• Lobbied in support of prohibitions on congressional stock trading and other conflict of interest issues in S1171/HR2678 - Ending Trading and Holdings In Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act and the Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act. Lobbied in support of legislation to address issues related to judicial ethics in S359/HR926 - Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act and in support of subpoenas for Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo over Supreme Court ethics violations.
• Lobbied in support of expanding the child tax credit and earned income tax credit and a refundable child tax credit with monthly advance payment in HR 3899 - American Family Act. Lobbied for the inclusion of CTC in various funding vehicles, including HR 6363. Advocated for the IRS to develop a free file program for taxpayers. Lobbied in opposition to IRS funding cuts present in HR 6126 and in HR 3746 - Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 and changes to various tax provisions in the American Families and Jobs Act (HR3936 - Tax Cuts for Working Families Act; HR3937 - Small Business Jobs Act; and HR3938 - Build It in America Act); and the elimination of the five-year amortization requirement for research and experimental expenditures in HR2673 - American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 2023. Lobbied in support of S 3387 -- Billionaire Income Tax Act. Lobbied against any changes that would weaken the Child Tax Credit portion of the bill without rolling back the corporate tax breaks of H.R.7024 - Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024. Lobbied in support of increasing taxes on billionaires and corporations and against extensions of expiring tax provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
• Lobbied in support of FTC rulemaking to ban noncompete agreements and on issues related to antitrust, specifically self-preferencing in HR3816/S2992 - American Innovation and Choice Online Act; expanding access to Apple's App Store in HR7030/S2710 - Open Apps Market Act; preventing conflicts of interest and promoting competition in digital advertising in S1073 - AMERICA Act; and increased enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act.
• Lobbied in support of legislation related to reforming agricultural regulation, meat processing, and other farming issues: S346 - Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act of 2023; S557/HR1249 - Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act of 2023; S.52 - American Beef Labeling Act of 2023; S2633 - Poultry Growers Fairness Act.
• Lobbied in support of eliminating junk fees in HR 2463 - The Junk Fee Prevention Act and HR 4907 - End Junk Fees for Renters Act; FTC rulemaking related to Junk fees and the inclusion of housing junk fees in said rulemaking; and building support in Congress for the FTC and CFPB action on junk fee proposals. Lobbied against H.J. 121, 122 and S.J 70 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Credit Card Penalty Fees (Regulation Z)."
• Lobbied in support of prescription drug patent reform under Bayh-Dole regulations. Advocated for protection of Medicare drug price negotiation authorized under the Inflation Reduction Act (PL117-169).
• Lobbied in support of funding government consistent with June budget agreement and in opposition to funding cut riders to FTC and DOJ Antitrust, specifically against language that would limit DOJ Antitrust's access to merger filing fees. Lobbied in opposition to H.R.5779 - Fiscal Commission Act of 2023; against inclusion of language in restricting USDA from finalizing rules strengthening Packers and Stockyards Act; and against inclusion of language that would restrict DOT's ability to review mergers in transportation sector.
• Lobbied in support of HR1046/S393 - Social Security Expansion Act, and H.R.4583/S.2280 - Social Security 2100 Act.
• Lobbied in support of S.Res.504 to request information on human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

Duration: August 1, 2010 to April 8, 2011

General Issues: Government Issues, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Agriculture, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection, Pharmacy, Budget/Appropriations, Retirement, Foreign Relations, Aviation/Aircraft/Airlines, Banking, Education, Welfare, Environmental/Superfund, Family Issues/Abortion/Adoption, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Energy/Nuclear, Economics/Economic Development, Immigration, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Roads/Highway, Medicare/Medicaid, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Firearms/Guns/Ammunition, Homeland Security, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Computer Industry, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Housing, Telecommunications, Health Issues

Spending: about $587,880 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

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 2010: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), White House Office, Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), House of Representatives,