition period will be critical to the success of the MVP, that it does not support making the MVP mandatory, that CMS should continue to support numerous reporting mechanisms, including qualified registries and clinical data registries, which have been instrumental in developing specialty-specific performance measures, among other things. Urged support for H.R. 8505, a bill to provide for a one-year waiver of budget neutrality adjustments under the Medicare physician fee schedule; Urged that any legislation to hold some Medicare physician payment codes harmless from budget neutrality do so for just one year and to allow evaluation and management increases, along with GPC1X codes to go into effect.
Administrative Tasks on Physicians and Patients: Congress should accelerate its efforts to reduce administrative burdens on clinicians and patients, including: streamlining the prior authorization process, better integrating clinical data into clinicians electronic health records (EHRs), and working with CMS in their effort to overhaul clinical documentation guidelines; Urged Congress to cosponsor and pass the Safe Step Act (H.R. 2279), to require health insurers to provide an exceptions process for any medication step therapy protocol based on clinical decision-making, medical necessity, and other patient needs.
Prescription Drug Costs: The College advocated for greater transparency in drug pricing, the elimination of anti-competitive industry practices that create barriers to generics coming to market, the importance of accounting for value in payment and coverage for prescriptions, and providing authority to the federal government to negotiate drug discounts under the Medicare Part D program. Specifically, the College urged Congress to pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2019 (H.R. 275/S. 62), which allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate covered Part D drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries, and the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act of 2019, (H.R. 965/S. 340), which would improve patient access to alternative low-cost prescription drugs and biological products by preventing prescription drug manufacturers from misusing the FDAs Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) process to make it difficult for competing generics to be brought to the market. Also urged that Congress pass the Reforming Evergreening and Manipulation that Extends Drug Years, REMEDY Act (S. 1209), to aid in the approval of more generic drug applications by the FDA and therefore improve patient access to those medications. Also urged that Congress pass the Prescription Drug STAR Act (H.R. 2113), and the Fair Accountability and Innovative Research (FAIR) Drug Pricing Act (H.R. 2296/S. 1391), to promote greater drug pricing transparency; Expressed appreciation to the House speaker for introduction of H.R. 3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, noting encouragement for its provisions to empower the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices and to cap out-of-pocket costs for seniors enrolled in the Medicare Part D program. Commented to the FDA on its prescription drug reimportation proposed rule noting that while the College is generally supportive of drug importation as laid out in the proposed rule as a means to control the cost of prescription drugs, the FDA must guarantee that the design and implementation of the rule includes numerous measures and safeguards to ensure patient safety. By limiting the origin of imported drugs to Canadian-certified and FDA-approved and registered drugs and entities, the College believes the proposed rule meets the required U.S. standards to assure high-quality drugs and patient safety. Any final drug importation system must also be one that is a closed system and has a tightly controlled and documented supply chain to assure authenticity and avoid degradation of the drug.
Workforce, Medical and Health Services Research, Public Health Initiatives: Congress should ensure funding in FY 2021 for federal programs/initiatives designed to support primary care including Title VII Health Professions grants and the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). Equally important is the need to fund essential health services and medical research by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and public health programs supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Firearms-Related Injury and Death: The College advocated for lawmakers to pass measures to strengthen the criminal background check system, ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, prevent the unlawful transfer of firearms to those who cannot legally purchase them, and remove restrictions on, and provide dedicated funding for, research by federal agencies on prevention of firearms-related injuries and death. Specifically, the College urged passage of the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 8), which would strengthen the accuracy and reporting of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) as well as expand Brady background checks to cover all firearm sales, including unlicensed firearms sellers currently not required to use background checks, and the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act (H.R. 674/S. 184), which would authorize funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study firearms safety and gun violence prevention. Also urged Congress to pass the Violence Against Women (VAWA) Reauthorization Act of 2019 (H.R. 1585), to provide protections for domestic violence victims by restricting access to firearms by those deemed a threat to them. Also urged Congress to pass the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (S. 66/H.R. 1296), to ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines.
Immigration: The College advocated against family separation at the U.S. border. Specifically, the College urged support for H.R. 541 - the Keep Families Together Act, which would help ensure that children are not separated from their parents when families unlawfully cross over the border into the United States and would ensure that the Department of Homeland Security would not be able to implement the zero tolerance policy that separated families at the border last summer; urged congressional oversight of family separation policies. Also urged that Congress pass H.R. 6, the Dream and Promise Act of 2019, which would provide a pathway to U.S. citizenship for undocumented children who came to the United States due to the action of their parents, also known as Dreamers. Expressed concern to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with the recent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) policy change to no longer accept or adjudicate non-military deferred action requests including those for individuals with serious medical conditions; Urged USCIS to reverse this decision immediately and resume consideration of deferred action requests for medical reasons; Opposed the proposed rule, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media. This rule would change the process to extend the period of authorized stay in the United States for certain categories of nonimmigrants by eliminating the long-standing "duration of status and replacing it with a specific end date. The College urged the Department of Homeland Security to exclude physicians in the Department of States (DOS) Exchange Visitor Program in J-1 visa status from this rule change because it will otherwise disrupt the training of thousands of physicians - physicians who already have been thoroughly vetted, already are serving on our nations health care teams, and already are carefully monitored during their time in the U.S.
Graduate Medical Education: Urged that Congress support medical education training and debt relief for primary care physicians and other specialties facing shortages by passing the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (S. 348, H.R. 1763), to lift the GME caps as needed to permit training an adequate number of primary care physicians, including internal medicine specialists, and physicians in other specialties facing shortages; passing the Resident Education Deferred Interest Act (H.R. 1554), to save physicians in residency programs thousands of dollars in interest on their loans and help incentivize the opening of practices in underserved areas; pass legislation to combine DGME and IME into a single, more functional payment program, and broaden the GME financing structure to include all payers; support funding for GME/IME and programs within the Veterans Health Administration that provide graduate medical education to ensure that physicians are adequately trained with the skills needed to treat an aging population. Urged Congress to pass the Opioid Workforce Act of 2019 (H.R. 3414), which would provide Medicare support for an additional 1,000 graduate medical education (GME) positions over five years in hospitals that have, or are in the process of establishing, accredited residency programs in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, or pain medicine. Urged Congress to pass S. 1203 and H.R. 2441, the What You Can Do For Your Country Act, which would improve and reform the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.
Vaccines: Urged Congress to pass the Vaccines Act (HR 2862), which would provide federal funding for vaccine hesitancy surveillance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and outline a national public messaging campaign informed by this research to help improve vaccination rates; Supported H.R. 592, recognizing the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox and the importance of vaccination in the United States and worldwide; Urged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reconsider its decision to not vaccinate families in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) against influenza (flu). Urged Congress to support payments for vaccines, as finalized by CMS, and set for implementation on Jan. 1, 2021.
Surprise Medical Billing: Urged Congress to pass legislation that would protect patients from surprise out-of-network medical bills in both emergency and non-emergency settings that includes the following principles: hold patients harmless from surprise medical bills for out-of-network services, address narrow insurance networks, abandon efforts to establish an in-network median rate for services in these settings and instead opt for an independent dispute resolution process to determine payment.
Appropriations: Urged Congress to fund Title VII, Section 747, Primary Care Training and Enhancement (PCTE) at $71 million for fiscal year 2021; Fund the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) at $460 million for fiscal year 2021; Fund the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) at $830 million for fiscal year 2021; Fund the Title X Family Planning Program at $400 million for fiscal year 2021 and include language to remove barriers to care that interfere with the patient-physician relationship; Fund Research on Prevention of Firearms-related Injuries and Deaths at $50 million for Fiscal Year 2021; Fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at $44.7 billion for fiscal year 2021; Fund the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at $8.3 billion for fiscal year 2021; Urged the House and Senate Armed Services Committees to support provisions in any final FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act to prevent cuts to the Military Health Service and the military medical workforce without requiring appropriate congressional oversight and review.
Physician Fee Schedule: Commented to CMS and to Congress to fully implement payment increases for all evaluation and management codes, as finalized by CMS, and as scheduled for implementation on Jan. 1, 2021. Reduce the documentation burden for E/M services by allowing choice of medical decision making or time, and work to develop additional clarity and guidance on acceptable documentation to operationalize these important proposals; examination room desktop computers should be counted as a direct medical equipment cost; care management should be promoted by increasing the values of services like Transitional Care Management (TCM) and Chronic Care Management and implementing Principle Care Management (PCM) codes; require additional survey and review for any requests to increase non-outpatient E/M or other services; work with the physician community prior to finalizing any policy affecting eligibility to participate in the Medicare program; Urged congressional committees of jurisdiction to support: Higher physician work relative value units (RVUs) for new and established office visit codes, leading to increased payments for them, Reduced documentation requirements for office visit codes, which enables physicians to select and document for each visit based on medical decision-making or total time, Expanded and improved payment for care management services. Urged Congress to support waiving budget neutrality, applicable to the calendar year 2021 physician fee schedule.
