Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023
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2024 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
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Supporting the EQUAL Act, H.R. 1062 and S. 524; supporting the Sentencing Commission Improvements Act, S. 851; supporting the Fresh Start Act, H.R. 2983; supporting the Clean Slate Act, H.R. 2930 / S. 5266; supporting the FAIR Act, H.R. 1525 / S. 5512; supporting the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, H.R. 4958 and S. 2596; supporting the TEST Act, S. 1950; supporting the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act, S. 2788 and H.R. 5430; supporting the Preventing Overdoses with Test Strips Act, S.2976 and H.R.5801; supporting the BOP ID Release Card Act, H.R. 6985;supporting the BOP Direct-Hire Authority Act, H.R. 6628; supporting the Safer Supervision Act, S.2681 and H.R.5005; supporting the DEA's reclassification of marijuana as a Schedule 3 drug; supporting USSC amendments to drug penalties, relevant conduct sentencing, and numerous sentencing enhancements; opposing proposed appropriations cuts to the federal indigent defense system; supporting adequate funding for public defenders; supporting ending the use of acquitted conduct in prison sentences for federal criminal offenses; supporting the expungement of federal simple possession drug offenses; supporting reforms to terms of supervised release after federal imprisonment; supporting federal sentencing reforms in general; supporting increased oversight of the Bureau of Prisons in general; supporting "second chances" for returning citizens in general; supporting increased and continued implementation of the First Step Act in general; supporting increased use of compassionate release, home confinement and other early release options; supporting prison reforms in general; supporting criminal discovery reforms in general; supporting the inclusion of well-defined terms and meaningful mens rea protections in all potential and existing federal criminal laws and regulations; supporting increased prosecutorial and policing accountability; and supporting clemencies, commutations, and pardons, opposing the HALT Fentanyl Act, H.R. 467; opposing overcriminalization (creation of unnecessary federal criminal laws or regulations with poorly defined terms or weak mens rea protections or those that result in overly harsh incarcerative penalties) in general; supporting Second Chance Act reauthorization; opposing proposed BOP rule to ban the use of social media by incarcerated persons; supporting the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Ave, S. 2788 and H.R. 5430; opposing the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, H.R. 1839 and S. 993; supporting the Driving for Opportunity Act, S. 2313; opposing the SHIELD Act, S. 412 and H.R. 3686; opposing proposed appropriations cuts to the federal indigent defense system; supporting the Reentry Act (H.R.2400 / S.1165) and Due Process Continuity of Care Act (H.R.3074 / S.971); and supporting the implementation of tobacco harm reduction policies.
Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Prisons (BOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), President of the U.S., SENATE, White House Office
2024 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722/S.3554, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3005/S.3356, the Postal Police Reform Act," which would reverse a 2020 directive from the United States Postal Service (USPS) that bans postal police from performing their patrol duties outside of real estate owned or leased by the postal service. Prior to this directive, the postal police additionally had jurisdiction over all postal service property and were authorized to protect mail carriers, collection boxes, and vehicles; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3269/S. 4255, the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would create a new definition for a less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal firearms law; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.R. 5029, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 5182, the Child Online Safety Modernization Act, which would strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline by modernizing and improving the reporting process, extending the required preservation period for individual reports to one year, and replacing the term, child pornography, with child sexual abuse materials throughout all Federal statutes; H.R. 5266, the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would empower the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; H.R. 5538, the Border Patrol Pay Fix Act, which would allow the majority of Border Patrol agents to receive a special overtime pay rate; H.R. 5798, the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act, which would undue certain provisions of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) passed by the Washington D.C. City Council; H.R. 6246, the Eliminate Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, the nations centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children; H.R. 6688, the Cold Case Modernization Act, which will extend DOJ grant funding for forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) testing to cover the identification process of all unidentified human remains, without regard to the manner of their death; H.R. 7185, the HIDTA Reauthorization Act., which would reauthorize the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program; H.R. 7456, the "First Responders Emergency Assistance Act.", which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 7487, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act., which would allocate $400 million to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program under the Office of National Drug Control Policy. H.R. 7720(Kean, R-NJ), which would allow grant funds from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) to be used for the purchase of fentanyl testing kits and opioid reversal agents; H.R. 7730 (Spanberger, D-VA), directing the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable such online sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combatting online sales of fentanyl; H.R. 7456 (Duarte, R-CA) the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act., which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 8989 (Salazar, R-FL) the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 9390 (Johnson, R-SD) the Supporting Opportunities to Build Everyday Responsibility (SOBER) Act, which would expand a grant program for 24/7 sobriety programs; H.R. 9641/S. 5060 (Schultz, D-FL) the Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology to Eradicate Cyber Threats (PROTECT) Our Children Act, which would reauthorize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program for three years; H.R. 9576 (Phillips, D-MN), the Pathways to Policing Act, which would provide $50 million a year to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to operate a nationwide marketing and recruitment campaign; H.R. 9660 (Neguse, D-CO) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protection Act (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in Good Samaritan laws by ensuring that people cannot be prosecuted for drug possession when they seek medical assistance after witnessing or experiencing an overdose; H.R. 9871 (Larsen, D-WA) the End Fentanyl Trafficking with Local Task Forces Act, which would invest and expand in multiple anti-drug task forces in the U.S. Department of Justice to improve cooperation and collaboration between departments to combat the fentanyl epidemic; H.R. 9910 (Spanberger, D-VA) the Supporting Federal Employees in the National Guard & Reserves Act, which would increase the paid leave available for Federal law enforcement and correctional officers in the National Guard from 15 to 36 days per fiscal year; H.R. 9928 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would restructure the service timeline for Park Police officers by reducing the number and time between pay grade steps; H.R. 9929 (Miller-Meeks, R-IA) the Corrections Officer Blake Schwarz Suicide Prevention Act, which would establish a grant program that would provide funding to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, States, and localities to carry out mental health screenings and provide referrals, where applicable, to mental healthcare providers for those corrections officers who are struggling with their mental health; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972/H.R. 8420, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 8918/S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2567, the Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act, which would reauthorize the programs in the Computer Crime Enforcement Act; S. 2569, the "Fentanyl Safe Testing and Overdose Prevention Act". which would amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that the possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine is not unlawful; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2637/H.R. 8871, the Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act, which would direct the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to authorize grants to State, and local law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement personnel access to an immersive, real-life, scenario-based training curriculum which will improve community-police relations, as well as officer safety and resilience; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.3522, the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes; S. 3643, the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update current law concerning hawala and other informal value transfer systems like those used by international terrorists and trafficking organizations, additionally, purposes to double the penalties for those who violate bulk-cash smuggling laws; S. 3763, the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act, which would establish a grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes; S. 4450 (Kelly D-AZ), the Educational and Career Opportunities for Public Safety Act, which would offer officers financial assistance for higher education for those who have served for a period of eight years with the same agency and who are willing to commit to serving at least an additional four. S. 4569 (Cantwel,l D-WA), the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; S. 4970 (Ossoff, D-GA), the Female Officers Ballistic Protection Act, which would ensure that women in law enforcement have improved ballistic body armor; S. 5056 (Grassley, R-IA), the Stop the Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which will add a Schedule A to the existing five schedules of the Controlled Substances Act, allowing synthetic analogues to be prohibited; S. 5062 (Blackburn, R-TN), the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, which would require the OIG to conduct reviews and analysis into cases of sexual harassment and assault, report those findings to Congress, and subsequently have corrective rules promulgated by the U.S. Attorney General; S. 5128 (Casey, D-PA), the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would authorize the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; S. 5270 (Kelly-AZ), the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies;
Client expense: $75,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
2024 · fourth_quarter · Transportation
H.R. 1435, Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act H.R. 2367, Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act H.R. 3935, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 H.R. 4148, Import Security and Fairness Act H.R. 4468, Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act H.R. 4820/S. 2437, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 H.R. 5840, Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act H.R. 7023, Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act H.R. 7470/S. 3823, Secure U.S. Leadership in Space Act of 2024 H.R. 7979, End Chinas De Minimis Abuse Act H.R. 8070, Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 H.R. 9028/S. 4796, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 S. 259, Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act S. 1631, Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act of 2023 S. 1939, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 S. 2313, Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023 S. 3959, Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act S. 4367, Water Resources Development Act Draft legislation titled Port Infrastructure Permitting Empowerment (PIPE) Act Draft legislation relating to the deployment of automated vehicle technology and autonomous vehicle security Various issues relating to implementation of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-254); implementation of Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act (P.L. 114-322); implementation of Americas Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-270); implementation of Fixing Americas Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (P.L. 114-94); implementation of Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-121); implementation of Section 2209 of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 (P.L 114-190); implementation of the Drivers Privacy Protection Act (P.L. 103-322); use of state and local funding in the American Rescue Plan (P.L. 117-2) for state Departments of Transportation; use of tax policy to pay for transportation including mandatory repatriation and repatriation holidays; movement of waterborne commerce along the nations inland waterways; National Freight Advisory Council; revenue sources for the federal Highway Trust Fund; funding and financing mechanisms for surface transportation, aviation, marine transportation, and clean drinking water infrastructure including national infrastructure banks, infrastructure investment funds, bonding programs, special purpose bonds and public private partnerships; water resources, including issues relating to water conveyance and storage; public-private partnerships for public infrastructure; Buy America legislation and implementation of Buy America policies, including provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58); commercial trucking hours of service; truck productivity, specifically twin-33s and Department of Transportation twin-trailer standard; railroad tank car operational controls; positive train control (PTC) implementation; federal preemption of state meal and rest break laws (F4A); unmanned aircraft systems; beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations for unmanned aircraft systems; necessity of a general infrastructure package; potential increase in the federal gas tax; streamlining permit processing for construction of rural broadband; driving safety and road safety; Department of Transportation regulatory matters related to automated vehicles; Boeing 737 MAX certification and associated production stoppages; Department of Transportation freight programs; delayed development of the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Prohibit or Restrict the Operation of an Unmanned Aircraft in Close Proximity to a Fixed Site Facility; comprehensive assessment of the U.S. Civil Space Industrial Base (CSIB) requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and NOAAs Office of Space Commerce (OSC); framework for use of FHWA State Planning & Research funds for "Digital Twins"; east coast port labor negotiations; funding for Air Traffic Control System (FAA); funding to the Department of Transportations Emergency Relief Program (ERP)
