• Increase appropriations for State Councils on Developmental Disabilities, Protection and Advocacy, University Centers on Excellence in Disability, WIC, Title V Maternal & CHS program AMCHP, IDEA full funding, non-defense discretionary program funding. Oppose cuts to Medicaid, TANF, SNAP, and anti-poverty programs.
• Support Rubio-Hassan Organ Transplant Discrimination Bill, CharlotteWoodwardOrgan Transplant Discrimination Act, DC Statehood legislation, voting rights legislation; Protecting Healthcare for All Patients Act; Support Funding for Election Administration Statement for Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act; ACE ACT; Health Equity and MENA Community Inclusion Act; DACA Health Care Access Comment; Mental Health Justice Act; CCD Statement on Reducing Police Responses to People with Disabilities Update; Comments on the 2024 Election Administration Commission (EAC); Census Sign-On Letter to Director Santos; Opposing Anti-DEIA Appropriations Riders Civil Rights Principles for Multilingual Learner Education; FDA proposed rule banning electric skin shock devices; Disability Reproductive Rights Coalition comment on HHS Section 504.
• Support College Transparency Act, The Respond, Innovate, Succeed, and Empower (RISE) Act, 21st Century Dyslexia Act, education equity for people with disabilities; Safe Schools Improvement Act, 21st Century Dyslexia Act; CCD Comments RE: NPRM re: Child Care and Development Fund; Domenic & Ed's Law; Letters to [President Biden] [Congress] in Support of Doubled Funding for OCR; The Guardianship Bill of Rights Act
• Support DC statehood bills; Words Matter for the District of Columbia Courts Act (S. 3698)
• Support Real Emergency Access for Aging and Disability Inclusion for Disasters (REAADI) Act
• Support HCBS Access Act, Better Care Better Jobs Act, Access to Dental Surgical Services, protection against discrimination in organ transplants; Stop the Wait Act Support Letter: Innovation and Public-Private Sector Partnerships; Access to Dental Surgical Services Healthcare Extension and Accessiability for Developmentally Disabled and Underserved Population (HEADs UP) Act; Child Nutrition Programs: Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020 DGAs; Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act; Include key insulin policies in summer package; Extenders Package; Autism CARES Act; Requirements Related to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA);Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting; HHS OCR Final Rule on Implementing Section 1557 of ACA NBPP Proposed Rule re: Adult Dental Coverage; Credit for Caring Act Endorsement Sign on Letter; Stop Unfair Medicaid Recoveries Act; Letter Urging Funding for the Division of Adolescent School Health and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act of 2024; Discrimination on the Basis of Disability: Accessibility of Medical Diagnostic Equipment of State and Local Government Entities; Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Medical Diagnostic Equipment of State and Local Government Entities; PHE Unwinding Sign-On Letter to CMS Medicaid Program; Medicaid and Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality Medicaid Program; Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services Medicaid Program; Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services; Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act.
• Support for immigrant worker rights in home and community based services; Protecting Immigrant Families DACA Health Care Access Comment.
• Support Transition to Competitive Employment Act, worker rights for people with disabilities; HCBS Relief Act wages for direct support professionals; support Unemployment Insurance Modernization and Recession Readiness Act; Support Expanding Access to Capital Act;
• Oppose cuts/work requirements for Medicaid/Medicare. Support access for home and community based services, HCBS Access Act, Better Care Better Jobs Act. Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities and Medicaid Institutional Payment Transparency Reporting; Stop Unfair Medicaid Recoveries Act; Medicaid Program; Support Medicaid and Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Managed Care Access, Finance, and Quality; Include I/DD and mental disabilities in the HCBS Access Rule Comment; Enforcement of State Compliance with Reporting and Federal Medicaid Renewal Requirements under the Social Security Act.
• Support Mobility Aids On Board Improve Lives and Empower All Act (MOBILE Act) of 2023, support disability access to transportation legislation; support Mobility Aids On Board Improve Lives and Empower All Act (MOBILE Act) of 2023; strengthen ADA Standards for Transportation Facilities, Request for Information on Accessibility Improvements for Transportation Facilities; comment to ADA Standards for Transportation Facilities, Request for Information on Accessibility Improvements for Transportation Facilities.

Duration: December 5, 2013 to present

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Education, District of Columbia, Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Health Issues, Immigration, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Medicare/Medicaid, Transportation, Veterans, Agriculture, Foreign Relations, Government Issues, Unemployment, Housing

Spending: about $473,787 (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 2013: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Bureau of the Census, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Education - Dept of, White House Office, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Labor - Dept of (DOL), AMTRAK - Natl Railroad Passenger Corporation, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Administration on Aging, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Employment & Training Administration, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)