COVID-19: Urged congressional appropriators to provide the highest possible funding level for research, prevention, control, and treatment of illnesses associated with the virus that is commensurate with the public health emergency that the virus represents. Urged the administration to explore regulatory and other actions that would make COVID-19 testing free-of-charge to patients covered by both public and private insurance plans, including ACA-compliant plans offered through the insurance exchanges, and to waive co-pays and deductibles for patients seeing physicians for symptoms that may be indicative of COVID-19 or who are hospitalized for treatment. Urged CMS to utilize a national disaster recovery program that would pay doctors 110% of Medicare rates for caring for uninsured patients who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. Expressed support to Congress and the administration for the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, H.R. 6201, and other stimulus reforms related to COVID-19 including: Emergency paid leave benefits, paid sick days for public health emergencies, coverage of testing for COVID-19, waiving of cost sharing under Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and CHIP, increasing the federal FMAP under Medicaid, providing reimbursement for CPT codes 99441 - 99443, which are telephone evaluation and management services, expediting entrance of international medical graduates who are citizens of other nations (non-US IMGs) into the country and ensuring that lawfully present non-U.S. IMGs are not negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, funding for physician practices under the Public Health and Social Service Emergency Fund (PHSSEF), providing tax relief, grants, and loans to small and medium size practices impacted by COVID-19, increasing funding for personal protective equipment (PPE), ensuring Medicaid pay parity with Medicare for primary care services; Urged HHS and Congress to make a targeted allocation out of the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) to support primary care physicians and their practices, sufficient to keep their doors open, by offsetting lost revenue from the COVID-19 pandemic, similar to the targeted allocation for rural hospitals; Urged support for the Student Loan Forgiveness for Frontline Health Workers Act, H.R. 6720, introduced May 5, 2020 by Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) which would eliminate graduate school debt for healthcare workers, including physicians and medical students, who are providing direct patient care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; Urged support for H.R. 7059, the Coronavirus Provider Protection Act, which extend liability protections to those who provide care in good faith during the COVID-19 public health emergency (plus a reasonable time, such as 60 days, after the emergency declaration ends), and not in situations of gross negligence or willful misconduct. The College also urged that pay parity between telephone claims and in-person visits and between all telehealth and in-person visits be maintained after the PHE is lifted. This extension-either continued by CMS or mandated by Congress-should last at least through the end of 2021, or until such a time when effective vaccines and treatments are widely available, with an option to extend it even further, or consider making permanent, based on the experience and learnings of patients and physicians who are utilizing these visits. Urged Congress to support a targeted allocation from the Provider Relief Fund specifically for primary care services.
Priorities for New Administration: Urged the incoming Biden Administration to identify and appoint physicians to health care leadership positions within your Administration. Implement approval, distribution, and funding of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine based on recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Provide support to physicians and other frontline health care workers, including ensuring access and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) to health care workers. Fund COVID-19 testing and contact tracing efforts. Reverse regulations that allow the sale of extended short-term, limited duration plans, association health plans. Take action to defend the Affordable Care Act from any litigation, including California v. Texas, that would undermine coverage and patient protections. Expand premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions. Establish a federal public option to inject competition into the health insurance marketplace. Expand Medicaid eligibility and oppose expansion waivers that limit benefits and apply high cost sharing. Permanently increase payment for Medicaid primary care services to the level of Medicare. Restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, consistent with a recent ruling from a federal judge, and identify executive actions that can be taken to ensure that it is not vulnerable to being eliminated in the future. Pursue executive actions to preserve the principles of patient autonomy regarding reproductive decision-making rights. Reverse the Title X gag rule and restore funding to family planning clinics. Establish universal access to at least six weeks of paid family and medical leave that is flexible to accommodate care for a diverse array of family structures, including updating the Family Medical and Leave Act to include grandparents or in-laws. Re-introduce and pass the George Floyd Act and other legislation focused on eliminating racism and police violence. Rejoin the Paris Agreement.