Client expense: $22,410,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
2024 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Supporting the EQUAL Act, H.R. 1062 and S. 524; supporting the Sentencing Commission Improvements Act, S. 851; supporting the Fresh Start Act, H.R. 2983; supporting the Clean Slate Act, H.R. 2930; supporting the FAIR Act, H.R. 1525; supporting the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, H.R. 4958 and S. 2596; supporting the TEST Act, S. 1950; supporting the Federal Prison Oversight Act, H. R. 3019 and S. 1401; supporting the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act, S. 2788 and H.R. 5430; supporting the Preventing Overdoses with Test Strips Act, S.2976 and H.R.5801; supporting the BOP ID Release Card Act, H.R. 6985; supporting the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, H.R. 5266; supporting the BOP Direct-Hire Authority Act, H.R. 6628; supporting the Safer Supervision Act, S.2681 and H.R.5005; supporting the DEA's reclassification of marijuana as a Schedule 3 drug; supporting USSC amendments to drug penalties, relevant conduct sentencing, and numerous sentencing enhancements; opposing proposed appropriations cuts to the federal indigent defense system; supporting adequate funding for public defenders; supporting ending the use of acquitted conduct in prison sentences for federal criminal offenses; supporting the expungement of federal simple possession drug offenses; supporting reforms to terms of supervised release after federal imprisonment; supporting federal sentencing reforms in general; supporting increased oversight of the Bureau of Prisons in general; supporting "second chances" for returning citizens in general; supporting increased and continued implementation of the First Step Act in general; supporting increased use of compassionate release, home confinement and other early release options; supporting prison reforms in general; supporting criminal discovery reforms in general; supporting the inclusion of well-defined terms and meaningful mens rea protections in all potential and existing federal criminal laws and regulations; supporting increased prosecutorial and policing accountability; and supporting clemencies, commutations, and pardons. Opposing the HALT Fentanyl Act, H.R. 467; opposing overcriminalization (creation of unnecessary federal criminal laws or regulations with poorly defined terms or weak mens rea protections or those that result in overly harsh incarcerative penalties) in general; supporting Second Chance Act reauthorization; opposing proposed BOP rule to ban the use of social media by incarcerated persons; supporting the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Ave, S. 2788 and H.R. 5430; opposing the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, H.R. 1839 and S. 993; supporting the Driving for Opportunity Act, S. 2313; opposing the SHIELD Act, S. 412 and H.R. 3686; opposing proposed appropriations cuts to the federal indigent defense system; supporting adequate funding for public defenders; and supporting the implementation of tobacco harm reduction policies.
Client expense: $20,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Prisons (BOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), President of the U.S., SENATE, White House Office
2024 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722/S.3554, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3005/S.3356, the Postal Police Reform Act," which would reverse a 2020 directive from the United States Postal Service (USPS) that bans postal police from performing their patrol duties outside of real estate owned or leased by the postal service. Prior to this directive, the postal police additionally had jurisdiction over all postal service property and were authorized to protect mail carriers, collection boxes, and vehicles; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3269/S. 4255, the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would create a new definition for a less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal firearms law; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.R. 5029, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 5182, the Child Online Safety Modernization Act, which would strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline by modernizing and improving the reporting process, extending the required preservation period for individual reports to one year, and replacing the term, child pornography, with child sexual abuse materials throughout all Federal statutes; H.R. 5266, the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would empower the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; H.R. 5538, the Border Patrol Pay Fix Act, which would allow the majority of Border Patrol agents to receive a special overtime pay rate; H.R. 5798, the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act, which would undue certain provisions of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) passed by the Washington D.C. City Council; H.R. 6246, the Eliminate Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, the nations centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children; H.R. 6688, the Cold Case Modernization Act, which will extend DOJ grant funding for forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) testing to cover the identification process of all unidentified human remains, without regard to the manner of their death; H.R. 7185, the HIDTA Reauthorization Act., which would reauthorize the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program; H.R. 7456, the "First Responders Emergency Assistance Act.", which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 7487, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act., which would allocate $400 million to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program under the Office of National Drug Control Policy. H.R. 7720(Kean, R-NJ), which would allow grant funds from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) to be used for the purchase of fentanyl testing kits and opioid reversal agents; H.R. 7730 (Spanberger, D-VA), directing the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable such online sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combatting online sales of fentanyl; H.R. 7456 (Duarte, R-CA) the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act., which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 8989 (Salazar, R-FL) the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; H.R. 9390 (Johnson, R-SD) the Supporting Opportunities to Build Everyday Responsibility (SOBER) Act, which would expand a grant program for 24/7 sobriety programs; H.R. 9641/S. 5060 (Schultz, D-FL) the Providing Resources, Officers, and Technology to Eradicate Cyber Threats (PROTECT) Our Children Act, which would reauthorize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force program for three years; H.R. 9576 (Phillips, D-MN), the Pathways to Policing Act, which would provide $50 million a year to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to operate a nationwide marketing and recruitment campaign; H.R. 9660 (Neguse, D-CO) the Samaritan Efforts to Ensure Key Health Emergency and Life-saving Protection Act (SEEK HELP) Act, which would close gaps in Good Samaritan laws by ensuring that people cannot be prosecuted for drug possession when they seek medical assistance after witnessing or experiencing an overdose; H.R. 9871 (Larsen, D-WA) the End Fentanyl Trafficking with Local Task Forces Act, which would invest and expand in multiple anti-drug task forces in the U.S. Department of Justice to improve cooperation and collaboration between departments to combat the fentanyl epidemic; H.R. 9910 (Spanberger, D-VA) the Supporting Federal Employees in the National Guard & Reserves Act, which would increase the paid leave available for Federal law enforcement and correctional officers in the National Guard from 15 to 36 days per fiscal year; H.R. 9928 (Malliotakis, R-NY) the U.S. Park Police Modernization Act, which would restructure the service timeline for Park Police officers by reducing the number and time between pay grade steps; H.R. 9929 (Miller-Meeks, R-IA) the Corrections Officer Blake Schwarz Suicide Prevention Act, which would establish a grant program that would provide funding to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, States, and localities to carry out mental health screenings and provide referrals, where applicable, to mental healthcare providers for those corrections officers who are struggling with their mental health; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972/H.R. 8420, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 8918/S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2567, the Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act, which would reauthorize the programs in the Computer Crime Enforcement Act; S. 2569, the "Fentanyl Safe Testing and Overdose Prevention Act". which would amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that the possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine is not unlawful; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2637/H.R. 8871, the Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act, which would direct the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to authorize grants to State, and local law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement personnel access to an immersive, real-life, scenario-based training curriculum which will improve community-police relations, as well as officer safety and resilience; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.3522, the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes; S. 3643, the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update current law concerning hawala and other informal value transfer systems like those used by international terrorists and trafficking organizations, additionally, purposes to double the penalties for those who violate bulk-cash smuggling laws; S. 3763, the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act, which would establish a grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes; S. 4450 (Kelly D-AZ), the Educational and Career Opportunities for Public Safety Act, which would offer officers financial assistance for higher education for those who have served for a period of eight years with the same agency and who are willing to commit to serving at least an additional four. S. 4569 (Cantwel,l D-WA), the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which would clarify and expand agency authority to combat the distribution of exploitative deepfake technology; S. 4970 (Ossoff, D-GA), the Female Officers Ballistic Protection Act, which would ensure that women in law enforcement have improved ballistic body armor; S. 5056 (Grassley, R-IA), the Stop the Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which will add a Schedule A to the existing five schedules of the Controlled Substances Act, allowing synthetic analogues to be prohibited; S. 5062 (Blackburn, R-TN), the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act, which would require the OIG to conduct reviews and analysis into cases of sexual harassment and assault, report those findings to Congress, and subsequently have corrective rules promulgated by the U.S. Attorney General; S. 5128 (Casey, D-PA), the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would authorize the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; S. 5270 (Kelly-AZ), the HIDTA Enhancement Act, which would increase the HIDTA programs budget by over $28 million to provide for the creation of new grant programs that would enhance fentanyl seizure operations and improve coordination between law enforcement agencies;
Client expense: $75,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
2024 · third_quarter · Transportation
H.R. 1435, Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act H.R. 2367, the Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act H.R. 3935, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 H.R. 4148, Import Security and Fairness Act H.R. 4468, Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act H.R. 4820/S. 2437, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 H.R. 5840, Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act H.R. 7023, Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act H.R. 7470/S. 3823, Secure U.S. Leadership in Space Act of 2024 H.R. 7979, End Chinas De Minimis Abuse Act H.R. 8070, Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 H.R. 9028/S. 4796, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 S. 259, Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act S. 1631, Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act S. 1939, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 S. 2313, Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023 S. 3959, Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act S. 4367, Water Resources Development Act Draft legislation titled Port Infrastructure Permitting Empowerment (PIPE) Act Draft legislation relating to the deployment of automated vehicle technology and autonomous vehicle security Various issues relating to implementation of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-254); implementation of Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act (P.L. 114-322); implementation of Americas Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-270); implementation of Fixing Americas Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (P.L. 114-94); implementation of Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-121); implementation of Section 2209 of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 (P.L 114-190); implementation of the Drivers Privacy Protection Act (P.L. 103-322); use of state and local funding in the American Rescue Plan (P.L. 117-2) for state Departments of Transportation; use of tax policy to pay for transportation including mandatory repatriation and repatriation holidays; movement of waterborne commerce along the nations inland waterways; National Freight Advisory Council; revenue sources for the federal Highway Trust Fund; funding and financing mechanisms for surface transportation, aviation, marine transportation, and clean and drinking water infrastructure including national infrastructure banks, infrastructure investment funds, bonding programs, special purpose bonds and public private partnerships; water resources, including issues relating to water conveyance and storage; public-private partnerships for public infrastructure; Buy America legislation and implementation of Buy America policies, including provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58); commercial trucking hours of service; truck productivity, specifically twin-33s and Department of Transportation twin-trailer standard; railroad tank car operational controls; positive train control (PTC) implementation; federal preemption of state meal and rest break laws (F4A); unmanned aircraft systems; beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations for unmanned aircraft systems; necessity of a general infrastructure package; potential increase in the federal gas tax; streamlining permit processing for construction of rural broadband; driving safety and road safety; Department of Transportation regulatory matters related to automated vehicles; Boeing 737 MAX certification and associated production stoppages; Department of Transportation freight programs; delayed development of the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Prohibit or Restrict the Operation of an Unmanned Aircraft in Close Proximity to a Fixed Site Facility; comprehensive assessment of the U.S. Civil Space Industrial Base (CSIB) requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and NOAAs Office of Space Commerce (OSC); framework for use of FHWA State Planning & Research funds for "Digital Twins"; East Coast port labor negotiations; funding for Air Traffic Control System (FAA); funding to the Department of Transportations Emergency Relief Program (ERP)
2024 · second_quarter · Transportation
H.R. 1435, Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act H.R. 2367, the Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act H.R. 3935, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 H.R. 4468, Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act H.R. 4820/S. 2437, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 H.R. 5840, Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act H.R. 7023, Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act H.R. 7470/S. 3823, Secure U.S. Leadership in Space Act of 2024 H.R. 8070, Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 S. 259, Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act S. 1631, Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act S. 1939, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 S. 2313, Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023 S. 4367, Water Resources Development Act Draft legislation titled Port Infrastructure Permitting Empowerment (PIPE) Act Draft legislation titled Fiscal Year 2025 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act Draft legislation relating to the deployment of automated vehicle technology and autonomous vehicle security Reappointment of Carl W. Bentzel as a Member of the Federal Maritime Commission Various issues relating to implementation of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-254); implementation of Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act (P.L. 114-322); implementation of Americas Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-270); implementation of Fixing Americas Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (P.L. 114-94); implementation of Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-121); implementation of Section 2209 of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 (P.L 114-190); implementation of the Drivers Privacy Protection Act (P.L. 103-322); implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58); use of state and local funding in the American Rescue Plan (P.L. 117-2) for state Departments of Transportation; implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (P.L. 117-169); use of tax policy to pay for transportation including mandatory repatriation and repatriation holidays; movement of waterborne commerce along the nations inland waterways; National Freight Advisory Council; revenue sources for the federal Highway Trust Fund; funding and financing mechanisms for surface transportation, aviation, marine transportation, and clean and drinking water infrastructure including national infrastructure banks, infrastructure investment funds, bonding programs, special purpose bonds and public private partnerships; water resources, including issues relating to water conveyance and storage; public-private partnerships for public infrastructure; Buy America legislation and implementation of Buy America policies, including provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58); commercial trucking hours of service; truck productivity, specifically twin-33s and Department of Transportation twin-trailer standard; railroad tank car operational controls; positive train control (PTC) implementation; federal preemption of state meal and rest break laws (F4A); unmanned aircraft systems; request that FAA issue rules enabling beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations for unmanned aircraft systems; necessity of a general infrastructure package; potential increase in the federal gas tax; streamlining permit processing for construction of rural broadband; driving safety and road safety; Department of Transportation regulatory matters related to automated vehicles; Boeing 737 MAX certification and associated production stoppages; Department of Transportation freight programs; implementation of Buy America policies and legislation; delayed development of the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Prohibit or Restrict the Operation of an Unmanned Aircraft in Close Proximity to a Fixed Site Facility; urging a rapid nomination of a new FAA Administrator and potential FAA authorization in 2023; comprehensive assessment of the U.S. Civil Space Industrial Base (CSIB) requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and NOAAs Office of Space Commerce (OSC); Request for Comment on the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR): FA254123_CASR_RFI; Framework use of FHWA State Planning & Research funds for "Digital Twins"; East Coast port labor negotiations
2024 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 27, Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act H.R. 5488/S. 2805, Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act H.R. 8028/S. 4477 Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2024 S. 2313, Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023 Various issues relating to FY25 intellectual property enforcement program; organized retail crime
Client expense: $13,930,000 · Firm income: Not reported
2024 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722/S.3554, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3005/S.3356, the Postal Police Reform Act," which would reverse a 2020 directive from the United States Postal Service (USPS) that bans postal police from performing their patrol duties outside of real estate owned or leased by the postal service. Prior to this directive, the postal police additionally had jurisdiction over all postal service property and were authorized to protect mail carriers, collection boxes, and vehicles; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3269/S. 4255, the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would create a new definition for a less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal firearms law; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.R. 5029, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 5182, the Child Online Safety Modernization Act, which would strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline by modernizing and improving the reporting process, extending the required preservation period for individual reports to one year, and replacing the term, child pornography, with child sexual abuse materials throughout all Federal statutes; H.R. 5266, the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would empower the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; H.R. 5538, the Border Patrol Pay Fix Act, which would allow the majority of Border Patrol agents to receive a special overtime pay rate; H.R. 5798, the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act, which would undue certain provisions of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) passed by the Washington D.C. City Council; H.R. 6246, the Eliminate Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, the nations centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children; H.R. 6688, the Cold Case Modernization Act, which will extend DOJ grant funding for forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) testing to cover the identification process of all unidentified human remains, without regard to the manner of their death; H.R. 7185, the HIDTA Reauthorization Act., which would reauthorize the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program; H.R. 7456, the "First Responders Emergency Assistance Act.", which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 7487, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act., which would allocate $400 million to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program under the Office of National Drug Control Policy. H.R. 7720(Kean, R-NJ), which would allow grant funds from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) to be used for the purchase of fentanyl testing kits and opioid reversal agents; H.R. 7730 (Spanberger, D-VA), directing the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable such online sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combatting online sales of fentanyl; H.R. 7456 (Duarte, R-CA) the First Responders Emergency Assistance Act., which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972/H.R. 8420, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 8918/S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2567, the Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act, which would reauthorize the programs in the Computer Crime Enforcement Act; S. 2569, the "Fentanyl Safe Testing and Overdose Prevention Act". which would amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that the possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine is not unlawful; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2637/H.R. 8871, the Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act, which would direct the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to authorize grants to State, and local law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement personnel access to an immersive, real-life, scenario-based training curriculum which will improve community-police relations, as well as officer safety and resilience; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.3522, the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes; S. 3643, the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update current law concerning hawala and other informal value transfer systems like those used by international terrorists and trafficking organizations, additionally, purposes to double the penalties for those who violate bulk-cash smuggling laws; S. 3763, the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act, which would establish a grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes; S. 4450 (Kelly D-AZ), the Educational and Career Opportunities for Public Safety Act, which would offer officers financial assistance for higher education for those who have served for a period of eight years with the same agency and who are willing to commit to serving at least an additional four.
