Ruth Moore Act of 2013

Department of Veterans Affairs appropriations and its delivery of benefits and services to veterans, their dependents and survivors: H.Con.Res. 64, H.Res. 557, HR 5351, HR 4892, HR 4887, HR 4741, HR 4517, HR 4486, HR 4261, HR 4247, HR 4191, HR 4151, HR 4141, HR 4038HR 4037, HR 3926, HR 3843, HR 3808, HR 3789, HR 3672, HR 3653, HR 3649, HR 3614, HR 3515, HR 3514, HR 3506, HR 3499, HR 3474, HR 3456, HR 3453, HR 3443, HR 3442, HR 3441, HR 3422, HR 3405HR 3399, HR 3395, HR 3387, HR 3384, HR 3383, HR 3333, HR 3330, HR 3145, HR 3098, HR 3087, HR 3056, HR 3007, HR 2974, HR 2953, HR 2942, HR 2882, HR 2726, HR 2527, HR 2189, HR 2086, HR 1957, HR 1796, HR 1774, HR 1714, HR 1702, HR 1494, HR 1405, HR 1344, HR 1284, HR 1131, HR 958, HR 921, HR 813, HR 921, HR 671, HR 570, HR 569, HR 562, HR 411, HR 369, HR 367, HR 333, HR 303, HR 288, HR 235, HR 164, HR 42, HR 32, S 2298, S 2258, S 2243, S 1950, S 1880, S 1872, S 1773, S 1717, S 1707, S 1684, S 1682, S 1637, S 1624, S 1604, S 1593, S 1588, S 1586, S 1585, S 1584, S 1583, S 1582, S 1581, S 1580, S 1579, S 1578, S 1573, S 1564, S 1558, S 1295, S 1281, S 944, S 893, S 851, S 825, S 735, S 734, S 700, S 674, S 495, S 492, S 430, S 422, S 325, S 294, S 234, S 140, S 131, S Con Res 15

Client expense: $200,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Veterans Employment & Training Service

Improving survivor benefits for widows of deceased servicemembers and to restore and improve veterans' benefits. H.R. 32, H.R. 235, H.R. 241, H.R. 258, H.R. 288, H.R. 318, H.R. 357, H.R. 543, H.R. 562, H.R. 679, H.R. 690, H.R. 883, H.R. 958, H.R. 1357, H.R. 3230, H.R. 3395, H.R. 4480, H.R. 4486, H.R. 4693, H.R. 4741, H.R. 4760, H.R. 4778, H.R. 5589, S. 6, S. 25, S. 140, S. 200, S. 210, S. 234, S. 240, S. 257, S. 262, S. 294, S. 325, S. 373, S. 430, S. 492, S. 495, S. 514, S. 515, S. 572, S. 629, S. 674, S. 690, S. 695, S. 705, S. 734, S. 735, S. 748

Client expense: $413,551 · Firm income: Not reported

H.R. 1443 -- Tinnitus Research and Treatment Act of 2013 -- To direct the VA Secretary to recognize tinnitus as a mandatory condition for research and treatment by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1494 -- Blue Water Navy Ship Accountability Act -- To direct the Secretary of Defense to review the operation of certainships during the Vietnam Era, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2018 -- Honor Those Who Served Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to identify the persons who are eligible to request headstones or markers furnished by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2072 -- Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the accountability of the VA Secretary to the Inspector General of the VA SUPPORT H.R. 2119 -- Veterans Access to Speedy Review Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the opportunity for veterans to use video conferencing for hearings before the Board of Veterans Appeals SUPPORT (with reservations) H.R. 2138 -- Ending VA Claims Disability Backlog and Accountability Act -- To direct the VA Secretary to resolve the backlog of disability claims of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2847 -- Wounded Warrior Service Dog Act of 2013 -- To establish a grant program to encourage the use of assistance dogs by certain members of the Armed Forces and veterans SUPPORT H.R. 3521 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 -- To authorize Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facility leases, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 3593 -- VA Construction Assistance Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the construction of major medical facilities, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 3876 -- Burial With Dignity for Heroes Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the VA Secretary to carry out a grant program to provide burials for homeless veterans SUPPORT H.R. 4031 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the removal of Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs for performance, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4038 -- Veterans Benefits Administration Information Technology Act of 2014 -- Requires the VA Secretary to make such changes and improvements to the information technology system of the Veterans Benefits Administration to ensure that: (1) all original and supplemental claims for veterans educational assistance are adjudicated electronically, and (2) rules-based processing is used to make decisions with respect to such claims with little human intervention SUPPORT H.R. 4095 -- Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2014 -- To increase, effective as of December 1, 2014, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT (with revisions) H.R. 4141 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into enhanced-use leases for excess property of the National Cemetery Administration that is unsuitable for burial purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to authorize the VA Secretary to enter into enhanced-use leases for excess property of the National Cemetery Administration that is unsuitable for burial purposes SUPPORT (with reservations) H.R. 4191 -- Quicker Veterans Benefits Delivery Act -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the treatment of medical evidence provided by non-Department of Veterans Affairs medical professionals in support of claims for disability compensation under the laws administered by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4344 -- Military Sexual Trauma Claims Administration Reform and Eligibility Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to establish a presumption of service connection for mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma SUPPORTH.R. 4374 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adopt and implement a standard identification protocol for use in the tracking and procurement of biological implants by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the VA Secretary to adopt and implement a standard identification protocol for use in the tracking and procurement of biological implants by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4486 -- Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes -- Making appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4672 -- To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide protections for active duty military consumers, and for other purposes -- To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide protections for active duty military consumers, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 503; S. 995 -- National Desert Storm and Desert Shield War Memorial Act of 2013 -- To authorize the National Desert Storm Memorial Association to establish the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial as a commemorative work in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 671; S. 294 -- Ruth Moore Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the VA Secretary to submit to Congress an annual report on claims for disabilities incurred or aggravated by military sexual trauma, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 679; S. 629 -- Honoring America's Guard-Reserves Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to recognize the service in the reserve components of the Armed Forces of certain persons by honoring them with status as veterans under law, and for other purposes - SUPPORT H.R. 813; S. 932 -- Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for advance appropriations for certain discretionary accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs - SUPPORT H.R. 1288; S. 1361 -- World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act -- To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to accept additional documentation when considering the application for veterans status of an individual who performed service as a coastwise merchant seaman during World War II - SUPPORT H.R. 3230; S. 2450 -- Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014 -- To improve the access of veterans to medical services from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT H.R. 3499; S. 1155 -- Rural Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act -- To provide for advance appropriations for certain information technology accounts of the VA, to include mental health professionals in training programs of the Department - SUPPORT S. 529 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, NC for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 851 -- Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to extend to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury eligibility to participate in the family caregiver services program - SUPPORT S. 1148 -- Veterans Benefits Claims Faster Filing Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the VA Secretary to provide notice of average times for processing claims, and for other purposes - SUPPORTS. 1295 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide veterans with notice, when veterans electronically file claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, that relevant services may be available from veterans service organizations, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to require the VA Secretary to provide veterans with notice, when veterans electronically file claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, that relevant services may be available from veterans service organizations, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 1296 -- Servicemembers Electronic Health Records Act of 2013 -- To amend the Wounded Warrior Act to establish a specific timeline for the DoD and VA Secretaries to achieve interoperable electronic health records, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1411 -- Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2013 -- To specify requirements for the next update of the current strategic plan for the Office of Rural Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs for improving access to, and the quality of, health care services for veterans in rural areas SUPPORT S. 1579 -- SCRA Enhancement and Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to improve the protections provided to members of the uniformed services and their families, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1583 -- Mental Health Support for Veterans Families and Caregivers Act of 2013 -- To require the VA Secretary to conduct an education program and peer support program for the education and training of family members and caregivers of veterans with mental health disorders SUPPORT S. 1584 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide replacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide replacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1585 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to update the Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance program to base premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table instead of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to update the Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance program to base premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table instead of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality SUPPORT S. 1586 -- Enhanced Dental Care for Veterans Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve dental health care for veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1589 -- Improving Quality of Care Within the Department of Veterans Affairs Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the VA Secretary to ensure the Department of Veterans Affairs has an up-to-date policy on reporting of cases of infectious diseases, to require an independent assessment of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks and medical centers of the Department, and for other purposes OPPOSE as written S. 1604 -- Veterans Health Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and enhance eligibility for health care and services through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1740 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 -- To authorize Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facility leases, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1751 -- A bill to improve authorities for performance of medical disabilities examinations by contract physicians for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes -- A bill to improve authorities for performance of medical disabilities examinations by contract physicians for benefits under laws administered by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORTS. 1755 -- Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2013 -- To require the VA Secretary to conduct a study on matters relating to the claiming and interring of unclaimed remains of veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1863 -- To establish in the Department of Veterans Affairs a continuing medical education program for licensed medical professionals to increase knowledge and recognition of medical conditions common to veterans and family members of veterans, and for other purposes. -- To establish in the Department of Veterans Affairs a continuing medical education program for licensed medical professionals to increase knowledge and recognition of medical conditions common to veterans and family members of veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1892 -- To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a registry of certain veterans who were stationed at or underwent training at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada, and for other purposes. -- To direct the VA Secretary to establish a registry of certain veterans who were stationed at or underwent training at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1931 -- A bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. -- A bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] SUPPORT S. 1950 -- Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] SUPPORT S. 1982 -- Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] - SUPPORT S. 1985; S. 2095 -- Veterans Health Care Access Received Closer to Home Act of 2013 [2014] -- To reauthorize and modify the pilot program of the Department of Veterans Affairs under which the VA Secretary provides health services to veterans through qualifying non-Department of Veterans Affairs health care providers, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 1987 -- To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into enhanced-use leases for certain buildings of the Department of Veterans Affairs at the West Los Angeles Medical Center, California, and for other purposes. -- To authorize the VA Secretary to enter into enhanced-use leases for certain buildings of the Department of Veterans Affairs at the West Los Angeles Medical Center, California, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 1993 -- Veterans Care Financial Protection Act of 2014 -- To protect individuals who are eligible for increased pension under laws administered by the VA Secretary on the basis of need of regular aid and attendance from dishonest, predatory, or otherwise unlawful practices, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2009 -- Rural Veterans Improvement Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of health care by the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans in rural and highly rural areas, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2013 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, USC, to provide for the removal of Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs for performance, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2091 -- 21st Century Veterans Benefits Delivery Act -- To amend title 38, USC, to improve the processing by the VA of claims for benefits under laws administered by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes - SUPPORTS. 2145 -- Veteran Voting Support Act -- To require the VA Secretary to permit facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs to be designated as voter registration agencies, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2182 -- Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act -- To expand and improve care provided to veterans and members of the Armed Forces with mental health disorders or at risk of suicide, to review the terms or characterization of the discharge or separation of certain individuals from the Armed Forces, to require a pilot program on loan repayment for psychiatrists who agree to serve in the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2243 -- Military and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 2014 -- To expand eligibility for the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to expand benefits available to participants under such program, to enhance special compensation for members of the uniformed services who require assistance in everyday life, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2258 -- Veterans Compensation Cost of Living Adjustment Act of 2014 -- To provide for an increase, effective December 1, 2014, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes - SUPPORT, with some reservations S. 2296 -- Veterans Appeals Improvement Act of 2014 -- To require the VA Secretary to employ at least three decision review officers at each regional office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT, with some reservations S. 2316 -- To require the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit a report on wait times for veterans seeking medical appointments and treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, to prohibit closure of medical facilities of the Department, and for other purposes -- To require the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit a report on wait times for veterans seeking medical appointments and treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, to prohibit closure of medical facilities of the Department, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2424 -- Veterans Choice Act of 2014 -- To provide veterans with the choice of medical providers and to increase transparency and accountability of operations of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. Res. 479 -- Recognizing Veterans Day 2014 as a special "Welcome Home Commemoration'' for all who have served in the military since September 14, 2001. -- Recognizing Veterans Day 2014 as a special "Welcome Home Commemoration'' for all who have served in the military since September 14, 2001 - SUPPORT PL 113-123 -- World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013 -- To direct the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day - SUPPORT PL 113-146 -- Veterans Access, Choice, And Accountability Act of 2014 -- To provide veterans with the choice of medical providers and to increase transparency and accountability of operations of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT PL 113-175 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain expiring provisions of law administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT PL 113-181 -- Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2014 -- Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to increase, as of December 1, 2014, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children - SUPPORT

