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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
2. Address
Address1 | 314 Day Hall |
Address2 | University Relations |
City | Ithaca |
State | NY |
Zip Code | 14853-2801 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 10877-12
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6. House ID# 326670000
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2021 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report
10. Check if this is a Termination Report | Termination Date |
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Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: Dianne Miller |
Date | 1/20/2022 2:57:20 PM |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code BUD
16. Specific lobbying issues
Encouraged Representatives, Senators, and staff to support a continuing resolution, preventing a government shutdown. (PL 117-70)
Requested Representatives, Senators and legislative staff to support funding for the following programs in the FY 22 budget and appropriations cycle:
Agriculture: (HR 4356, S 2599) NIFA, AFRI, Hatch, Smith Lever, EFNEP, NAHLN, ARS (Hemp Germplasm Repository, Grape Genomics), ARS Salaries and Expenses, NIFA Integrated Activities, APHIS Veterinary Diagnostics, ARS Buildings and Facilities, ERS, AGARDA, SNAP-Ed, FDA CFSAN, SCRI Matching Funds
Commerce, Justice, Science: (HR 4505) NSF, NSF Facilities, NASA Science, NASA Aerospace Technology, NASA Education-Space Grant, NOAA-OAR, NOAA-Sea Grant, NOAA-Regional Climate Centers, NIST, DOJ OJP National Institute of Justice Research & Evaluation
Defense: (HR 4432) Basic Research, DARPA, Defense Health (including Congressionally-Directed Medical Research Program), AF-RDT&E-Applied Research Materials
Energy and Water: (HR 4549, S 2605) DoE Office of Science, ARPA-E, EERE Geothermal Technologies
Interior: (HR 4372) NEH, EPA Science & Technology, USGS-WRRI, USGS-Cooperative Research Unit
Labor HHS Education: (HR 4502) NIH, AHRQ, Pell Grant, SEOG, FWS, TRIO, GAANN, Title VI International Education, Title VII Health Professions, CDC, CDC Centers of Excellence for Vector Borne Disease Research, ASPR/Pandemic Response Centers of Excellence Program
Asked Representatives and Senators to support a community support project/congressionally directed spending request in the FY22 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. Project was not funded. (HR 4550)
State, Foreign Ops: (HR 4373) Educational & Cultural Exchange Programs (Fulbright), USAID Feed the Future Innovation Labs
Transportation: (HR 4550) University Transportation Research Centers
Requested Senators, Representatives, and legislative staff to support the following programs in the budget reconciliation process and the Build Back Better Act (HR 5376, S. Con. Res. 14)
Agriculture: Increased funding for agriculture research and cooperative extension programs; funding for infrastructure at land grant universities
Education & Labor: Funding to provide $500 increases to the Pell Grant program
Energy & Commerce: Funding to support creation of ARPA-H at the NIH
Judiciary: Provisions to authorize the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
Space, Science & Technology: Increased funding for research at the National Science Foundation, NASA, NIST, NOAA, regional economic development
Ways & Means: Provisions to reinstate advanced refunding bonds, to offset the excise tax on private university investment income; to increase the number of Medicare-supported residency slots
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Dianne |
Miller |
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Legislative Director & Counsel |
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Kristen |
Adams |
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Professional Staff Member |
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Alessia |
Daniele |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code TAX
16. Specific lobbying issues
Encouraged Representatives, Senators, and legislative staff to reinstate advance refunding bonds for non-profit institutions (HR 2228).
Encouraged Representatives, Senators, and legislative staff to repeal or offset the endowment tax (HR 2832, HR 5376).
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Dianne |
Miller |
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Legislative Director & Counsel |
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Alessia |
Daniele |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code AGR
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with Representatives and legislative staff to encourage supplemental emergency funding to offset expenses of COVID-19 to USDA-funded agricultural research; encouraged co-sponsorship of the RISE Act. (HR 869, S 289)
Met with Representatives and legislative staff to encourage support for funding for research to address, mitigate, or adapt to climate change in agriculture, including climate-smart agriculture. (S 1072, HR 2534)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Dianne |
Miller |
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Legislative Director & Counsel |
19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code MED
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with legislative staff to express support for full funding of the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), and the Title VII Health Professions Programs, in the FY 22 budget and appropriations process. (HR 4502)
Met with legislative staff to express support for biomedical research.
Urged legislative staff to cosponsor the RISE Act (HR 869, S 289) to authorize supplemental funding to NIH to cover extraordinary COVID-19-related costs to biomedical research.