2024 · first_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722/S.3554, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3005/S.3356, the Postal Police Reform Act," which would reverse a 2020 directive from the United States Postal Service (USPS) that bans postal police from performing their patrol duties outside of real estate owned or leased by the postal service. Prior to this directive, the postal police additionally had jurisdiction over all postal service property and were authorized to protect mail carriers, collection boxes, and vehicles; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3269, the Law Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, which would create a new definition for a less-than-lethal projectile device in Federal firearms law; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.R. 5029, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 5182, the Child Online Safety Modernization Act, which would strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline by modernizing and improving the reporting process, extending the required preservation period for individual reports to one year, and replacing the term, child pornography, with child sexual abuse materials throughout all Federal statutes; H.R. 5266, the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would empower the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; H.R. 5538, the Border Patrol Pay Fix Act, which would allow the majority of Border Patrol agents to receive a special overtime pay rate; H.R. 5798, the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act, which would undue certain provisions of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) passed by the Washington D.C. City Council; H.R. 6246, the Eliminate Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, the nations centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children; H.R. 6688, the Cold Case Modernization Act, which will extend DOJ grant funding for forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) testing to cover the identification process of all unidentified human remains, without regard to the manner of their death; H.R. 7185, the HIDTA Reauthorization Act., which would reauthorize the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program; H.R. 7456, the "First Responders Emergency Assistance Act.", which would establish additional grants through the Department of Homeland Security to law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico Border; H.R. 7487, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act., which would allocate $400 million to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program under the Office of National Drug Control Policy. H.R. 7720(Kean, R-NJ), which would allow grant funds from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) to be used for the purchase of fentanyl testing kits and opioid reversal agents; H.R. 7730 (Spanberger, D-VA), directing the GAO to investigate the methods used to enable such online sales and assess the procedures and efforts of Federal law enforcement and online providers in combatting online sales of fentanyl; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2567, the Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act, which would reauthorize the programs in the Computer Crime Enforcement Act; S. 2569, the "Fentanyl Safe Testing and Overdose Prevention Act". which would amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that the possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine is not unlawful; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2637, the Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act, which would direct the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to authorize grants to State, and local law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement personnel access to an immersive, real-life, scenario-based training curriculum which will improve community-police relations, as well as officer safety and resilience; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; S.3522, the Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act, which would require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes; S. 3643, the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act, which would update current law concerning hawala and other informal value transfer systems like those used by international terrorists and trafficking organizations, additionally, purposes to double the penalties for those who violate bulk-cash smuggling laws; S. 3763, the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act, which would establish a grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help State, Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies improve their clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes.
2024 · first_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 27, Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act H.R. 5488/S. 2805, Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act S. 2313, Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023
Client expense: $23,370,000 · Firm income: Not reported
2024 · first_quarter · Transportation
H.R. 1435, Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act H.R. 2367, the Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act H.R. 3935, Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act H.R. 4468, Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act H.R. 4820/S. 2437, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 H.R. 5840, Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act H.R. 7023, Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act H.R. 7470/S. 3823, Secure U.S. Leadership in Space Act of 2024 S. 259, Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act S. 1631, Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act S. 1939, FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 S. 2313, Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023 Draft legislation titled Port Infrastructure Permitting Empowerment (PIPE) Act Draft legislation relating to the deployment of automated vehicle technology and autonomous vehicle security Reappointment of Carl W. Bentzel as a Member of the Federal Maritime Commission Various issues relating to implementation of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-254); implementation of Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act (P.L. 114-322); implementation of Americas Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-270); implementation of Fixing Americas Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (P.L. 114-94); implementation of Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-121); implementation of Section 2209 of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 (P.L 114-190); implementation of the Drivers Privacy Protection Act (P.L. 103-322); implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58); use of state and local funding in the American Rescue Plan (P.L. 117-2) for state Departments of Transportation; implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (P.L. 117-169); use of tax policy to pay for transportation including mandatory repatriation and repatriation holidays; movement of waterborne commerce along the nations inland waterways; National Freight Advisory Council; revenue sources for the federal Highway Trust Fund; funding and financing mechanisms for surface transportation, aviation, marine transportation, and clean and drinking water infrastructure including national infrastructure banks, infrastructure investment funds, bonding programs, special purpose bonds and public private partnerships; water resources, including issues relating to water conveyance and storage; public-private partnerships for public infrastructure; Buy America legislation and implementation of Buy America policies, including provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58); commercial trucking hours of service; truck productivity, specifically twin-33s and Department of Transportation twin-trailer standard; railroad tank car operational controls; positive train control (PTC) implementation; federal preemption of state meal and rest break laws (F4A); unmanned aircraft systems; necessity of a general infrastructure package; potential increase in the federal gas tax; streamlining permit processing for construction of rural broadband; driving safety and road safety; Department of Transportation regulatory matters related to automated vehicles; Boeing 737 MAX certification and associated production stoppages; Department of Transportation freight programs; delayed development of the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Prohibit or Restrict the Operation of an Unmanned Aircraft in Close Proximity to a Fixed Site Facility; comprehensive assessment of the U.S. Civil Space Industrial Base (CSIB) requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and NOAAs Office of Space Commerce (OSC); Request for Comment on the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR), FA254123_CASR_RFI; Framework use of FHWA State Planning & Research funds for "Digital Twins"
2024 · first_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Legislation: S.3663-Kids Online Safety Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy, civil rights, civil liberties. S.1207-Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2023 or the EARN IT Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1080-Cooper Davis Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1199-Strengthening Transparency and Obligations to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1291-Protecting Kids on Social Media Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1939-FAA Reauthorization Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, womens rights. S.1418-Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S.2892-Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic justice. S.701-Womens Health Protection Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. S.5-Equality Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. S.2624-Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. S.1999-Right to Contraception Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. S.3351-FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023-FISA Section 702 reauthorization. S.3234-Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: FISA Section 702 reauthorization. S.3565-Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Equitable access to broadband. S.2033-American Innovation and Choice Online Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech. S.4-John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. S.1-Freedom to Vote Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights, democracy. S.3361-Traveler Privacy Protection Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S.441-American Opportunity Accounts Act-Issues Lobbied: Racial justice. S.3961-Security and Freedom Enhancement (SAFE) Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: FISA Section 702 reauthorization. S.1541-Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022-Issues Lobbied: Prison profiteering. S.3409- End Solitary Confinement Act-Issues Lobbied: Solitary confinement. S.3900-Justice for Breonna Taylor Act-Issues Lobbied: Policing. S.2313-Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Traffic decriminalization. S.1306-COPS Reauthorization Act 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing. S.516-Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.518-Correctional Facilities Occupational Safety and Health Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.508-Ensuring Work Opportunities in Correctional Facilities Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.517-Combating Workplace Discrimination in Correctional Facilities Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.2646-HEAL for Immigrant Families Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. S.3196-Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for Children in Foster Care Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Disability rights. S.2625-Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, interior enforcement, removals, military neutralization. H.R.1325-Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Asylum, immigration, employment authorization for asylum seekers. H.R.4365-Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.2-Secure the Border Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, border policies, transit ban, credible fear standard, border expulsion authority, expedited removal, mandatory detention, parole. H.R.4367-Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4665-Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4368-Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.12-Womens Health Protection Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. H.R.4366-Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, fentanyl provisions, immigration, racial justice, reproductive rights. H.R.15-Equality Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.1399-Protect Childrens Innocence Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.5894-Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.5601-MORE Act-Issues Lobbied: Marijuana decriminalization. H.R.4394-Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4664-Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4821-Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4820-Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.5893-Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.6570-Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: FISA Section 702 reauthorization. H.R.4454-To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to ensure that politically derived information is not used in an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for an order under title I or III of such Act-Issues Lobbied: FISA Section 702 reauthorization. H.R.6262-Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: FISA Section 702 reauthorization. H.R.815-National Security and Border Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, immigrant detention, interior enforcement, deportation, border enforcement, asylum, transit ban, credible fear standard, border expulsion authority, expedited removal, mandatory detention, parole. H.R.5798-Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing. H.R.4972-End Solitary Confinement Act-Issues Lobbied: Solitary confinement. H.R.1525-Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing, civil asset forfeiture. H.R.7511-Laken Riley Act-Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement, immigration, detention. H.R.2882-Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement, immigration, detention, fentanyl provisions, racial justice, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive rights. H.Res.957-Denouncing the Biden administrations open-borders policies, condemning the national security and public safety crisis along the southwest border, and urging President Biden to end his administrations open-borders policies-Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement. H.R.7521-Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.6592-Fight Book Bans Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech. H.R.6943-No AI FRAUD Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, artificial intelligence. H.R.6881-AI Foundation Model Transparency Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic justice. H.R.6886-Transparent Automated Governance Act-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic justice. H.R.7520-Protecting Americans Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.7534-Verifying Kids Online Privacy Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.1041-American Opportunity Accounts Act-Issues Lobbied: Racial justice. H.R.6451-Mental Health Justice Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Federal appropriations. H.R.895-Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Combatting criminalization. H.R.6985-BOP Release Card ID Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Banking access for justice-impacted individuals. H.R.1062-EQUAL Act-Issues Lobbied: Sentencing reform. H.R.459-SAFER Health Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Combatting criminalization. H.R.7530-DC CRIMES Act-Issues Lobbied: Policing. H.R.3686-SHIELD Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing. H.R.7187-Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4364-Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.6918-Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. H.R.6914-Pregnant Students Rights Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. H.R.4121-Right to Contraception Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. H.R.561-EACH Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. H.R.7573-Stop Unfair Medicaid Recoveries Act-Issues Lobbied: Disability rights. H.R.4734-MORE Act-Issues Lobbied: Marijuana decriminalization. Legislation with No Bill Number: Senate bill version-MORE Act-Issues Lobbied: Marijuana decriminalization. Communications Decency Act of 1996-Issues Lobbied: Section 230, free speech, maintaining Internet integrity. GUARD Act-Issues Lobbied: Freedom of speech, privacy. High School Voter Empowerment Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. Next Step Home Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. Environmental Health in Prisons Act-Issues Lobbied: Criminal justice reform, prison conditions. Reproductive Data Privacy and Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, reproductive freedom. National Defense Authorization Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, military naturalizations, civil rights, civil liberties. Additional legislation not yet introduced-Creation of National Human Rights Institution, FISA Section 702 reauthorization, fiscal year 2025 appropriations, omnibus appropriations, consumer privacy, patenting of genes, gene research, net neutrality, broadband access, deep fakes, revenge porn, equity online, digital discrimination, elections funding, federal funding for elections, free speech, defining antisemitism in education programs, artificial intelligence, use of artificial intelligence in hiring and healthcare, algorithmic justice, watchlists, border enforcement, immigration, detention, CBP medical care and oversight, migrant property dispossession, freedom of religious expression for migrants, insular cases, self-determination of U.S. territories, criminal justice reform, clemency, community safety, prison conditions, prisoners rights for pregnant people, abortion, reproductive freedom, medication abortion, reproductive healthcare, TikTok ban, national security, free speech, privacy, foster care data collection, family policing, womens rights, civil rights, civil liberties. Agencies: Agency-Homeland Security-Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 14010-Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework to Address the Causes of Migration, to Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and to Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the U.S. Border, asylum, asylum reform, restoration of asylum processing at southern border, complete termination of MPP, rebuilding a more humane asylum system, immigration, CBP policing policies and practices, migrant property dispossession, language access for migrants, CBP One mobile application, Office of Intelligence Analysis practices, clemency, Immigrant Military Members and Veterans Initiatives recipients, freedom of religious expression for migrants; Customs and Border Protection-Migrant property dispossession, freedom of religious expression for migrants; Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Immigrant detention, detention of Mauritanian asylum-seekers. Agency-Justice-Issues Lobbied: Clemency, sentencing reform, clemency for federal death row prisoners; Office of the Pardon Attorney-Clemency, Immigrant Military Members and Veterans Initiative recipients. Agency-EOP-Issues Lobbied: White House Office-Clemency, executive clemency, Proclamation 10467, clemency for federal death row prisoners, Executive Order 14010-Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework to Address the Causes of Migration, to Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and to Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the U.S. Border, asylum, asylum reform, National Security and Border Act, protecting asylum and immigrant rights in funding negotiations, restoration of asylum processing at southern border, complete termination of MPP, rebuilding a more humane asylum system, temporary protected status, immigration, TikTok ban, national security, free speech, privacy, Kids Online Safety Act, civil liberties, civil rights, Affordable Connectivity Act, continued funding for broadband subsidies, oversight over counterterrorism policy and practices, torture, detention, drones, war authority, Guantanamo Bay, artificial intelligence, effects of AI on civil rights and civil liberties, speech, privacy, nondiscrimination, deep fakes, revenge porn, broadband, Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024; Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives-migrant property dispossession, freedom of religious expression for migrants; Domestic Policy Counsel-Criminal justice reform; Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs-Pregnant Workers Fairness Act notice of proposed rulemaking. Agency-Office of the Vice President-Issues Lobbied: Clemency. Agency-FTC-Issues Lobbied: Artificial intelligence, effects of AI on civil rights and civil liberties, speech, privacy, nondiscrimination. Agency-HHS-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, Section 1557 regulation, electric shock therapy, disability rights. Agency-FCC-Issues Lobbied: Prison profiteering, continued funding for broadband subsidies, broadband, net neutrality, Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024, digital discrimination, equity. Agency-CMS-Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 14019-Promoting Access to Voting, voting rights. Agency-Treasury-Issues Lobbied: Banking access for justice-impacted individuals. Agency-VA-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, comprehensive care for transgender veterans. Agency-Education-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, Title IX regulation, definition of antisemitism in education programs, First Amendment protections. Agency-HUD-Issues Lobbied: Womens rights, 30-Day notification requirement prior to termination of lease for nonpayment of rent notice of proposed rulemaking. Agency-FAA-Issues Lobbied: Flight crew pumping breast milk, womens rights, workplace discrimination.
2023 · fourth_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
Law enforcement policy and operations, law enforcement grants and funding, law enforcement training, federal-local law enforcement partnerships, violent crime, gun violence, policing reform, officer health and wellness, recruitment and retention, criminal justice reform, Next Generation 911, spectrum policy, law enforcement communications, CJS appropriations, DHS appropriations, FEMA preparedness grants, alternative responses, criminal record sealing and expungement, reentry policy, VICTIM Act, hate crimes, asset forfeiture, gun safety, youth summer employment programs, mental health and substance abuse, Project Safe Neighborhoods, Extreme Risk Protection Orders, COPS grants, computer crime, IP theft, catalytic converter theft, Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy, forensic genetic genealogy, rape kit backlog, World Trade Center Health Program, H.R.3565 - Spectrum Auction Reauthorization Act of 2023, H.R.2670 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, H.R.4632/S. 2298 - National ACERT Grant Program Authorization Act, H.R. 3150 - OPIOIDS Act, H.R. 1525 - FAIR Act, H.R.2770 - Prevent Family Fire Act of 2023, H.R.4283 - Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2023, S.2644 - American Law Enforcement SAVER Act, S.1387/H.R. 4384 - Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2023, S.2214 - Fair Legal Access Grants Act, S.2313 - Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023, S.2567 - Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act of 2023, S. 546 - Recruit and Retain Act, H.R. 612/S. 154 - PART Act, S.2566 - American IDEA Act, H.R. 1105 - Debbie Smith Act of 2023, H.R. 5721 - Rape Kit Backlog Act of 2023, H.R. 4531 - SUPPORT Act, H.R.3074/S.971 - Due Process Continuity of Care Act, H.R. 2400 - Reentry Act, S.2321 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024, S. 2625/H.R.4367 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024
2023 · fourth_quarter · Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Law enforcement policy and operations, law enforcement grants and funding, law enforcement training, federal-local law enforcement partnerships, gun violence, firearms policy, criminal justice system accountability, officer health and wellness, criminal justice reform, CJS appropriations, alternative responses, opioids, fentanyl, drug trafficking, criminal record sealing and expungement, reentry policy, parole, post-release supervision, cross-border smuggling, youth summer employment programs, juvenile crime, mental health and substance abuse, counterfeit drugs, Extreme Risk Protection Orders, COPS grants, computer crime, sentencing reform, FirstNet, Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy, H.R.4632/S. 2298 - National ACERT Grant Program Authorization Act, H.R. 3150 - OPIOIDS Act, H.R.3563 - STRIP Act, S. 2596/H.R.4958 - Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, S.2681/H.R. 5005 - Safer Supervision Act of 2023, S.1080 - Cooper Davis Act, S.2214 - Fair Legal Access Grants Act, S.1530 - COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act of 202, S.2313 - Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023, S.2567 - Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act of 2023, H.R. 4531 - SUPPORT Act, H.R.3074/S.971 - Due Process Continuity of Care Act, H.R. 2400 - Reentry Act, S.2321 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
Client expense: $24,000 · Firm income: Not reported
2023 · fourth_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Law enforcement policy and operations, law enforcement grants and funding, law enforcement training violent crime, gun violence, firearms policy, criminal justice system accountability, criminal justice reform, policing reform, bail reform, data privacy, law enforcement access to third-party data, American Data Privacy and Protection Act, CJS appropriations, DHS appropriations alternative responses, criminal record sealing and expungement, reentry policy, parole, post-release supervision, VICTIM Act, hate crimes, asset forfeiture, cUAS, juvenile crime, Extreme Risk Protection Orders, COPS grants, computer crime, IP theft, sentencing reform, encryption, Sec. 230 reform, Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy, Overt Human Intelligence Collection Program, H.R.2670 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, H.R.4639 - Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, H.R.4632/S. 2298 - National ACERT Grant Program Authorization Act, S. 2596/H.R.4958 - Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, S.2681/H.R. 5005 - Safer Supervision Act of 2023, H.R. 1525 - FAIR Act, S.1631/H.R. 4333 - Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act of 2023, S.1387/H.R. 4384 - Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2023, S.1080 - Cooper Davis Act, S.2214 - Fair Legal Access Grants Act, S.2292 - Purchased Data Inventory Act, S.2313 - Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023, S.2597 - Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act of 2023, S.2788 - Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2023, S. 1207 - EARN IT Act of 2023, H.R.5736 - Federal Accountability in Interviews Reform Act, H.R.3074/S.971 - Due Process Continuity of Care Act, H.R. 2400 - Reentry Act, S. 2103 - Intelligence Authorization for FY 2024, S.2321 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024, S. 2625/H.R.4367 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024