H.R. 1443 -- Tinnitus Research and Treatment Act of 2013 -- To direct the VA Secretary to recognize tinnitus as a mandatory condition for research and treatment by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1494 -- Blue Water Navy Ship Accountability Act -- To direct the Secretary of Defense to review the operation of certainships during the Vietnam Era, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2018 -- Honor Those Who Served Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to identify the persons who are eligible to request headstones or markers furnished by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2072 -- Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the accountability of the VA Secretary to the Inspector General of the VA SUPPORT H.R. 2119 -- Veterans Access to Speedy Review Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the opportunity for veterans to use video conferencing for hearings before the Board of Veterans Appeals SUPPORT (with reservations) H.R. 2138 -- Ending VA Claims Disability Backlog and Accountability Act -- To direct the VA Secretary to resolve the backlog of disability claims of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2847 -- Wounded Warrior Service Dog Act of 2013 -- To establish a grant program to encourage the use of assistance dogs by certain members of the Armed Forces and veterans SUPPORT H.R. 3521 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 -- To authorize Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facility leases, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 3593 -- VA Construction Assistance Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the construction of major medical facilities, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 3876 -- Burial With Dignity for Heroes Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the VA Secretary to carry out a grant program to provide burials for homeless veterans SUPPORT H.R. 4031 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the removal of Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs for performance, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4038 -- Veterans Benefits Administration Information Technology Act of 2014 -- Requires the VA Secretary to make such changes and improvements to the information technology system of the Veterans Benefits Administration to ensure that: (1) all original and supplemental claims for veterans educational assistance are adjudicated electronically, and (2) rules-based processing is used to make decisions with respect to such claims with little human intervention SUPPORT H.R. 4095 -- Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2014 -- To increase, effective as of December 1, 2014, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT (with revisions) H.R. 4141 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into enhanced-use leases for excess property of the National Cemetery Administration that is unsuitable for burial purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to authorize the VA Secretary to enter into enhanced-use leases for excess property of the National Cemetery Administration that is unsuitable for burial purposes SUPPORT (with reservations) H.R. 4191 -- Quicker Veterans Benefits Delivery Act -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the treatment of medical evidence provided by non-Department of Veterans Affairs medical professionals in support of claims for disability compensation under the laws administered by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4344 -- Military Sexual Trauma Claims Administration Reform and Eligibility Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to establish a presumption of service connection for mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma SUPPORTH.R. 4374 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adopt and implement a standard identification protocol for use in the tracking and procurement of biological implants by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the VA Secretary to adopt and implement a standard identification protocol for use in the tracking and procurement of biological implants by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4486 -- Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes -- Making appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4672 -- To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide protections for active duty military consumers, and for other purposes -- To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide protections for active duty military consumers, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 503; S. 995 -- National Desert Storm and Desert Shield War Memorial Act of 2013 -- To authorize the National Desert Storm Memorial Association to establish the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial as a commemorative work in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 671; S. 294 -- Ruth Moore Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the VA Secretary to submit to Congress an annual report on claims for disabilities incurred or aggravated by military sexual trauma, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 679; S. 629 -- Honoring America's Guard-Reserves Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to recognize the service in the reserve components of the Armed Forces of certain persons by honoring them with status as veterans under law, and for other purposes - SUPPORT H.R. 813; S. 932 -- Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for advance appropriations for certain discretionary accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs - SUPPORT H.R. 1288; S. 1361 -- World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act -- To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to accept additional documentation when considering the application for veterans status of an individual who performed service as a coastwise merchant seaman during World War II - SUPPORT H.R. 3230; S. 2450 -- Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014 -- To improve the access of veterans to medical services from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT H.R. 3499; S. 1155 -- Rural Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act -- To provide for advance appropriations for certain information technology accounts of the VA, to include mental health professionals in training programs of the Department - SUPPORT S. 529 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, NC for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 851 -- Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to extend to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury eligibility to participate in the family caregiver services program - SUPPORT S. 1148 -- Veterans Benefits Claims Faster Filing Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the VA Secretary to provide notice of average times for processing claims, and for other purposes - SUPPORTS. 1295 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide veterans with notice, when veterans electronically file claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, that relevant services may be available from veterans service organizations, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to require the VA Secretary to provide veterans with notice, when veterans electronically file claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, that relevant services may be available from veterans service organizations, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 1296 -- Servicemembers Electronic Health Records Act of 2013 -- To amend the Wounded Warrior Act to establish a specific timeline for the DoD and VA Secretaries to achieve interoperable electronic health records, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1411 -- Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2013 -- To specify requirements for the next update of the current strategic plan for the Office of Rural Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs for improving access to, and the quality of, health care services for veterans in rural areas SUPPORT S. 1579 -- SCRA Enhancement and Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to improve the protections provided to members of the uniformed services and their families, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1583 -- Mental Health Support for Veterans Families and Caregivers Act of 2013 -- To require the VA Secretary to conduct an education program and peer support program for the education and training of family members and caregivers of veterans with mental health disorders SUPPORT S. 1584 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide replacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide replacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1585 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to update the Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance program to base premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table instead of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to update the Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance program to base premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table instead of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality SUPPORT S. 1586 -- Enhanced Dental Care for Veterans Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve dental health care for veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1589 -- Improving Quality of Care Within the Department of Veterans Affairs Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the VA Secretary to ensure the Department of Veterans Affairs has an up-to-date policy on reporting of cases of infectious diseases, to require an independent assessment of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks and medical centers of the Department, and for other purposes OPPOSE as written S. 1604 -- Veterans Health Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and enhance eligibility for health care and services through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1740 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 -- To authorize Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facility leases, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1751 -- A bill to improve authorities for performance of medical disabilities examinations by contract physicians for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes -- A bill to improve authorities for performance of medical disabilities examinations by contract physicians for benefits under laws administered by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORTS. 1755 -- Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2013 -- To require the VA Secretary to conduct a study on matters relating to the claiming and interring of unclaimed remains of veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1863 -- To establish in the Department of Veterans Affairs a continuing medical education program for licensed medical professionals to increase knowledge and recognition of medical conditions common to veterans and family members of veterans, and for other purposes. -- To establish in the Department of Veterans Affairs a continuing medical education program for licensed medical professionals to increase knowledge and recognition of medical conditions common to veterans and family members of veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1892 -- To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a registry of certain veterans who were stationed at or underwent training at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada, and for other purposes. -- To direct the VA Secretary to establish a registry of certain veterans who were stationed at or underwent training at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1931 -- A bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. -- A bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] SUPPORT S. 1950 -- Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] SUPPORT S. 1982 -- Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] - SUPPORT S. 1985; S. 2095 -- Veterans Health Care Access Received Closer to Home Act of 2013 [2014] -- To reauthorize and modify the pilot program of the Department of Veterans Affairs under which the VA Secretary provides health services to veterans through qualifying non-Department of Veterans Affairs health care providers, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 1987 -- To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into enhanced-use leases for certain buildings of the Department of Veterans Affairs at the West Los Angeles Medical Center, California, and for other purposes. -- To authorize the VA Secretary to enter into enhanced-use leases for certain buildings of the Department of Veterans Affairs at the West Los Angeles Medical Center, California, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 1993 -- Veterans Care Financial Protection Act of 2014 -- To protect individuals who are eligible for increased pension under laws administered by the VA Secretary on the basis of need of regular aid and attendance from dishonest, predatory, or otherwise unlawful practices, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2009 -- Rural Veterans Improvement Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of health care by the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans in rural and highly rural areas, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2013 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, USC, to provide for the removal of Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs for performance, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2091 -- 21st Century Veterans Benefits Delivery Act -- To amend title 38, USC, to improve the processing by the VA of claims for benefits under laws administered by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes - SUPPORTS. 2145 -- Veteran Voting Support Act -- To require the VA Secretary to permit facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs to be designated as voter registration agencies, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2182 -- Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act -- To expand and improve care provided to veterans and members of the Armed Forces with mental health disorders or at risk of suicide, to review the terms or characterization of the discharge or separation of certain individuals from the Armed Forces, to require a pilot program on loan repayment for psychiatrists who agree to serve in the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2243 -- Military and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 2014 -- To expand eligibility for the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to expand benefits available to participants under such program, to enhance special compensation for members of the uniformed services who require assistance in everyday life, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2258 -- Veterans Compensation Cost of Living Adjustment Act of 2014 -- To provide for an increase, effective December 1, 2014, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes - SUPPORT, with some reservations S. 2296 -- Veterans Appeals Improvement Act of 2014 -- To require the VA Secretary to employ at least three decision review officers at each regional office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT, with some reservations S. 2316 -- To require the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit a report on wait times for veterans seeking medical appointments and treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, to prohibit closure of medical facilities of the Department, and for other purposes -- To require the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit a report on wait times for veterans seeking medical appointments and treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, to prohibit closure of medical facilities of the Department, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2424 -- Veterans Choice Act of 2014 -- To provide veterans with the choice of medical providers and to increase transparency and accountability of operations of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. Res. 479 -- Recognizing Veterans Day 2014 as a special "Welcome Home Commemoration'' for all who have served in the military since September 14, 2001. -- Recognizing Veterans Day 2014 as a special "Welcome Home Commemoration'' for all who have served in the military since September 14, 2001 - SUPPORT PL 113-123 -- World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013 -- To direct the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day - SUPPORT PL 113-146 -- Veterans Access, Choice, And Accountability Act of 2014 -- To provide veterans with the choice of medical providers and to increase transparency and accountability of operations of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT PL 113-175 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain expiring provisions of law administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT PL 113-181 -- Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2014 -- Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to increase, as of December 1, 2014, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children - SUPPORT

PL 113-123 -- World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013 -- To direct the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day SUPPORTH.R. 1443 -- Tinnitus Research and Treatment Act of 2013 -- To direct the VA Secretary to recognize tinnitus as a mandatory condition for research and treatment by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1494 -- Blue Water Navy Ship Accountability Act -- To direct the Secretary of Defense to review the operation of certain ships during the Vietnam Era, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2018 -- Honor Those Who Served Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to identify the persons who are eligible to request headstones or markers furnished by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2072 -- Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the accountability of the VA Secretary to the Inspector General of the VA SUPPORT H.R. 2119 -- Veterans Access to Speedy Review Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the opportunity for veterans to use video conferencing for hearings before the Board of Veterans Appeals SUPPORT (with reservations) H.R. 2138 -- Ending VA Claims Disability Backlog and Accountability Act -- To direct the VA Secretary to resolve the backlog of disability claims of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2847 -- Wounded Warrior Service Dog Act of 2013 -- To establish a grant program to encourage the use of assistance dogs by certain members of the Armed Forces and veterans SUPPORT H.R. 3521 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 -- To authorize Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facility leases, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 3593 -- VA Construction Assistance Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the construction of major medical facilities, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 3876 -- Burial With Dignity for Heroes Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the VA Secretary to carry out a grant program to provide burials for homeless veterans SUPPORT H.R. 4031 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the removal of Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs for performance, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4038 -- Veterans Benefits Administration Information Technology Act of 2014 -- Requires the VA Secretary to make such changes and improvements to the information technology system of the Veterans Benefits Administration to ensure that: (1) all original and supplemental claims for veterans educational assistance are adjudicated electronically, and (2) rules-based processing is used to make decisions with respect to such claims with little human intervention SUPPORT H.R. 4095 -- Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2014 -- To increase, effective as of December 1, 2014, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT (with revisions) H.R. 4141 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into enhanced-use leases for excess property of the National Cemetery Administration that is unsuitable for burial purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to authorize the VA Secretary to enter into enhanced-use leases for excess property of the National Cemetery Administration that is unsuitable for burial purposes SUPPORT (with reservations)H.R. 4191 -- Quicker Veterans Benefits Delivery Act -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the treatment of medical evidence provided by non-Department of Veterans Affairs medical professionals in support of claims for disability compensation under the laws administered by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4344 -- Military Sexual Trauma Claims Administration Reform and Eligibility Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to establish a presumption of service connection for mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma SUPPORT H.R. 4374 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adopt and implement a standard identification protocol for use in the tracking and procurement of biological implants by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the VA Secretary to adopt and implement a standard identification protocol for use in the tracking and procurement of biological implants by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4486 -- Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes -- Making appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4672 -- To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide protections for active duty military consumers, and for other purposes -- To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide protections for active duty military consumers, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 503; S. 995 -- National Desert Storm and Desert Shield War Memorial Act of 2013 -- To authorize the National Desert Storm Memorial Association to establish the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial as a commemorative work in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 671; S. 294 -- Ruth Moore Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the VA Secretary to submit to Congress an annual report on claims for disabilities incurred or aggravated by military sexual trauma, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 679; S. 629 -- Honoring Americas Guard-Reserves Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to recognize the service in the reserve components of the Armed Forces of certain persons by honoring them with status as veterans under law, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 813; S. 932 -- Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for advance appropriations for certain discretionary accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs SUPPORT H.R. 1288; S. 1361 -- World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act -- To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to accept additional documentation when considering the application for veterans status of an individual who performed service as a coastwise merchant seaman during World War II SUPPORT H.R. 3230; S. 2450 -- Veterans Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014 -- To improve the access of veterans to medical services from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 3499; S. 1155 -- Rural Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act -- To provide for advance appropriations for certain information technology accounts of the VA, to include mental health professionals in training programs of the Department SUPPORTS. 529 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 851 -- Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to extend to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury eligibility to participate in the family caregiver services program SUPPORT S. 1148 -- Veterans Benefits Claims Faster Filing Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the VA Secretary to provide notice of average times for processing claims, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1295 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide veterans with notice, when veterans electronically file claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, that relevant services may be available from veterans service organizations, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to require the VA Secretary to provide veterans with notice, when veterans electronically file claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, that relevant services may be available from veterans service organizations, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1296 -- Servicemembers Electronic Health Records Act of 2013 -- To amend the Wounded Warrior Act to establish a specific timeline for the DOD and VA Secretaries to achieve interoperable electronic health records, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1411 -- Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2013 -- To specify requirements for the next update of the current strategic plan for the Office of Rural Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs for improving access to, and the quality of, health care services for veterans in rural areas SUPPORT S. 1579 -- SCRA Enhancement and Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to improve the protections provided to members of the uniformed services and their families, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1583 -- Mental Health Support for Veterans Families and Caregivers Act of 2013 -- To require the VA Secretary to conduct an education program and peer support program for the education and training of family members and caregivers of veterans with mental health disorders SUPPORT S. 1584 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide replacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide replacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1585 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to update the Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance program to base premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table instead of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to update the Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance program to base premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table instead of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality SUPPORT S. 1586 -- Enhanced Dental Care for Veterans Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve dental health care for veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORTS. 1589 -- Improving Quality of Care Within the Department of Veterans Affairs Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the VA Secretary to ensure the Department of Veterans Affairs has an up-to-date policy on reporting of cases of infectious diseases, to require an independent assessment of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks and medical centers of the Department, and for other purposes OPPOSE bill as written S. 1604 -- Veterans Health Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and enhance eligibility for health care and services through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1740 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 -- To authorize Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facility leases, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1751 -- A bill to improve authorities for performance of medical disabilities examinations by contract physicians for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes -- A bill to improve authorities for performance of medical disabilities examinations by contract physicians for benefits under laws administered by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1755 -- Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2013 -- To require the VA Secretary to conduct a study on matters relating to the claiming and interring of unclaimed remains of veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1863 -- To establish in the Department of Veterans Affairs a continuing medical education program for licensed medical professionals to increase knowledge and recognition of medical conditions common to veterans and family members of veterans, and for other purposes. -- To establish in the Department of Veterans Affairs a continuing medical education program for licensed medical professionals to increase knowledge and recognition of medical conditions common to veterans and family members of veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1892 -- To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a registry of certain veterans who were stationed at or underwent training at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada, and for other purposes. -- To direct the VA Secretary to establish a registry of certain veterans who were stationed at or underwent training at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1931 -- A bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. -- A bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] SUPPORT S. 1950 -- Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] SUPPORT S. 1982 -- Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] SUPPORT S. 1985; S. 2095 -- Veterans Health Care Access Received Closer to Home Act of 2013 [2014] -- To reauthorize and modify the pilot program of the Department of Veterans Affairs under which the VA Secretary provides health services to veterans through qualifying non-Department of Veterans Affairs health care providers, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1987 -- To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into enhanced-use leases for certain buildings of the Department of Veterans Affairs at the West Los Angeles Medical Center, California, and for other purposes. -- Toauthorize the VA Secretary to enter into enhanced-use leases for certain buildings of the Department of Veterans Affairs at the West Los Angeles Medical Center, California, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1993 -- Veterans Care Financial Protection Act of 2014 -- To protect individuals who are eligible for increased pension under laws administered by the VA Secretary on the basis of need of regular aid and attendance from dishonest, predatory, or otherwise unlawful practices, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2009 -- Rural Veterans Improvement Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of health care by the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans in rural and highly rural areas, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2013 -- Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to provide for the removal of Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs for performance, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2091 -- 21st Century Veterans Benefits Delivery Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the processing by the VA of claims for benefits under laws administered by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2145 -- Veteran Voting Support Act -- To require the VA Secretary to permit facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs to be designated as voter registration agencies, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2182 -- Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act -- To expand and improve care provided to veterans and members of the Armed Forces with mental health disorders or at risk of suicide, to review the terms or characterization of the discharge or separation of certain individuals from the Armed Forces, to require a pilot program on loan repayment for psychiatrists who agree to serve in the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2243 -- Military and Veteran Caregiver Services Improvement Act of 2014 -- To expand eligibility for the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to expand benefits available to participants under such program, to enhance special compensation for members of the uniformed services who require assistance in everyday life, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2258 -- Veterans Compensation Cost of Living Adjustment Act of 2014 -- To provide for an increase, effective December 1, 2014, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes - SUPPORT, with some reservations S. 2296 -- Veterans Appeals Improvement Act of 2014 -- To require the VA Secretary to employ at least three decision review officers at each regional office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT, with some reservations S. 2316 -- To require the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit a report on wait times for veterans seeking medical appointments and treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, to prohibit closure of medical facilities of the Department, and for other purposes -- To require the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs to submit a report on wait times for veterans seeking medical appointments and treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, to prohibit closure of medical facilities of the Department, and for other purposes - SUPPORT S. 2424 -- Veterans Choice Act of 2014 -- To provide veterans with the choice of medical providers and to increase transparency and accountability of operations of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes - SUPPORT SR 479 -- Recognizing Veterans Day 2014 as a special "Welcome Home Commemoration'' for all who have served in the military since September 14, 2001. -- Recognizing Veterans Day 2014 as a special "Welcome Home Commemoration'' for all who have served in the military since September 14, 2001 - SUPPORT

