Expressing opposition to the European Commission interpretive notice regarding labeling Israeli products and goods manufactured in the West Bank and other areas, as such actions undermine efforts to achieve a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Israel/Middle East peace & security-related issues, including settlements, Jerusalem, US peace efforts, foreign assistance, Palestinians, Gaza, and Iran. Specific legislation in 1Q2016: legislation to undermine the JCPOA (HR 3662, S 2725, S 2726, HR 4815); various initiatives seeking to legislate US support for/defense of settlements (HR 644, HR 4514/S. 2531, HR 4503, HR 4555, S Res 346/H Res 567, S 2474); anti-peace legislation (HR 4522/S. 2537)

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

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Natl Security Council (NSC), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS)

Supported H.Res.354, addressing the safety and security of Jewish communities in Europe; supported H.Res.293, urging Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and other PA officials to halt incitement and calling upon the U.S. Department of State to monitor and publish information regarding anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment from the Palestinian Authority; supported S.1789, the U.S.-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act; supported S.1617, H.R.2297, the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act, to sanction financial institutions complicit in Hezbollahs money laundering and determine if Hezbollah can be designated a foreign narcotics trafficker and a transnational criminal organization; supported H.Res.130 and S.Res.87, encouraging greater cooperation with European governments, the European Union, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to combat and respond to anti-Semitism; attention to Global anti-Semitism, including urging Members of Congress to raise issue with counterparts and diplomats; urged congressional action opposing new European Union guidelines for Israeli product labeling,including urged sign-ons to Senate letter to European Union opposing new guidelines for Israeli product labeling, supported H.Res.567 expressing opposition to the European Commission interpretive notice regarding labeling Israeli products and goods manufactured in the West Bank and other areas; supported H.Con.Res.100. a measure reaffirming the rights of states to maintain economic sanctions against Iran; supported S.Con.Res.26, a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding the right of States and local governments to maintain economic sanctions against Iran; supported H.Res.220, a resolution condemning the Government of Iran's state-sponsored persecution of its Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights; supported H.Res.318, a resolution condemning resolutions or policies calling for or instituting a boycott of Israeli institutions or scholars by institutions of higher learning and scholarly associations; supported S.2079 reauthorizing of USCIRF; supported inclusion in appropriations package of a restoration of U.S. funding for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), subject to conditions that will maintain severe sanctions against the admission by UN bodies of members not recognized as states by the U.S. Government; supported H.Res.551, a resolution recognizing the importance of the United States-Israel economic relationship and encouraging new areas of cooperation; encouraged members of Congress to join the Bipartisan Taskforce on Anti-Semitism and the Congressional Hellenic-Israel Alliance; supported a requirement that the State Departments annual country reports on human rights include information on the activities of certain foreign countries in relation to the nature and extent of national laws or enforceable policies regarding the identification and return of or restitution for wrongfully confiscated or transferred Holocaust era assets; supported H.Res.402 expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding politically motivated acts of boycott, divestment from, and sanctions against Israel; supported S.1682 - Iran Sanctions Relief Oversight Act of 2015;attention to US-Israel relations,relations with Iran and the aftermath of JCPOA, and support for US global leadership with respect to NATO.

H.J.Res. 64, Disapproving of the agreement transmitted to Congress by the President on July 19, 2015, relating to the nuclear program of Iran, all provisions H.R. 3461, To approve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed at Vienna on July 14, 2015, relating to the nuclear program of Iran, all provisions H.R. 3741, Commission to Verify Iranian Nuclear Compliance Act, all provisions H.Res. 502, Honoring the life, legacy, and example of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the 20th anniversary of his death, all provisions H.Res. 567, Expressing opposition to the European Commission interpretive notice regarding labeling Israeli products and goods manufactured in the West Bank and other areas, as such actions undermine efforts to achieve a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian peace process, all provisions Unnumbered House bill, Humanitarian Assistance and Peacebuilding Protection Act, all provisions S. 1635, Department of State Operations Authorization and Embassy Security Act, Fiscal Year 2016, Subtitle B, provision related to the Atrocities Prevention Board S. 1682, Iran Sanctions Relief Oversight Act of 2015, all provisions S. 2119, Iran Policy Oversight Act of 2015, all provisions S. 2429, Ending Iran's Nuclear Weapon Program Before Sanctions Relief Act of 2015, all provisions Unnumbered Senate bill, Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act, all provisions Unnumbered Senate bill, Humanitarian Assistance and Peacebuilding Protection Act, all provisions

Client expense: $1,060,000 · Firm income: Not reported