• Seeking job & pay reclassification for chiropractors serving in DoD healthcare facilities. Pursuing language through DoD appropriations bill, FY2012 urging DoD to give priority to chiropractic care services to address growing musculoskeletal injuries to soldiers. Pursuing enactment of H.R. 409 a bill to expand chiropractic care at DoD.
• Labor HHS, Education Appropriations Bill FY 2012, seeking appropriations for chiropractic medical school grant programs. Urge commissioning of chiropractors into Public Health Service Corps. Working on free standing bill to require Commissioning of Chiropractors in PHS Commissioned Corps.
• HR 329 bill and companion legislation in the Senate, S.1147, to direct Department of Veteran Affairs to accelerate expansion of chiropractic health care benefits at DVA medical care facilities.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to January 31, 2012

General Issues: Defense, Health Issues, Veterans, Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $320,000 (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 2007: House of Representatives, Senate, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Y Y