Urged legislative staff to include funding and express language to provide relief for providers in hot spot areas directly addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Urged legislative staff to support a proposal to create and fund a COVID-19 and Pandemic Response Centers of Excellence program (HR 4292, S 2307).
Urged legislative staff to support S 168/HR 708, the Temporary Reciprocity to Ensure Access to Treatment (TREAT) Act.
Urged legislative staff to address telehealth provisions CMS identified as under Congress purview including audio-only visits and the ability for telehealth services to be provided to both new and established patients for acute and chronic conditions.
Urged agency staff to create a dedicated fund within the provider relief fund to provide relief to faculty practice plans.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Dianne |
Miller |
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Legislative Director & Counsel |
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Alessia |
Daniele |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code SCI
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with Senators, Representatives, and legislative staff to encourage co-sponsorship of the RISE Act to authorize supplemental funding for NSF to cover extraordinary costs of COVID-19 to NSF-funded research (HR 869, S 289)
Met with Senators, Representatives, and legislative staff to express support for continued funding of federal scientific research agencies (NSF, NOAA, NASA) in the FY22 CJS bill (HR 4505).
Met with legislative staff to request support for the NSF For the Future Act and the US Innovation & Competition Act. (HR 2225, S. 1260)
Met with legislative staff to discuss policy related to technology abuse prevention.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Dianne |
Miller |
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Legislative Director & Counsel |
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Kristen |
Adams |
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Professional Staff Member |
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Alessia |
Daniele |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code IMM
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with Senators, Representatives, and legislative staff to express support for the President's executive action reinstating and improving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and to encourage support of the legislation to provide legal status and protections for all undocumented students in the Dream in Promise Act. Urged legislative staff to include DACA provisions in the Build Back Better Act (HR 5376)
Met with legislative staff to express support for comprehensive immigration reform.
Discussed concerns with legislative staff about the effects of continuing pandemic-related embassy closures on student visas, visas for international faculty, and OPT visas. Encouraged support for policies to facilitate issuance/renewal of student visas during COVID-19 pandemic emergency.
Contacted legislative staff to express concerns and urge support for action to help Afghan evacuees and refugees.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Dianne |
Miller |
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Legislative Director and Counsel |
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Kristen |
Adams |
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Alessia |
Daniele |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code DEF
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with legislative staff to discuss continued support for the DoD-sponsored research at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) within National Defense Authorization Act and Defense Appropriations legislation (S 2792).
Encouraged co-sponsorship of the RISE Act to authorize supplemental funding for DoD to cover extraordinary costs of COVID-19 to DoD-funded research (HR 869, S 289).
Met with legislative staff to express support for the Defense Medical Research Program (HR 4432).
Met with legislative staff to encourage support for certain research security provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act. (HR 4350, S 2792)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Dianne |
Miller |
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Legislative Director & Counsel |
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Alessia |
Daniele |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code EDU
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with Representatives, Senators and legislative staff to express continued support and increased funding for federal student aid programs, including Pell Grant, SEOG, Federal Work Study, TRIO, federal direct subsidized loan program. (HR 4502).
Met with legislative staff to encourage support for continued funding for Title VI International Education and Area Studies, and the Fulbright/Hayes programs. (HR 4502)
Met with Representatives, Senators and legislative staff to express support for TRIO programs that increase access to higher education for first generation and underserved minority students (HR 4502).
Met with legislative staff to express support for STEM education programs.
Met with Representatives, Senators and legislative staff to encourage continuation of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Met with Representatives, Senators and legislative staff to request support for graduate education and federal aid for graduate students.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Dianne |
Miller |
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Legislative Director & Counsel |
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Alessia |
Daniele |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code ENG
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with Representatives and legislative staff to discuss support for the Department of Energy's Geothermal Technologies program as a platform for a demonstration project.
Expressed support for full funding the DoE EERE Geothermal Technologies program as authorized in the Energy Act of 2020 in the FY22 Energy & Water Appropriations bill. (HR 4509, S 2605)
Asked Representatives and legislative staff to support the DOE Science for the Future Act (HR 3593).
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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FOREIGN ENTITIES
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CONVICTIONS DISCLOSURE
29. Have any of the lobbyists listed on this report been convicted in a Federal or State Court of an offense involving bribery,
extortion, embezzlement, an illegal kickback, tax evasion, fraud, a conflict of interest, making a false statement, perjury, or money laundering?
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