2023 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Law enforcement policy and operations, law enforcement grants and funding, law enforcement training, federal-local law enforcement partnerships, violent crime, gun violence, firearms policy, criminal justice system accountability, policing reform, officer health and wellness, recruitment and retention, criminal justice reform, Next Generation 911, spectrum policy, law enforcement communications, bail reform, data privacy, law enforcement access to third-party data, American Data Privacy and Protection Act, CJS appropriations, DHS appropriations, FEMA preparedness grants, alternative responses, opioids, fentanyl, drug trafficking, criminal record sealing and expungement, reentry policy, parole, post-release supervision, VICTIM Act, hate crimes, asset forfeiture, human trafficking, gun safety, ghost guns, firearms trafficking, counterterrorism and mass casualty attacks, cross-border smuggling, cUAS, youth summer employment programs, juvenile crime, mental health and substance abuse, officer safety, Project Safe Neighborhoods, counterfeit drugs, untraceable firearms, Extreme Risk Protection Orders, COPS grants, computer crime, IP theft, sentencing reform, FirstNet, online child sexual exploitation, encryption, Sec. 230 reform, catalytic converter theft, Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy, forensic genetic genealogy, rape kit backlog, World Trade Center Health Program, Overt Human Intelligence Collection Program, 1033 Program, H.R.3565 - Spectrum Auction Reauthorization Act of 2023, H.R.2670 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, H.R.4639 - Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, H.R.4632/S. 2298 - National ACERT Grant Program Authorization Act, H.R. 3150 - OPIOIDS Act, H.R.3563 - STRIP Act, S. 2596/H.R.4958 - Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, S.2681/H.R. 5005 - Safer Supervision Act of 2023, H.R. 1525 - FAIR Act, H.R.2770 - Prevent Family Fire Act of 2023, H.R. 5460 - Bolstering Security Against Ghost Guns Act, S.1631/H.R. 4333 - Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act of 2023, H.R.4283 - Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2023, S.2644 - American Law Enforcement SAVER Act, S.1387/H.R. 4384 - Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2023, S.1080 - Cooper Davis Act, S.2214 - Fair Legal Access Grants Act, S.2292 - Purchased Data Inventory Act, S.1530 - COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act of 2023, S.2313 - Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023, S.2567 - Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act of 2023, S.2597 - Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act of 2023, S. 546 - Recruit and Retain Act, S.2788 - Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2023, S. 1207 - EARN IT Act of 2023, S. 2601 - Catalytic Converter Task Force Act, H.R. 612/S. 154 - PART Act, S.2566 - American IDEA Act, H.R. 1105 - Debbie Smith Act of 2023, H.R. 5721 - Rape Kit Backlog Act of 2023, H.R. 4531 - SUPPORT Act, H.R.5736 - Federal Accountability in Interviews Reform Act, H.R.3074/S.971 - Due Process Continuity of Care Act, H.R. 2400 - Reentry Act, S. 2103 - Intelligence Authorization for FY 2024, S.2321 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024, S. 2625/H.R.4367 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024
2023 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 27, Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act S. 2313, Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023
Client expense: $19,080,000 · Firm income: Not reported
2023 · fourth_quarter · Transportation
H.R. 1435, Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act H.R. 2367, the Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act H.R. 3935, Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act H.R. 4468, Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act H.R. 4820/S. 2437, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 H.R. 5840, Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act S. 259, Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act S. 2313, Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023 Draft legislation titled Port Infrastructure Permitting Empowerment (PIPE) Act Draft legislation relating to the deployment of automated vehicle technology Potential legislation similar to S. 4136, Water Resources Development Act of 2022 Nomination of Michael Whitaker to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration Proposed Rule Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council; Revising Scope of the Mining Sector of Projects That Are Eligible for Coverage Under Title 41 of the Fixing Americas Surface Transportation Act (88 Fed. Reg. 65,350-65,356, September 22, 2023) Various issues relating to implementation of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-254); implementation of Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act (P.L. 114-322); implementation of Americas Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-270); implementation of Fixing Americas Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (P.L. 114-94); implementation of Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-121); implementation of Section 2209 of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 (P.L 114-190); implementation of the Drivers Privacy Protection Act (P.L. 103-322); implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58); use of state and local funding in the American Rescue Plan (P.L. 117-2) for state Departments of Transportation; implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (P.L. 117-169); use of tax policy to pay for transportation including mandatory repatriation and repatriation holidays; movement of waterborne commerce along the nations inland waterways; National Freight Advisory Council; revenue sources for the federal Highway Trust Fund; funding and financing mechanisms for surface transportation, aviation, marine transportation, and clean and drinking water infrastructure including national infrastructure banks, infrastructure investment funds, bonding programs, special purpose bonds and public private partnerships; water resources, including issues relating to water conveyance and storage; public-private partnerships for public infrastructure; Buy America provisions especially in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58); commercial trucking hours of service; truck productivity, specifically twin-33s and Department of Transportation twin-trailer standard; railroad tank car operational controls; positive train control (PTC) implementation; federal preemption of state meal and rest break laws (F4A); unmanned aircraft systems; necessity of a general infrastructure package; potential increase in the federal gas tax; streamlining permit processing for construction of rural broadband; driving safety and road safety; Department of Transportation regulatory matters related to automated vehicles; Boeing 737 MAX certification and associated production stoppages; Department of Transportation freight programs; implementation of federal Buy America policies and legislation; United Parcel Service (UPS) Teamster negotiations; vehicle miles traveled pilot; delayed development of the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Prohibit or Restrict the Operation of an Unmanned Aircraft in Close Proximity to a Fixed Site Facility; urging a rapid nomination of a new FAA Administrator and potential FAA authorization in 2023; labor negotiations, including West Coast port and dockworker negotiations and those between the United Auto Workers and the Detroit Three; comprehensive assessment of the U.S. Civil Space Industrial Base (CSIB) requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and NOAAs Office of Space Commerce (OSC); Request for Comment on the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR); Framework use of FHWA State Planning & Research funds for "Digital Twins"
2023 · fourth_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.R. 5029, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 5182, the Child Online Safety Modernization Act, which would strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children CyberTipline by modernizing and improving the reporting process, extending the required preservation period for individual reports to one year, and replacing the term, child pornography, with child sexual abuse materials throughout all Federal statutes; H.R. 5266 (Bacon, R-NE), the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would empower the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; H.R. 5538, the Border Patrol Pay Fix Act, which would allow the majority of Border Patrol agents to receive a special overtime pay rate; H.R. 5798, the Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act, which would undue certain provisions of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) passed by the Washington D.C. City Council; H.R. 6246, the Eliminate Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, the nations centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children; H.R. 6688, the Cold Case Modernization Act, which will extend DOJ grant funding for forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) testing to cover the identification process of all unidentified human remains, without regard to the manner of their death; H.J. Res. 26/S.J. Res. 12/PL 118-1, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Revised Criminal Code Act (RCCA) of 2022 by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2567, the Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act, which would reauthorize the programs in the Computer Crime Enforcement Act; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2637, the Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act, which would direct the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to authorize grants to State, and local law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement personnel access to an immersive, real-life, scenario-based training curriculum which will improve community-police relations, as well as officer safety and resilience; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits;
2023 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Supporting the EQUAL Act, H.R. 1062 and S. 524; supporting the Sentencing Commission Improvements Act, S. 851; supporting the Fresh Start Act, H.R. 2983; supporting the Clean Slate Act, H.R. 2930; supporting the Smarter Pretrial for Drug Charges Act, S. 1056; supporting the FAIR Act, H.R. 1525; supporting the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, H.R. 4958 and S. 2596; supporting the TEST Act, S. 1950; supporting the Federal Prison Oversight Act, H. R. 3019 and S. 1401; supporting the Smart Sentencing Adjustments Act, H.R. 2931 and S. 1342; supporting the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act, S. 2788 and H.R. 5430; opposing the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, H.R. 1839 and S. 993; supporting the Driving for Opportunity Act, S. 2313; opposing the SHIELD Act, S. 412 and H.R. 3686; opposing proposed appropriations cuts to the federal indigent defense system; supporting adequate funding for public defenders; supporting the implementation of tobacco harm reduction policies; supporting ending the use of acquitted conduct in prison sentences for federal criminal offenses; supporting the expungement of federal simple possession drug offenses; supporting standards for the inclusion of a term of supervised release after federal imprisonment; supporting the repeal of the lifetime ban on individuals with a past felony drug conviction from receiving SNAP or TANF benefits; supporting federal sentencing reforms in general; supporting increased oversight of the Bureau of Prisons in general; supporting "second chances" for returning citizens in general; supporting increased and continued implementation of the First Step Act in general; supporting increased use of compassionate release, home confinement and other early release options; supporting prison reforms in general; supporting criminal discovery reforms in general; supporting the inclusion of well-defined terms and meaningful mens rea protections in all potential and existing federal criminal laws and regulations; supporting increased prosecutorial and policing accountability; and supporting clemencies, commutations, and pardons. Opposing the HALT Fentanyl Act, H.R. 467; opposing overcriminalization (creation of unnecessary federal criminal laws or regulations with poorly defined terms or weak mens rea protections or those that result in overly harsh incarcerative penalties) in general.
2023 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1105, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.R. 5029, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; H.R. 5266 (Bacon, R-NE), the Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act, which would empower the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to evaluate correctional facilities capabilities to protect staff and detainees from exposure to synthetic drugs and opioids and implement appropriate protective measures as a result of the findings; H.J. Res. 26/S.J. Res. 12/PL 118-1, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Revised Criminal Code Act (RCCA) of 2022 by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits;
2023 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 27, Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act S. 2313, Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023
Client expense: $13,590,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2023 · third_quarter · Transportation
H.R. 2367, the Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act H.R. 3935, Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act H.R. 4820/S. 2437, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 S. 259, Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act S. 2313, Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023 Draft legislation titled Port Infrastructure Permitting Empowerment (PIPE) Act Draft legislation titled Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act Draft legislation relating to the deployment of automated vehicle technology Potential legislation similar to S. 4136, Water Resources Development Act of 2022 Nomination of Michael Whitaker to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration Various issues relating to implementation of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-254); implementation of Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act (P.L. 114-322); implementation of Americas Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-270); implementation of Fixing Americas Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (P.L. 114-94); implementation of Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-121); implementation of Section 2209 of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 (P.L 114-190); implementation of the Drivers Privacy Protection Act (P.L. 103-322); implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58); use of state and local funding in the American Rescue Plan (P.L. 117-2) for state Departments of Transportation; implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (P.L. 117-169); use of tax policy to pay for transportation including mandatory repatriation and repatriation holidays; movement of waterborne commerce along the nations inland waterways; National Freight Advisory Council; revenue sources for the federal Highway Trust Fund; funding and financing mechanisms for surface transportation, aviation, marine transportation, and clean and drinking water infrastructure including national infrastructure banks, infrastructure investment funds, bonding programs, special purpose bonds and public private partnerships; water resources, including issues relating to water conveyance and storage; public-private partnerships for public infrastructure; commercial trucking hours of service; truck productivity, specifically twin-33s and Department of Transportation twin-trailer standard; railroad tank car operational controls; positive train control (PTC) implementation; federal preemption of state meal and rest break laws (F4A); unmanned aircraft systems; necessity of a general infrastructure package; potential increase in the federal gas tax; streamlining permit processing for construction of rural broadband; driving safety and road safety; Department of Transportation regulatory matters related to automated vehicles; Boeing 737 MAX certification and associated production stoppages; Department of Transportation freight programs; implementation of federal Buy America policies and legislation; United Parcel Service (UPS) Teamster negotiations; vehicle miles traveled pilot; delayed development of the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Prohibit or Restrict the Operation of an Unmanned Aircraft in Close Proximity to a Fixed Site Facility; urging a rapid nomination of a new FAA Administrator and potential FAA authorization in 2023; labor negotiations, including West Coast port and dockworker negotiations and those between the United Auto Workers and the Detroit Three; comprehensive assessment of the U.S. Civil Space Industrial Base (CSIB) requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and NOAAs Office of Space Commerce (OSC); Request for Comment on the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR); Framework use of FHWA State Planning & Research funds for "Digital Twins"
2023 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Appropriations for Federal Defender Services (Financial Services and General Government); HALT Fentanyl Act (H.R. 467); TEST Act (S. 1950); Safer Supervision Act (S. 2681, H.R. 5005); Reentry Act (S. 1165 / H.R. 2400); Due Process Continuity of Care Act (S. 971 / H.R. 3074); RESTORE Act (S. 1753 / H.R. 3479); Driving for Opportunity Act (S. 2313); Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act (S. 2596, H.R. 4958); Acquitted conduct sentencing; Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act (H.R. 5430 / S. 2788); SHIELD Act (S. 412), End Cells in Cells Act (H.R. 3949); Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act; National Defense Authorization Act; 702 reauthorization; Cooper Davis Act (S. 1080)
Client expense: $15,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office
2023 · third_quarter · Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Law enforcement policy and operations, law enforcement grants and funding, law enforcement training, federal-local law enforcement partnerships, gun violence, firearms policy, criminal justice system accountability, officer health and wellness, criminal justice reform, CJS appropriations, alternative responses, opioids, fentanyl, drug trafficking, criminal record sealing and expungement, reentry policy, parole, post-release supervision, cross-border smuggling, youth summer employment programs, juvenile crime, mental health and substance abuse, counterfeit drugs, Extreme Risk Protection Orders, COPS grants, computer crime, sentencing reform, FirstNet, Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy, H.R.4632/S. 2298 - National ACERT Grant Program Authorization Act, H.R. 3150 - OPIOIDS Act, H.R.3563 - STRIP Act, S. 2596/H.R.4958 - Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, S.2681/H.R. 5005 - Safer Supervision Act of 2023, S.1080 - Cooper Davis Act, S.2214 - Fair Legal Access Grants Act, S.1530 - COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act of 202, S.2313 - Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023, S.2567 - Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act of 2023, H.R. 4531 - SUPPORT Act, H.R.3074/S.971 - Due Process Continuity of Care Act, H.R. 2400 - Reentry Act, S.2321 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
Client expense: $30,000 · Firm income: Not reported
2023 · third_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
Law enforcement policy and operations, law enforcement grants and funding, law enforcement training violent crime, gun violence, firearms policy, criminal justice system accountability, criminal justice reform, policing reform, bail reform, data privacy, law enforcement access to third-party data, American Data Privacy and Protection Act, CJS appropriations, DHS appropriations alternative responses, criminal record sealing and expungement, reentry policy, parole, post-release supervision, VICTIM Act, hate crimes, asset forfeiture, cUAS, juvenile crime, Extreme Risk Protection Orders, COPS grants, computer crime, IP theft, sentencing reform, encryption, Sec. 230 reform, Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy, Overt Human Intelligence Collection Program, H.R.2670 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, H.R.4639 - Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, H.R.4632/S. 2298 - National ACERT Grant Program Authorization Act, S. 2596/H.R.4958 - Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, S.2681/H.R. 5005 - Safer Supervision Act of 2023, H.R. 1525 - FAIR Act, S.1631/H.R. 4333 - Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act of 2023, S.1387/H.R. 4384 - Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2023, S.1080 - Cooper Davis Act, S.2214 - Fair Legal Access Grants Act, S.2292 - Purchased Data Inventory Act, S.2313 - Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023, S.2597 - Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act of 2023, S.2788 - Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2023, S. 1207 - EARN IT Act of 2023, H.R.5736 - Federal Accountability in Interviews Reform Act, H.R.3074/S.971 - Due Process Continuity of Care Act, H.R. 2400 - Reentry Act, S. 2103 - Intelligence Authorization for FY 2024, S.2321 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024, S. 2625/H.R.4367 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024
2023 · third_quarter · Budget/Appropriations
Law enforcement policy and operations, law enforcement grants and funding, law enforcement training, federal-local law enforcement partnerships, violent crime, gun violence, policing reform, officer health and wellness, recruitment and retention, criminal justice reform, Next Generation 911, spectrum policy, law enforcement communications, CJS appropriations, DHS appropriations, FEMA preparedness grants, alternative responses, criminal record sealing and expungement, reentry policy, VICTIM Act, hate crimes, asset forfeiture, gun safety, youth summer employment programs, mental health and substance abuse, Project Safe Neighborhoods, Extreme Risk Protection Orders, COPS grants, computer crime, IP theft, catalytic converter theft, Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy, forensic genetic genealogy, rape kit backlog, World Trade Center Health Program, H.R.3565 - Spectrum Auction Reauthorization Act of 2023, H.R.2670 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, H.R.4632/S. 2298 - National ACERT Grant Program Authorization Act, H.R. 3150 - OPIOIDS Act, H.R. 1525 - FAIR Act, H.R.2770 - Prevent Family Fire Act of 2023, H.R.4283 - Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2023, S.2644 - American Law Enforcement SAVER Act, S.1387/H.R. 4384 - Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2023, S.2214 - Fair Legal Access Grants Act, S.2313 - Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023, S.2567 - Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act of 2023, S. 546 - Recruit and Retain Act, H.R. 612/S. 154 - PART Act, S.2566 - American IDEA Act, H.R. 1105 - Debbie Smith Act of 2023, H.R. 5721 - Rape Kit Backlog Act of 2023, H.R. 4531 - SUPPORT Act, H.R.3074/S.971 - Due Process Continuity of Care Act, H.R. 2400 - Reentry Act, S.2321 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024, S. 2625/H.R.4367 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024