Client expense: $91,236 · Firm income: Not reported
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), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), President of the U.S., SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS)
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
PL 109-417 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA)
PL 116-127/H.R. 6201 - Families First Coronavirus Response Act
H.R. 6365/S. 3559 - The Immediate Relief for Rural Facilities and Providers Act
H.R. 748/S. 3548 - Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
H.R. 7059: Coronavirus Provider Protection Act
S. 1895 - Lower Health Care Costs Act
H.R. 5800 - Ban Surprise Billing Act
H.R. 5826 - Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act
H.R. 3630 - No Surprises Act
H. R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
H. R. 1418 - Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019
S. 668/H.R. 1570 - Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2019
S. 966 - Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2019
S. 2372 - VA MISSION Act of 2018
S. 741/H. R. 1730 - Cancer Drug Parity Act of 2019
H. R. 1379 - Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act
H. R. 207 - Stop the Violence Act of 2019
H. R. 1841 - Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2019 (and Senate version reintroduction)
H. R. 1041 - Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2019
H.R. 3656/S. 1350 - ACCESS Act of 2019
H.R. 861 - End Surprise Billing Act
H.R. 3630 - No Surprises Act
H.R. 3502 - Protecting People from Surprise Medical Bills Act
H.R. 2550 - Prevent BLEEDing Act of 2019
H. R. 2143 - Promoting Integrity in Medicare Act of 2019
H. R. 3107 - Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2019
H. R. 1332 - Fair Care Act of 2019
H.R. 2464 - End the Cycle of Violence Act of 2019
S. 1895 - Lower Health Care Costs Act
S. 967 - Reducing Costs for Out of Network Services Act
S. 1266 - Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills Act
S. 1531 - Stopping the Outrageous Practice of Surprise Bills Act
S. 1607 - Medical Billing Fairness Act
H. R. - 1763/S. 348 - Resident's Physician Shortage Reduction Act
S. 1350 - Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act
H. R. 2689/S. 1438 - Breast Cancer Research Stamp reauthorization
H.R. 4350/S. 3085 - Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019
H.R. 5855 - Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act of 2020
H.R. 6953 - Pandemic Responder Service Award Act
H.R. 6644/S. 3741 - Telehealth legislation/The Health Care at Home Act
H.R. 6365/S. 3559 - Immediate Relief for Rural Facilities Act
H.R. 7255 - Coronavirus Health Care Worker Wellness Act
S. 3741 - Health Care at Home Act
S. 3750/H.R. 6837 - Medicare Accelerated and Advanced Payments Improvement Act
H.R.133 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
Phase 4 COVID-19 relief legislation
H. R. 8702 - Holding Providers Harmless from Medicare Cuts During COVID-19 Act
Federal Incentive Programs
COVID-Safely Returning to Work and School in the Fall
COVID-PPE Shortages
Mental Health Issues
Health Care Disparities
Cures 2.0
E/M Global Code Issues
Unique Patient Identifier
Lower Health Care Costs Act Compromise
Bleeding Control for the Injured (Stop The Bleed campaign)
Qualified clinical data registry (QCDR)
Firearms Safety and Research
MACRA Implementation
Merit-based Incentive Payment Systems (MIPS)
MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs)
Alternative Payment Models (APM)
Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)
Common Rule
Medicare for All
National Trauma Systems Legislation
Drug Pricing
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Measuring Surgical Quality
Medicare Physician Reimbursement
Cancer Research and Funding
Trauma Research and Funding
Opioids/Pain Management Legislation
ACS THRIVE (Transforming Health care Resources to Increase Value and Efficiency)
Reauthorization of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
2020 CMS Proposed Fee Schedule
Rare earth magnet legislation
Client expense: $10,400 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
PL 109-417 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA)
PL 116-127/H.R. 6201 - Families First Coronavirus Response Act
H.R. 6365/S. 3559 - The Immediate Relief for Rural Facilities and Providers Act
H.R. 748/S. 3548 - Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
H.R. 7059: Coronavirus Provider Protection Act
S. 1895 - Lower Health Care Costs Act
H.R. 5800 - Ban Surprise Billing Act
H.R. 5826 - Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act
H.R. 3630 - No Surprises Act
H. R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
H. R. 1418 - Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019
S. 668/H.R. 1570 - Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2019
S. 966 - Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2019
S. 2372 - VA MISSION Act of 2018
S. 741/H. R. 1730 - Cancer Drug Parity Act of 2019
H. R. 1379 - Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act
H. R. 207 - Stop the Violence Act of 2019
H. R. 1841 - Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2019 (and Senate version reintroduction)
H. R. 1041 - Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2019
H.R. 3656/S. 1350 - ACCESS Act of 2019
H.R. 861 - End Surprise Billing Act
H.R. 3630 - No Surprises Act
H.R. 3502 - Protecting People from Surprise Medical Bills Act
H.R. 2550 - Prevent BLEEDing Act of 2019
H. R. 2143 - Promoting Integrity in Medicare Act of 2019
H. R. 3107 - Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2019
H. R. 1332 - Fair Care Act of 2019
H.R. 2464 - End the Cycle of Violence Act of 2019
S. 1895 - Lower Health Care Costs Act
S. 967 - Reducing Costs for Out of Network Services Act
S. 1266 - Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills Act
S. 1531 - Stopping the Outrageous Practice of Surprise Bills Act
S. 1607 - Medical Billing Fairness Act
H. R. - 1763/S. 348 - Resident's Physician Shortage Reduction Act
S. 1350 - Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act
H. R. 2689/S. 1438 - Breast Cancer Research Stamp reauthorization
H.R. 4350/S. 3085 - Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019
H.R. 5855 - Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act of 2020
H.R. 6953 - Pandemic Responder Service Award Act
H.R. 6644/S. 3741 - Telehealth legislation/The Health Care at Home Act
H.R. 6365/S. 3559 - Immediate Relief for Rural Facilities Act
H.R. 7255 - Coronavirus Health Care Worker Wellness Act
S. 3741 - Health Care at Home Act
S. 3750/H.R. 6837 - Medicare Accelerated and Advanced Payments Improvement Act
H.R.133 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
Phase 4 COVID-19 relief legislation
H. R. 8702 - Holding Providers Harmless from Medicare Cuts During COVID-19 Act
Federal Incentive Programs
COVID-Safely Returning to Work and School in the Fall
COVID-PPE Shortages
Mental Health Issues
Health Care Disparities
Cures 2.0
E/M Global Code Issues
Unique Patient Identifier
Lower Health Care Costs Act Compromise
Bleeding Control for the Injured (Stop The Bleed campaign)
Qualified clinical data registry (QCDR)
Firearms Safety and Research
MACRA Implementation
Merit-based Incentive Payment Systems (MIPS)
MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs)
Alternative Payment Models (APM)
Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)
Common Rule
Medicare for All
National Trauma Systems Legislation
Drug Pricing
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Measuring Surgical Quality
Medicare Physician Reimbursement
Cancer Research and Funding
Trauma Research and Funding
Opioids/Pain Management Legislation
ACS THRIVE (Transforming Health care Resources to Increase Value and Efficiency)
Reauthorization of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
2020 CMS Proposed Fee Schedule
Rare earth magnet legislation
Client expense: $10,400 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
PL 109-417 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA)
PL 116-127/H.R. 6201 - Families First Coronavirus Response Act
H.R. 6365/S. 3559 - The Immediate Relief for Rural Facilities and Providers Act
H.R. 748/S. 3548 - Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
H.R. 7059: Coronavirus Provider Protection Act
S. 1895 - Lower Health Care Costs Act
H.R. 5800 - Ban Surprise Billing Act
H.R. 5826 - Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act
H.R. 3630 - No Surprises Act
H. R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
H. R. 1418 - Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019
S. 668/H.R. 1570 - Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2019
S. 966 - Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2019
S. 2372 - VA MISSION Act of 2018
S. 741/H. R. 1730 - Cancer Drug Parity Act of 2019
H. R. 1379 - Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act
H. R. 207 - Stop the Violence Act of 2019
H. R. 1841 - Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2019 (and Senate version reintroduction)
H. R. 1041 - Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2019
H.R. 3656/S. 1350 - ACCESS Act of 2019
H.R. 861 - End Surprise Billing Act
H.R. 3630 - No Surprises Act
H.R. 3502 - Protecting People from Surprise Medical Bills Act
H.R. 2550 - Prevent BLEEDing Act of 2019
H. R. 2143 - Promoting Integrity in Medicare Act of 2019
H. R. 3107 - Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2019
H. R. 1332 - Fair Care Act of 2019
