CARE Act

H.R. 2429; H.R. 5368 Minimum Wage Increase S. 1783/H.R. 2830 Pension Reform H.R. 5647 FY07 Labor, HHS, Education All labor & employment provisions of the following bills: H.R. 101, Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act H.R. 279, Family and Medical Leave Protection Act H.R. 475, Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act H.R. 476, Family and Medical Leave Enhancement Act H.R. 500 / S. 370, National Right to Work Act H.R. 582, Employee Changing Room Privacy Act H.R. 739, Occupational Safety and Health Small Business Day in Court Act H.R. 740, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission Efficiency Act H.R. 741, Occupational Safety and Health Independent Review of OSHA Citations Act H.R. 742, Occupational Safety and Health Small Employer Access to Justice Act H.R. 773, Fairness in Labor Litigation Act H.R. 874 / S. 1173, Secret Ballot Protection Act H.R. 1050, A Living Wage, Jobs For All Act H.R. 1073, Union Members Right to Know Act H.R. 1074, Union Members Information Enforcement Act H.R. 1075, Labor-Management Accountability Act H.R. 1247, Working Families Access to Justice Act H.R. 1248, Government Labor Neutrality Act H.R. 1589, Balancing Act H.R. 1667 / S. 798, Military Families Leave Act H.R. 1696 / S. 842, Employee Free Choice Act H.R. 1748, Union Members Freedom From Strikes Act H.R. 1816 / S. 983 Truth in Employment Act H.R. 1902 / S. 932 / S. 1085, Healthy Families Act H.R. 1993, Living Organ Donor Job Security Act H.R. 2004, Protecting America's Workers Act H.R. 2005, Workplace Wrongful Death Accountability Act H.R. 2122, Pregnancy Discrimination Act Amendments H.R. 2870, Youth Worker Employment Act H.R. 2876, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act H.R. 3171, VAWA 2005 Reauthorization Act H.R. 3185, S. 1796, Security and Financial Emplowerment Act H.R. 3402, related to Justice Department Appropriatons (VAWA reauthorization and leave provisions only) H.R. 3403, related to jurisdiction thresholds under the NLRA;H.R. 3413, Minimum Wage Competitiveness Act;H.R. 3684 / S. 1817, Cleanup and Restoration Enhancement Act;H.R. 3763, Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims Act;H.R. 3834, related to suspension of Davis-Bacon requirements;H.R. 3949, Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act;H.R. 4190, Safe at Work Act;H.R. 5554, the Workplace Safety and Health Transparency Act;H.R. 5787, Minimum Wage Competitiveness Act;H.R. 5998, Federal Living Wage Responsibility Act;H.R. 6422, related to wage mandates;H.Res. 467, related to information about wages and benefits under post-hurricane contracts;S. 223, Overtime Rights Protection Act;S. 282, Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act;S. 947, Workplace Wrongful Death Accountability Act;S. 1749, Fair Wages for Hurricaine Katrina Recovery Workers Act;S. 1763, Hurricane Katrina Reconstruction and Displaced Worker Assistance Act;S. 1925, Rebuild with Respect Act;S. 2065, Occupational Safety Partnership Act;S. 2066, Occupational Safety Fairness Act;S. 2067, the HazCom Simplification and Modernization Act;FY '07 Science, State, Justice, Commerce Appropriations bill markup (Obey minimum wage amdt.);H.Amdt. 367 to H.R. 3010 (relating to funding of certain Labor Department settlement agreements);Nominations for the following positions:Member, National Labor Relations Board;General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board;Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, Department of Labor;Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor;Commissioner, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission;Reform of regulations codified at 29 C.F.R. pt. 541, relating to exemptions from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act;Reform of regulations codified at 29 C.F.R. pt. 825, implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act;Reform of regulations codified at 29 C.F.R. pts. 403, 408, relating to disclosures required of labor organizations;Financial disclosure under the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LM-30 and LM-10 reports);Implementation and oversight of the National Labor Relations Act;National Labor Relations Board jurisdiction and preemption of conflicting state actions

Client expense: $31,440,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Natl Security Council (NSC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of the Vice President of the United States, Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

Association Health Plans (HR 525, S 406, S 1955) Estate Tax repeal (HR 8 and S 420) Davis-Bacon Reform (S 1817---Clean up and Reconstruction Enhancement Act) Apprenticeship improvement---no specific bill; rather looking for avenues to pursue in order to improve apprenticeship opportunities for skilled trades

Client expense: $50,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Education, Dept of, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE

Training & Education for American Workers Act - H.R. 4402 Preventing OSHA Action on Ergonomics - H.R. 987, S. 1070 Barring OSHA Home Office Inspections - H.R. 4098 Bid Shopping Repeal - H.R. 4012 Minimum Wage Act - H.R. 655, S. 277 Fair Act - H.R. 19 National labor Relations Act H.R. 1696/S.842 Occupational Safety & Helath Samll Employer of Justice Act H.R. 739,H.R. 740, H.H. 741 & H.r. 742 Keller Bill - Recreational Marine Employment Act of 2005 H.R. 940 Truth in Employment Act H.R. 1816 Employee Right to Choose Act S. 1513/H.R. 1696 Davis Bacon Act S. 1817 S.1749 & H.R. 3763 Reveiw of OSHA Citations H.R. 741 Deadline Flexibility - OSHA Reveiw Commission H.R. 739 Job Training - S. 1021 & H.R. 27 (reauthorise workforce investment act)

Client expense: $60,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE