Lobbying Relationship

Client

National Association of Children's Hospitals

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Lobbying firm

Invariant LLC

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  • Educate policymakers about policies to support children mental health care needs, including H.R.2412, the Helping Kids Cope Act; support funding for CHGME; monitor House and Senate work on pediatric and adolescent mental health. Advocate for childrens issues in S.2333, the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act; discuss the impact of pediatric workforce and drug/supply shortages and its impact on child health. Monitor issues related to lab-developed tests.
  • Monitor policies to improve children's Medicaid and issues related to Medicaid reimbursement.

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General Issues: Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $830,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2021: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Bills mentioned

H.R.5376: Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

Sponsor: John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)

H.R.4944: Helping Kids Cope Act of 2021

Sponsor: Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.)

S.3799: PREVENT Pandemics Act

Sponsor: Patty Murray (D-Wash.)

S.4472: Health Care Capacity for Pediatric Mental Health Act of 2022

Sponsor: Bob Casey (D-Pa.)

H.R.7666: Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act of 2022

Sponsor: Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)

S.2209: VALID Act of 2021

Sponsor: Richard M. Burr (R-N.C.)

H.R.4128: VALID Act of 2021

Sponsor: Diana DeGette (D-Colo.)

S.2333: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Response Act

Sponsor: Bob Casey (D-Pa.)

H.R.2412: Helping Kids Cope Act

Sponsor: Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.)

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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?
Katie Wise Leg. Dir, Rep. Vern Buchanan (2014-2015); Leg. Dir, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (2013-2014); Sr. Legislative Asst, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (2011-2013); Legislative Correspondent/Asst, Rep. Mary Fallin (2010-2011); Staff Asst, Rep. Mary Fallin (2009-2010)
Benjamin Klein Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan (2007-2010); Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan (2005-2007)
Christopher Gillott Sen. Bill Cassidy: Deputy Chief of Staff, Policy (2018-2021); Legislative Dir (2013-2021); Sr Legislative Asst (2013); Rep. Bobby Jindal: Leg. Dir (2007-2008); Sr Legislative Asst (2005-2007); Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison: Leg Aide (2003-2005)
Stephen Weyler Health and Labor Fellow, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education & Labor (2019)
Drew Griffin Chief of Staff, Rep. Robert Latta (2019-2022); Comms Dir, Rep. Robert Latta (2016-2019); Press Sec, Rep. Erik Paulsen (2014-2016); Press Sec, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (2013-2014); Staff Asst, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (2011-2013)
Jessica Hatcher Leg. Dir, Rep. Jake Auchincloss (2021-2023); Sr. Legislative Asst, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (2020); Leg. Asst, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (2018-2020)

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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