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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
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Address1 | 915 15TH STREET, NW, 9TH FL |
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City | WASHINGTON |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20005 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 1901-12
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2011 |
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
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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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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: Michael W. Macleod-Ball, Chief of Staff and First Amendment Counsel |
Date | 04/20/2011 |
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 CIV
16. Specific lobbying issues
Legislation:
HJ Res 37 A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practiceS - Issues Lobbied: Net neutrality, free speech
HR 1 Continuing appropriations Act for FY11 - Issues Lobbied: DC abortion funds ban, defunding PPFA, title X elimination, Global Gag rule, HIV/AIDS, Religion and Belief
HR 1116 Respect for Marriage Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights
HR 1212 Restoring Essential Constitutional Constraints for Libyan Action Involving the Military Act (RECLAIM Act) - Issues Lobbied: National Security
HR 1215 To amend title V of the Social Security Act to convert funding for personal responsibility education programs from direct appropriations to an authorization of appropriations - Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Freedom, Sex Education
HR 1397 Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights
HR 1404 Fair Elections Now Act - Issues Lobbied: Campaign Finance Reform
HR 1529 Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National Security and Detention
HR 166 Internet Investment, Innovation, and Competition Preservation Act - Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment
HR 216 Border Security Search Accountability Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Laptop searches, due process
HR 220 Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National ID, privacy
HR 280 Secure the Capitol Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy
HR 282 To require Federal contractors to participate in the E-Verify Program for employment eligibility verification - Issues Lobbied: privacy
HR 3 No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act - Issues Lobbied: abortion
HR 312 Securing the Homeland Through Agency Reporting Enhancement Act - Issues Lobbied: privacy
HR 337 Restore Military Readiness Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, First Amendment, LGBT Rights, Academic Freedom
HR 358 Protect Life Act - Issues Lobbied: Abortion, refusals
HR 471 Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act (SOAR) - Issues Lobbied: Church/State, Religion in Schools
HR 483 Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification and Illegal Immigration Control Act - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy
HR 611 BEST PRACTICES Act - Issues Lobbied: Online privacy
HR 654 Do Not Track Me Online Act - Issues Lobbied: Online Privacy
HR 658 FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, aviation security
HR 693 E-Verify Modernization Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy
HR 800 Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy
HR 96 Internet Freedom Act - Issues Lobbied: Net Neutrality, First Amendment
HR 968 Detainee Security Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention
HR 98 Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Privacy
HR 998 Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA) - Issues Lobbied: LGBT Rights , Youth and Schools
HR1473 Department of Defense and Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention
S 169 A bill to prohibit appropriated funds from being used in contravention of section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. - Issues Lobbied: e-verify, privacy
S 206 Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act - Issues Lobbied: Religion and Belief, Government-Funded Religion
S 223 FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, aviation security
S 555 Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA) - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Youth and Schools
S 598 Respect for Marriage Act - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Relationships
S 74 Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Net neutrality, free speech
S 811 Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination
S 206 Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act (SOAR) - Issues Lobbied: Chruch/State, Religion in Schools
S 551 Military Detainee Procedures Improvement Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention
S 554 A bill to prohibit the use of Department of Justice funds for the prosecution in Article III courts of the United States of individuals involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Detention
S 555 Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2011 (SNDA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights
S 598 Respect for Marriage Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, LGBT Rights
SJ Res 6 A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practice - Issues Lobbied: Net neutrality, free speech
S 306 Webb Criminal Justice Commission Bill - Issues Lobbied: criminal justic
HR 318 To amend title 18, United States Code, to punish threats to commit violent crimes against Members of Congress, and for other purposes. - Issues Lobbied: free speech
H.R. 140 Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Constitutional Citizenship; 14th Amendment
HR 754 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal year 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence oversight
S 719 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal year 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence oversight
HR 67 Patriot Act Reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, Patriot Act issues
S 291 Patriot Act Reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, Patriot Act issues
HR 1048 Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Free Speech
S 540 Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2011 - Issues Lobbied: Free Speech
Congressional Issues Without Introduced Legislation
Anti-SLAPP Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Access to the Courts
Attorney General Guidelines - Issues Lobbied: FBI investigative authorities, civil rights
CALEA - Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy
Campaign Finance - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment , Free Speech, Public Financing
Controlled Unclassified Information - Issues Lobbied: EO, possible legislation
Cybersecurity - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Free Speech
Democracy Restoration Act - Issues Lobbied: Felony Voting Rights, Racial Justice
Designation of National Security Positions - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, whistleblower protections
DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government, DHS oversight, domestic spying, fusion centers
DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT - Issues Lobbied: Limiting use of WBI/Ending 15 country policy
DOD Intelligence Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Department of Defense oversight,
End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices
Establishing a Select Committee to Review National Security laws, Policies and Practices - Issues Lobbied: Intelligence oversight
Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Police Practices
FBI Oversight - Issues Lobbied: National Secuirty, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, law enforcement oversight, open government
Federal Over-criminalization - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice
Fort Hood Report - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security
Freedom of Information Act - Issues Lobbied: Open Government
Gang Abatement Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice
Gene Patenting Legislation - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Women's Rights
