Lobbying Relationship

Client

DEPARTMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO

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Lobbying firm

DEPARTMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO

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  • NEA, NEH, and CPB funding
  • Copyright protections for creative professionals
  • Reform of the H-1B and L-1 visa programs; Keep STEM Talent Act; Implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act
  • H.R. 2871, Performing Artist Tax Parity Act
  • STAGE Act; CREATE Art Act

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General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Immigration, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Arts/Entertainment, Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Unemployment, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Health Issues, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Telecommunications, Travel/Tourism, Education, Government Issues, Welfare, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Retirement, Agriculture, Science/Technology, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Medicare/Medicaid, Economics/Economic Development, Pharmacy, Homeland Security, Media (Information/Publishing)

Spending: about $215,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Labor - Dept of (DOL), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), State - Dept of (DOS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), White House Office, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), Natl Security Council (NSC), Patent & Trademark Office (PTO), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Library of Congress (LOC), Natl Endowment for the Arts, U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC),, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Treasury - Dept of, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)

Bills mentioned

S.153: I-Squared Act of 2015

Sponsor: Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)

S.2360: Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014

Sponsor: Carl Levin (D-Mich.)

H.R.3086: Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act

Sponsor: Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va.)

S.953: Student Loan Affordability Act

Sponsor: Jack Reed (D-R.I.)

S.1238: Keep Student Loans Affordable Act of 2013

Sponsor: Jack Reed (D-R.I.)

S.744: Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act

Sponsor: Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)

S.336: Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013

Sponsor: Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo.)

S.743: Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013

Sponsor: Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo.)

H.R.684: Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013

Sponsor: Steve Womack (R-Ark.)

H.R.2285: Strategies to Address Antimicrobial Resistance Act

Sponsor: Jim Matheson (D-Utah)

H.R.1120: Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act

Sponsor: Phil Roe (R-Tenn.)

S.169: I-Squared Act of 2013

Sponsor: Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)

H.R.6480: Internet Radio Fairness Act of 2012

Sponsor: Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah)

S.3609: Internet Radio Fairness Act of 2012

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

S.743: Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012

Sponsor: Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii)

H.R.3289: Platts-Van Hollen Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2011

Sponsor: Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)

S.1832: Marketplace Fairness Act

Sponsor: Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo.)

H.R.3179: Marketplace Equity Act of 2011

Sponsor: Steve Womack (R-Ark.)

S.1747: CPU Act

Sponsor: Kay Hagan (D-N.C.)

H.R.1864: Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2012

Sponsor: Howard Coble (R-N.C.)

H.R.1860: Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2011

Sponsor: Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

S.2230: Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012

Sponsor: Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)

S.968: PROTECT IP Act of 2011

Sponsor: Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)

H.R.3261: Stop Online Piracy Act

Sponsor: Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

H.R.1832: Servicemembers' Telemedicine and E-Health Portability Act of 2011

Sponsor: Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.)

S.2168: RESPECT Act

Sponsor: Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)

H.R.1002: Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2011

Sponsor: Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.)

H.R.2701: Main Street Fairness Act

Sponsor: John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)

H.R.1439: Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2011

Sponsor: Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va.)

S.372: Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2010

Sponsor: Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii)

H.R.1320: Federal Advisory Committee Act Amendments of 2010

Sponsor: William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.)

S.1390: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010

Sponsor: Carl Levin (D-Mich.)

S.182: Paycheck Fairness Act

Sponsor: Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)

H.R.3200: America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

Sponsor: John D. Dingell (D-Mich.)

H.R.2381: Nurse and Health Care Worker Protection Act of 2009

Sponsor: John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)

H.R.848: Performance Rights Act

Sponsor: John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)

S.515: Patent Reform Act of 2009

Sponsor: Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)

H.R.6444: Healthy Americans Act

Sponsor: Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)

H.R.2123: Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2007

Sponsor: Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)

S.2123: Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2007

Sponsor: Judd Gregg (R-N.H.)

S.2824: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the collective...

Sponsor: John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.)

H.R.4089: To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the collective...

Sponsor: Bob Filner (D-Calif.)

S.1693: Wired for Health Care Quality Act

Sponsor: Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)

H.RES.977: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that rebate checks...

Sponsor: Bruce Braley (D-Iowa)

H.R.4137: Higher Education Opportunity Act

Sponsor: George Miller (D-Calif.)

S.1145: Patent Reform Act of 2007

Sponsor: Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)

H.R.1956: Patient Protection and Innovative Biologic Medicines Act of 2007

Sponsor: Jay Inslee (D-Wash.)

H.R.4358: PHDs First Act

Sponsor: Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.)

H.R.2871: Performing Artist Tax Parity Act of 2023

Sponsor: Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.)

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Lobbyists

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Lobbyist Covered positions?
Paul E. Almeida President
Eric Geist Assistant to the President
David J. Cohen Executive Director
Alexis Spencer Notabartolo Researcher and Representative
Alexis Spencer Notabartolo Researcher and Representative
David Cohen Executive Director
Paul Almeida President
Michael Wasser Legislative and Outreach Director
Alexis S. Notabartolo Researcher and Representative
Pamela J. Wilson Assistant to the President
MICHAEL W. GILDEA n/a
JACK GOLODNER n/a
HAL PONDER n/a
Jennifer Dorning 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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