Department of Veterans Affairs appropriations and its delivery of benefits and services to veterans, their dependents and survivors: H.Con.Res. 64, H.Res. 557, HR 4517, HR 4486, HR 4261, HR 4247, HR 4191, HR 4151, HR 4141, HR 4038HR 4037, HR 3926, HR 3843, HR 3808, HR 3789, HR 3672, HR 3653, HR 3649, HR 3614, HR 3515, HR 3514, HR 3506, HR 3499, HR 3474, HR 3456, HR 3453, HR 3443, HR 3442, HR 3441, HR 3422, HR 3405, HR 3399, HR 3395, HR 3387, HR 3384, HR 3383,HR 3333, HR 3330, HR 3145, HR 3098, HR 3087, HR 3056, HR 3007, HR 2974, HR 2953, HR 2942, HR 2882, HR 2726, HR 2527, HR 2189, HR 2086, HR 1957, HR 1796, HR 1774, HR 1714, HR 1702, HR 1494, HR 1405, HR 1344, HR 1284, HR 1131, HR 958, HR 921, HR 813, HR 921, HR 671, HR 570, HR 569, HR 562, HR 411, HR 369, HR 367, HR 333, HR 303, HR 288, HR 235, HR 164, HR 42, HR 32, S 2298, S 2258, S 2243, S 1950, S 1880, S 1872, S 1773, S 1717, S 1707, S 1684, S 1682, S 1637, S 1624, S 1604, S 1593, S 1588, S 1586, S 1585, S 1584, S 1583, S 1582, S 1581, S 1580, S 1579, S 1578, S 1573, S 1564, S 1558, S 1295, S 1281, S 944, S 893, S 851, S 825, S 735, S 734, S 700, S 674, S 495, S 492, S 430, S 422, S 325, S 294, S 234, S 140, S 131, S Con Res 15

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Improving survivor benefits for widows of deceased servicemembers and to restore and improve veterans' benefits. HR 32, HR 235, HR 241, HR 258, HR 288, HR 318, HR 333, HR 357, HR 543, HR 562, HR 679, HR 690, HR 813, HR 883, HR 958, HR 1357, HR 2366, HR 2527, HR 2794, HR 2942, HR 3230, HR 3395, HR 3474, HR 4031, HR 4478, HR 4486, HR 4489, HR 4630, HR 4693, HR 4741, HR 4760, HR 4778, HR 4793, HR 4810, S 6, S 140, S 200, S 210, S 234, S 257, S 262, S 294, S 325, S 373, S 430, S 492, S 495, S 514, S 515, S 572, S 629, S 674, S 690, S 695, S 705, S 734, S 735, S 748, S 778, S 819, S 851, S 863, S 868, S 889, S 893, S 894, S 922, S 927, S 928, S 930, S 932, S 935, S 938, S 939, S 944, S 1039, S 1042, S 1058, S 1291, S 1564, S 1591, S 1624, S 1950, S 1982, S 2182, S 2243, S 2300, S 2333, S 2448, S 2450

Client expense: $523,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Department of Veterans Affairs appropriations and its delivery of benefits and services to veterans, their dependents and survivors: H.Con.Res. 64, HR 3926, HR 3808, HR 3789, HR 3672, HR 3653, HR 3649, HR 3515, HR 3514, HR 3506, HR 3499, HR 3474, HR 3456, HR 3453, HR 3443, HR 3442, HR 3441, HR 3422, HR 3405, HR 3399, HR 3395, HR 3384, HR 3383, HR 3333, HR 3145, HR 3098, HR 3087, HR 3007, HR 2974, HR 2953, HR 2882, HR 2726, HR 2189, HR 2086, HR 1957, HR 1796, HR 1774,HR 1714, HR 1702, HR 1494, HR 1405, HR 1344, HR 1284, HR 958, HR 813, HR 921, HR 671, HR 570, HR 569, HR 562, HR 411, HR 369, HR 367, HR 333, HR 303, HR 288, HR 235, HR 164, HR 42, HR 32, S 1950, S 1880, S 1872, S 1773, S 1717, S 1707, S 1684, S 1682, S 1637, S 1624, S 1604, S 1593, S 1588, S 1586, S 1585, S 1584, S 1583, S 1582, S 1581, S 1580, S 1579, S 1578, S 1573, S 1564, S 1558, S 1295, S 1281, S 944, S 893, S 825, S 735, S 734, S 700, S 674, S 495, S 492, S 430, S 422, S 325, S 294, S 234, S 140, S 131, S Con Res 15

Client expense: $250,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Improvements in personnel programs, compensation, and benefits. H.R. 3547, H.R. 3787, H.R. 3788, H.R. 3790, H.R. 3793, H.R. 3794, H.R. 3804, H.R. 3807, H.R. 3996, H.R. 4101, H.R. 4217, H.R. 4305. S. 25, S. 294, S. 373, S. 1076, S. 1752, S. 1844, S. 1856, S. 1869, S. 1917, S. 1963, S. 2075. PL 113-67, PL 113-66

Client expense: $418,078 · Firm income: Not reported

P.L. 113-76: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 -- Making continuing appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year 2014, through September 30, 2014 - SUPPORT P.L. 113-82: To ensure that the reduced annual cost-of-living adjustment to the retired pay of members and former members ofthe Armed Forces under the age of 62 required by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 will not apply to members or former members who first became members prior to January 1, 2014, and for other purposes. -- To ensure that the reduced annual cost-of-living adjustment to the retired pay of members and former members of the Armed Forces under the age of 62 required by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 will not apply to members or former members who first became members prior to January 1, 2014, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1443: Tinnitus Research and Treatment Act of 2013 -- Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) recognize tinnitus as a mandatory condition for research and treatment by Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Auditory Centers of Excellence, (2) ensure that research is conducted at VA facilities on the prevention and treatment of tinnitus, and (3) ensure VA cooperation with the Hearing Center of Excellence established by the Department of Defense (DOD) to further research on tinnitus SUPPORT H.R. 1494: Blue Water Navy Ship Accountability Act -- To direct the Secretary of Defense to review the operation of certain ships during the Vietnam Era, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2018: Honor Those Who Served Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to identify the persons who are eligible to request headstones or markers furnished by the VA Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2072: Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the accountability of the VA Secretary to the Inspector General of the VA SUPPORT H.R. 2119: Veterans Access to Speedy Review Act -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the opportunity for veterans to use video conferencing for hearings before the Board of Veterans Appeals SUPPORT (with reservations) H.R. 2138: Ending VA Claims Disability Backlog and Accountability Act -- To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to resolve the backlog of disability claims of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2847: Wounded Warrior Service Dog Act of 2013 -- Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to jointly establish the K-9 Companion Corps program for the awarding of grants to assist nonprofit organizations in establishing, planning, designing, and/or operating programs to provide assistance dogs to certain members of the Armed Forces and veterans who have certain disabilities. Defines assistance dog to mean a dog specifically trained to perform physical tasks to mitigate the effects of such a disability, except that such term does not include a dog specifically trained for comfort or personal defense SUPPORT H.R. 3521: Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 -- To authorize Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facility leases, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 3593: VA Construction Assistance Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the construction of major medical facilities, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 3876: Burial With Dignity for Heroes Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a grant program to provide burials for homeless veterans SUPPORT H.R. 4031: Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act of 2014 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the removal of Senior Executive Service employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs for performance, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4038: Veterans Benefits Administration Information Technology Act of 2014 -- Requires the VA Secretary to make such changes and improvements to the information technology system of the Veterans Benefits Administration toensure that: (1) all original and supplemental claims for veterans educational assistance are adjudicated electronically, and (2) rules-based processing is used to make decisions with respect to such claims with little human intervention SUPPORT H.R. 4095: Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2014 -- To increase, effective as of December 1, 2014, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT (with revisions) H.R. 4141: To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into enhanced-use leases for excess property of the National Cemetery Administration that is unsuitable for burial purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to authorize the VA Secretary to enter into enhanced-use leases for excess property of the National Cemetery Administration that is unsuitable for burial purposes SUPPORT (with reservations) H.R. 4191: Quicker Veterans Benefits Delivery Act -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the treatment of medical evidence provided by non-Department of Veterans Affairs medical professionals in support of claims for disability compensation under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 4344: Military Sexual Trauma Claims Administration Reform and Eligibility Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to establish a presumption of service connection for mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma SUPPORT H.R. 4374: To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adopt and implement a standard identification protocol for use in the tracking and procurement of biological implants by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adopt and implement a standard identification protocol for use in the tracking and procurement of biological implants by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 671 / S. 294: Ruth Moore Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the VA Secretary to submit to Congress an annual report on claims for disabilities incurred or aggravated by military sexual trauma, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 679 / S. 629: Honoring Americas Guard-Reserves Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to recognize the service in the reserve components of the Armed Forces of certain persons by honoring them with status as veterans under law, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 813 / S. 932: Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 -- Authorizes the provision of advance appropriations for the following discretionary (under current law, medical care) accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs: (1) Veterans Health Administration Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, Medical Facilities, and Medical Research and Support; (2) National Cemetery Administration; and (3) Veterans Benefits Administration, Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program. Authorizes the provision of advance appropriations for the following VA discretionary administration accounts: (1) general operating expenses, (2) information technology systems, (3) the Office of the Inspector General, (4) construction for major and minor projects, and (5) grants for the construction of state extended care facilities and veterans cemeteries SUPPORT H.R. 1288 / S. 1361: World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act -- To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to accept additional documentation when considering the application for veterans status of an individual who performed service as a coastwise merchant seaman during World War II SUPPORT H.R. 3499 / S. 1155: Rural Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act -- To provide for advance appropriations for certain information technology accounts of the VA, to include mental health professionals in training programs of the Department SUPPORTS. 529: To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the commence-ment date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 851: Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to extend to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury eligibility to participate in the family caregiver services program SUPPORT S. 1148: Veterans Benefits Claims Faster Filing Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the VA Secretary to provide notice of average times for processing claims, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1295: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide veterans with notice, when veterans electronically file claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, that relevant services may be available from veterans service organiza-tions, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to require the VA Secretary to provide veterans with notice, when veterans electronically file claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, that relevant services may be available from veterans service organizations, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1296: Servicemembers Electronic Health Records Act of 2013 -- To amend the Wounded Warrior Act to establish a specific timeline for the DoD and VA Secretaries to achieve interoperable electronic health records, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1411: Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2013 -- To specify requirements for the next update of the current strategic plan for the Office of Rural Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs for improving access to, and the quality of, health care services for veterans in rural areas SUPPORT S. 1579: SCRA Enhancement and Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to improve the protections provided to members of the uniformed services and their families, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1583 : Mental Health Support for Veterans Families and Caregivers Act of 2013 -- To require the VA Secretary to conduct an education program and peer support program for the education and training of family members and caregivers of veterans with mental health disorders SUPPORT S. 1584: A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide replacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes -- To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide replacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1585: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to update the Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance program to base premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table instead of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to update the Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance program to base premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table instead of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality SUPPORT S. 1586: Enhanced Dental Care for Veterans Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve dental health care for veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1589: Improving Quality of Care Within the Department of Veterans Affairs Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure the Department of Veterans Affairs has an up-to-date policy on reporting of cases of infectious diseases, to require an independent assessment of the Veterans IntegratedService Networks and medical centers of the Department, and for other purposes OPPOSE legislation as written S. 1604: Veterans Health Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and enhance eligibility for health care and services through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1931: A bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. -- A bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes. [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] SUPPORT S. 1950: Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees passed as part of Public Law 113-66] SUPPORT S. 1982: Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 -- To improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes [This measure included a provision to repeal the COLA reduction for military retirees which passed as part of Public Law 113-66] SUPPORT

