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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2009 |
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Signature | Digitally Signed By: Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director |
Date | 01/19/2010 |
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
Contacts to House and Senate offices in support of continuation of traditional prolife provisions in appropriations bills for fiscal year 2010, including Hyde Amendment to HHS appropriations bill (H.R. 3293). Contacts to House and Senate offices in support of inclusion of longstanding abortion-related provisions in Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (H.R. 3288), including ban on use of congressionally appropriated funds for abortion in the District of Columbia and prohibition on coverage of abortion in (cont.)
health plans within the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program. Opposed inclusion of Lautenberg Amendment from State-Foreign Operations Appropriations bill to permanently prohibit any president from restricting funding of organizations that promote abortion in foreign nations (adopted by Senate Appropriations Committee on July 9, but not included in H.R. 3288). Opposed conference report on H.R. 3288 due to inclusion of language to allow use of congressionally appropriated funds for abortions in the District of Columbia.
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
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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 FAM
16. Specific lobbying issues
Contacts with House and Senate in opposition to the "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA), a bill to invalidate virtually all state and federal laws and policies that in any way limit access to abortion, the reintroduction of which is anticipated sometime during the 111th Congress. (continued)
Contacts to House in support of Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA) (H.R. 634) and the Child Custody Protection Act (unnumbered).
Contacts in support of S. 85 and H.R. 614, and the Pence Amendment to H.R. 3293, all measures to exclude certain abortion providers from funding under Title X of the Public Health Service Act.
Contacts in support of H.R. 636, the Positive Alternatives Act, sponsored by Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Contacts generally supportive of certain titles of S. 270 and H.R. 605, Pregnant Women Support Act, while not taking a position on the overall omnibus legislation at this time. Contacts expressing objections to certain components of S. 21 and H.R. 463. Contacts critiquing numerous deficiencies in Ryan-DeLauro bill (H.R. 3312).
Contacts in support of H.R. 649, the Ultrasound Informed Consent Act; H.R. 213, the Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act; and H.R. 195, the Informed Choice Act (aid for ultrasound machines for certain centers).
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
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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 FOR
16. Specific lobbying issues
Opposed to Lautenberg Amendment to S. 1434 (State-Foreign Operations appropriations), adopted in Senate Appropriations Committee on July 9, 2009 (amendment would permanently prohibit a president from steering funds away from groups that perform
and actively promote abortion as a method of family planning); opposed proposed inclusion of this provision in Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (H.R. 3288) (provision was not included in conference report).
Contacts to House expressing general concerns about abortion-related issues that may arise during anticipated reauthorization/rewrite of the Foreign Assistance Act.
Contacts in opposition the Senate radification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and in opposition to H. Res. 22, a pro-CEDAW resolution.
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
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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 HCR
16. Specific lobbying issues
Contacts in support of amendments to remove pro-abortion mandates and abortion subsidies from health care reform bills. (continued)
On "Americas Affordable Health Choices Act" (H.R. 3200) and "Affordable Health Care for America Act" (H.R. 3962), opposed Capps-Waxman abortion language to authorize funding of elective abortion through proposed "public plan" and subsidies for private plans that cover elective abortion; opposed proposed Ellsworth language to allow funding of elective abortion through proposed "public plan" and subsidies for private plans that cover elective abortion (not formally offered); opposed any Rule that would exclude consideration of Stupak-Pitts Amendment to remove abortion subsidies and abortion mandate authorities from the bill; supported adoption of Stupak-Pitts Amendment on House floor (adopted by House on Nov. 7, 2009, 240-194).
Opposed "Affordable Health Choices Act" (S. 1679), reported by Senate HELP Committee, due to numerous provisions providing authority for pro-abortion mandates and providing subsidies for abortion (committee rejected all remedial amendments).
Opposed "Americas Healthy Future Act of 2009," in the Senate Finance Committee; opposed Chairmans Mark, amended Chairmans Mark, and reported bill (S. 1796) on basis of multiple provisions to provide subsidies for plans that cover elective abortion and other pro-abortion components; supported unsuccessful amendments in committee to correct these provisions.
Regarding the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" proposed by Sen. Harry Reid: On basis of provisions to authorize subsidies for plans that cover abortion and other pro-abortion components, made contacts in opposition to Reid Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 3590 (S. Amdt. 2786 to H.R. 3590); opposed Sen. Caseys proposed contributions to the Reid Managers Amendment pertaining to subsidies for plans that cover abortion, while expressing qualified support for the substance of certain other proposed additions related to services to pregnant women; opposed Mikulski Amendment (S. Amdt. 2791) to empower DHHS to mandate that private health plans cover unspecified "preventive" services (adopted by Senate December 3, 2009, 61-39); supported Nelson-Hatch Amendment (S. Amdt. 2962) to prevent subsidies for abortion and pro-abortion mandates (tabled December 8, 2009, 54-45); opposed cloture on and adoption of Reid Managers Amendment (S. Amdt. 3276 to S. Amdt. 2786 to H.R. 3590); opposed cloture on and and adoption of the substitute and the bill (H.R. 3590) as amended.
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
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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 HCR
16. Specific lobbying issues
U.S. Senate: On the Senate Finance Committees Bill, Americas Healthy Future Act of 2009, contacts in support of addition of variable withhold financing method to avoid rationing. (continued)
Contacts in support of the anti-discrimination language as it related to Comparative Effectiveness Research. Contacts in support of extending the comparative effectiveness anti-discrimination language to other places of the mark where the Secretary is given authority to determine quality. Contacts in support of Sen. Kyl amendment D2-125. Contacts to oppose Rockefeller amendments 207, 208, and 210, relating to advance care planning because: contains disincentive for balanced counseling and incentives to steer them toward rejection of treatment, including life-preserving treatment, lacks representatives of disability rights groups and groups who advocate for treatment without regard to patients quality of life, lacks continuing oversight and evaluation of created board, lacks protections for portability of advanced directives across states, lacked conscience protections, and made changes to Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997. Contacts in support of conscience protection that does not extend to protecting providers against denial of medical care to an individual because of the individuals age, disability, or other characteristic.
On the process of merging S.1679, the Affordable Health Choices Act, with the Senate Finance Committees Bill, Americas Healthy Future Act of 2009, contacts in support of elimination of 5% penalty for top 10% of Medicare outliers. Contacts in opposition to the inclusion of Advance Care planning which contains disincentive for balanced counseling and incentives to steer them toward rejection of treatment, including life-preserving treatment, lacks representatives of disability rights groups and groups who advocate for treatment without regard to patients quality of life, and lacks continuing oversight. Contacts in opposition to inclusion of language which would preclude providers from providing or prescribing any treatment or diagnostic procedure. Contacts to ensure that taxpayer funds do not support or fund physician assisted suicide. Contacts in support of extending the comparative effectiveness anti-discrimination language to other places of the mark where the Secretary is given authority to determine quality.
On "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (substitute amendment to H.R. 3590), contacts in opposition to Senator Rockefeller, Lieberman, and Whitehouse Amendment 3240 which would empower the Independent Medicare Advisory Board to recommend, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to impose, requirements for insurance plans in the exchanges that would have the effect of limiting Americans right to spend their own money, if they choose, to save their own lives. Contacts in opposition to Shared Decisionmaking, Section 3506, due to lack of safeguards against pressure to reject costly life-saving treatment. Opposed cloture due to: 1)The Independent Payment Advisory Boards authority to make cuts in Medicare and charge to make recommendations to limit non-federal health expenditures thus limiting access to plans able to provide unrationed care. 2) The Commissioners of the State Health Insurance Exchanges discretion to impose price controls on insurance premiums under Section 1003 thus limiting access to plans able to provide unrationed care. 3) Section 3209 grant of discretion to CMS to deny older Americans the choice of plans whose premiums CMS deems too high thus limiting access to plans able to provide unrationed care. 4) Multiple provisions in the bill which could be used to establish quality and efficiency standards that would result in the denial of lifesaving medical care based upon degree of disability, age, or quality of life.
On health care reform generally, contacts in effort to oppose rationing of health care, supported the addition of variable withhold financing method to avoid rationing.
U.S. House of Representatives
On H.R. 3962, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, contacts in support of language to exclude rationing of health care. Contacts in opposition to the Commissioners of the Health Insurance Exchanges discretion to impose price controls on insurance premiums, exclude fee-for-service plans, or require plans to deny policyholders life-saving medical treatment. Contacts in opposition to the grant of discretion to CMS to deny those in Medicare the choice of plans whose premiums CMS deems too high, or by imposing Section 1165s local requirements, thus limiting access to plans able to provide unrationed care.
