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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 BAN

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support a comment letter drafted by Senator Brown urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to continue to collect all Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data points added in the CFPBs 2015 final rule, including the data points that are enumerated in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) and those added through the CFPBs discretionary authority.
Also, urge the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to maintain the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data elements that the CFPB added and enhanced pursuant to statutory directives and discretionary authority under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Oppose FDIC and OCC filing an amicus brief supporting a predatory small business lender that used a rent-a-bank scheme to charge 120% on a $550,000 loan to a Colorado business. Colorado only permits 45% for these business loans.
Support HR 5050 / S 2833, the Veterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act which would put a 36% interest rate cap on all small dollar loans.
Support the following principles be included in any GSE reform:
Establish capital levels consistent with what the GSEs are charging the market currently, consistent with statute and the unique risk characteristics of the GSEs.
Maintain lines of business that enable the cross-subsidization of lending within all markets and communities, benefiting all borrowers.
Retain FHFAs role as a strong independent regulator, with full oversight and approval of operations, capital requirements, fees, charges, and prudential standards.
Ensure full and equal access for all lenders, regardless of size, including a prohibition on volume discounts with respect to guarantee fees, buy up and buy down fees, cash pricing, loan level price adjustments, and risk-sharing pricing.
Serve all markets, including underserved, rural, and urban areas, equally.
Expand access to all creditworthy borrowers and affordable housing through pooling of risk, more level pricing, and equitable distribution of the cost of catastrophic capital to protect against another market failure like the Great Recession; strengthening and ensuring compliance with affordable housing goals; enforcement of duty to serve obligations; compliance with fair housing and lending laws; and full funding of the Housing Trust Fund and Capital Magnet Fund.
We believe that chartering additional guarantors would be overly disruptive and would not foster competition in the secondary market, instead creating a race-to-the-bottom environment for loan purchases and a potential competitive advantage that comes from vertical integration.
Continue the credit risk transfer program by the GSEs to reduce their overall risk consistent with an economic benefit, with prohibitions on market structures/actions that create an unlevel playing field for loan origination.
Charge a fair ongoing fee for maintenance of the existing Treasury line of credit or any explicit federal guarantee.
Continue moving forward with administrative recapitalization plans to permit the GSEs to exit conservatorship into a utility-type system, including regulation of pricing and rates of return, to provide investors a fair return and to further the GSEs public mission.
While we believe critical GSE reforms have already been accomplished through HERA and FHFA administrative actions, any additional reforms should achieve and conform to the above principles
Support strong consumer protections (including no overdraft fees, the creation of a user lability, and equality directory, fraud prevention, and accessibility, availability and equality as the federal reserve builds out its FedNow real time payment system.
Support HR 3948, the Debt Collection Practices Harmonization Act; HR 4403, the Stop Debt Collection Abuse Act; HR 5021, the Ending Debt Collection Harassment Act; HR 5003, The Fair Debt Collection Protection for Servicemembers Act; and HR 5001, the Non-Judicial Foreclosure Debt Collection Clarification Act. Together, these bills extend debt collection protections to government debts, prohibit threatening servicemembers, clarify that non-judicial foreclosures are covered by FDCPA to fix Obduskey, adjust fees for inflation, require consent before text and email communications from debt collectors, and much more
Support H.R. 5322 , the Ensuring Diversity in Community Banking Act of 2019
Oppose the FDIC proposed rulemaking which makes changes to, and weakens, the Community Reinvestment Act
Support providing greater clarity to lenders on how FHA will address potential loan defects
Support H.R. 1500, the Consumers First Act, which would restore the power to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB was first created in 2008 to protect all Americans from schemes designed to strip wealth from unsuspecting consumers and to protect people who may be targeted because of their race, ethnicity, gender, age, station in life, or other distinguishing characteristic. Many of the initiatives undertaken by the CFPB were good starts towards protecting our people as they worked to build wealth, or in too many cases, just make ends meet. H.R. 1500, the Consumer First Act, would restore crucial economic protections to help protect American consumers from predatory lenders.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), White House Office, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Reserve System, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD)

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15. General issue area code BUD

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support final funding levels for the AIDS Budget and Appropriation Committees programs at the highest levels (generally those proposed by the House of Representatives), and to reject funding cuts proposed by the Senate, particularly for Housing for People With AIDS program
Support the highest possible levels for domestic HIV programs, including the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative, and for programs that address the syndemics of hepatitis, STDs and tuberculosis.
Support no appropriations titles or package of bills, or continuing resolutions for FY2020 moving forward if they contain poison pill policy riders that go against the public interest.
Support the following levels in the final Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill:
$7 million for the Wrongful Conviction Review Program at the Department of Justice (DoJ), Bureau of Justice Assistance (the Wrongful Conviction Review Program is a part of the Capital Litigation Improvement Program);$8 million for the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program at the DoJ, National Institute of Justice (NIJ); $30 million for the Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grant Program at NIJ; $4 million to support forensic science standards setting activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); and $15 million for NIST to support forensic science research and measurement science
Support Congress providing full-year funding for the 2020 Census as soon as possible, at least $6.7 billion, whether as part of a package of final spending bills or in a new Continuing Resolution - whichever vehicle will be enacted first
Oppose S. 2763, which would reform the budget process. Specifically, we are concerned about potential impacts this bill could have on Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office

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15. General issue area code CAW

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support the EPA not finalizing the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards repeal before the Science Advisory Board completes its review of the underlying science
Support S. J. Res. 53, oppose President Trumps proposal to disband former-President Obamas Clean Power Plan, which he put forth in 2014, to mitigate the U.S. contribution to Climate Change.
Support H. R. 9, The Climate Action Now Act which would prohibit the U.S. from withdrawing from the Paris Accord on Climate Change and also would require the administration to develop a plan for the U.S. to meet its voluntary commitments under the Paris Agreement. Specifically, H.R. 9 calls for actions to keep global temperatures within 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of preindustrial levels. It would further voluntarily limit the increase to 1.5 degrees and to reach the global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), White House Office

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15. General issue area code CIV

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support firing Stephen Miller
Support the FCC remedy the near 20-year failure to collect industry-wide employment statistics as required by law.
Oppose the EEOCs commitment to meaningfully examine the 2017 and 2018 EEO-1 Component 2 pay data. Component 2 requires employers with 100 or more employees to report their employees pay by race, sex, ethnicity, and job category
Support H. Res. 641, a resolution rejecting the racist and imperialist language present in the U.S. Supreme Court decisions referred to as the Insular Cases. These cases were decided in the early 20th century and establish the relationship between the United States and its territories, rest on deeply offensive racial and cultural assumptions, and include such terms as alien races and savage and restless people when referring to the people living in U.S. territories
Oppose the notice published in the Federal Register on September 19, 2019 by the Department of Education regarding the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). Disaggregated data reported in the CRDC by race, ethnicity, native language, socioeconomic status, English learner status, disability status, disability type, and sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity) help us to know about students experiences in schools and whether all students have equal access to education. Effective data collection and dissemination are necessary for evaluation and review of all other programs and activities. Any change to limit the scope, frequency, or public accessibility of the civil rights data collection would certainly hamper the ability of the department to fulfill its legal obligations and would undermine our shared interest in the best education for every child
Support H.R. 5322 , the Ensuring Diversity in Community Banking Act of 2019
Oppose H.R. 5331 , the Fairness For All Act. If enacted, this bill would undermine civil rights protections for women, people of color, people of faith and create substandard protections for LGBTQ people
Oppose HUD's proposed Disparate Impact rule, as the existing rule is crucial to the continued and strengthened access to fair credit and homeownership
Support H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act which would close gaps and loopholes in the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by: protecting against retaliation for discussing salaries with colleagues; prohibiting employers from screening job applicants based on their salary history or requiring a salary history during the interview and hiring process; requiring employers to prove that pay disparities exist for legitimate, job-related reasons; providing plaintiffs who file sex-based wage discrimination claims under the Equal Pay Act with the same remedies as are available to plaintiffs who file race- or ethnicity-based wage discrimination claims under the Civil Rights Act; removing obstacles in the Equal Pay Act to facilitate plaintiffs participation in class action lawsuits that challenge systemic pay discrimination.
Support the Speier (CA) amendment to H.R. 2500, the National Defense and Authorization Act for 2020 (NDAA2020)," to require that ability alone establishes eligibility to serve in the armed services, and that factors including race, color, national origin, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation not be considered
Support HR 5084, the Improving Corporate Government Though Diversity Act which requires certain issuers of securities to disclose the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of their boards of directors and executive officers, as well as the status of any of those directors and officers as a veteran. It also requires the disclosure of any plan to promote racial, ethnic, and gender diversity among these groups. It was referred to the Senate, where no further action has been taken.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Education - Dept of, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD)

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15. General issue area code DEF

16. Specific lobbying issues

Oppose proposal to carve out TRICARE providers from the Department of Labors Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs jurisdiction
Support the inclusion of H.R. 1076, the Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2019 in the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020. H.R 1076 would ban the box on federal government and federal contractors job applications, and thus postpone a request for conviction history information until the applicant has received a conditional offer of employment
Support the inclusion of provisions mandating 6 weeks of paid parental leave for all federal employees in the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020.
Support the Speier (CA) amendment to H.R. 2500, the National Defense and Authorization Act for 2020 (NDAA2020)," to require that ability alone establishes eligibility to serve in the armed services, and that factors including race, color, national origin, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation not be considered.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor - Dept of (DOL), White House Office

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15. General issue area code DOC

16. Specific lobbying issues

Oppose S. 2682, which would to permanently reauthorize the DC school voucher program (SOAR)
Support HR 51, which grants statehood to the District of Columbia.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office

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15. General issue area code EDU

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support the Education Department being more aggressive in their final Gainful Employment rule governing for-profit colleges
Support HR 2486, the FUTURE Act, which will ensure Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions (ANNHIs), Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs), Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), and Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution (NASNTIs) have the resources they need to support their students
Oppose S. 2682, which would to permanently reauthorize the DC school voucher program (SOAR)
Support H. J. Res. 76 / S. J. Res. 56, which applies the Congressional Review Act to repeal the Education Departments seriously problematic new borrower defense rule
Oppose the notice published in the Federal Register on September 19, 2019 by the Department of Education regarding the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). Disaggregated data reported in the CRDC by race, ethnicity, native language, socioeconomic status, English learner status, disability status, disability type, and sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity) help us to know about students experiences in schools and whether all students have equal access to education. Effective data collection and dissemination are necessary for evaluation and review of all other programs and activities. Any change to limit the scope, frequency, or public accessibility of the civil rights data collection would certainly hamper the ability of the department to fulfill its legal obligations and would undermine our shared interest in the best education for every child.
Support HR 5363, The Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education Act or the FUTURE Act under which $255 million in annual mandatory funding would be permanently authorized for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving institutions (MSIs). The bill represents a compromise between the House and the Senate which permanently reauthorized the fund and increased Pell grants.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Education - Dept of, White House Office

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15. General issue area code FIN

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support a comment letter drafted by Senator Brown urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to continue to collect all Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data points added in the CFPBs 2015 final rule, including the data points that are enumerated in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) and those added through the CFPBs discretionary authority.
Also, urge the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to maintain the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data elements that the CFPB added and enhanced pursuant to statutory directives and discretionary authority under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Support HR 5050 / S 2833, the Veterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act which would put a 36% interest rate cap on all small dollar loans.
Support the following principles be included in any GSE reform:
Establish capital levels consistent with what the GSEs are charging the market currently, consistent with statute and the unique risk characteristics of the GSEs.
Maintain lines of business that enable the cross-subsidization of lending within all markets and communities, benefiting all borrowers.
Retain FHFAs role as a strong independent regulator, with full oversight and approval of operations, capital requirements, fees, charges, and prudential standards.
Ensure full and equal access for all lenders, regardless of size, including a prohibition on volume discounts with respect to guarantee fees, buy up and buy down fees, cash pricing, loan level price adjustments, and risk-sharing pricing.
Serve all markets, including underserved, rural, and urban areas, equally.
Expand access to all creditworthy borrowers and affordable housing through pooling of risk, more level pricing, and equitable distribution of the cost of catastrophic capital to protect against another market failure like the Great Recession; strengthening and ensuring compliance with affordable housing goals; enforcement of duty to serve obligations; compliance with fair housing and lending laws; and full funding of the Housing Trust Fund and Capital Magnet Fund.
We believe that chartering additional guarantors would be overly disruptive and would not foster competition in the secondary market, instead creating a race-to-the-bottom environment for loan purchases and a potential competitive advantage that comes from vertical integration.
Continue the credit risk transfer program by the GSEs to reduce their overall risk consistent with an economic benefit, with prohibitions on market structures/actions that create an unlevel playing field for loan origination.
Charge a fair ongoing fee for maintenance of the existing Treasury line of credit or any explicit federal guarantee.
Continue moving forward with administrative recapitalization plans to permit the GSEs to exit conservatorship into a utility-type system, including regulation of pricing and rates of return, to provide investors a fair return and to further the GSEs public mission.
While we believe critical GSE reforms have already been accomplished through HERA and FHFA administrative actions, any additional reforms should achieve and conform to the above principles.
HMDA data should still be disaggregated by race, gender, income and census tract category
Support strong consumer protections (including no overdraft fees, the creation of a user lability, and equality directory, fraud prevention, and accessibility, availability and equality as the federal reserve builds out its FedNow real time payment system
Support HR 3948, the Debt Collection Practices Harmonization Act; HR 4403, the Stop Debt Collection Abuse Act; HR 5021, the Ending Debt Collection Harassment Act; HR 5003, The Fair Debt Collection Protection for Servicemembers Act; and HR 5001, the Non-Judicial Foreclosure Debt Collection Clarification Act. Together, these bills extend debt collection protections to government debts, prohibit threatening servicemembers, clarify that non-judicial foreclosures are covered by FDCPA to fix Obduskey, adjust fees for inflation, require consent before text and email communications from debt collectors, and much more
Support H.R. 5322 , the Ensuring Diversity in Community Banking Act of 2019
Oppose the FDIC proposed rulemaking which makes changes to, and weakens, the Community Reinvestment Act
Support providing greater clarity to lenders on how FHA will address potential loan defects
Support H.R. 1500, the Consumers First Act, which would restore the power to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB was first created in 2008 to protect all Americans from schemes designed to strip wealth from unsuspecting consumers and to protect people who may be targeted because of their race, ethnicity, gender, age, station in life, or other distinguishing characteristic. Many of the initiatives undertaken by the CFPB were good starts towards protecting our people as they worked to build wealth, or in too many cases, just make ends meet. H.R. 1500, the Consumer First Act, would restore crucial economic protections to help protect American consumers from predatory lenders.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), White House Office, Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD)

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15. General issue area code GOV

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support HR 4617, the Stopping Harmful Interference Elections for a Lasting Democracy (SHIELD) Act which requires all candidates to report contact by a foreign government and prohibits campaigns from discussing their internal workings with foreign agents
Support HR 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, which repairs the 1965 Voting Rights Act in light of the Shelby v. Holder Supreme Court decision and strengthens it
Support HR 4718, the Polling Access Safety Act of 2019, which would protect eligible voters sense of security at the polls and encourage free and fair elections
Support firing Stephen Miller
Oppose the confirmation of Sarah Pitlyk to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Support Congress providing full-year funding for the 2020 Census as soon as possible, at least $6.7 billion, whether as part of a package of final spending bills or in a new Continuing Resolution - whichever vehicle will be enacted first
Oppose future potential rule by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which would strip federal sector unions of their legal right to use official union time to represent their coworkers in EEO matters, like discrimination and harassment.
Support an inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Donald J. Trump. Support H. Res. 660
Support the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump on both articles. Support H. Res. 775
Oppose the confirmation of Steven Menashi to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Oppose the confirmation of Judge Halil Ozerden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Support H.R. 4617, the Stopping Harmful Interference for a Lasting Democracy (SHIELD) Act which requires campaigns to report contacts with foreigners and prohibits the passing of private campaign information to foreigners
Support HR 135, the Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act, which would strengthen anti-discrimination provisions as they currently exist for federal employees and open accessibility to the federal workforce for potential workers of color.
Support the Brindisi (NY) amendment to H.R. 1, The For the People Act. The amendment would direct states to equalize polling hours across the state within certain parameters. The amendment would have allowed municipalities to set longer hours
Support the Neguse (CO) amendment to H.R. 1, the For the People Act, which would allow Americans who are 16 and 17 years old to pre-register to vote ahead of their 18th birthday
Support HR 1, The For the People Act, which is a comprehensive bill with provisions to protect, support, and make it easier for eligible American citizens to cast a free and unfettered vote and to be sure their vote was counted. The For the People Act would enact automatic, online, and same-day voter registration; support policies to help ensure no individual waits longer than 30 minutes to vote; require paid time off for voting during early voting periods or on Election Day; require early voting; and implement voter pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds. H.R. 1 would also expand the franchise to allow ex-felony offenders the right to vote; increase the penalties for false or deceptive electioneering; reform the campaign finance structure to increase the voice of every-day Americans; prohibit the counter-democratic process known as prison-based gerrymandering; and provide clear ethics guidelines for all federally elected and appointed officials, including the President, the Vice President, every member of the cabinet and Congress.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

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15. General issue area code HOU

16. Specific lobbying issues

Oppose the proposed changes to the disparate impact standard as interpreted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUDs existing disparate impact rule is a necessary tool to challenge the structural inequalities that persist in housing and lending today. It has been an effective mechanism for uncovering forms of discrimination which are covert or unintentional and must be preserved to maintain access to credit and homeownership for all communities.
Support HR 4783, to require the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to require each Enterprise to include a preferred language question on the form known as the Uniform Residential Loan Application
Support the following principles be included in any GSE reform:
Establish capital levels consistent with what the GSEs are charging the market currently, consistent with statute and the unique risk characteristics of the GSEs.
Maintain lines of business that enable the cross-subsidization of lending within all markets and communities, benefiting all borrowers.
Retain FHFAs role as a strong independent regulator, with full oversight and approval of operations, capital requirements, fees, charges, and prudential standards.
Ensure full and equal access for all lenders, regardless of size, including a prohibition on volume discounts with respect to guarantee fees, buy up and buy down fees, cash pricing, loan level price adjustments, and risk-sharing pricing.
Serve all markets, including underserved, rural, and urban areas, equally.
Expand access to all creditworthy borrowers and affordable housing through pooling of risk, more level pricing, and equitable distribution of the cost of catastrophic capital to protect against another market failure like the Great Recession; strengthening and ensuring compliance with affordable housing goals; enforcement of duty to serve obligations; compliance with fair housing and lending laws; and full funding of the Housing Trust Fund and Capital Magnet Fund.
We believe that chartering additional guarantors would be overly disruptive and would not foster competition in the secondary market, instead creating a race-to-the-bottom environment for loan purchases and a potential competitive advantage that comes from vertical integration.
Continue the credit risk transfer program by the GSEs to reduce their overall risk consistent with an economic benefit, with prohibitions on market structures/actions that create an unlevel playing field for loan origination.
Charge a fair ongoing fee for maintenance of the existing Treasury line of credit or any explicit federal guarantee.
Continue moving forward with administrative recapitalization plans to permit the GSEs to exit conservatorship into a utility-type system, including regulation of pricing and rates of return, to provide investors a fair return and to further the GSEs public mission.
While we believe critical GSE reforms have already been accomplished through HERA and FHFA administrative actions, any additional reforms should achieve and conform to the above principles.
HMDA data should still be disaggregated by race, gender, income and census tract category
Support S. 3083, legislation to create 500,000 new Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers. These are vouchers specifically designed for low-income families with young children to end homelessness and expand their neighborhoods of opportunity
Support providing greater clarity to lenders on how FHA will address potential loan defects
Oppose HUD's proposed Disparate Impact rule, as the existing rule is crucial to the continued and strengthened access to fair credit and homeownership

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), White House Office, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)

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15. General issue area code HCR

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support H.R. 4701, the Health Equity & Access Under the Law (HEAL) for Immigrant Women and Families Act, which removes the five year waiting period for immigrants to become eligible for Medicaid and CHIP and ensures that individuals granted federally authorized presence, including DACA recipients, are eligible for federally funded health care programs; enables undocumented individuals to access health insurance coverage on the ACA health insurance exchanges and make them eligible to obtain premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions; and restores Medicaid eligibility for COFA migrants
Support final funding levels for the AIDS Budget and Appropriation Committees programs at the highest levels (generally those proposed by the House of Representatives), and to reject funding cuts proposed by the Senate
Support the highest possible levels for domestic HIV programs, including the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative, and for programs that address the syndemics of hepatitis, STDs and tuberculosis., particularly for Housing for People With AIDS program
Oppose the continued sales of mint and menthol e-cigarettes.
Oppose the sale of flavored e-cigarettes
Support health equity guidelines which lead to the reduction of health disparities; holds healthcare industry actors accountable; confronts the coverage gap; improves access to addiction care and safe medicines; promotes a diverse healthcare workforce; addresses he underrepresentation of diverse communities in clinical trials; supports breakthrough medical technologies and innovation; and revolutionizes value-based care
Oppose proposal to carve out TRICARE providers from the Department of Labors Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs jurisdiction
Support H.R. 4995, the Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act, and H.R, 4996, the Helping Medicaid Offer Maternity Services Act, and support their inclusion in any end of year package. Together, these bills will improve the lives of American women and families by reversing our Nations maternal mortality trend
Support the inclusion of S. 1895, the Lower Health Care Costs Act in any end-of-year spending bill. This legislation would end surprise medical bills and extend Medicare to 1-year post partum to help abate the Maternal Mortality problem
Support H.R. 2339, the Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019" which bans all characterizing flavors of tobacco products
Support S. J. Res. 52, which overturns President Trumps proposal to further decrease the coverage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Under the new rule proposed by the Trump Administration and nullified by S. J. Res. 52, states would be permitted to allow, and even subsidize, health insurance plans which circumvent protections for Americans with preexisting conditions and dont cover essential benefits, like maternity care, preventive screening, and mental healthcare.
Support H. R. 986,The Protecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions Act which nullifies the Trump Administrations guidance which allow states to forego certain requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The requirements nullified by the Trump Administration guidance undermine the consumer protections established in the ACA by giving insurance companies permission to once again discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Labor - Dept of (DOL)

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15. General issue area code IMM

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support H.R. 4701, the Health Equity & Access Under the Law (HEAL) for Immigrant Women and Families Act, which removes the five year waiting period for immigrants to become eligible for Medicaid and CHIP and ensures that individuals granted federally authorized presence, including DACA recipients, are eligible for federally funded health care programs; enables undocumented individuals to access health insurance coverage on the ACA health insurance exchanges and make them eligible to obtain premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions; and restores Medicaid eligibility for COFA migrant
Support firing Stephen Miller
Support an extension to a 60 day comment period (as opposed to the announced 30 day comment period) in connection with the proposal to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees
Support H.R. 5466, legislation which would add hate crimes to the list of qualifying crimes under the U visa program
Support H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act, which enables DREAMERS and other lawful immigrants to stay and work in the United States
Support HR 3239, which establishes minimum humanitarian standards for people in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody. It further establishes minimum standards for priority individuals such as children, pregnant women, and those with disabilities.
Support HR 549, Granting Venezuelans Temporary Protected Status (TPS) visas
Support H.R. 3525 which would require the Department of Homeland Security to improve procedures for providing medical screening to people detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office

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15. General issue area code LAW

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support HR 1585, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
Support legislation to addresses a loop-hole from the Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act where a crime cant be prosecuted as a hate crime if there was possibly a mixed motive
Support H. Res. 747, acknowledging that the War on Drugs has been a failed policy in achieving the goal of reducing drug use
Support the following levels in the final Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill:
$7 million for the Wrongful Conviction Review Program at the Department of Justice (DoJ), Bureau of Justice Assistance (the Wrongful Conviction Review Program is a part of the Capital Litigation Improvement Program);$8 million for the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program at the DoJ, National Institute of Justice (NIJ); $30 million for the Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grant Program at NIJ; $4 million to support forensic science standards setting activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); and $15 million for NIST to support forensic science research and measurement science.
Support legislation which would remove the age requirement for those seeking an expungement order for first-time drug possession offenses
Support the Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality (NO HATE Act) (S.2043 / HR 3545). The Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act is an important piece of legislation that would improve hate crime statistics and promote a better response to hate crime within our communities.
Support H. Res. 641, a resolution rejecting the racist and imperialist language present in the U.S. Supreme Court decisions referred to as the Insular Cases. These cases were decided in the early 20th century and establish the relationship between the United States and its territories, rest on deeply offensive racial and cultural assumptions, and include such terms as alien races and savage and restless people when referring to the people living in U.S. territories
Oppose the confirmation of Sarah Pitlyk to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Support H.R. 5466, legislation which would add hate crimes to the list of qualifying crimes under the U visa program
Oppose H.R. 5331 , the Fairness For All Act. If enacted, this bill would undermine civil rights protections for women, people of color, people of faith and create substandard protections for LGBTQ people
Oppose the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Act because rather than focusing resources on reducing overdose deaths from synthetic drugs, the bill would grant the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) broad authority within the scheduling process, increase sentences, and expose many more individuals to harsh penalties, including mandatory minimum sentences
Support the inclusion of H.R. 1076, the Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2019 in the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020. H.R 1076 would ban the box on federal government and federal contractors job applications, and thus postpone a request for conviction history information until the applicant has received a conditional offer of employment
Oppose the confirmation of Steven Menashi to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Support S. 2227 / H.R. 3884, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act of 2019. The MORE Act calls for and funds social equity programs for individuals and the communities most harmed by the misdirected War on Drugs.
Oppose the confirmation of Judge Halil Ozerden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Support H.R. 1585 / S. 2843 which would reauthorize and strengthen the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). H.R. 1585 / S 2843 would: invest in prevention; end impunity for non-Native perpetrators of sexual assault, child abuse co-occurring with domestic violence, stalking, sex trafficking, and assaults on tribal law enforcement officers on tribal lands; improve enforcement of court orders that require adjudicated domestic abusers to relinquish their firearms; improve access to housing for victims and survivors; protects victims of dating violence from firearm homicide; help survivors gain and maintain economic independence; update the federal definition of domestic violence for the purposes of VAWA grants only to acknowledge the full range of abuse victims suffer (it does not impact the criminal definition of domestic violence); maintain existing protections for all survivors; and it improves the healthcare systems response to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking, including adding stalkers to the list of those who are prohibited from possessing firearms.
Support HR 1423,the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal or FAIR Act which would protect the legal rights of all Americans to access the courts when they have been harmed. HR 1423 would prevent companies from forcing harmed consumers, workers, and other individuals into private, rigged arbitration systems to resolve disputes. The FAIR Act would also prohibit class action lawsuit waivers, sometimes known as collective action waivers, which are commonly included in most forced arbitration contracts

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), White House Office

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15. General issue area code LBR

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support HR 2474 / S 1306 , the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which protects the right to join a union
Support the FCC remedy the near 20-year failure to collect industry-wide employment statistics as required by law.
Oppose the EEOCs commitment to meaningfully examine the 2017 and 2018 EEO-1 Component 2 pay data. Component 2 requires employers with 100 or more employees to report their employees pay by race, sex, ethnicity, and job category
Oppose proposal to carve out TRICARE providers from the Department of Labors Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs jurisdiction
Oppose future potential rule by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which would strip federal sector unions of their legal right to use official union time to represent their coworkers in EEO matters, like discrimination and harassment.
Support HR 135, the Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act, which would strengthen anti-discrimination provisions as they currently exist for federal employees and open accessibility to the federal workforce for potential workers of color
Support H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act which would close gaps and loopholes in the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by: protecting against retaliation for discussing salaries with colleagues; prohibiting employers from screening job applicants based on their salary history or requiring a salary history during the interview and hiring process; requiring employers to prove that pay disparities exist for legitimate, job-related reasons; providing plaintiffs who file sex-based wage discrimination claims under the Equal Pay Act with the same remedies as are available to plaintiffs who file race- or ethnicity-based wage discrimination claims under the Civil Rights Act; removing obstacles in the Equal Pay Act to facilitate plaintiffs participation in class action lawsuits that challenge systemic pay discrimination.
Support H. R. 582, the "Raise the Wage Act," a bill to gradually raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 by 2025. H.R. 582 will also end unfair current exclusions for tipped workers, people with disabilities, and youth so that they too, can benefit from a decent minimum wage. It will also index future increases in the federal minimum wage to median wage growth to ensure the value of minimum wage does not once again erode over time.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Labor - Dept of (DOL)

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15. General issue area code CSP

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support a comment letter drafted by Senator Brown urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to continue to collect all Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data points added in the CFPBs 2015 final rule, including the data points that are enumerated in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) and those added through the CFPBs discretionary authority.
Also, urge the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to maintain the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data elements that the CFPB added and enhanced pursuant to statutory directives and discretionary authority under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Support S. 2685, the Consumer Credit Control Act, which would require that credit reports be frozen by default with respect to credit and insurance. The bill also requires that consumers give consent before being included on prescreening lists (i.e. lists of consumers that lenders use to make "firm offers of credit" which are usually little better than junk mail).
Support strong consumer protections (including no overdraft fees, the creation of a user lability, and equality directory, fraud prevention, and accessibility, availability and equality as the federal reserve builds out its FedNow real time payment system.
Support HR 3490, the Small Business Lending Fairness Act. This bill bans confessions of judgment for small businesses and consumers.
Support HR 3948, the Debt Collection Practices Harmonization Act; HR 4403, the Stop Debt Collection Abuse Act; HR 5021, the Ending Debt Collection Harassment Act; HR 5003, The Fair Debt Collection Protection for Servicemembers Act; and HR 5001, the Non-Judicial Foreclosure Debt Collection Clarification Act. Together, these bills extend debt collection protections to government debts, prohibit threatening servicemembers, clarify that non-judicial foreclosures are covered by FDCPA to fix Obduskey, adjust fees for inflation, require consent before text and email communications from debt collectors, and much more
Oppose forced arbitration rule proposed by Amtrak for all its passengers
Support H.R. 1500, the Consumers First Act, which would restore the power to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB was first created in 2008 to protect all Americans from schemes designed to strip wealth from unsuspecting consumers and to protect people who may be targeted because of their race, ethnicity, gender, age, station in life, or other distinguishing characteristic. Many of the initiatives undertaken by the CFPB were good starts towards protecting our people as they worked to build wealth, or in too many cases, just make ends meet. H.R. 1500, the Consumer First Act, would restore crucial economic protections to help protect American consumers from predatory lenders
Support HR 1423,the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal or FAIR Act which would protect the legal rights of all Americans to access the courts when they have been harmed. HR 1423 would prevent companies from forcing harmed consumers, workers, and other individuals into private, rigged arbitration systems to resolve disputes. The FAIR Act would also prohibit class action lawsuit waivers, sometimes known as collective action waivers, which are commonly included in most forced arbitration contracts

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), White House Office, Federal Reserve System

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15. General issue area code INT

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees ensuring that any legislation to reauthorize expiring FISA authorities scheduled to sunset on December 15, 2019 include key reforms to Section 702, including (1) closing the backdoor search loophole, and (2) ending about collection. Also to further reform the FISC, strengthen the amicus, and increase transparency.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office, White House Office

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15. General issue area code TAX

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support the End Double Taxation of Successful Civil Claims Act, which changes tax law so that plaintiffs that win consumer fraud and sexual harassment cases are not liable for taxes on funds awarded to their attorney
Support H.R. 3157 / S. 1138, the Working Families Tax Relief Act (WFTRA,), which would lift millions of American families and children out of poverty by significantly strengthening the highly successful Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), White House Office

