Lobbying Relationship

Client

Food Fix Campaign Action, Inc.

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Lobbying firm

Capitol Counsel LLC

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  • Support regenerative organic agriculture, improvements in nutrition, and food as medicine, including nutrition and chronic disease related improvements to SNAP-Ed, and advocacy related to the 2023 Farm Bill reauthorization.
  • Support improvement in nutrition, food as medicine, and chronic disease issues especially in the elderly, including advocacy on: a unified national strategy related to hunger and nutrition; a Food as Medicine pilot program; funding and guidance on nutrition education and training for physicians and health care providers and research on the role of nutrition in diet-related disease, including related provisions in S. 2840, the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act to: (1) require HHS, in consultation with USDA, to create a strategic plan to improve health outcomes related to chronic conditions; and (2) require the HHS strategic plan to recommend ways to enable federally funded community health centers to provide produce prescriptions, medically tailored groceries, and medically tailored meals, and issue recommendations to help in reimbursement for such services in other federal programs.
  • Advocacy on Medicare Food as Medicine, improvements to Medicare services related to nutrition clinical care and related physician and hospital reimbursement. Support medically tailored meals for Medicare beneficiaries, including provisions in H.R. 6780, the Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act, and S. 2133, the Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Act.
  • Advocacy for provisions related to a national strategy related to hunger and nutrition and Food is Medicine initiatives in FY 2024 and FY 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations measures.

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General Issues: Agriculture, Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $970,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2021: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Bills mentioned

S.2840: Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act

Sponsor: Bernard Sanders (ID-Vt.)

H.R.6780: Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act

Sponsor: Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)

S.2133: Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Act

Sponsor: Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)

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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?
Genny Beltrone Legislative Assistant, Senator Jon Tester; Legislative Correspondent Senator Jon Tester. Legislative Assistant, Senator Jon Tester; Legislative Aide, Sen. Jon Tester; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Jon Tester; Assistant to the Chief of Staff and Legislative Director, Sen. Jon Tester; Staff Assistant, Sen. Jon Tester.
Robert Diamond Special Assistant to the President and Director of Private Sector Engagement, President Barack Obama.
Brad Mollet Staff & Research Assistant, Sen. Tim Johnson; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Matheson; Legislative Director, Rep. Betsy Markey.
Mac Campbell Deputy Staff Director, Senate Finance Cmte.; General Counsel, Senate Finance Cmte.; Leg. Director, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Counsel/ Legislative Assistant, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Asst. U.S. Trade Rep. for Congressional Affairs, President Obama.
Sara Franko Legislative Director/Admin. Asst., Rep. Ted Strickland (D-OH); Admin. Asst., Rep. Gerald Kleczka; Legislative Director/Legislative Asst., Rep. Dennis Eckart.
Joseph Eannello Legislative Dir., Rep. Kevin Yoder; Sr. Legislative Assist., Rep. Yoder; Legislative Asst., Rep. Yoder; Legislative Corresp., Rep. Yoder; Legislative Asst., Rep. Jerry Weller; Legislative Corresp., Rep. Jerry Weller; Staff Asst., Rep. Jerry Weller.
Nick Bouknight Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Chief of Staff/ Communications Dir., Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Press Sec., Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Press Sec., Rep. Bill Thomas; Deputy Press Sec., Ways and Means Cmte.; Press Asst., Ways and Means Cmte.
Denise Henry Morrisey n/a
Shannon Finley n/a
Lyndon Boozer n/a
Genevieve Beltrone 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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