2023 · third_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Law enforcement policy and operations, law enforcement grants and funding, law enforcement training, federal-local law enforcement partnerships, violent crime, gun violence, firearms policy, criminal justice system accountability, policing reform, officer health and wellness, recruitment and retention, criminal justice reform, Next Generation 911, spectrum policy, law enforcement communications, bail reform, data privacy, law enforcement access to third-party data, American Data Privacy and Protection Act, CJS appropriations, DHS appropriations, FEMA preparedness grants, alternative responses, opioids, fentanyl, drug trafficking, criminal record sealing and expungement, reentry policy, parole, post-release supervision, VICTIM Act, hate crimes, asset forfeiture, human trafficking, gun safety, ghost guns, firearms trafficking, counterterrorism and mass casualty attacks, cross-border smuggling, cUAS, youth summer employment programs, juvenile crime, mental health and substance abuse, officer safety, Project Safe Neighborhoods, counterfeit drugs, untraceable firearms, Extreme Risk Protection Orders, COPS grants, computer crime, IP theft, sentencing reform, FirstNet, online child sexual exploitation, encryption, Sec. 230 reform, catalytic converter theft, Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy, forensic genetic genealogy, rape kit backlog, World Trade Center Health Program, Overt Human Intelligence Collection Program, 1033 Program, H.R.3565 - Spectrum Auction Reauthorization Act of 2023, H.R.2670 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, H.R.4639 - Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, H.R.4632/S. 2298 - National ACERT Grant Program Authorization Act, H.R. 3150 - OPIOIDS Act, H.R.3563 - STRIP Act, S. 2596/H.R.4958 - Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, S.2681/H.R. 5005 - Safer Supervision Act of 2023, H.R. 1525 - FAIR Act, H.R.2770 - Prevent Family Fire Act of 2023, H.R. 5460 - Bolstering Security Against Ghost Guns Act, S.1631/H.R. 4333 - Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act of 2023, H.R.4283 - Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2023, S.2644 - American Law Enforcement SAVER Act, S.1387/H.R. 4384 - Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2023, S.1080 - Cooper Davis Act, S.2214 - Fair Legal Access Grants Act, S.2292 - Purchased Data Inventory Act, S.1530 - COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act of 2023, S.2313 - Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023, S.2567 - Stop Computer Crimes Proliferation Act of 2023, S.2597 - Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act of 2023, S. 546 - Recruit and Retain Act, S.2788 - Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2023, S. 1207 - EARN IT Act of 2023, S. 2601 - Catalytic Converter Task Force Act, H.R. 612/S. 154 - PART Act, S.2566 - American IDEA Act, H.R. 1105 - Debbie Smith Act of 2023, H.R. 5721 - Rape Kit Backlog Act of 2023, H.R. 4531 - SUPPORT Act, H.R.5736 - Federal Accountability in Interviews Reform Act, H.R.3074/S.971 - Due Process Continuity of Care Act, H.R. 2400 - Reentry Act, S. 2103 - Intelligence Authorization for FY 2024, S.2321 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024, S. 2625/H.R.4367 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024
2023 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R. 130/S. 459, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responders; H.R. 233, which would codify the existing qualified immunity doctrine as established and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; H.R. 304, the Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering (SERVE) Our Communities Act, which would establish an annual grant program for State and local governments to fund programs like transitional services, mentoring, and job training for young offenders; H.R. 355, the Back the Blue Act, which would improve protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, impose time and other limits on Federal courts review of habeas corpus, amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), and provide new grants; H.R. 472/S. 645, the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a state-of-the-art treatment program for public safety officers experiencing acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or similar conditions; H.R. 743, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 795/S. 261, the Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act, would allow State and local governments to purchase containment devices through the existing Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP); H.R. 898/S. 546, the Recruit and Retain Act, which would authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers; H.R. 1005, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; H.R. 1649, the Establishing Accreditation Grants for Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Act, which would establish a grant program that would pay the certification or re-certification fees for small to mid-size agencies that have fewer than 350 employees; H.R. 1719, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; H.R. 1839/S. 993, the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, which would add xylazine to the Controlled Substances Act, listing it as a Schedule III drug for illicit use; H.R. 2548, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would direct the CDC to expand their data collection efforts, publicly release their findings, and suggest protocols to prevent instances of Traumatic Brain Injuries for Law Enforcement; H.R. 2601, the National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which would require the full cooperation of any grant recipient that contracts with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to operate the National Human Trafficking Hotline, sharing information and assisting efforts by State and local law enforcement to combat human trafficking; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act," which would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits; H.R. 2722, the Providing Child Care to Police Officers Act, which would establish a grant pilot program to provide child care services for the minor children of law enforcement officers to accommodate the shift work and abnormal work hours of such officers, and to enhance recruitment and retention of such officers; H.R. 2949, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; H.R. 3150, the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act., which would empower the Attorney General to award grants to local law enforcement departments and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses; H.R. 3170/S. 1514, the Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder (HELPER) Act, which creates a home loan benefits program for first responders and educators based on the successful U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program available to our nations veterans; H.R. 3333/S.1271, the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, which would direct the resources of the U.S. government to target the fentanyl supply chain; H.R. 3449, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; H.R. 4384, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would impose a probable cause standard for certain types of information; H.J. Res. 26/S.J. Res. 12/PL 118-1, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Revised Criminal Code Act (RCCA) of 2022 by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H.J. Res. 42/S.J. Res. 26, a resolution disapproving the adoption of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act (CPJRAA) by the Washington, D.C. City Council; H. Res. 285, a resolution calling on Congress to respect the rights of law enforcement officers and establish a Bill of Rights for them; S. 474, the Revising Existing Procedures on Reporting via Technology (REPORT) Act, which would provide the CyberTipline, a critical tool for law enforcement run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the necessary resources and infrastructure needed to protect children from digital exploitation; S. 499, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act for five years and allocate $151 million in funding; S. 529, Erics Law, which would allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of a Federal capital case if the first jury does not reach a unanimous decision on the sentence; S.894, the Public Safety Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury Health Act, which would help law enforcement agencies establish concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) protocols; S. 930, the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, which would categorize duty-related cancer fatalities as a line of duty death under Public Safety Officers Benefits program; S. 972, the Filling Public Safety Vacancies Act, which provides a one-time boost of $162 million for the hiring program administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); S. 994, the Strong Communities Act, which would help build on the community-policing model by establishing a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers from their own community; S. 1080, the Cooper Davis Act, which would require social media providers to report all suspected illicit drug activity occurring on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); S. 1170, Project Safe Childhood, which updates and expands provisions included in the original Project Safe Childhood initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, which provides special privacy protections to certain child victims and witnesses in criminal prosecutions; S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 1306, the COPS Reauthorization Act, which will reauthorize the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and all the programs it administers through 2029; S. 1331, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Payment Completion Fairness Act, which would aid our nations public servants, including law enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders, by forgiving the remaining balance of their Federal direct student loans after ten years of qualifying public service and payments; S. 1387, the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act, which would reauthorize critical funding and support for local law enforcement agencies and community organizations that help reduce violent crime and enhance public safety; S. 1447, the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, which would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to select existing violence prevention or intervention programs, administered by State and local trauma centers, to receive Federal grants to expand existing programs, study the effectiveness of those programs, and examine their impacts on reincarceration and re-admittance rates; S. 1507, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which establishes a grant program within the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to aid State and local law enforcement in obtaining portable chemical screening devices to identify the substances they encounter daily; S. 1530, the COPS on the Beat Grant Program Parity Act, which allows underserved and rural communities greater flexibility to use COPS grants to raise law enforcement salaries to help retain good officers and improve recruitment efforts; S. 1569, the Back the Blue Act. which improves protections for law enforcement officers by increasing the penalties for those who kill or assault law enforcement officers, judges, and other public safety officers; S. 1857, the Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking Officers in Interdicting (ANTI) Drugs Act, which would reauthorize, and increase funding for, Operation Stonegarden; S. 2313, the Driving for Opportunity Act, which would create a grant program for States to reinstate drivers licenses that were suspended for unpaid fines and fees; S. 2596, the Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act, would amend current law (18 U.SC. 3607) expunging an individuals minor possession offense if the individual meets the laws stringent requirements. This legislation amends this rule, eliminating the age requirement; S. 2644, the American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources (SAVER) Act, would expand the existing Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne-JAG) program to allow for the purchase of trauma kits;
| Republican |
| OK |
| John Boozman | Republican | AR |
| Kevin Cramer | Republican | ND |
| Richard Blumenthal | Democratic | CT |
| Richard J. Durbin | Democratic | IL |
| Roger F. Wicker | Republican | MS |
| Ron Wyden | Democratic | OR |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | Democratic | RI |
| Shelley Moore Capito | Republican | WV |
| Thom Tillis | Republican | NC |
Client expense: $14,750,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
Client expense: $13,930,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Client expense: $75,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $75,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Client expense: $23,370,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
Client expense: $490,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Education, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives, Office of the Vice President of the United States, SENATE, Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
Client expense: $24,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $24,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $24,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Client expense: $19,080,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
Client expense: $75,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $20,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Bureau of Prisons (BOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ), President of the U.S., SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $60,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $13,590,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $30,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $30,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $30,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office
Client expense: $60,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), SENATE, White House Office