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15. General issue area code TEC

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support H.R. 4782, the National Commission on Online Platforms and Homeland Security Act to address the proliferation of terrorist content on social media and other online platforms.
Support S. 2968, legislation to protect the on-line privacy of social media users
Support the FCC remedy the near 20-year failure to collect industry-wide employment statistics as required by law.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

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15. General issue area code HOM

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support H.R. 4782, the National Commission on Online Platforms and Homeland Security Act to address the proliferation of terrorist content on social media and other online platforms.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office

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15. General issue area code TOB

16. Specific lobbying issues

Oppose the continued sales of mint and menthol e-cigarettes.
Oppose the sale of flavored e-cigarettes
Support H.R. 2339, the Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019" which bans all characterizing flavors of tobacco products

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), White House Office

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15. General issue area code FIR

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support S. 730, the Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Gun Trafficking and Crime Prevention Act of 2019, which would amend the Federal Criminal Code to make trafficking in firearms a federal crime; addresses firearms trafficking at each stage; and establishes stiff penalties to deter gun trafficking4.
Support HR 8, the Bipartisan enhanced background checks for gun purchases, which would bar direct firearms sales between unlicensed people, including at gun shows or online, without a background check. Firearms could be sold only by licensed dealers, manufacturers, or importers, who are required to conduct comprehensive background checks
Support HR 1112, the Enhanced background check for gun purchases act, which would mandate that no sale of a firearm may be conducted without a completed background check.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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15. General issue area code POS

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support a Post Master General who believes in public ownership and in good, quality postal service

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. Postal Service (USPS), White House Office

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15. General issue area code MMM

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support extending the higher FMAP and allocate additional funds for Medicaid in Puerto Rico and the other territories.
Support extending Medicaid benefits to COFA residents in the USA
Oppose S. 2763, which would reform the budget process. Specifically, we are concerned about potential impacts this bill could have on Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP.
Support H.R. 4995, the Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act, and H.R, 4996, the Helping Medicaid Offer Maternity Services Act, and support their inclusion in any end of year package. Together, these bills will improve the lives of American women and families by reversing our Nations maternal mortality trend
Support the inclusion of S. 1895, the Lower Health Care Costs Act in any end-of-year spending bill. This legislation would end surprise medical bills and extend Medicare to 1-year post partum to help abate the Maternal Mortality problem

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office

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15. General issue area code SMB

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support HR 3490, the Small Business Lending Fairness Act. This bill bans confessions of judgment for small businesses and consumers.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Small Business Administration (SBA), White House Office

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15. General issue area code AGR

16. Specific lobbying issues

Oppose a finalized rule that would result in nearly 700,000 people losing access to food benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps. The proposal is one of three that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued that would collectively, result in 3.7 million fewer people receiving critical food assistance on average each month. Additionally, millions more would see reductions in their monthly benefits, including nearly one million students who would lose automatic access to free or reduced-price school meals.
Support the amendment offered by Senator Cortez Masto (NV) to H. R. 3055 require a report relating to the challenges that food distribution programs face in reaching underserved communities.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), White House Office

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15. General issue area code WEL

16. Specific lobbying issues

Oppose a finalized rule that would result in nearly 700,000 people losing access to food benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps. The proposal is one of three that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued that would collectively, result in 3.7 million fewer people receiving critical food assistance on average each month. Additionally, millions more would see reductions in their monthly benefits, including nearly one million students who would lose automatic access to free or reduced-price school meals.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), White House Office

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15. General issue area code TRA

16. Specific lobbying issues

Oppose forced arbitration rule proposed by Amtrak for all its passengers
Support the Transit to Trails Act, which would minimize lack of access to public lands by low-income Americans by prioritizing areas of high need and funding transportation services to our public lands. Support inclusion of the Transit to Trails Act in the Fixing Americas Surface Transportation (FAST) Act

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AMTRAK - Natl Railroad Passenger Corporation

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15. General issue area code RET

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support H.R. 5306 Know Your Social Security Act, which clarifies the law to require mailing paper Social Security annual statements.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Social Security Administration (SSA), White House Office

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15. General issue area code CPT

16. Specific lobbying issues

Support H.R. 2426, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019 or the CASE Act of 2019." This legislation would make it easier and less expensive for independent artists to better defend their intellectual property from theft by establishing a Copyright Claims Board within the copyright office, which would give small creators the ability to protect their livelihoods and fight back against infringement of their works in a fair, efficient, timely, and affordable venue.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, White House Office

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LOBBYIST UPDATE

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ISSUE UPDATE

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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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