Lobbying Relationship

Client

Promotional Products Association International

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Lobbying firm

CAPCITY ADVOCATES, LLC

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  • Independent contractors (maintain safe harbors) and use of promotional products as advertising media. Specific regulation involved here is the Department of Labor's labor classification rule; 89 FR 1638 Value of small business to the US economy. Opposition to the PRO Act related to limited use of independent contractors.
  • Independent contractors, deductibility of advertising expenses, and value of the global supply chain.
  • Value and use of promotional products as advertising medium, maintain deductibility of advertising expenses within the year the expense occurred.
  • Renew and expand the generalized system of preferences act, focus on tariffs including China section 301. Opposition to tariffs on Canadian, EU and Chinese products. Opposition to the COOL Online Act, which was added as an amendment to the Endless Frontier Act.

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General Issues: Small Business, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Advertising, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Health Issues, Manufacturing, Budget/Appropriations, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection

Spending: about $470,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2012: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Bills mentioned

S.2707: Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act

Sponsor: Tim Scott (R-S.C.)

H.R.4773: Protecting Workplace Advancement and Opportunity Act

Sponsor: Tim Walberg (R-Mich.)

H.R.30: Save American Workers Act of 2015

Sponsor: Todd Young (R-Ind.)

S.3454: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013

Sponsor: Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

H.R.5743: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013

Sponsor: Mike Rogers (R-Mich.)

H.R.1: An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the...

Sponsor: Kevin Brady (R-Texas)

S.2722: SWAG Act

Sponsor: Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)

H.R.2474: Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019

Sponsor: Robert C. Scott (D-Va.)

H.R.842: Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021

Sponsor: Robert C. Scott (D-Va.)

S.420: Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021

Sponsor: Patty Murray (D-Wash.)

S.2387: Small Business Tax Fairness Act

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

S.2387: Wildfire Smoke Emergency Declaration Act of 2023

Sponsor: Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)

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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?
Cliff Andrews 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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