Eric Williams Correctional Officer Protection Act of 2014

FY 2015 Budget Resolution - provisions to increase the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget with regard to budget reconciliation, legislation, blue collar pay, white collar pay, minimum wage, retirement, part-time annuity computations, and compensatory time.FY 2015 Budget Resolution - conference agreement providing for an increase for veterans health care programs. Lobbied against H. Con. Res. 96 that would negatively impact federal employees' retirement by workers paying additional 5.5% of salary toward retirement; working conditions by replacing one employee for every three who leave; elimination of student loan reimbursements; continued and increased staffing cuts; privatizing of more airport screening jobs and reduction in benefits for on the job injuries. FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on funding for Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Federal Emergency Management Agency. DHS Personnel Plan - provisions to halt the Administration's plan to reduce the Federal Protective Service workforce. Retention of longstanding prohibitions against the use of the OMB Circular A-76 process in the Coast Guard's National Vessel Documentation Center (NVDC) and on certain positions in the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) related to investigation and adjudication of immigration rights and benefits. FY 2015 Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs Appropriations - provisions to provide funding for VA health and benefits programs, and contracting out. FY 2015 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. FY 2015 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations - provisions on contracting out, cuts in funding for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health and contracting out at NIH, and the increase in Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of disability claims. FY 2015 Financial Services Appropriations - contractor compensation provisions to make the A-76 process less unfair to federal employees and more accountable to taxpayers, establish a reliable contractor inventory, and promote insourcing. Lobbying to ensure A-76 prohibitions and the DoD cost comparison requirement be retained in comparable Senate bills andconference reports. HR 5016, Grayson Amendment--to ensure the federal employees' pay scale provide for a minimum of $10;10 per hour. FY 2015 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any EEOC office or make any reductions in force stemming from workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC; to continue with provision preventing use of CJS funds for A-76 competition for BOP/FPI work; and funding for BOP "Salaries and Expenses" as it relates to prison inmate overcrowding; correctional understaffing; and the ever increasing prison inmate assaults showing the need to improve safety and security at BOP institutions. Lobbied for introduction of S 2309, Eric Williams Correctional Officers Protection Act of 2014 and continued lobbying efforts on S 1410, Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014. Continued lobbying on need for funding for of the Building and Facilities account for modernization and repair of existing BOP institutions, including the continued delay in construction of new female prison inmate facility at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, CT. Ensure there is no provision for funding for new Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) prison beds owned by private prison companies to incarcerate illegal/undocumented immigrants.FY 2015 Agriculture Appropriations - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs and funding cuts for the Food Safety and Inspection Service. House FY15 Energy and Water Appropriations - Lobbied against Blumenthauer and Swalwell amendments to bill that would cut funding for fossil fuel research conducted at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). FY 2015 Defense Appropriations - lobbied on issues of concern to civilian personnel related to sourcing and workforce management. Lobbied for support of Rep Donna Edwards' legislation to repeal the draconian increase in federal employee retirement contributions for those hired in 2013 and beyond. Lobbied against any amendments that would have a detrimental impact on the Federal Prison Industries prison inmate work program. FY 2015 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations -- proposed reorganization of HUD office or multifamily housing.

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

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