H.R. 2464 - End the Cycle of Violence Act of 2019
S. 1895 - Lower Health Care Costs Act
S. 967 - Reducing Costs for Out of Network Services Act
S. 1266 - Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills Act
S. 1531 - Stopping the Outrageous Practice of Surprise Bills Act
S. 1607 - Medical Billing Fairness Act
H. R. - 1763/S. 348 - Resident's Physician Shortage Reduction Act
S. 1350 - Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act
H. R. 2689/S. 1438 - Breast Cancer Research Stamp reauthorization
H.R. 4350/S. 3085 - Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019
H.R. 5855 - Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act of 2020
H.R. 6953 - Pandemic Responder Service Award Act
H.R. 6644/S. 3741 - Telehealth legislation/The Health Care at Home Act
H.R. 6365/S. 3559 - Immediate Relief for Rural Facilities Act
H.R. 7255 - Coronavirus Health Care Worker Wellness Act
S. 3741 - Health Care at Home Act
S. 3750/H.R. 6837 - Medicare Accelerated and Advanced Payments Improvement Act
H.R.133 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
Phase 4 COVID-19 relief legislation
H. R. 8702 - Holding Providers Harmless from Medicare Cuts During COVID-19 Act
Federal Incentive Programs
COVID-Safely Returning to Work and School in the Fall
COVID-PPE Shortages
Mental Health Issues
Health Care Disparities
Cures 2.0
E/M Global Code Issues
Unique Patient Identifier
Lower Health Care Costs Act Compromise
Bleeding Control for the Injured (Stop The Bleed campaign)
Qualified clinical data registry (QCDR)
Firearms Safety and Research
MACRA Implementation
Merit-based Incentive Payment Systems (MIPS)
MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs)
Alternative Payment Models (APM)
Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)
Common Rule
Medicare for All
National Trauma Systems Legislation
Drug Pricing
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Measuring Surgical Quality
Medicare Physician Reimbursement
Cancer Research and Funding
Trauma Research and Funding
Opioids/Pain Management Legislation
ACS THRIVE (Transforming Health care Resources to Increase Value and Efficiency)
Reauthorization of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
2020 CMS Proposed Fee Schedule
Rare earth magnet legislation
Client expense: $308,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
PL 109-417 - Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA)
PL 116-127/H.R. 6201 - Families First Coronavirus Response Act
H.R. 6365/S. 3559 - The Immediate Relief for Rural Facilities and Providers Act
H.R. 748/S. 3548 - Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
H.R. 7059: Coronavirus Provider Protection Act
S. 1895 - Lower Health Care Costs Act
H.R. 5800 - Ban Surprise Billing Act
H.R. 5826 - Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act
H.R. 3630 - No Surprises Act
H. R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
H. R. 1418 - Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2019
S. 668/H.R. 1570 - Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2019
S. 966 - Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2019
S. 2372 - VA MISSION Act of 2018
S. 741/H. R. 1730 - Cancer Drug Parity Act of 2019
H. R. 1379 - Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act
H. R. 207 - Stop the Violence Act of 2019
H. R. 1841 - Ensuring Access to General Surgery Act of 2019 (and Senate version reintroduction)
H. R. 1041 - Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2019
H.R. 3656/S. 1350 - ACCESS Act of 2019
H.R. 861 - End Surprise Billing Act
H.R. 3630 - No Surprises Act
H.R. 3502 - Protecting People from Surprise Medical Bills Act
H.R. 2550 - Prevent BLEEDing Act of 2019
H. R. 2143 - Promoting Integrity in Medicare Act of 2019
H. R. 3107 - Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2019
H. R. 1332 - Fair Care Act of 2019
H.R. 2464 - End the Cycle of Violence Act of 2019
S. 1895 - Lower Health Care Costs Act
S. 967 - Reducing Costs for Out of Network Services Act
S. 1266 - Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills Act
S. 1531 - Stopping the Outrageous Practice of Surprise Bills Act
S. 1607 - Medical Billing Fairness Act
H. R. - 1763/S. 348 - Resident's Physician Shortage Reduction Act
S. 1350 - Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act
H. R. 2689/S. 1438 - Breast Cancer Research Stamp reauthorization
H.R. 4350/S. 3085 - Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2019
H.R. 5855 - Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act of 2020
H.R. 6953 - Pandemic Responder Service Award Act
H.R. 6644/S. 3741 - Telehealth legislation/The Health Care at Home Act
H.R. 6365/S. 3559 - Immediate Relief for Rural Facilities Act
H.R. 7255 - Coronavirus Health Care Worker Wellness Act
S. 3741 - Health Care at Home Act
S. 3750/H.R. 6837 - Medicare Accelerated and Advanced Payments Improvement Act
H.R.133 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
Phase 4 COVID-19 relief legislation
H. R. 8702 - Holding Providers Harmless from Medicare Cuts During COVID-19 Act
Federal Incentive Programs
COVID-Safely Returning to Work and School in the Fall
COVID-PPE Shortages
Mental Health Issues
Health Care Disparities
Cures 2.0
E/M Global Code Issues
Unique Patient Identifier
Lower Health Care Costs Act Compromise
Bleeding Control for the Injured (Stop The Bleed campaign)
Qualified clinical data registry (QCDR)
Firearms Safety and Research
MACRA Implementation
Merit-based Incentive Payment Systems (MIPS)
MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs)
Alternative Payment Models (APM)
Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)
Common Rule
Medicare for All
National Trauma Systems Legislation
Drug Pricing
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Measuring Surgical Quality
Medicare Physician Reimbursement
Cancer Research and Funding
Trauma Research and Funding
Opioids/Pain Management Legislation
ACS THRIVE (Transforming Health care Resources to Increase Value and Efficiency)
Reauthorization of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
2020 CMS Proposed Fee Schedule
Rare earth magnet legislation
Client expense: $308,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Education, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, White House Office
Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets
H.Res.1147 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of taking a feminist approach to all aspects of foreign policy, including foreign assistance and humanitarian response, trade, diplomacy, defense, immigration, funding, and accountability mechanisms
Chamber: House
EARN IT Act (S. 3398)
Chamber: Senate
House Amdt.561 to H.R.2500
Chamber: House
The BURMA Act (H.R.3190
Chamber: House
The Burma Political Prisoners Act (H.R.2327)
Chamber: House
The Hong Kong Protect Act (H.R. 4270)
Chamber: House
Uyghur Human Rights Act (S. 178
Chamber: Senate
Senate J.Res.36/37/38
Chamber: Senate
The NO BAN Act (H. R. 2214/ S. 1123
Chambers: House and Senate
Break the Cycle of Violence Act (H.R. 4836, S. 2671
Chambers: House and Senate
(H.R. 6453) Directs the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report the number of background checks conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System during the month of March 2019 and during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes.
Chamber: House
Appropriations advocacy on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies FY21 bills; specifically advocacy to include gun violence prevention and intervention funds in this funding cycle.
Chambers: House and Senate
Refugee Protection Act of 2019 (S.2936
Chamber: Senate
S.2565 - A bill to establish a Global Climate Change Resilience Strategy, to authorize the admission of climate-displaced persons.
Chamber: Senate
The Guaranteed Refugee Admission Ceiling Enhancement Act/GRACE Act (H.R. 2146/S.1088
Chambers: Senate and House
The Secure and Protect Act of 2019 (S. 1494
Chamber: Senate
The Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 (H.R. 549)
Chamber: House
Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act (HR 2415/ S. 1243)
Chambers: House and Senate
Keep Americans Safe Act (H.R. 1186)
Chamber: House
the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019 (H. R. 1236)
Chamber: House
the Disarm Hate Act 2019 (HR. 2708)
Chamber: House
Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H. R. 8)
Chamber: House
Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 1112
Chamber: House
the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (H. R.1296)
Chamber: House
Afghan WIN Act (H.R. 4097)
Chamber: House
the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2020 (H.R.2500) amendment calls Congress to strengthen, clarify, and supplement transparency and oversight requirements related to U.S. lethal strikes and resulting civilian casualties.
Chamber: House
The (H.R. 4359) Police Exercising Absolute Care With Everyone Act of 2019,
Chamber: House
The Safe From the Start Act (H.R. 4092, S. 4003)
Chamber: House and Senate
Savanna's Act (S. 227, H.R. 2733) directs the Justice Department to develop protocols to address missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).
Chamber: House
Womens Global Development and Prosperity Act (bill not yet introduced).
Chamber: House and Senate
The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020
Chamber: House and Senate
Client expense: $25,100 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Natl Security Council (NSC), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS)