Lobbying Relationship

Client

National Council for Mental Wellbeing

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Lobbying firm

Thorn Run Partners

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  • Advocating for expanded funding opportunities in Medicare, Medicaid and the private and public mental health systems to ensure individuals with behavioral health illnesses get the care they need. Efforts in both chambers to advance policies intended to address the opioid crisis, including reauthorization of the SUPPORT Act. Introduction and advancement of 2993, the Ensuring Excellence in Mental Health Act, as well as a House companion that is in development.

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General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $1,770,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2013: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Senate,

Bills mentioned

H.R.1628: American Health Care Act of 2017

Sponsor: Diane Black (R-Tenn.)

H.R.4302: Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014

Sponsor: Joe Pitts (R-Pa.)

H.R.3931: Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act

Sponsor: Leonard Lance (R-N.J.)

S.1905: Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act

Sponsor: Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)

H.R.1767: Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act

Sponsor: Doris Matsui (D-Calif.)

S.824: Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act

Sponsor: Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)

S.1905: ENROLL Act of 2019

Sponsor: Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)

H.R.3931: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020

Sponsor: Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.)

H.R.6201: Families First Coronavirus Response Act

Sponsor: Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.)

S.3548: CARES Act

Sponsor: Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

H.R.6800: The Heroes Act

Sponsor: Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.)

H.R.133: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021

Sponsor: Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)

H.R.1319: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

Sponsor: John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)

S.2069: Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Act of 2021

Sponsor: Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)

H.R.4323: Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Act of 2021

Sponsor: Doris Matsui (D-Calif.)

S.2938: Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

Sponsor: Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)

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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?
Catherine Finley StaffDir,SenAging;SrHlthPolAdv:Smith,Snowe;LegCorr,DeWine Staff Director, Senate Special Aging Committee; Senior Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Smith; Legislative Asst, Sen. Snowe
Jessie Brairton SrLA/LA:CongL.Smith;LC,Asst:SenAgingComm
Alex DelPizzo LD/LA,Rep.Ferguson;Transp&InfrastructureCmte Legislative Director/Legislative Asst, Rep. Ferguson; Staff, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Gary Palmquist LegDir-Dennis Cardoza,Bob Clement,Ken Bentsen
Charles Thomas Senior Legislative Asst, Legislative Asst, Legislative Aide, Staff Asst; Rep. Robert Pittenger

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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