HR 2810/HR 574/HR 4015, Doc fix permanent; S. 294, PTSD sexual assault; HR 975/S. 628, review medical records for pre-existing condition;

Client expense: $162,500 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)

Improvements in personnel programs, compensation, and benefits. H.R. 975, H.R. 1620, H.R. 1705, H.R. 1960, H.R. 1971, H.R. 2397, H.J. Res. 59, S. 294, S. 373, S. 759, S. 871, S. 1034, S. 1197, S. 1429, P.L. 112-81, P.L. 112-239

Client expense: $437,390 · Firm income: Not reported

HR 1960/S.1197, Defense Authorization; S. 1078/HR 1971, TRICARE Primeoutside PSA; HR 55, Pay Troops First Act; S. 294, PTSD claims for sexual assault.

Client expense: $140,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)

HR 1960/S. 1197, defense authorization; HR 1938, PTSD treatment; S. 871 combating sexual assault; S. 1078/HR 1971, TRICARE Prime outside PSA; HR 55, Pay Troops First Act; S. 294, streamline evaluation of PTSD claims from sexual assault.

Client expense: $140,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)

VA healthcare and benefits. General support for Gulf War Illness scientific research, medical treatment, disability benefits as part of VAs and DoDs budgets and appropriations. Urging legislation and regulatory changes for improved VA Undiagnosed Illness (UDX) Regulations; Urging VA to mail information to each veteran where VA has an address; re-open the disability claim of any Gulf War who asks; create a permanent VA Gulf War Veteran Advocacy Office; update the regulatory definition of Gulf War service; expanding regulations to include new presumptive conditions; promulgate new regulations expanding disability compensation benefits to veterans with multisymptom illness. H.R. 671/S. 294, the Ruth Moore Act; expansion of VA service-connection for "covered mental health conditions" to include post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, or any other mental health diagnosis related to military sexual trauma.

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office

VA healthcare and benefits. General support for Gulf War Illness scientific research, medical treatment, disability benefits as part of VAs and DoDs budgets and appropriations. Urging legislation and regulatory changes for improved VA Undiagnosed Illness (UDX) Regulations; Urging VA to mail information to each veteran where VA has an address; re-open the disability claim of any Gulf War who asks; create a permanent VA Gulf War Veteran Advocacy Office; update the regulatory definition of Gulf War service; expanding regulations to include new presumptive conditions; promulgate new regulations expanding disability compensation benefits to veterans with multisymptom illness. H.R. 671/S. 294, the Ruth Moore Act; expansion of VA service-connection for "covered mental health conditions" to include post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, or any other mental health diagnosis related to military sexual trauma.

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office

VA healthcare and benefits. General support for Gulf War Illness scientific research, medical treatment, disability benefits as part of VAs and DoDs budgets and appropriations. Urging legislation and regulatory changes for improved VA Undiagnosed Illness (UDX) Regulations; Urging VA to mail information to each veteran where VA has an address; re-open the disability claim of any Gulf War who asks; create a permanent VA Gulf War Veteran Advocacy Office; update the regulatory definition of Gulf War service; expanding regulations to include new presumptive conditions; promulgate new regulations expanding disability compensation benefits to veterans with multisymptom illness. H.R. 671/S. 294, the Ruth Moore Act; expansion of VA service-connection for "covered mental health conditions" to include post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, or any other mental health diagnosis related to military sexual trauma.

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office

Department of Veterans Affairs appropriations and its delivery of benefits and services to veterans, their dependents and survivors: HR 3443, HR 3395, HR 3383, HR 3333, HR 3098, HR 3087, HR 3007, HR 2974, HR 2953, HR 2882, HR 2726, HR 2189, HR 2086, HR 1957, HR 1796, HR 1774, HR 1714, HR 1702, HR 1494, HR 1405, HR 1344, HR 1284, HR 958, HR 813, HR 921, HR 671, HR 570, HR 569, HR 562, HR 411, HR 369, HR 367, HR 303, HR 288, HR 235, HR 164, HR 42, HR 32, S 1604,S 1593, S 1588, S 1586, S 1585, S 1584, S 1583, S 1582, S 1581, S 1579, S 1578, S 1573, S 1564, S 1558, S 1295, S 1281, S 893, S 825, S 735, S 734, S 700, S 674, S 495, S 492, S 430, S 422, S 325, S 294, S 234, S 140, S 131, S Con Res 15

Client expense: $180,000 · Firm income: Not reported

P.L. 113-46 -- Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014Making continuing appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year 2014, through January 15, 2014 SUPPORT P.L. 113-52 -- Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 Would provide for an increase, effectiveDecember 1, 2013, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT P.L. 113-59 -- VA Expiring Authorities Extension Act of 2013To amend title 38, U.S.C., to extend certain expiring provisions of law, and for other purposes, including: Extension of authority to transport certain individuals to and from VA facilities; Extension of authority for operation of the VA regional office in Manila, the Republic of the Philippines. Extension of requirement to provide nursing home care to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities. Extension of treatment and rehabilitation services for seriously mentally ill and homeless veterans. Extension of authority to provide housing assistance for homeless veterans. Extension of authority for the Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans. Extension of authority for the Veterans Advisory Commission on Education. Extension of requirements relating to vendee loans. Extension of authority for the performance of medical disabilities examinations by contract physicians Would amend title 38, U.S.C., to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly assistance allowance to disabled veterans training or competing for the Paralympic Team and the authorization of appropriations for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide assistance to United States Paralympics, Inc. SUPPORT H.R. 1443 -- Tinnitus Research and Treatment Act of 2013Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) recognize tinnitus as a mandatory condition for research and treatment by Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Auditory Centers of Excellence, (2) ensure that research is conducted at VA facilities on the prevention and treatment of tinnitus, and (3) ensure VA cooperation with the Hearing Center of Excellence established by the Department of Defense (DOD) to further research on tinnitus SUPPORT H.R. 1494 -- Blue Water Navy Ship Accountability ActDirects the Secretary of Defense to review the operation of certain ships during the Vietnam Era, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2072 -- Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013Amends title 38, U.S.C., to improve the accountability of the VA Secretary to the Inspector General of the VA SUPPORT H.R. 2138 -- Ending VA Claims Disability Backlog and Accountability ActWould direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to resolve the backlog of disability claims of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2847 -- Wounded Warrior Service Dog Act of 2013Directs the Secretaries of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) to jointly establish the K-9 Companion Corps program for the awarding of grants to assist nonprofit organizations in establishing, planning, designing, and/or operating programs to provide assistance dogs to certain members of the Armed Forces and veterans who have certain disabilities. Defines "assistance dog" to mean a dog specifically trained to perform physical tasks to mitigate the effects of such a disability, except that such term does not include a dog specifically trained for comfort or personal defense - SUPPORT H.R. 671; S. 294 -- Ruth Moore Act of 2013Would amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress an annual report on claims for disabilities incurred or aggravated by military sexual trauma, and for other purposes - SUPPORT H.R. 679; S. 629 -- Honoring America's Guard-Reserves Act of 2013Amends title 38, U.S.C., to recognize the service in the reserve components of the Armed Forces of certain persons by honoring them with status as veterans under law, and for other purposes - SUPPORTH.R. 813; S. 932 -- Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013Authorizes the provision of advance appropriations for the following discretionary (under current law, medical care) accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): (1) Veterans Health Administration Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, Medical Facilities, and Medical Research and Support; (2) National Cemetery Administration; and (3) Veterans Benefits Administration, Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program. Authorizes the provision of advance appropriations for the following VA discretionary administration accounts: (1) general operating expenses, (2) information technology systems, (3) the Office of the Inspector General, (4) construction for major and minor projects, and (5) grants for the construction of state extended care facilities and veterans cemeteries SUPPORT H.R. 1288; S. 1361 -- World War II Merchant Mariner Service ActDirect the Secretary of Homeland Security to accept additional documentation when considering the application for veterans status of an individual who performed service as a coastwise merchant seaman during World War II SUPPORT H.R. 3499; S. 1155 -- Rural Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement ActProvides for advance appropriations for certain information technology accounts of the VA, to include mental health professionals in training programs of the Department SUPPORT S. 529 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the commence-ment date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposesAmends title 38, U.S.C., to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 851 -- Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013Amend title 38, U.S.C., to extend to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury eligibility to participate in the family caregiver services program SUPPORT S. 1148 -- Veterans Benefits Claims Faster Filing ActAmend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the VA Secretary to provide notice of average times for processing claims, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1295 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide veterans with notice, when veterans electronically file claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, that relevant services may be available from veterans service organiza-tions, and for other purposesWould amend title 38, U.S.C., to require the VA Secretary to provide veterans with notice, when veterans electronically file claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, that relevant services may be available from veterans service organizations, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1296 -- Servicemembers Electronic Health Records Act of 2013Will amend the Wounded Warrior Act to establish a specific timeline for the DoD and VA Secretaries to achieve interoperable electronic health records, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1411 -- Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2013Specifies requirements for the next update of the current strategic plan for the Office of Rural Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs for improving access to, and the quality of, health care services for veterans in rural areas SUPPORT S. 1579 -- SCRA Enhancement and Improvement Act of 2013Will amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to improve the protections provided to members of the uniformed services and their families, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1583 -- Mental Health Support for Veterans Families and Caregivers Act of 2013Requires the VA Secretary to conduct an education program and peer support program for the education and training of family members and caregivers of veterans with mental health disorders SUPPORT S. 1584 -- A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide replacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposesWould amend title 28, United States Code, to providereplacement automobiles for certain disabled veterans and members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1585 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to update the Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance program to base premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table instead of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of MortalityAmends title 38, U.S.C., to update the Service-Disabled Veterans Insurance program to base premium rates on the Commissioners 2001 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table instead of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Table of Mortality SUPPORT S. 1586 -- Enhanced Dental Care for Veterans Act of 2013Will amend title 38, United States Code, to improve dental health care for veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 1589 -- Improving Quality of Care Within the Department of Veterans Affairs Act of 2013To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure the Department of Veterans Affairs has an up-to-date policy on reporting of cases of infectious diseases, to require an independent assessment of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks and medical centers of the Department, and for other purposes OPPOSE bill as written S. 1604 -- Veterans Health Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act of 2013Would amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and enhance eligibility for health care and services through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT

Legislation: Executive Order 13636, Cybersecurity Legislation and Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 127, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment;oversight and accountability; H.R. 148, DISCLOSE Act - Issues Lobbied: Campaign finance reform; H.R. 1497, The Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Drug Testing, SNAP; H.R. 15, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Federal immigration reform (due process, enforcement, detention, legalization); H.R. 1523, The Respect States Marijuana Laws Act - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana; H.R. 1652, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; H.R. 1755, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; H.R. 1814, EACH Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; H.R. 1843, REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS; H.R. 1962, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1975, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; H.R. 2217, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Detention Bed Mandate; 287(g) funding; H.R. 2278, SAFE Act - Issues Lobbied: Interior Enforcement: House CIR- opposition to SAFE Act and other enforcement-only bills; H.R. 2278, Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act (SAFE Act) - Issues Lobbied: Border security, state and local enforcement; H.R. 2399, LIBERT-E Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2440, FISA Court in the Sunshine Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2475, Ending Secret Law Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2523, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships; H.R. 2586, FISA Court Accountability Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2603, Relevancy Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2684, Telephone Surveillance Accountability Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2736, Government Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2761, Presidential Appointment of FISA Court Judges Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2818, Surveillance State Repeal Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 2849, Privacy Advocate General Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 287, Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 2872, Border Enforcement, Security, and Technology Act - Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement; H.R. 2999, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Employment Discrimination; Police Practices; H.R. 3035, Surveillance Order Reporting Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3070, NSA Accountability Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3103, Intelligence Oversight and Accountability Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3130, Protect Family Values at the Border Act - Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement; H.R. 3133, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; First Amendment; H.R. 3159, Ensuring Adversarial Process in the FISA Court Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 3300, FEMA Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; H.R. 3304, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Sexual Assault; Detainee restrictions; National Security/AUMF/Detention; Religious Liberty; H.R. 3361, USA FREEDOM Act - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance; National Security; Civil Liberties; Privacy; H.R. 3382, The Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums and Crack Cocaine; H.R. 3404, National Defense Authorization Act for FY14 - Issues Lobbied: National Security/AUMF/Detention; H.R. 3431, American Families United Act - Issues Lobbied: Keeping mixed-status families together; H.R. 3471, Women's Health Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; H.R. 377, Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; H.R. 3774, Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; H.R. 637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 698, HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS; H.R. 964, Respect States and Citizens Rights Act - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana; H.R. 983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R.1695, The Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; H.R.2656, The Federal Prison Reform Act - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing reform, recidivism; HR 2278, Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: Detention, immigration enforcement; S. 1030, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; S. 1044, World War II Memorial Prayer Act. - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; S. 1088, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; S. 1121, Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1130, Ending Secret Law Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1151, America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1182, A bill to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1197, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Sexual Assault; Detainee restrictions; National Security/AUMF/Detention; Religious Liberty; S. 1197, National Defense Authorization Act FY 14 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, HIV/AIDS; S. 1215, FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1236, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights, Relationships;H.R. 1417, Border Security Results Act - Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement; H.R. 1318, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S. 1307, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; S. 1329, FY14 CJS Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; S. 1410, Smarter Sentencing Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S. 1452, Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1460, FISA Judge Selection Reform Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1467, FISA Court Reform Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1599, USA FREEDOM Act - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance; National Security; Civil Liberties; Privacy; S. 1631, FISA Improvements Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; S. 1670, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 1696, Women's Health Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 1752, Military Justice Improvement Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 1808, Marriage and Religious Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; S. 1817, Humane Short Term Custody Act - Issues Lobbied: ; S. 294, Ruth Moore Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 330, HIV Organ Policy Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; S. 47, Violence Against Women Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; S. 619, The Justice Safety Valve Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S. 619, The Justice Safety Valve Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Solitary Confinement; Mandatory Minimums; Criminal Bars to Citizenship; National ID; Employment verification; Privacy; S. 813, Peace Corps Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 815, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; S. 84, Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; S. 862, EACH Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; S. 878, Arbitration Fairness Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; S. 942, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 987, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.1675, The Recidivism Reduction & Public Safety Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing and Prison Good Time Credits; S.1783, The Federal Prison Reform Act - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing reform, recidivism Congressional Issues without Bills: Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Asylum Abuse - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Behavioral Detection - Issues Lobbied: ; BOP Oversight Hearing - Issues Lobbied: Solitary Confinement, Private Prisons and PREA; Border Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; CBP oversight and excessive use of force - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Border Oversight - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Border Searches - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Broadband Adoption Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Bureau of Prisons Oversight - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Byrne Grants - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; CIA Torture Report - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: National ID, Employment verification, Privacy; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Court Efficiency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Access to Justice; Criminal Exclusions - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: Detention bed mandate; 287(g) funding; Department of Homeland Security Issues; Detainer Issues - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Detention Bed Mandates - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; DOD Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight; Election administration reform - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location tracking; Employment Credit Checks - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Federal administrative Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Federal Over-Criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; Follow the Money Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing, intelligence collection, First Amendment; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Guantanamo - Issues Lobbied: ; Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikes - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Housing Disparate Impact; ICE enforcement issues - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Immigration Local Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Interior and Border enforcement; KIDS Act - Issues Lobbied: Legalization; Limits on Using Hearing Videos - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment;Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing; Military Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Military Combat Exclusion Policy - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Military Sexual Assault - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Nomination of CIA General Counsel - Issues Lobbied: Torture; NSA Surveillance - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Surveillance; Over-criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; Patent Issues - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Racial Profiling Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, first amendment, national security; Radicalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security; Religious Displays - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; Restoring discretion to immigration system - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Stand Your Ground Laws - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Racial Justice; Racial Profiling; Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; Targeted Killing - Issues Lobbied: National security; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice; U.S. Customs and Border Protection Oversight - Issues Lobbied: Immigrant Rights; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; Vance Legislative Fix - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Various bills responding to IRS targeting - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Voting Discrimination - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Voting Rights Act legislative response to Shelby - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Whistleblower Protection - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; Womens Economic Agenda - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Employment Discrimination Agencies Lobbied: Bureau of Prisons - Issues Lobbied: Sentencing reform; Mandatory Minimums; Solitary Confinement; Access to Counsel; Compassionate Release; Private Prisons; Department of Commerce - Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Executive Order 13636; Department of Defense - Issues Lobbied: Equal opportunity training; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14; Guantanamo; Proposed Rule FAR Case 2013-001, Ending Trafficking in Persons as outlined at 78 FR 69812; Military Abortion coverage; Military Combat Exclusion Policy; Spousal benefits; Department of Education - Issues Lobbied: Race in education strategic plan; Education; Discrimination (OCR); Single sex education; Proposed revisions to the Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), as outlined at 78 FR 37529; School Discipline Guidance; School Diversity Grant Programs; Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: Sex education; Department of Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory custody; ICE Detainers; Immigration detention; National ID; Employment verification; Privacy; Interior and Border enforcement; Federal administrative immigration reform; ICE enforcement issues; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Executive Order 13636; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT; Radicalization; Suspicious Activity Reports; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; Fusion Centers; Department of Housing and Urban Development - Issues Lobbied: VAWA housing; Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Juvenile solitary confinement; CAIR harassment; NYPD spying; Immigration; Racial profiling; Immigration detention (EOIR); Byrne Grants; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention); United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justices Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting; Sentencing Reform; Targeted Killing; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Interior and Border enforcement; DOJ Media Guidelines; Indigent Defense Reform; End Racial Profiling Act; Juvenile life without parole; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies; Federal over-criminalization; Federal administrative immigration reform; Whistleblower Protection; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; FBI Oversight; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates; Voting Rights Act legislative response to Shelby: DOJ COPs program (COPs Office); School Discipline Guidance; Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation; Department of Labor - Issues Lobbied: Employment; Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation (OFCCP); OFCCP wage compensation data collection tool (OFCCP); Executive Order Prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages (DOL and OFFCP); Department of State - Issues Lobbied: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14; Guantanamo; Department of Transportation - Issues Lobbied: Travel privacy; Department of Veterans Affairs - Issues Lobbied: Disability benefits; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: Employment; Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation; Womens Rights and National Origin Employment Discrimination strategic planning; Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: Deportation; Detainee Restrictions; NSA surveillance; Transparency; Racial profiling; Targeted killing; Detention bed mandate; FBI - Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; FBI Oversight; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates; Civil liberties;Privacy, Religious Freedom; Racial Profiling, National Security; Radicalization; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; Federal Communications Commission - Issues Lobbied: Access to telecommunications; Prison Phone Rates; Media Ownership Rule; Low Power FM Application Window; Indecency Comments; IP Transition; E-Rate Rulemaking; IP Transition; Open Internet Rule; General Services Administration - Issues Lobbied: Proposed Rule FAR Case 2013-001, Ending Trafficking in Persons as outlined at 78 FR 69812; Internal Revenue Service - Issues Lobbied: Political communications; 501(c)4 petition; Tax exempt standards; NASA - Issues Lobbied: Proposed Rule FAR Case 2013-001, Ending Trafficking in Persons as outlined at 78 FR 69812; National Archives and Records Aministration - Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; National Institute of Standards and Technology - Issues Lobbied: Cybersecurity; Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: Sex education; Byrne Grants; DHS appropriations (CPB use of force, oversight and accountability mechanisms, privacy, staffing); Operation Streamline; criminal prosecution for illegal entry and re-rentry; Access to counsel in immigration proceedings; Short-term detention facilities; Office of Personnel Management - Issues Lobbied: Religious accommodations; Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Social Security Administration - Issues Lobbied: Spousal benefits; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - Issues Lobbied: ; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Reforming the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Issues Lobbied: CBP training; Border enforcement/ CBP oversight and excessive use of force; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Federal administrative immigration reform; ICE enforcement issues; U.S. Agency for International Development - Issues Lobbied: RIN 0412AA71Partner Vetting in USAID Assistance; United States Army - Issues Lobbied: Equal Opportunity Trainings in the Army; United States Trade Representative - Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; White House - Issues Lobbied: National Defense Authorization Act for FY14; Guantanamo; Torture (SSCI Report); Interior and Border enforcement; Possible Executive Order re Nondiscrimination in Federal Contracts; Access to counsel in immigration proceedings; Executive Order: LGBT Non-Discrimination for Federal Contractors (Pending); Federal administrative immigration reform; ICE enforcement issues; Restoring discretion to immigration system; Surveillance Legislation: H.R. 3361, S. 1599, S. 1631, H.R. 2399, S. 1215, S. 1182, S. 1121, H.R. 2603, H.R. 2818, H.R. 2684, H.R. 3070, S. 1151, H.R. 2475, S. 1130, H.R. 2440, H.R. 2736, H.R. 3035, S. 1452, S. 1460, S. 1467, H.R. 2761, H.R. 2586, H.R. 2849, H.R. 3159, H.R. 3103; Executive Order 13636; Whistleblower Protection; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Voting Rights Act legislative response to Shelby; Election administration reform (Presidential Commission on Election Administration); Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation; OFCCP wage compensation data collection tool; Executive Order Prohibiting federal contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss wages; Reforming the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Immigration and Border Enforcement (Domestic Policy Counsel)

H.R. 1786- Natural Catastrophes, H.R. 1878-Building Codes, H.R. 2233-Building Codes, H.R. 2241-Building Codes, S. 105-Natural Catastrophes, S. 905-Building Codes, S. 294-Building Codes

Client expense: $840,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Treasury, Dept of

Improving survivor benefits for widows of deceased servicemembers and to restore and improve veterans' benefits. H.R. 234, H.R. 241, H.R. 258, H.R. 288, H.R. 357, H.R. 543, H.R. 562, H.R. 679, H.R. 690, H.R. 883, H.R. 958, H.R. 1357, H.R. 3114, H.R. 3274, H.R. 3790, H.J.Res. 72, H.J.Res. 9,. S. 6, S. 200, S. 240, S. 257, S. 262, S. 294, S. 373, S. 430, S. 492, S. 495, S. 514, S. 515, S. 572, S. 629, S. 674, S. 690, S. 695, S. 705, S. 735, S. 748, S. 778, S. 819, S. 851, S. 863, S. 868, S. 889, S. 893, S. 894, S. 922, S. 927S. 928, S. 930, S. 932, S. 935, S. 938, S. 939, S. 944, S. 1039, S. 1042, S. 1058, S. 1148, S. 1211, S. 1216, S. 1262, S. 1291, S. 1361, S. 1564, S. 1573,S. 1591, S. 1624

Client expense: $420,747 · Firm income: Not reported

Improvements in personnel programs, compensation, and benefits. H.R. 1960, H.R. 3210, H.R. 3304, H.J. Res. 59, S. 294, S. 373, S. S. 1034, S. 1076, S. 1197, S. 1703, P.L. 112-239

Client expense: $420,747 · Firm income: Not reported

Department of Veterans Affairs appropriations and its delivery of benefits and services to veterans, their dependents and survivors: HR 3443, HR 3395, HR 3383, HR 3333, HR 3098, HR 3087, HR 3007, HR 2974, HR 2953, HR 2882, HR 2726, HR 2189, HR 2086, HR 1957, HR 1796, HR 1774, HR 1714, HR 1702, HR 1494, HR 1405, HR 1344, HR 1284, HR 958, HR 813, HR 921, HR 671, HR 570, HR 569, HR 562, HR 411, HR 369, HR 367, HR 303, HR 288, HR 235, HR 164, HR 42, HR 32, S 1604,S 1593, S 1588, S 1586, S 1585, S 1584, S 1583, S 1582, S 1581, S 1579, S 1578, S 1573, S 1564, S 1558, S 1295, S 1281, S 893, S 825, S 735, S 734, S 700, S 674, S 495, S 492, S 430, S 422, S 325, S 294, S 234, S 140, S 131, S Con Res 15

Client expense: $120,000 · Firm income: Not reported

HR 2810/HR 574, Doc fix permanent; S. 1078/HR 1971, TRICARE Prime outside PSA; S. 294 PTSD Sexual Assault; HR 975/S. 628 Medical records reviewed for pre-existing conditions.

Client expense: $162,500 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)

P.L. 113-37 Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2013 -- Authorizes specified appropriations for the period October 1-December 31, 2013, to pay a monthly assistance allowance to a veteran with a disability invited by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to compete for a slot on, or selected for, the Paralympics Team; extends authority for various VA programs SUPPORTH.R. 241 Veterans Timely Access to Health Care Act -- Directs the VA Secretary to ensure that the standard for access to care for a veteran seeking hospital care and medical services from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is 30 days from the date the veteran contacts the VA. Directs the Secretary to periodically review the performance of VA medical facilities in meeting such standard. Requires quarterly reports from the Secretary to the congressional veterans committees on the VAs experience with respect to appointment waiting times SUPPORT H.R. 569 Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 -- To increase, effective as of December 1, 2013, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes OPPOSE H.R. 570 American Heroes COLA Act -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to provide for annual cost-of-living adjustments to be made automatically by law each year in the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain service-connected disabled veterans, and for other purposes OPPOSE H.R. 813 Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 -- Authorizes the provision of advance appropriations for the following discretionary (under current law, medical care) accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): (1) Veterans Health Administration Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, Medical Facilities, and Medical Research and Support; (2) National Cemetery Administration; and (3) Veterans Benefits Administration, Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program. Authorizes the provision of advance appropriations for the following VA discretionary administration accounts: (1) general operating expenses, (2) information technology systems, (3) the Office of the Inspector General, (4) construction for major and minor projects, and (5) grants for the construction of state extended care facilities and veterans cemeteries SUPPORT H.R. 894 To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the supervision of fiduciaries of veterans under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the supervision of fiduciaries of veterans under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs SUPPORT H.R. 1443 Tinnitus Research and Treatment Act of 2013 -- Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) recognize tinnitus as a mandatory condition for research and treatment by Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Auditory Centers of Excellence, (2) ensure that research is conducted at VA facilities on the prevention and treatment of tinnitus, and (3) ensure VA cooperation with the Hearing Center of Excellence established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to further research on tinnitus SUPPORT H.R. 1494 Blue Water Navy Ship Accountability Act -- To direct the Secretary of Defense to review the operation of certain ships during the Vietnam Era, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1623 VA Claims Efficiency Through Information Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make publicly available certain information about pending and completed claims for compensation under the laws administered by the Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1702 Veterans Transportation Service Act -- Makes permanent (under current law, expires on January 10, 2014) the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transport individuals to and from facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in connection with vocational rehabilitation, counseling, examination, treatment, or care SUPPORT H.R. 1809 To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide notice of average times for processing claims and percentage of claims approved, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide notice of average times for processing claims and percentage of claims approved, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2072 Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the accountability of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs SUPPORTH.R. 2086 Pay As You Rate Act -- To direct the Secretary to make interim payments of disability compensation benefits for certain claims for such compensation prior to the adjudication of such claims, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2138 Ending VA Claims Disability Backlog and Accountability Act -- To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to resolve the backlog of disability claims of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2216 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 -- Making appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2423 Disabled Veterans Access to Medical Exams Improvement Act -- To improve the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into contracts with private physicians to conduct medical disability examinations SUPPORT H.R. 2847 Wounded Warrior Service Dog Act of 2013 -- Directs the Secretaries of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) to jointly establish the K-9 Companion Corps program for the awarding of grants to assist nonprofit organizations in establishing, planning, designing, and/or operating programs to provide assistance dogs to certain members of the Armed Forces and veterans who have certain disabilities. Defines "assistance dog" to mean a dog specifically trained to perform physical tasks to mitigate the effects of such a disability, except that such term does not include a dog specifically trained for comfort or personal defense SUPPORT H.R. 671; S. 294 Ruth Moore Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress an annual report on claims for disabilities incurred or aggravated by military sexual trauma, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 679; S. 629 Honoring Americas Guard-Reserves Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to recognize the service in the reserve components of the Armed Forces of certain persons by honoring them with status as veterans under law, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1288; S. 1361 World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act -- To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to accept additional documentation when considering the application for veterans status of an individual who performed service as a coastwise merchant seaman during World War II, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1402; S. 695 Veterans Paralympic Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly assistance allowance to disabled veterans training or competing for the Paralympic Team and the authorization of appropriations for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide assistance to United States Paralympics, Inc. SUPPORT S. 455 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transport individuals to and from facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with rehabilitation, counseling, examination, treatment, and care, and for other purposes. -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transport individuals to and from facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with rehabilitation, counseling, examination, treatment, and care, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 529 To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the commence-ment date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 543 VISN Reorganization Act of 2013 -- To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reorganize the Veterans Integrated Service Networks of the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes OPPOSES. 674 Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013 -- To require prompt responses from the heads of covered Federal agencies when the Secretary of Veterans Affairs requests information necessary to adjudicate claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 735 Survivor Benefits Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve benefits and assistance provided to surviving spouses of veterans under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 778 A bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to issue cards to veterans that identify them as veterans, and for other purposes -- A bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to issue cards to veterans that identify them as veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 819 Veterans Mental Health Treatment First Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to require a program of mental health care and rehabilitation for veterans for service-related post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety disorder, or a related substance use disorder, and for other purposes OPPOSE S. 832 Improving the Lives of Children with Spina Bifida Act of 2013 -- To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out pilot programs on furnishing case management services and assisted living to children of Vietnam veterans and certain Korea service veterans born with spina bifida and children of women Vietnam veterans born with certain birth defects, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 845 To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program, and for other purposes -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 851 Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to extend to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury eligibility to participate in the family caregiver services program SUPPORT S. 852 Veterans Health Promotion Act of 2013 -- To improve health care furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs by increasing access to complementary and alternative medicine and other approaches to wellness and preventive care, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 877 Veterans Affairs Research Transparency Act of 2013 -- To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to allow public access to research of the Department, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 893 Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 -- To provide for an increase, effective December 1, 2013, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 927 Veterans Outreach Act of 2013 -- To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a demonstration project to assess the feasibility and advisability of using State and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations to increase awareness of benefits and services for veterans and to improve coordination of outreach activities relating to such benefits and services, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 928 Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to improve the processing of claims for compensation under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. --- The American Legion SUPPORTS portions of this measure, especially Sections 103 and 301; The American Legion OPPOSES reducing the appellate rights of veterans, especially as concerned in sections 201 and 202; and there are still other portions of this legislation that The American Legion holds no official position on at this time.S. 932 Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 -- To amend title 38, U.S.C., to provide for advance appropriations for certain discretionary accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs SUPPORT S. 939 A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to treat certain misfiled documents as motions for reconsideration of decisions by the Board of Veterans' Appeals, and for other purposes -- A bill to amend title 38, U.S.C., to treat certain misfiled documents as motions for reconsideration of decisions by the Board of Veterans' Appeals, and for other purposes SUPPORT

Department of Veterans Affairs appropriations and its delivery of benefits and services to veterans, their dependents and survivors: HR 3098, HR 3087, HR 3007, HR 2974, HR 2953, HR 2882, HR 2726, HR 2086, HR 1957, HR 1796, HR 1774, HR 1714, HR 1702, HR 1494, HR 1405, HR 1344, HR 1284, HR 958, HR 813, HR 921, HR 671, HR 570, HR 569, HR 562, HR 411, HR 369, HR 367, HR 333, HR 303, HR 288, HR 235, HR 164, HR 42, HR 32, S 1564, S 1295, S 1281, S 893, S 825, S 735, S 734S 700, S 674, S 495, S 492, S 430, S 422, S 325, S 294, S 234, S 140, S 131, S Con Res 15

Client expense: $110,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Veterans Employment & Training Service

Improvements in personnel programs, compensation, and benefits. H.R. 975, H.R. 1620, H.R. 1705, H.R. 1960, H.R. 1971, H.R. 2397, H.J. Res. 59, S. 294, S. 373, S. 759, S. 871, S. 1034, S. 1197, S. 1429, P.L. 112-81, P.L. 112-239

Client expense: $437,390 · Firm income: Not reported

HR 1960/S.1197, Defense Authorization; S. 1078/HR 1971, TRICARE Primeoutside PSA; HR 55, Pay Troops First Act; S. 294, PTSD claims for sexual assault.

Client expense: $140,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)

H.R. 241 -- Veterans Timely Access to Health Care Act ~ Directs the VA Secretary to ensure that the standard for access to care for a veteran seeking hospital care and medical services from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is 30 days from the date the veteran contacts the VA. Also directs the Secretary to periodically review the performance of VA medical facilities in meeting such standard. Requires quarterly reports from the Secretary to the congressional veterans committees on the VAs experience withwith respect to appointment waiting times SUPPORT H.R. 569 -- Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 ~ To increase, effective as of December 1, 2013, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes OPPOSE H.R. 570 -- American Heroes COLA Act ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for annual cost-of-living adjustments to be made automatically by law each year in the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain service-connected disabled veterans, and for other purposes OPPOSE H.R. 894 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the supervision of fiduciaries of veterans under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs ~ Amend title 38, USC, to improve the supervision of fiduciaries of veterans under the laws administered by VA Secretary SUPPORT H.R. 1288 -- World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act ~ Direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to accept additional documentation when considering the application for veterans status of an individual who performed service as a coastwise merchant seaman during World War II, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1402 -- Veterans Paralympic Act of 2013 ~ Amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly assistance allowance to disabled veterans training or competing for the Paralympic Team and the authorization of appropriations for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide assistance to United States Paralympics, Inc. SUPPORT H.R. 1494 -- Blue Water Navy Ship Accountability Act ~ Direct the Secretary of Defense to review the operation of certain ships during the Vietnam Era, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1623 -- VA Claims Efficiency Through Information Act of 2013 ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make publicly available certain information about pending and completed claims for compensation under the laws administered by the Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 1809 -- Amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide notice of average times for processing claims and percentage of claims approved, and for other purposes ~ To amend title 38, USC, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide notice of average times for claims processing and approval percentage of same, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2072 -- Demanding Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013 ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the accountability of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs SUPPORT H.R. 2086 -- Pay As You Rate Act ~ To direct the Secretary to make interim payments of disability compensation benefits for certain claims for such compensation prior to the adjudication of such claims, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2138 -- Ending VA Claims Disability Backlog and Accountability Act ~ To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to resolve the backlog of disability claims of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT H.R. 2216 -- Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 ~ Making appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes SUPPORTH.R. 2423 -- Disabled Veterans Access to Medical Exams Improvement Act ~ To improve the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into contracts with private physicians to conduct medical disability examinations SUPPORT H.R. 671 / S. 294 -- Ruth Moore Act of 2013 ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress an annual report on claims for disabilities incurred or aggravated by military sexual trauma, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 455 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transport individuals to and from facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with rehabilitation, counseling, examination, treatment, and care, and for other purposes. ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transport individuals to and from facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with rehabilitation, counseling, examination, treatment, and care, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 529 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the commencement date of the period of service at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for eligibility for hospital care and medical services in connection with exposure to contaminated water, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 543 -- VISN Reorganization Act of 2013 ~ To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reorganize the Veterans Integrated Service Networks of the Veterans Health Administration, and for other purposes OPPOSE S. 629 -- Honoring Americas Guard-Reserves Act of 2013 ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to recognize the service in the reserve components of the Armed Forces of certain persons by honoring them with status as veterans under law, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 674 -- Accountability for Veterans Act of 2013 ~ To require prompt responses from the heads of covered Federal agencies when the Secretary of Veterans Affairs requests information necessary to adjudicate claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 735 -- Survivor Benefits Improvement Act of 2013 ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve benefits and assistance provided to surviving spouses of veterans under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 778 -- A bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to issue cards to veterans that identify them as veterans, and for other purposes ~ A bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to issue cards to veterans that identify them as veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 819 -- Veterans Mental Health Treatment First Act of 2013 ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to require a program of mental health care and rehabilitation for veterans for service-related post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety disorder, or a related substance use disorder, and for other purposes OPPOSE S. 832 -- Improving the Lives of Children with Spina Bifida Act of 2013 ~ To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out pilot programs on furnishing case management services and assisted living to children of Vietnam veterans and certain Korea service veterans born with spina bifida and children of women Vietnam veterans born with certain birth defects, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 845 -- To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program, and for other purposes ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professionals Educational Assistance Program, and for other purposes SUPPORTS. 851 -- Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013 ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury eligibility to participate in the family caregiver services program SUPPORT S. 852 -- Veterans Health Promotion Act of 2013 ~ To improve health care furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs by increasing access to complementary and alternative medicine and other approaches to wellness and preventive care, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 877 -- Veterans Affairs Research Transparency Act of 2013 ~ To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to allow public access to research of the Department, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 893 -- Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 ~ To provide for an increase, effective December 1, 2013, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 927 -- Veterans Outreach Act of 2013 ~ To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a demonstration project to assess the feasibility and advisability of using State and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations to increase awareness of benefits and services for veterans and to improve coordination of outreach activities relating to such benefits and services, and for other purposes SUPPORT S. 928 -- Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the processing of claims for compensation under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes SUPPORT: Section 103 improve communications and relevant information sharing between VA and all federal agencies; Section 106 quarterly report from VA concerning backlog reduction/elimination as a means to show progress toward removing the lack of transparency; Section 301 maintaining operations to serve veterans in the Philippines; Section 303 extends marriage delimiting date for surviving spouses of Persian Gulf War veterans to qualify for death pension to a date 10 years after this war is officially declared ended. OPPOSE: Section 201 reducing the filing deadline for an appeal from 365 days to 180 days; Section 202 - reducing the appellate rights of veterans. S. 932 -- Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 ~ To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for advance appropriations for certain discretionary accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs SUPPORT S. 939 -- A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to treat certain misfiled documents as motions for reconsideration of decisions by the Board of Veterans' Appeals, and for other purposes ~ A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to treat certain misfiled documents as motions for reconsideration of decisions by the Board of Veterans' Appeals, and for other purposes SUPPORT

Department of Veterans Affairs appropriations and its delivery of benefits and services to veterans, their dependents and survivors: HR 1796, HR 1774, HR 1714, HR 1702, HR 1494, HR 1405, HR 1344, HR 1284, HR 958, HR 813, HR 921, HR 671, HR 570, HR 569, HR 562, HR 411, HR 369, HR 333, HR 303, HR 288, HR 235, HR 164, HR 42, HR 32, S 825, S 735, S 734, S 700, S 674, S 495, S 492, S 430, S 422, S 325, S 294, S 234, S 140, S 131, S Con Res 15

Client expense: $120,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Veterans Employment & Training Service

Legislation E.O. 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity - Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, national security, free speech, privacy; H.R. 11, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1262, A bill to amend the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, domestic drones;H.R. 1263, Excellence in Mental Health Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; H.R. 127, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1312, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; H.R. 1389, MARCH Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 148, DISCLOSE Act & Numerous CFR Measures and Amendments - Issues Lobbied: CFR; H.R. 1497, The Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Drug Testing, SNAP; H.R. 1497, War Memorial Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; H.R. 1523, The Respect States Marijuana Laws Act - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana; H.R. 1652, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Youth Discrimination; H.R. 1755, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT/Religious Liberty; H.R. 1797, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights; H.R. 1814, EACH Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; H.R. 1845, Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Discrimination; H.R. 1847, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 1852, Email Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 1904, Oversight of Sensitive Military Operations Act - Issues Lobbied: Targeted Killing; H.R. 1960, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Accommodations; Indefinite Detention; Torture; LGBT Discrimination; Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; Disability Rights; Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights; National Security/AUMF/Detention; H.R. 1962, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1975, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; H.R. 2216, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act; H.R. 2217, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Abortion; Detention Bed Mandate; DACA; Reproductive Rights; Women's Rights; Employee Discrimination; H.R. 2278, Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration enforcement; Immigration Reform; H.R. 2397, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Detention; Immigration; First Amendment; H.R. 2399, LIBERT-E Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 2440, FISA Court in the Sunshine Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 2475, Ending Secret Law Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; H.R. 2479, Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Housing; H.R. 2523, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Relationship Recognition; H.R. 258, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 2721, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; H.R. 274, Mental Health First Aid Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; H.R. 287, Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 320, Student Support Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; H.R. 337, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Pay Equity; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; H.R. 377, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; H.R. 401, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act - Issues Lobbied: Mental Health and Criminal justice; H.R. 5, Student Success Act/Strengthening Americas Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Youth Discrimination; Religious Liberty/ Church-State Separation; Education; Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; H.R. 592, Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; H.R. 624, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Surveillance, National Security; Free Speech; H.R. 628, Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; H.R. 637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Surveillance; H.R. 671, Ruth Moore Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Military Sexual Assault; Women's Rights; H.R. 933, Consolidated and Continuing Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 940, Health Care Conscience Rights Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 964, Respect States' and Citizens' Rights Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana pre-emption; H.R. 983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 1847, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; H.R. 989, To prohibit the use of funds for the Lifeline program, and for other purposes - Issues Lobbied: Lifeline program; HR 1843, REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS; S 639, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; S. 1016, Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, domestic drones; S. 1030, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; S. 1034, National Defense Authorization Act FY 14 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Discrimination; S. 1037, Fourth Amendment Preservation and Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1088, Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Youth Discrimination; S. 1094, Strengthening Americas Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/ Church-State Separation; LGBT Youth Discrimination; Education; Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; S. 1130, Ending Secret Law Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties,Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1168, Restore Our Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1182, A bill to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1197, National Defense Authorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; S. 1215, FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Free speech, National Security, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; S. 1217, Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Housing; S. 1236, Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Relationship Recognition; S. 1242, Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Housing; S. 145, The Save Our Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; S. 146, School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; S. 148, A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; S. 153, Mental Health First Aid Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 195, Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 210, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 264, Excellence in Mental Health Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 294, Ruth Moore Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Military Sexual Assault; S. 330, HIV Organ Policy Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; S. 418, Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S. 47, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 480, NICS Reporting Improvement Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 5, A bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; S. 813, Peace Corps Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Freedom; S. 619, The Justice Safety Valve Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S. 631, Healthy Families Act ; S. 649, Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 689, Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Religious Liberties; S. 699, Court Efficiency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 705, War Memorial Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; S. 717, Non-Profit Energy Efficiency Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty/Church-State Separation; S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Federal immigration reform (due process, enforcement, detention, legalization); Criminal Penalties, Solitary Confinement and Private Prisons/FOIA; Women's Rights; LGBT Relationship Recognition; Mandatory Minimums, Criminal Bars to Citizenship, Racial Pro; S. 777, MARCH Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 791, Follow the Money Act 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Campaign Finance; S. 813, Peace Corps Equity Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; S. 815, Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Employment Discrimination/Religious Liberties; S. 84, Paycheck Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; S. 862, EACH Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; S. 870, Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Discrimination; S. 878, Arbitration Fairness Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Equal protection; S. 942, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 954, Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: SNAP Restrictions; FOIA; S. 967, Military Justice Improvement Act of 2013; S. 987, Free Flow of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act - Issues Lobbied: Mental Health and Criminal justice; S.374, Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S.572, Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights/; S.649, Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; S.AMDT. 715 to S. 649, Background check bill - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S.AMDT. 720 to S. 649, Due Process protections - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights/; S.AMDT. 725 to S. 649, Background check bill - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S.AMDT.730 to S. 649, Mental health and substance abuse programs - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Congressional Issues without Bills: Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Abortion Riders to Appropriations Bills - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Access to counsel in immigration proceedings for individuals with mental disabilities - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; AP Surveillance - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Privacy; National Security; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Broadband Adoption Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Campaign Finance - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: National ID, employment verification, privacy; Computer Fraud and Abuse Act - Issues Lobbied: Due process, free speech, overcriminalization; Consumer Fraud and Abuse Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Controlled Unclassified Information - Issues Lobbied: Government secrecy;Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Court Efficiency Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Access to Justice; Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Defense Appropriations Bill for 2014 - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Defense of Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; Department of Homeland Security Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties - Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; DOD Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight,; DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance - Issues Lobbied: Reform of Guidance; Domestic Drones - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, armed drones; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location tracking; Espionage Act proposals - Issues Lobbied: First amendment; Fair Housing Act - Issues Lobbied: Housing; FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Financial Services Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Policy Riders; Follow the Money Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing, intelligence collection, First Amendment; FY14 CJS Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Government Religious Displays - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; Guantanamo - Issues Lobbied: National Security; Human Rights; Gun legislation - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory minimums; SROs; Disability and registration; Cops in schools; Video games; Tip lines; Penalties; HIPPA - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Immigration - Issues Lobbied: Family Unity; IRS Targeting - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Legislative response to Shelby Co and Arizona v. ITCA SCOTUS cases/ Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; License Plate Readers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Low Income Housing Tax Credit - Issues Lobbied: Housing; Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing; Mental health sense of the Senate - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; Military Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Military Combat Exclusion Policy - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Military Justice/Military Sexual Assault - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; NLRB Vacancies - Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties; Nomination of FBI Director - Issues Lobbied: National Security; Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Positive Behavior Supports; Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, 4th Amendment; Privacy Multistakeholder Process - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Private Prison FOIA - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice Reform; Racial Profiling Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, first amendment, national security; Radicalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security; Reforming the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Human Rights, Racial Justice; Religious Funding - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; Reporter Shield - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Service Members Civil Relief Act (SCRA)/Title VI (Sandoval fix) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights; Voting Rights; Racial Justice; Employment Discrimination;; Sex Education - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; State-Foreign Operations Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Strengthening Americas Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Student Non-discrimination Act, Pregnant Teens; Student tip line in Gun Regulation Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Student privacy, information sharing; Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; Targeted Killing - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; National Security; The Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Torture (SSCI Report) - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Trafficking - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; Use of datamining technologies by the government - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Various bills responding to IRS targeting - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Voting Rights - Issues Lobbied: Civil Liberties; Whistleblower Protection - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers. Agencies Lobbied: Department of Commerce, Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Department of Defense, Issues Lobbied: GITMO Force Feeding; Press Access; Sexual Assault; Guantanamo; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14; Department of Education, Issues Lobbied: Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act; Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues; Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013; The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategiesto prevent school violence and improve student and school safety; Civil Rights Data Collection; School discipline guidance; Department of Health and Human Services, Issues Lobbied: Contraception Coverage; HIPPA; Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act, CMS9968P, Docket ID: CMS2012003163161; 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164 (Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System); Department of Homeland Security, Issues Lobbied: H.R. 2399; H.R. 2440; S. 1130; S. 1182, H.R. 2475; S. 1168; S. 1037; S. 1215; Fusion Centers; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; Suspicious Activity Reports; Radicalization; DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; S. 744 (Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration); Use of datamining technologies by the government; National ID; Employment Verification; Privacy; REAL ID; Department of Housing and Urban Development, Issues Lobbied: Olmstead Guidance; Affirmative Fair Market Housing Plans; LGBT Housing Discrimination; Proposed Rule 24 CFR Part 579 [Docket No. 5573P01] RIN 2506AC33 Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Rural Housing Stability Assistance Program and Revisions to the Definition of Chronically Homeless; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Department of Justice, Issues Lobbied: Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliatio; School discipline guidance; COPS Proram; Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act; The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety; Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013; Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues; Policing of domestic violence/sexual assault; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; U.N. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; DOJ Media Guidelines; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies; Juvenile Life without Parole; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks APrivacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Issues Lobbied: NSA Surveillance; Social Security Administration, Issues Lobbied: Transgender Discrimination; Agency Information Collection Activities: Form SSA-437, Program Discrimination Complaint (FR Doc. 201307616); U.S. Customs and Border ct; Equal Access to Justice Act; Indigent defense; Youth Solitary Confinement; Religious Freedom; AP Surveillance; Juvenile Justice; Over-incarceration; DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; S. 744 (Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration); Death Penalty; Standard Minimum Rules for Prisoner Treatment; Juvenile Solitary Confinement (Bureau of Prisons); The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act; Federal Over-criminalization; Indigent Defense Reform; Service Members Civil Relief Act (SCRA)/Title VI (Sandoval fix); Legislative response to Shelby Co and Arizona v. ITCA SCOTUS cases/ Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement; Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD) ; Puerto Rico Police Practices; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform; Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act; Department of Labor, Issues Lobbied: Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation, OFCCP guidance rescission; OFCCP data collection tool; Department of State, Issues Lobbied: Human rights of migrants; U.N. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Human Rights (UN Special Rapporteur requests, including requests to visit the U.S.); Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD); Department of Treasury, Issues Lobbied: ; Department of Veterans Affairs, Issues Lobbied: ; Director of National Intelligence, Issues Lobbied: H.R. 2399; H.R. 2440; S. 1130; S. 1182, H.R. 2475; S. 1168; S. 1037; S. 1215; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Issues Lobbied: National Origin Discrimination; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act; Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records; T Visa Certifications and Continued Presence Applications by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Executive Office of the President, Issues Lobbied: Closure of Guantanamo Bay; Classification; Targeted Killing; Immigration Reform; FCC Issues; Torture Report; Lobbying Restrictions; LGBT Non-discrimination in Federal Contracts; Election Administration; Surveillance; Deportation; FBI, Issues Lobbied: H.R. 2399; H.R. 2440; S. 1130; S. 1182, H.R. 2475; S. 1168; S. 1037; S. 1215; Radicalization; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Federal Aviation Administration, Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drones; Privacy; Federal Communications Commission, Issues Lobbied: Indecency restrictions; Media Ownership Rule; Low Power FM Application Window; Prison Phone Rulemaking; IP Transition; Federal Trade Commission, Issues Lobbied: Mobile Phone Companies; Unfair telecom practices; Food and Drug Administration, Issues Lobbied: Emergency Contraception; National Archives and Records Aministration, Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; National Counterterrorism Center, Issues Lobbied: H.R. 2399; H.R. 2440; S. 1130; S. 1182, H.R. 2475; S. 1168; S. 1037; S. 1215; National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Issues Lobbied: Mobile Apps; Privacy Multistakeholder Process; Office of Management and Budget, Issues Lobbied: OFCCP guidance rescission; REAL ID; Office of Personnel Management, Issues Lobbied: Combined Federal Campaign; RIN 3206AM68 (Solicitation of Federal Civilian and Uniformed Service Personnel for Contributions to Private Voluntary Organizations); Protection, Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement/ CBP oversight and excessive use of force;United States Commission on Civil Rights, Issues Lobbied: Meeting on Reconciling Non-Discrimination Principles with Civil Liberties; United States Trade Representative, Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; White House, Issues Lobbied: S. 744 (Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration); H.R. 2399; H.R. 2440; S. 1130; S. 1182, H.R. 2475; S. 1168; S. 1037; S. 1215; Controlled Unclassified Information; DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing; Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act; Executive Order: LGBT Non-Discrimination for Federal Contractors (Pending); Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues; Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013; The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety; Paycheck Fairness Act and executive order on pay retaliation; Election administration reform; Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; Torture (SSCI Report); Guantanamo; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14.

Improving surviving benefits for widows of deceased servicemembers and to restore and improve veterans' benefits. H.R. 32, H.R. 235, H.R. 241, H.R. 258, H.R. 288, H.R. 303, H.R. 333, H.R. 357, H.R. 543, H.R. 562, H.R. 679, H.R. 883, H.R. 958, H.R. 1209, H.R. 1284, H.R. 1357, H.R. 1494, H.R. 1725, H.R. 1746, H.R. 2001. S. 6, S. 140, S. 200, S. 210, S. 234, S. 240, S. 257, S. 262, S. 294, S. 325, S. 430, S. 492, S. 495, S. 514, S. 515, S. 572, S. 629, S. 633, S. 674, S. 690, S. 695, S. 705, S. 734, S. 735, S. 748,S. 778, S. 819, S. 863, S. 868, S. 889, S. 893, S. 894, S. 922, S. 927, S. 928, S. 930, S. 932, S. 935, S. 938, S. 939, S. 944, S. 1039, S. 1042, S. 1058

Client expense: $563,548 · Firm income: Not reported

HR 1960/S. 1197, defense authorization; HR 1938, PTSD treatment; S. 871 combating sexual assault; S. 1078/HR 1971, TRICARE Prime outside PSA; HR 55, Pay Troops First Act; S. 294, streamline evaluation of PTSD claims from sexual assault.

Client expense: $140,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)

Department of Veterans Affairs appropriations and its delivery of benefits and services to veterans, their dependents and survivors: HR 958, HR 562, HR 813, HR 921, HR 369, HR 671, HR 570, HR 569, HR 411, HR 333, HR 303, HR 288, HR 235, HR 164, HR 42, HR 32, S 422, S 294, S 234, S 140, S 131

Client expense: $120,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Veterans Employment & Training Service

Legislation: H.R. 1263, Excellence in Mental Health Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; 77 FR 75299, Prison Rape Elimination Commission Comments - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination; Amdt. 503 to S. Con. Res. 8, Opposing reduced funding for mental health services to individuals who are eligible to purchase a weapon - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; Executive Order 13636,Cybersecurity legislation and oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; H.R. 11, Violence Against Women Reauthorizations Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights, First Amendment, Criminal Justice, Non-discrimination, LGBT Rights; H.R. 1177, Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens rights; H.R. 127, To restore the Free Speech and First Amendment rights of churches and exempt organizations by repealing the 1954 Johnson Amendment - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 1312, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; H.R. 1389, MARCH Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 148, DISCLOSE Act - Issues Lobbied: Campaign Finance Reform; H.R. 152, Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; H.R. 258, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 2721, The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; H.R. 274, Mental Health First Aid Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; H.R. 287, Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 320, Student Support Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; H.R. 3618, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; H.R. 377, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; H.R. 401, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights, Mental Health, Criminal Justi ce; H.R. 493, Homeland Security Respect for Life Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 4970, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty; H.R. 519, Uniting American Families - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Immigration; H.R. 5326, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform; H.R. 592, Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty, Church-State Separation; H.R. 624, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, First Amendment, Information Sharing, Intelligence Collection; H.R. 628, Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; H.R. 637, Preserving American Privacy Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Privacy, Surveillance; H.R. 698, HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS, Discrimination; H.R. 725, Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Sexual Education; H.R. 933, Consolidated and Continuing Appropriations Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; H.R. 940, Health Care Conscience Rights Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; H.R. 964, Respect States' and Citizens' Rights Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Marijuana Pre-emption; S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; H.R. 983, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Privacy; HR 312, Juror Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Criminal Justice; S .649, Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; S 38, Jury ACCESS Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Criminal Justice; S. 12, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights; S. 145, The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Education, School Discipline; S. 146, The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Education, School Discipline; S. 148, The Save Our Schools Act; School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013; A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Education, School Discipline; S. 153, Mental Health First Aid Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 1670, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; S. 195, Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 210, Stolen Valor Act - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S. 2323, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice, Prison Expansion, Sentencing Reform; S. 264, Excellence in Mental Health Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 294, Ruth Moore Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; S. 296, Uniting American Families - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Immigration; S. 306, The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Drug Policy; S. 330, HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act - Issues Lobbied: HIV/AIDS, Discrimination; S. 372, Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Sexual Education; S. 418, Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S. 47, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Women's Rights, Religious Liberties, Mandatory Minimums, Tribal Provisions; S. 480, NICS Reporting Improvement Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 572, Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S. 607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: privacy; S. 639, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, location tracking; S. 649, Safe Communities and Safe Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums,Police in Schools, First Amendment, Disability Rights; S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration and Modernization Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Federal immigration reform; S. 84, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation - Issues Lobbied: Employment Discrimination; Womens Rights;; S. Con. Res. 8, Fiscal Year 2014 Senate Budget Resolution - Issues Lobbied: Vouchers, Church-State Separation, Reproductive Rights, School Vouchers, Voter ID; S.162, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act - Issues Lobbied: Mental Health and Criminal justice; S.374, Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S.607, Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; S.649, Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Mandatory Minimums; S.689, Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; S.744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; S.AMDT. 715 to S. 649, Background check bill - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights Congressional Issues without Bills: Abortion Coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Appointed counsel for individuals with mental disabilities in immigration proceedings - Issues Lobbied: Due process in immigration proceedings, Disability Rights; Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights; Background Checks in Gun Regulation Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing; Border enforcement/ CBP oversight and excessive use of force - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; Campaign Disclosure - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment; Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: National Security/Indefinite Detention; Combat Exclusion Policy - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Issues Lobbied: National ID, Employment Verification, Privacy, Immigration; Computer Fraud and Abuse Act update - Issues Lobbied: Due process, over-criminalization, free speech; Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Cybersecurity legislation and oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Racial Justice; Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers; Department of Homeland Security Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security, civil liberties, privacy; Department of Justice Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National security and civil liberties; privacy; TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy; Department fo Defense Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight,; Domestic Drones - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Armed Drones, National Security; Electronic Communications Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform - Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, privacy, location tracking; Employment Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Religious Liberty; Every Child Deserves a Family Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT; FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government; Federal Over-criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; Fusion Centers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing, intelligence collection, First Amendment; Gang Abatement and Prevention Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Guantanamo - Issues Lobbied: ; Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Collateral Consequences; Gun Control Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, School Discipline, Criminal Justice, First Amendment; police in schools; mandatory minimums; Harassment Regulations - Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberties; Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act (HOME Act) - Issues Lobbied: Fair housing/LGBT rights; HUD Appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Fair housing; ICE enforcement issues - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Immigration Modernization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Racial Profiling; Indigent Defense Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice; June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies - Issues Lobbied: Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices; Legislative response to Shelby Co and Arizona v. ITCA SCOTUS cases/ Voter suppression laws and VRA Enforcement - Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights; Racial Justice; LGBT Parenting - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; License Plate Readers - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/ Sentencing Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, Sentencing;MARCH Act - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Mental disabilities and gun regulation - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; Mental Health Sense of the Senate - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; Military Abortion coverage - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Military Justice/Military Sexual Assault - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; National Counter Terrorism Center - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, information sharing; National Defense Authorization Act for FY14 - Issues Lobbied: National Security/AUMF; Nomination of CIA Director - Issues Lobbied: ; Operation Streamline - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; Over-Classification Reduction - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification; Password Protection - Issues Lobbied: privacy; Peace Corps abortion coverage- Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Positive Behavior Supports; Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Privacy Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, 4th Amendment; Privacy of medical records in gun legislation - Issues Lobbied: Disability rights; Private Prison Information Act of 2013 - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; Proposed immigration reform bill - Issues Lobbied: Immigration (Racial Profiling, Detainee Release, Criminal Exclusions, Gangs, Judicial Discretion); biometric ID, E-Verify, Operation Streamline; border enforcement; access to counsel, pre-emption, state/local enforcement, 100 mile border zone, detention c; Racial Profiling Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial profiling, civil liberties, first amendment, national security; Radicalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security; Reforming the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Human Rights, Racial Justice; Restoring discretion to immigration system - Issues Lobbied: Immigration; School Safety - Issues Lobbied: School Discipline; Sequester BOP Cuts - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice; SSCI Report on Torture - Issues Lobbied: Torture; Student Non-Discrimination Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT; Student tip line in Gun Regulation Legislation - Issues Lobbied: Student privacy, information sharing; Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling; Targeted Killing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Human Rights; The Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Education; Racial Justice; Disability Rights; School Discipline; The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice; Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, First Amendment, information sharing, intelligence collection; Urging ratification of CEDAW - Issues Lobbied: Human rights/womens rights; Use of datamining technologies by the government - Issues Lobbied: Privacy; Whistleblower Protection - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers; Youth Promise Act - Issues Lobbied: Juvenile Justice Agencies Lobbied: Bureau of Prisons, Issues Lobbied: Solitary Confinement, Juvenile Detention; Department of Agriculture, Issues Lobbied: Violence Against Women Act, Women's Rights; Department of Commerce, Issues Lobbied: Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Location Tracking, Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, H.R. 624, Executive Order 13636, Commerce; Department of Defense, Issues Lobbied: Targeted Killings, Executive Order 13627/ Title XVII of the National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law 112-239, End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act, Trafficking, Human Rights, Military Abortion Coverage, Torture, Detention, Human Trafficking, Disability Rights, Combat Exclusion, LGBT Rights; Department of Education, Issues Lobbied: Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues, Education, Racial Justice, Disability Rights, School Discipline, S. 145, S.146, S.148, Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act, Civil Rights Data Collection, School Discipline Guidance, School Discipline, LGBT Rights, First Amendment, Single Sex Education, School Diversity, DC Voucher Data; Department of Health and Human Services, Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13559, Church-State Separation, Reproductive Rights, Immigrants Rights, LGBT Rights, Education, Religious Liberties, Disability Rights, DACA Health Coverage; Department of Homeland Security, Issues Lobbied: National ID, Employment Verification, Privacy, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Use of datamining technologies by the government, Government Watch Lists, REAL ID, Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act of 2013, Vouchers, Church-State Separation , Reproductive Rights, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration and Modernization Act of 2013, Restoring discretion to immigration system, Operation Streamline, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, H.R. 624, Executive Order 13636, Department of Homeland Security Oversight, National Security, Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing, DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT, Radicalization, Suspicious Activity Reports, Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines, Fusion Centers, Stakeholder meetings on CBP, Use of Force, Asylum, Detention, Immigration, Indefinite Detention, First Amendment, Voting Rights, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Alien Criminal Response Information Management System; Department of Housing and Urban Development, Issues Lobbied: Violence Against Women Act, Harassment regulation under the Fair Housing Act, Olmstead guidance from HUD, Disability Rights, Womens Rights, Religious Liberties, Housing for victims of domestic violence; Department of Justice, Issues Lobbied: Juvenile Justice, The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, Criminal Justice, Civil Rights, Targeted Killings, Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Location Tracking, Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform, Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act, Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues, Education, Racial Justice, Disability Rights, School Discipline, S. 145, S.146, S.148, Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act, Department of Justice's COPs program, School Discipline Guidance, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation, Employment Discrimination,Service Members Civil Relief Act (SCRA)/Title VI, Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD), Human Rights, Indigent Defense Reform, Federal Over-Criminalization, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Juvenile Life without Parole, June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, Commutations and Pardons, Prison overcrowding, Solitary Confinement, Juvenile Detention, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration and Modernization Act of 2013, PREA rule covering immigration detainees/ sex abuse in DHS custody, Restoring discretion to immigration system, Operation Streamline, Immigration Enforcement/Detention, UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, H.R. 624, Executive Order 13636, Whistleblower Protection, Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing, FBI Oversight, Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates, Department of Justice Racial Profiling Guidance, School Discipline, Pay Equity, Voting Rights, Immigration, Torture, Human Trafficking, Detention, First Amendment, Privacy, Disability Rights, Mandatory Minimums. Criminal Justice, Racial Profiling, Reproductive Rights, LGBT Rights, Religious Liberties, Indigent Defense, Whistleblower Protections; Department of Labor, Issues Lobbied: Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation, Women's Rights, Employment Discrimination, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Guidance, Pay Equity, Disability Rights, LGBT Rights, Religious Liberties; Department of State, Issues Lobbied: Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation, Women's Rights, Employment Discrimination, Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Race Discrimination (CERD), Human Rights, UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Torture, Human Trafficking, Womens Rights; Department of Treasury, Issues Lobbied: Violence Against Women Act, Women's Rights, Privacy, LGBT Rights; Department of Veterans Affairs, Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights, Womens Rights; Director of National Intelligence, Issues Lobbied: Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing, Update to National Counterterrorism Center Guidelines, Surveillence; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Issues Lobbied: National Origin Employment Discrimination, Women's Rights, Racial Justice, Immigrants Rights, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Guidance on Employer Use of Arrest and Conviction Records, Pay Equit, LGBT Rights, T-Visas; Executive Office of the President, Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights, LGBT Rights, Religious Liberties, Pay Equity, Torture, Human Rights, Detention, First Amendment, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Racial Profiling, Criminal Justice, Senate Select Intelligence Committees Report on Torture, Border Enforcement, Gun Control Legislation; FBI, Issues Lobbied: Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing, FBI Oversight, Attorney General Guidelines and Domestic Intelligence Operations Guide updates, Radicalization; Federal Aviation Administration, Issues Lobbied: Domestic Drones; Federal Communications Commission, Issues Lobbied: Media Ownership Rule, Low Power FM Application Window, Prison Phone Rulemaking, Indecency Comments, Censorship, Broadband Access, Spectrum Auction; Federal Trade Commission, Issues Lobbied: COPPA, Online Privacy, Privacy; Government Accountability Office, Issues Lobbied: PREA rule covering immigration detainees/ sex abuse in DHS custody; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Issues Lobbied: Juvenile Justice; NASA, Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13627/ Title XVII of the National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law 112-239, the End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act, Trafficking, Human Rights; National Archives and Records Aministration, Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, Over-Classification Reduction, Department of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Issues Lobbied: Event Data Recorders; National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Issues Lobbied: Privacy Multistakeholder Process; Office of Management and Budget, Issues Lobbied: REAL ID, Over-Classification Reduction, National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government; Office of Personnel Management, Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights; Peace Corps, Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights; Social Security Administration, Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights; U.S. General Services Administration, Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 13627/ Title XVII of the National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law 112-239, the End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act, Trafficking, Human Rights; U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement/ CBP oversight and excessive use of force, Operation Streamline, Immigration; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Issues Lobbied: ICE enforcement issues, Stakeholder meetings on CBP, use of force, asylum, detention, Unlawful presence waiver rule, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Stakeholder meetings on CBP, use of force, asylum, detention; United States Commission on Civil Rights, Issues Lobbied: Background Checks; United States Trade Representative, Issues Lobbied: Trans-Pacific Partnership; White House, Issues Lobbied: Guantanamo, Creation of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Post- Newtown response: School to Prison Pipeline/ SRO issues, Education, Racial Justice, Disability Rights, School Discipline, S. 145, S.146, S.148, Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act, Equal Pay Initiatives, including the Paycheck Fairness Act and E.O. on pay retaliation, Employment Discrimination, Presidential Commission on Election Administration, Voting Rights, LGBT Non-Discrimination Executive Order, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, Commutations and Pardons, Solitary Confinement, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration and ModernizationAct of 2013, Restoring discretion to immigration system, Operation Streamline, Immigration Enforcement/Detention, Cybersecurity legislation and oversight, H.R. 624, Executive Order 13636, Whistleblower Protection, Deparment of Homeland Security Intelligence/Information Sharing, Controlled Unclassified Information, Government Secrecy, Reproductive Rights, Religous Liberties, FAR Council

Improvements in uniformed personnel programs, compensation, and benefits. H.R. 42, H.R. 55, H.R. 258, H.R. 357, H.R. 671, H.R. 690, H.R. 741, H.R. 833, H.R. 933, H.R. 1265, H.R. 1333, P.L. 112-238, S. 171, S. 240, S. 294, S. 470, S. 614

Client expense: $409,513 · Firm income: Not reported

S. 294/H.R. 671, Ruth Moore Act; S. 470/H.R. 833, military medals; H.R. 593/S. 263 Exclude DoD from Sequestration; S. 234/H.R. 303/H.R. 333, Concurrent Receipt; H.R. 124, Navy name change; H.R. 253, Stolen Valor; H.R. 32, SBP/DIC offset repeal;

Client expense: $140,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)