Contacts to support language that would ensure that neither the Exchange or the public insurance option employ a pattern or practice of discrimination based on the age, disability or purported "quality of life" of the patient. Contacts in opposition to Section 2401 which creates a Center for Quality Improvement which is to promote best practices in health care where quality-adjusted life year measures or any other methodologies that can be used to deny benefits to a beneficiary against the beneficiarys wishes on the basis of the beneficiarys age, life expectancy, present or predicted disability, or expected quality of life may be used in several of its duties. Contacts in opposition to Section 1401, which creates a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research, and 1159's provisions commissioning the Institute of Medicine to develop new Medicare reimbursement standards to create incentives for high value care which do not protect against discrimination based on age, life expectancy, present or predicted disability, or expected quality of life. (continued)
Contacts in support of prohibition of using quality adjusted life years (or other standards that discount the value of a period of life based on the patients present or predicted disability or quality of life) being employed in making coverage decisions, determining reimbursement rates, or establishing incentive programs. Contacts in support of the inclusion of Comparative Effectiveness panel members that represent disability rights organizations as well as represent organizations that advocate for the rights of patients to obtain treatment without regard to the patients quality of life. Contacts in opposition to Section 1233 advance care planning provisions that could be used to encourage Medicare patients to accept the denial of treatment as a means of cost control, and despite apparent prohibitions, could include assisted suicide. Contacts in opposition to Section 240 which requires health insurers participating in the exchange to provide beneficiaries with the option to establish advance directives and disseminate imbalanced information about end-of-life planning.
On health care reform generally, contacts in effort to oppose rationing of health care, supported the addition of variable withhold financing method to avoid rationing.
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
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Popik |
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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 INS
16. Specific lobbying issues
Contacts in support of exclusion of amendments to remove pro-abortion mandates and abortion subsidies from all health care reform bills. (continued)
On "Americas Affordable Health Choices Act" (H.R. 3200) and "Affordable Health Care for America Act" (H.R. 3962), opposed Capps-Waxman abortion language to authorize funding of elective abortion through proposed "public plan" and subsidies for private plans that cover elective abortion; opposed proposed Ellsworth language to allow funding of elective abortion through proposed "public plan" and subsidies for private plans that cover elective abortion (not formally offered); opposed any Rule that would exclude consideration of Stupak-Pitts Amendment to remove abortion subsidies and abortion mandate authorities from the bill; supported adoption of Stupak-Pitts Amendment on House floor (adopted by House on Nov. 7, 2009, 240-194).
Opposed "Affordable Health Choices Act" (S. 1679), reported by Senate. HELP Committee, due to numerous provisions providing authority for pro-abortion mandates and providing subsidies for abortion (committee rejected all remedial amendments).
Opposed "Americas Healthy Future Act of 2009," in the Senate Finance Committee; opposed Chairmans Mark, amended Chairmans Mark, and reported bill (S. 1796) on basis of multiple provisions to provides subsidies for plans that cover elective abortion and other pro-abortion components; supported unsuccessful amendments in committee to correct these provisions.
Regarding the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" proposed by Sen. Harry Reid: On basis of provisions to authorize subsidies for plans that cover abortion and other pro-abortion components, made contacts in opposition to Reid Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 3590 (S. Amdt. 2786 to H.R. 3590); opposed Sen. Caseys proposed contributions to the Reid Managers Amendment pertaining to subsidies for plans that cover abortion, while expressing qualified support for the substance of certain other proposed additions related to services to pregnant women; opposed Mikulski Amendment (S. Amdt. 2791) to empower DHHS to mandate that private health plans cover unspecified "preventive" services (adopted by Senate December 3, 2009, 61-39); supported Nelson-Hatch Amendment (S. Amdt. 2962) to prevent subsidies for abortion and pro-abortion mandates (tabled December 8, 2009, 54-45); opposed cloture on and adoption of Reid Managers Amendment (S. Amdt. 3276 to S. Amdt. 2786 to H.R. 3590); opposed cloture on and and adoption of the substitute and the bill (H.R. 3590) as amended.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE
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
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
U.S. Senate: On the Senate Finance Committees Bill, Americas Healthy Future Act of 2009, contacts in support of addition of variable withhold financing method to avoid rationing. (continued)
Contacts in support of the anti-discrimination language as it related to Comparative Effectiveness Research. Contacts in support of extending the comparative effectiveness anti-discrimination language to other places of the mark where the Secretary is given authority to determine quality. Contacts in support of Sen. Kyl amendment D2-125. Contacts to oppose Rockefeller amendments 207, 208, and 210, relating to advance care planning because: contains disincentive for balanced counseling and incentives to steer them toward rejection of treatment, including life-preserving treatment, lacks representatives of disability rights groups and groups who advocate for treatment without regard to patients quality of life, lacks continuing oversight and evaluation of created board, lacks protections for portability of advanced directives across states, lacked conscience protections, and made changes to Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997. Contacts in support of conscience protection that does not extend to protecting providers against denial of medical care to an individual because of the individuals age, disability, or other characteristic.
On the process of merging S.1679, the Affordable Health Choices Act, with the Senate Finance Committees Bill, Americas Healthy Future Act of 2009, contacts in support of elimination of 5% penalty for top 10% of Medicare outliers. Contacts in opposition to the inclusion of Advance Care planning which contains disincentive for balanced counseling and incentives to steer them toward rejection of treatment, including life-preserving treatment, lacks representatives of disability rights groups and groups who advocate for treatment without regard to patients quality of life, and lacks continuing oversight. Contacts in opposition to inclusion of language which would preclude providers from providing or prescribing any treatment or diagnostic procedure. Contacts to ensure that taxpayer funds do not support or fund physician assisted suicide. Contacts in support of extending the comparative effectiveness anti-discrimination language to other places of the mark where the Secretary is given authority to determine quality.
On "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (substitute amendment to H.R. 3590), contacts in opposition to Senator Rockefeller, Lieberman, and Whitehouse Amendment 3240 which would empower the Independent Medicare Advisory Board to recommend, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to impose, requirements for insurance plans in the exchanges that would have the effect of limiting Americans right to spend their own money, if they choose, to save their own lives. Contacts in opposition to Shared Decisionmaking, Section 3506, due to lack of safeguards against pressure to reject costly life-saving treatment. Opposed cloture due to: 1)The Independent Payment Advisory Boards authority to make cuts in Medicare and charge to make recommendations to limit non-federal health expenditures thus limiting access to plans able to provide unrationed care. 2) The Commissioners of the State Health Insurance Exchanges discretion to impose price controls on insurance premiums under Section 1003 thus limiting access to plans able to provide unrationed care. 3) Section 3209 grant of discretion to CMS to deny older Americans the choice of plans whose premiums CMS deems too high thus limiting access to plans able to provide unrationed care. 4) Multiple provisions in the bill which could be used to establish quality and efficiency standards that would result in the denial of lifesaving medical care based upon degree of disability, age, or quality of life.
On health care reform generally, contacts in effort to oppose rationing of health care, supported the addition of variable withhold financing method to avoid rationing.
U.S. House of Representatives:
On H.R. 3962, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, contacts in support of language to exclude rationing of health care. Contacts in opposition to the Commissioners of the Health Insurance Exchanges discretion to impose price controls on insurance premiums, exclude fee-for-service plans, or require plans to deny policyholders life-saving medical treatment. Contacts in opposition to the grant of discretion to CMS to deny those in Medicare the choice of plans whose premiums CMS deems too high, or by imposing Section 1165s local requirements, thus limiting access to plans able to provide unrationed care. Contacts to support language that would ensure that neither the Exchange or the public insurance option employ a pattern or practice of discrimination based on the age, disability or purported "quality of life" of the patient. Contacts in opposition to Section 2401 which creates a Center for Quality Improvement which is to promote best practices in health care where quality-adjusted life year measures or any other methodologies that can be used to deny benefits to a beneficiary against the beneficiarys wishes on the basis of the beneficiarys age, life expectancy, present or predicted disability, or expected quality of life may be used in several of its duties. Contacts in opposition to Section 1401, which creates a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (continued)
and 1159's provisions commissioning the Institute of Medicine to develop new Medicare reimbursement standards to create incentives for high value care which do not protect against discrimination based on age, life expectancy, present or predicted disability, or expected quality of life. Contacts in support of prohibition of using quality adjusted life years (or other standards that discount the value of a period of life based on the patients present or predicted disability or quality of life) being employed in making coverage decisions, determining reimbursement rates, or establishing incentive programs. Contacts in support of the inclusion of Comparative Effectiveness panel members that represent disability rights organizations as well as represent organizations that advocate for the rights of patients to obtain treatment without regard to the patients quality of life. Contacts in opposition to Section 1233 advance care planning provisions that could be used to encourage Medicare patients to accept the denial of treatment as a means of cost control, and despite apparent prohibitions, could include assisted suicide. Contacts in opposition to Section 240 which requires health insurers participating in the exchange to provide beneficiaries with the option to establish advance directives and disseminate imbalanced information about end-of-life planning.
On health care reform generally, contacts in effort to oppose rationing of health care, supported the addition of variable withhold financing method to avoid rationing.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE,
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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 GOV
16. Specific lobbying issues
Contacts in opposition to confirmation of Dawn Johnsen as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, including letter dated October 15, 2009.
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U.S. SENATE
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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 DOC
16. Specific lobbying issues
Opposed inclusion of language allowing use of congressionally appropriated funds for elective abortion in the District of Columbia. in Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (H.R. 3288). Opposed conference report on H.R. 3288 due to inclusion of this language in the bill.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
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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 IND
16. Specific lobbying issues
In comprehensive reauthorization of Indian health programs, incorporated into H.R. 3962 in the House and H.R. 3590 in the Senate, advocated incorporation of language to prohibit subsidies for abortion.
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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
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