Lobbying Relationship

Client

AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION

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Lobbying firm

American Counseling Association

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  • Advocate for the implementation of the Mental Health Access Improvement Act.
  • Increased funding for the schholl counseling programs
  • Increased funding for the implementation and retention of school based behavioral health services.
  • Increased hiring of licensed professional counselors within the DOD.
  • Increase hiring of licensed professional counselors within US government agencies.

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General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Budget/Appropriations, Education, Defense, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Veterans, Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Transportation, Health Issues, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice

Spending: about $2,986,350 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2007: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Education - Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Office of the Vice President of the United States, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Education - Dept of,, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), White House Office, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA),, U.S. Senate,

Bills mentioned

S.562: Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2013

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

H.R.3662: Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2013

Sponsor: Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.)

H.R.5662: CEO-Employee Pay Fairness Act of 2014

Sponsor: Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)

S.1982: Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay...

Sponsor: Bernard Sanders (ID-Vt.)

S.1155: Rural Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act

Sponsor: Jon Tester (D-Mont.)

S.604: Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2011

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

H.R.1693: Research and Development Tax Credit Extension Act of 2011

Sponsor: John Carney (D-Del.)

S.671: Finding Fugitive Sex Offenders Act of 2011

Sponsor: Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)

H.R.3839: To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the reimbursement of...

Sponsor: Tom Rooney (R-Fla.)

S.3371: TRICARE Mental Health Care Access Act

Sponsor: Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)

S.3454: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011

Sponsor: Carl Levin (D-Mich.)

H.R.1693: Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2009

Sponsor: Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.)

S.671: Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2009

Sponsor: Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.)

H.R.3439: Put School Counselors Where They're Needed Act

Sponsor: Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.)

H.R.3419: Reducing Barriers to Learning Act of 2007

Sponsor: Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa)

H.R.3047: Veterans Claims Processing Innovation Act of 2007

Sponsor: Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.)

H.R.3430: Mental Health in Schools Act of 2007

Sponsor: Grace F. Napolitano (D-Calif.)

H.R.4137: Higher Education Opportunity Act

Sponsor: George Miller (D-Calif.)

S.1642: Higher Education Amendments of 2007

Sponsor: Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)

S.3311: Mental Health on Campus Improvement Act

Sponsor: Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.)

H.R.1424: A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and...

Sponsor: Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.)

S.558: Mental Health Parity Act of 2007

Sponsor: Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.)

H.R.6983: Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction...

Sponsor: Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.)

H.R.6049: Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008

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

S.921: Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2007

Sponsor: Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.)

H.R.1588: Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2007

Sponsor: Barbara L. Cubin (R-Wyo.)

H.R.3162: Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007

Sponsor: John D. Dingell (D-Mich.)

H.R.1663: Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act of 2007

Sponsor: Pete Stark (D-Calif.)

H.R.6331: Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

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

H.R.3992: Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and...

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

H.R.3132: Safe Schools Improvement Act of 2007

Sponsor: Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.)

S.2189: Student Bill of Rights

Sponsor: Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.)

H.R.2373: Student Bill of Rights

Sponsor: Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.)

H.R.2073: Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act of 2007

Sponsor: Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.)

S.1572: Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act of 2007

Sponsor: Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)

H.R.1592: Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007

Sponsor: John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)

S.1105: Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007

Sponsor: Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)

S.286: Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2019

Sponsor: John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)

H.R.945: Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2019

Sponsor: Mike Thompson (D-Calif.)

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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?
Scott Barstow Legislative Assistant - U.S. Rep. Mike Kopetski (Oregon) Leg. Asst. - U.S. Rep. Mike Kopetski Leg. Asst. - Rep. Mike Kopetski Leg. Assistant - U.S. Rep. Mike Kopetski
Peter Atlee Intern - Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schulz
Arturo E. Terrazas Legislative Assistant- U.S. Rep. Harry Teague Legislative Assistant - U.S. Rep. Harry Teague Legislative Assistant- U.S. Harry Teague Legislative Assistant- U.S. Rep Harry Teague Legislative Representative- U.S. Representative Harry Teague Legislative Assistant- U.S. Representative Harry Teague Legislative Representative- U.S. Rep. Harry Teague Legisaltive Assistant- U.S. Rep. Harry Teague Legislateive Assistant- U.S. Rep. Harry Teague Legislative Assistant-U.S. Rep. Harry Teague Legislative Assistsant- U.S. Harry Teague Legisalative Assistant U.S. Rep. Harry Teague
Art Terrazas Legislative Assistant - U.S. Rep. Harry Teague Legislative Assistant- U.S. Rep. Harry Teague Legislative Assistant U.S. Rep. Harry Teague Legislative Representative U.S. Rep. Harry Teague
Arturo E Terrazas Legislative Assistant. U.S. Rep. Harry Teague
Dominic Holt n/a
Guila Todd n/a
Kelly Nickel n/a
Jessica Eagle n/a
Chris Campbell 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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