Lobbying Relationship

Client

AMERICANS FOR SAFE ACCESS

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AMERICANS FOR SAFE ACCESS

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  • Preventing Department of Justice from interfering into State medical cannabis programs
  • Allowing the VA to recommend medical cannabis as a treatment option
  • Making access to medical cannabis legal

Duration: to

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Veterans, Health Issues, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Accounting, Banking, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, District of Columbia, Tobacco, Government Issues, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Pharmacy

Spending: about $825,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Office of Natl Drug Control Policy (NDCP), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), House of Representatives,, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Bills mentioned

S.683: Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States Act of 2015

Sponsor: Cory Booker (D-N.J.)

H.R.1538: CARERS Act of 2015

Sponsor: Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.)

H.R.2029: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016

Sponsor: Charlie Dent (R-Pa.)

H.R.2578: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016

Sponsor: John Culberson (R-Texas)

H.R.2995: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2016

Sponsor: Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.)

H.R.667: Veterans Equal Access Act

Sponsor: Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)

H.R.689: States' Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act

Sponsor: Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)

H.R.710: Truth in Trials Act

Sponsor: Sam Farr (D-Calif.)

H.R.4660: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015

Sponsor: Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.)

H.R.83: Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015

Sponsor: Donna M.C. Christensen (D-Virgin Islands)

H.R.5016: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2015

Sponsor: Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.)

H.R.5762: Veterans Equal Access Act of 2014

Sponsor: Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)

H.R.4486: Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies...

Sponsor: John Culberson (R-Texas)

H.R.1983: States' Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act

Sponsor: Barney Frank (D-Mass.)

H.R.1984: Small Business Banking Improvement Act of 2011

Sponsor: Jared Polis (D-Colo.)

H.R.1985: Small Business Tax Equity Act of 2011

Sponsor: Pete Stark (D-Calif.)

H.R.6134: Truth in Trials Act

Sponsor: Sam Farr (D-Calif.)

H.R.6335: States' Medical Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act

Sponsor: Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)

H.R.1983: Social Security Protection and Truth in Budgeting Act of 2015

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

H.R.1984: FAIR Social Security Act

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

H.R.1985: Pacific Northwest Gray Wolf Management Act of 2015

Sponsor: Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.)

H.R.6134: TechCorps Act

Sponsor: Ami Bera (D-Calif.)

H.R.6335: Retirement Security Preservation Act of 2016

Sponsor: Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio)

H.R.5326: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013

Sponsor: Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.)

H.R.3939: Truth in Trials Act

Sponsor: Sam Farr (D-Calif.)

H.R.2835: Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act

Sponsor: Barney Frank (D-Mass.)

S.258: Saving Kids From Dangerous Drugs Act of 2010

Sponsor: Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)

H.R.5482: To extend the duty suspension on Allyl isosulfocynate.

Sponsor: Henry E. Brown Jr. (R-S.C.)

H.R.1595: Secure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2019

Sponsor: Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.)

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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?
Michael Liszewski Gov. Affairs Dir. (4/2014-Pres.), Policy Dir. (11/2011-4/14) Policy Director Government Affairs Director
Beth Collins Senior Director Government Relations and External Affair Senior Director Government Relations and External Affairs
David Mangone Legislative Analyst
Caren Woodson n/a
BARBARA CAMILLE n/a
ALLYANE STEPH SHERER n/a
BARBARA ROBERTS n/a
Elizabeth Collins n/a
Debbie Churgai 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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