Lobbying Relationship

Client

Association of Free Community Papers

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Lobbying firm

Mr. Jim Haigh

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  • Postal Reform - preserving long term solvency of USPS and rate certainty and service standards of community paper mailers in saturation class. Supporting bipartisan measures that restore pension overpayments, recalibrate future retiree healthcare payment schedule in more reasonable terms for USPS -- and preserving current CPI rate cap mechanism.
  • Preserving the 100% deductibility of Advertising as a standard, necessary business expense in year purchased -- opposing multi-year amortization schemes, as offered in prior sessions' House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee majority draft Tax Reform plans.
  • Opposing Congressional efforts to strip, gut and overturn the new FCC Open Internet Rules -- including opposition to defunding riders in Appropriations, and anticipated Resolutions of Disapproval.

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General Issues: Postal, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Telecommunications, Environmental/Superfund, Energy/Nuclear, Small Business, Advertising, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection, Government Issues, Media (Information/Publishing)

Spending: about $0 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

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

Bills mentioned

S.1486: Postal Reform Act of 2014

Sponsor: Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.)

H.R.1351: Public Lands Service Corps Act of 2013

Sponsor: Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.)

S.1789: A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to establish signal...

Sponsor: Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)

H.R.1351: United States Postal Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and...

Sponsor: Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.)

S.1789: 21st Century Postal Service Act of 2012

Sponsor: Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.)

H.R.2309: Postal Reform Act of 2012

Sponsor: Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)

H.R.2250: EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011

Sponsor: Morgan Griffith (R-Va.)

S.1392: EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011

Sponsor: Susan Collins (R-Maine)

H.J.RES.37: Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission...

Sponsor: Greg Walden (R-Ore.)

S.J.RES.6: A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal...

Sponsor: Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas)

H.R.3590: Indonesian Family Refugee Protection Act

Sponsor: Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.)

H.R.3590: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

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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.

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Jim Haigh n/a
jim jim 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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