Higher Education Anti-harassment bill - Issues Lobbied: Free Speech
Human Rights Crisis In Puerto Rico - Issues Lobbied: Human Rights; Racial Justice; Police Misconduct
Indigent Defense Reform - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice
JUSTICE Act - Issues Lobbied: Patriot Act Reform, Intelligence Oversight, Civil Liberties, Privacy, National Security
Legal Orientation Program - Issues Lobbied: Immigrants Rights, Due Process
Material support for terrorism - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Due Process, Human Rights
National security letters - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, FBI oversight, National Security Letter Power, Patriot Act Section 215
Electronic Privacy Communications Act - Issues Lobbied: Privacy, Due Process
Notice Pleadings - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Access to Justice
Over-Classification Reduction Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Open Government, decreasing over-classification
Public Employee Pension Transperancy Act - Issues Lobbied: Open Government
Radical ideologies and speech rights - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment, Free Speech
Radicalization of American Muslims - Issues Lobbied: Civil liberties, privacy, religious freedom, racial profiling, national security
Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 - Issues Lobbied: FOIA and whistleblower protections
State Secrets Protection Act - Issues Lobbied: National security, civil liberties, whistleblower protection
Suspicious Activity Reports - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Civil Liberties, 1st Amendment Activity, racial profiling
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice
The Youth PROMISE Act - Issues Lobbied: Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Juvenile Justice
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: USCCR; Racial Justice; Human Rights
Webb Criminal Justice Commission Bill - Issues Lobbied: Criminal Justice
Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act - Issues Lobbied: National Security, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Protections for National Security Whistleblowers
Paycheck Fairness Act (no bill introduced yet) - Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights; Employment Discrimination
Corporal Punishment Ban - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Disability Rights; Corporal Punishment
Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Disability Rights;
Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization - Issues Lobbied: Racial Justice; Juvenile Justice; Education; School Discipline; Corporal Punishment; Positive Behavior Supports; Federal Accountability
Agency Issues
CBP - Issues Lobbied: Operation Streamline, IG issues
Commerce Department - Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform, Do Not Track
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination
Dept of Defense - Issues Lobbied: Whistleblower Protection
Dept of Education - Issues Lobbied: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization, Single Sex Education, LGBT Rights, Youth and Schools, school diversity issues
Dept of HHS - Issues Lobbied: Implementation of ACA and medical loss ratio, Electronic medical records, disabilty comments, sex ed, LGBT issues
Dept of Labor - Issues Lobbied: Comments on Break Time for Working Mothers, Comments onOFCCPs Rescission of 2006 Guidance on Compensation Discrimination, federal contractor non-discrimination
DHS - Issues Lobbied: DOMA, ICE enforcement, detention, CJS Approps - LOP/EOIR, Haitian refugees and deportation, 287(g), Secure Communities, DREAM Act, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, DHS/TSA Oversight: WBI, SPOT, Suspicious Activity Reports, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Use of datamining technologies by the government, Government Watch Lists, ideological exclusion
DNI - Issues Lobbied: DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing
EEOC - Issues Lobbied: Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act
FBI - Issues Lobbied: FBI Oversight, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, Attorney General Guidelines
FCC - Issues Lobbied: Framework of Broadband Access, net neutrality
FTC - Issues Lobbied: online privacy
ICE - Issues Lobbied: ICE Worksite Enfocement, ICE enforcement, detention, Haitian refugees and deportation, 287(g), Secure Communities, SB 1070 style bills and state/local enforcement issues
National Archives and Records Administration - Issues Lobbied: Controlled unclassified information, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, OPM inernal security audits
National Economic Council - Issues Lobbied: Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform
NSC - Issues Lobbied: Haitian refugees and deportation, Cybersecurity, Over-Classification Reduction Act, Improving classification policy
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) - Issues Lobbied: LGBT, Discrimination, Designation of National Security Positions, gender identity regulations
Office of the Vice President - Issues Lobbied: PREA application to immigration detention
The White House - Issues Lobbied: Cocaine Sentencing Policy, The Fair Sentencing Act Sentencing Guidelines, DOMA, ICE enforcement, detention, 287(g), SB 1070 style bills and state/local enforcement issues, Paycheck Fairness Act, Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Reauthorization, Cybersecurity, LGBT Rights , Youth and Schools, Whistleblower Protection, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, Improving classification policy, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, NDAA, detainee transfers, ATT FOIA, PREA for Immigrant Detainees, Disability Treaty
Treasury Department - Issues Lobbied: Material support for terrorism, Cuba Travel
The Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Prison Rape, ICE Worksite Enforcement, Operation Streamline, PREA application to immigration detention, CJS Approps - LOP/EOIR, Haitian refugees and deportation, 287(g), Secure Communities, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Reauthorization, Convention for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,Title VI Enforcement, Speech Restictions In Puerto Rico, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by State and Local Governments and Place of Accommodation Equipment and Furniture, FBI Oversight, Whistleblower Protection, DHS Intelligence/Information Sharing, Attorney General Guidelines, DOJ Racial Profiling Guidance, Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform, Prison Abuse Remedies Act (and reform of the PLRA), Indigent Defense Reform, Federal Over-criminalization, End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA), The Effective Death Penalty Appeals Act, The Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act, The Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act, Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Commission Standards, Habeas Corpus Review Procedures in Capital Cases, Fairness and Accuracy in Employment Background Checks Act, National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women re IACHR petition on Gonzales case, PREA application to immigration detention, Cocaine Sentencing Policy, The Fair Sentencing Act Sentencing Guidelines
The U.S. Sentencing Commission - Issues Lobbied: Cocaine Sentencing Policy, The Fair Sentencing Act Sentencing Guidelines, Mandatory Minimum Sentencing/Implementation of the Fair Sentencing Act
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Issues Lobbied: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Reauthorization, ESEA issues
FEC - Issues Lobbied: Citizens United Regulations
State Department - Issues Lobbied: UPR Letter, Ideological Exclusion
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Education - Dept of, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Natl Security Council (NSC), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Vice President of the U.S., Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Executive Office of the President (EOP), White House Office, Treasury - Dept of, Federal Election Commission (FEC), U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, State - Dept of (DOS)
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