Lobbying Relationship

Client

American Fraternal Alliance (fka National Fraternal Congress of America)

Trade association for fraternal benefit societies More records

Lobbying firm

McBee Strategic Consulting, LLC

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  • Monitored implementation of financial reform. Monitored legislative and regulatory efforts on insurance.
  • Monitored and advocated on tax reform issues, including issues related to 501(c)(8) tax exemption for fraternal benefit societies.
  • Monitored financial regulatory reform implementation issues and issues affecting insurance business.

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General Issues: Insurance, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Economics/Economic Development, Health Issues

Spending: about $840,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2010: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, House of Representatives,, Treasury - Dept of

Bills mentioned

H.CON.RES.116: Expressing the sense of the Congress that tax-exempt fraternal benefit...

Sponsor: Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.)

S.501: Fair Prescription Drug Competition Act

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

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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?
Jeff Markey L.D./Deputy COS, Representative Doc Hastings Legislative Director, Representative Jack Metcalf Graduate Fellow, US Department of State Intern, Senator John Seymour
Jenn Fogel-Bublick Counsel, Senate Banking Committee Presidential Management Fellow, HUD
Gabriel Horwitz Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike McIntyre Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Marion Berry Legislative Director, Rep. Doris Matsui
Samuel Whitehorn Deputy SD/GC, US Senate Commerce Committee Acting SD, US Senate Commerce Committee Sr. Counsel, US Senate Commerce Committee Sr. Atty., Office of GC, US DOT
Robert Chamberlin Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee Senior Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee Asst Counsel, House Transp. and Infrastructure Committee
Rick Desimone Chief of Staff, Senator Patty Murray GSA, Special Asst to Regional Admin., Reg. 10
Charles Cooper Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam Putnam Policy Director, House Republican Conference Staff Director, Republican Policy Committee Legislative Director, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart Legislative Assistant, Rep. Felix Grucci Legislative Coorespondent, Senator Jon Kyl Staff Assistant, Senator Connie Mack
Robert Hobart Deputy COS, Congressman Zach Wamp Legislative Director, Congressman Rick Hill Leg. Asst, Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich
Jonathan Black Senior LA, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. Summer Law Clerk, SEC Legal Fellow, Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
Allison Johnson Legal Fellow, Senate Judiciary Committee Intern, Senator Mel Martinez
Michael Sheehy Nat. Sec. Adv., Speaker of the House of Reps. Sta.Dir/Chief Coun. H. Perm Select Comm Intel Chief of Staff, Congressman Richard Neal Chief of Staff, Congressman Edward Boland
Alisa Ferguson LD, House Science and Technology Committee Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bart Gordon Legislative Assistant, Rep. Brian Baird
Glynda Becker Associate Political Director, White House
Kathy Mitchell Deputy Pol. Adv/Dpty COS, Rep. Tim Mahoney Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Dan Boren
Ashley Slater Dir. of Leg Affairs, Council on Env. Quality Leg Affairs Specialist, US Dept. of Commerce Power Marketing Specialist, BPA Legislative Asst., Representative Jennifer Dunn

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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