Legislation related to corrections reform, sentencing reform, re-entry reform and the Better Drive Act including the Prison Reform and Redemption Act (H.R. 3356), and the Pretrial Integrity and Safety Act of 2017 (S. 1593).
Amendments related to H.R. 3354 Interior and Environment, Agriculture and Rural Development, Commerce, Justice, Science, Financial Services and General Government, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, State and Foreign Operations, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Legislative Branch, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2018, including:
- H.Amdt.393 - An amendment numbered 129 printed in House Report 115-297 to limit funds to carry out Department of Justice Policy Directive 17-1, which reinstates the adoptive seizure policy and circumvents state limitations on civil asset forfeiture.
- H.Amdt.394 - An amendment numbered 130 printed in House Report 115-297 to prohibit funds from being used to implement Order Number 3946-2017 allowing Department of Justice components and agencies to forfeit assets seized by State or local law enforcement agencies.
- H.Amdt.391 - An amendment numbered 126 printed in House Report 115-297 to restrict the federal government's use of adoptive forfeiture.
It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.
Agencies lobbied since 2015: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.
Legislative Aide- Sen. McConnell
Legislative Aide - Sen. McConnell
Disclosures Filed
Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.
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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate