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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
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| Address1 | 200 Lawyers Road NW #1506 |
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| City | Vienna |
State | VA |
Zip Code | 22183 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 35627-12
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6. House ID# 327060000
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| TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2023 |
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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11. No Lobbying Issue Activity |
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| INCOME relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period was: | EXPENSE relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period were: | ||||||||
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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 |
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| Signature | Digitally Signed By: Karen Kerrigan |
Date | 4/20/2023 4:18:06 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 SMB
16. Specific lobbying issues
Taxes
Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act, H.R. 23 - Supported House passage of the legislation.
R&D Tax Credits: Continue to support extending and making permanent full expensing for R&D expenditures for small businesses.
Tax Hikes in President Bidens Budget: Expressed opposition to various tax increase measures in President Bidens budget, including capital gains increases, increases in the top individual income tax rate, increasing and expanding the Net Income Investment Tax, making permanent harmful loss limitation rules, gutting the grantor trust rules and imposing a new minimum tax on larger family businesses.
Death Tax Repeal Act of 2023: Support House and Senate bills to permanent repeal the death tax.
Affordable Health Coverage and Health Care Innovation
Tax Credit for Small Businesses: Support making reforms to the restrictive and temporary health care tax credit for small businesses to make it more practical for small businesses.
Provided House Ways and Means Testimony on Health Care and Small Business: Voiced ongoing concerns about the rising costs of health coverage, lack of choices, and dwindling choices in many markets against the backdrop of challenging economic conditions. Voiced support for these various reforms: enhancing tax credits for small businesses, expanding and making additional fixes to HSAs, reforming QSEHRAs, and making CARESs Act telehealth provisions permanent.
Inflation Reduction Act and Pharmaceuticals: Expressed concern about the impact of price controls on drug innovation, especially for small bio-pharmaceuticals.
Affordable Energy
The Lower Energy Costs Act, H.R. 1: Supported House passage of the legislation.
Access to Broadband and Digital Policy
Broadband Infrastructure: Support efforts in the Congress to provide oversight and track Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program funding to ensure the tens of billions of taxpayer dollars being allocated will be used efficiently to connect those lacking access with high-speed broadband.
FCC Comments on Digital Discrimination: Regarding an Implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Prevention and Elimination of Digital Discrimination NPRM, urged the agency to explore a host of complex and related issues to ensure the rules or proposals being designed to not have unintended consequences on efforts to deploy broadband, make if more affordable, or undermining innovation.
Economic Regulation
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposal to Ban NonCompete Agreements: Expressed opposition to the
FTCs proposed regulation imposing a sudden, nationwide, blanket prohibition on voluntary employer-employee noncompete agreements.
ESG Mandates: Expressed general concern about environmental, social and governance (ESG) mandates across government and specifically in investment activity and financial sector.
Labor and Workforce Policy
Black Check Investigations: Expressed concerns about exhaustive and unprecedented investigations being pursued by Senate HELP Committee majority titled Authorization for Investigation into Violations of Federal Labor Law by Major Corporations.
Paid Leave Policy in U.S. House: Expressed support for bipartisan exploration in identifying paid leave policy solutions that help support business owners and working families.
Nomination of Julie Su as DOL Labor Secretary: Expressed concerns about the nomination, and oppose the nomination.
Proposed Independent Contractor Rules: Continued to express opposition to independent contractor rules being proposed and advanced by the Department of Labor.
Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) in CHIPS Package: Expressed strong opposition to Commerce Secretary
Gina Raimondo about a PLA preference policy for businesses participating in the CHIPS program.
Railroad Regulation: Expressed general concern about efforts to inappropriately regulate railroads in a way that has nothing to do with the safety issues lawmakers and regulators portend to be addressing.
Procurement and Government Contracting
Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Councils proposal to require significant and major contractors to disclose certain information concerning greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and make certain climate-related financial risk disclosures, and to require major contractors to set science-based targets to reduce their GHG emissions: Urged the relevant agencies to abandon and withdraw the proposal entirely.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Commerce - Dept of (DOC)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Kerrigan |
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Keating |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.
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22. New General description of client’s business or activities
LOBBYIST UPDATE
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ISSUE UPDATE
24. General lobbying issue that no longer pertains
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
25. Add the following affiliated organization(s)
Internet Address:
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26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client
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FOREIGN ENTITIES
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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization
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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?
| Lobbyist Name | Description of Offense(s) |