Lobbying Relationship

Client

Columbia Basin Development League

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Lobbying firm

Water Strategies, LLC

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  • Assist in communications with relevant agencies, authorizing committees, and delegation for the promotion, funding, and completion of the Columbia Basin Project, specifically providing project water to the Odessa subarea. Track and report on the implementation of FY2021 appropriations and development of the FY2022 appropriations measures that are pertinent to water management.
  • Assist in communications with relevant agencies, authorizing committees, and delegation about the importance of investing in water infrastructure within the Columbia Basin Project and a variety of infrastructure and contract related issues. Submitted written testimony to U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Support legislation to invest in our Nations water infrastructure. Submit comprehensive infrastructure needs for consideration to be included in potential infrastructure package. Track and report on the FUTURE Western Water Infrastructure and Drought Resiliency Act.
  • Track, report on, and support funding in FY2022 for Department of Transportation BUILD Grants. Track and report on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
  • Request robust funding for FY22 Environmental Quality Incentives Program.

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General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Natural Resources, Transportation, Agriculture, Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $320,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2014: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Bureau of Reclamation, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers)

Bills mentioned

H.R.2028: Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017

Sponsor: Mike Simpson (R-Idaho)

H.R.2898: Western Water and American Food Security Act of 2015

Sponsor: David Valadao (R-Calif.)

S.2012: North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2016

Sponsor: Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)

S.1894: California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2015

Sponsor: Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

S.2533: California Long-Term Provisions for Water Supply and Short-Term...

Sponsor: Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

S.2902: Western Water Supply and Planning Enhancement Act of 2016

Sponsor: Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)

H.R.5303: Water Resources Development Act of 2016

Sponsor: Bill Shuster (R-Pa.)

S.2848: Water Resources Development Act of 2016

Sponsor: James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.)

S.612: WIIN Act

Sponsor: John Cornyn (R-Texas)

S.3021: America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018

Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

S.2044: Water Supply Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Utilization Act

Sponsor: Martha McSally (R-Ariz.)

S.1932: Drought Resiliency and Water Supply Infrastructure Act

Sponsor: Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)

H.R.1865: Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020

Sponsor: Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.)

S.2718: Western Water Security Act of 2019

Sponsor: Tom Udall (D-N.M.)

H.R.4891: Western Water Security Act of 2020

Sponsor: Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.)

S.3591: America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2020

Sponsor: John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)

H.R.7575: Water Resources Development Act of 2020

Sponsor: Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.)

H.R.2: Moving Forward Act

Sponsor: Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.)

H.R.133: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

Sponsor: Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)

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Lobbyists

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.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Kris Polly n/a
Robert Johnson n/a
Ian Lyle n/a
John Crotty n/a
Annick Miller Rivera n/a
Valentina Valenta n/a
Bob Johnson n/a
Tyler Young n/a
Abbey Linsk n/a
Kris Polly Water n/a
Kate Walker n/a

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

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