• Supporting making Social Security COLA a twice annual event.
• Oppose Mexico Totalization Agreement Support increasing COLA Payments to Social Security Beneficiaries Ban Congress from borrowing funds from the Social Security Trust Fund
• Protecting Medicare program from benefit cuts Enhancing Medicare Part D coverage Fixing Medicare Physician Payment reimbursement formula
• Support permanent repeal of Estate Tax Repealing tax on Social Security benefits

Duration: April 1, 2009 to November 20, 2009

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Retirement, Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Immigration, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Health Issues, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection, Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Energy/Nuclear, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Fuel/Gas/Oil, Veterans

Spending: about $217,950 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Senate, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Social Security Administration (SSA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)