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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 | 2019 |
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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| 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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Method A.
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: Dianne Miller |
Date | 4/22/2019 1:57:38 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
Asked Representatives, Senators and legislative staff to support funding for the following programs in the FY20 appropriations bill; thanked them for maintaining or increasing funding for the following programs:
Agriculture: NIFA, AFRI, Hatch, Smith Lever, EFNEP, NAHLN, ARS (Hemp Germplasm Repository), NIFA Integrated Activities, ARS Buildings and Facilities, ERS.
Commerce, Justice, Science: NSF, NSF Facilities, NASA Science, NASA Aerospace Technology, NASA Education-Space Grant, NOAA_OAR, NOAA-Sea Grant, NOAA- Regional Climate Centers.
Defense: Basis Research (6.1), DARPA, Defense Health, AF-RDT&E-Applied Research Materials
Energy and Water: DoE Office of Science, Energy Frontiers Research Center Program, ARPA-E, EERE Geothermal Technologies
Interior: NEH, EPA Science & Technology, USGS-WRRI, USGS-Cooperative Research Unit
Labor HHS Education: NIH, AHRQ, Pell Grant, SEOG, FWS, TRIO, GAANN, Title VI International Education, Title VII Health Professions
State, Foreign Ops: Educational & Cultural Exchange Programs (Fulbright), USAID Feed the Future Innovation Labs
Transportation: University Transportation Research Centers
Asked Representatives, Senators and staff to oppose proposed cuts and program eliminations in President's budget for priority programs.
Encouraged representative, senator and staff to reach a 2-year budget deal to raise the caps and preserve parity between domestic and defense programs.
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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Kristen |
Adams |
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Professional Staff Member |
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
Met with legislative staff to encourage support for the provision to modify and/or repeal the excise tax on the investment income of certain colleges and universities, either as a stand long bill or in technical corrections legislation.
Met with legislative staff to explain the impact of provision of the JCTA that changes the way nonprofit institutions calculate unrelated business income.
Encouraged Representatives to support Retirement, Savings and Other Tax Relief Act of 2018 (H.R. 88) to repeal the UBIT for transit and parking fringe benefits.
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 |
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, Senators and legislative staff to express support for continued funding for agricultural research, cooperative extension and 4-H program.
Met with Representatives and legislative staff to discuss implementation of provision in the Farm Bill amending the mating required for the specialty crop research initiative.
Met with Representatives, legislative staff and agency staff to discuss construction of a federal laboratory for grape genetic research.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)
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 the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
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 |
Kristen |
Adams |
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Professional Staff Member |
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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 SCI
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with Senators, Representatives, and legislative staff to discuss continued support for NSF user facilities.
Met with Senator, Representatives, and legislative staff to express support for continued funding of federal scientific research agencies (NSF, NOAA, NASA) in the FY20 CJS bill (see budget and appropriations).
Met with legislative staff to encourage federal support for climate science.
Met with legislative staff to discuss support for NASA budget for planetary science and to discuss Cornell's role in various NASA missions.
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 |
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 opposition to the President's executive action rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and to encourage support of the legislation to continue the program and protect all undocumented students.
Met with legislative staff to express support for comprehensive immigration reform, and to encourage support for the DREAM act.
Discussed concerned with legislative staff about the Administration's policies on student visas, and visas for international faculty.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)
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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Professional Staff Member |
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).
Met with legislative staff and agency to express support for the Defense Medical Research Program.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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 |
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, as well as full reinstatement of the Perkins Loan Program in the President's FY20 budget proposal (see also Budget & Appropriations).
Met with Representatives, Senators and legislative staff to share undergraduate, graduate, and professional student perspective on proposed cuts to student aid programs in the President's Budget.
Met with legislative staff to encourage support for continued funding for Title VI International Education and Area Studies, and the Fulbright/Hayes programs, and to oppose the elimination of these programs as proposed in the President's FY20 budget.
Met with legislative staff to express support for legislation to continue the Perkins Loan Program.
Met with legislative staff to express support for programs that increase access to higher education for first generation and under served minority students.
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 express 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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Kristen |
Adams |
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Professional Staff member |
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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 CPT
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with legislative staff to discuss technology transfer and the issues associated with licensing university-created intellectual property in the context of the STRONGER Patents Act.
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 |
Kristen |
Adams |
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Professional Staff Member |
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 TRA
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with legislative staff to discuss University transportation research center program and to express support for reauthorization in the next Highway Bill.
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 |
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 MMM
16. Specific lobbying issues
Met with legislative staff and encouraged Representatives and Senators to sign letters to CMS expressing concern with proposed rule to change payment rates, bulling code and documentation requirements for outpatient services, and expressing concerns with changes proposed in CMS Outpatient Prospective Payment System Rules.
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 |
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 legislative staff to discuss support for the Department of Energy's Geothermal Technologies program as a platform for a demonstration project.
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 and Counsel |
19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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LOBBYIST UPDATE
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
25. Add the following affiliated organization(s)
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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?
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