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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 | 750 FIRST STREET, NE, #700 |
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City | WASHINGTON |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20002 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 27137-12
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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
10. Check if this is a Termination Report | Termination Date | |
11. No Lobbying Issue Activity |
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INCOME relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period was: | EXPENSE relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period were: | ||||||||
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Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: Carolyn I. Polowy, General Counsel |
Date | 07/20/2011 |
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 LBR
16. Specific lobbying issues
Local Jobs for America Act: seeks to provide funds to states, elements of local government and community-based entities to engender and/or create local jobs through the retention, restoration, or expansion of services required by local communities; (H.R.4812). H.R. 1106 Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act - To establish the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress on policy issues associated with the recruitment,
retention, research, and reinvestment in the profession of social work. S. 584 Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act - To establish the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress on policy issues associated with the recruitment, retention, research, and reinvestment in the profession of social work.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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 |
Lawrence |
Moore |
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Hoffler |
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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 CIV
16. Specific lobbying issues
Employment Non-Discrimination Act: this measure is devoted solely to the ideal that every worker should be judged premised upon his or her merits without targeted discriminatory practices due to specific characteristics; (H.R.3017/S.1584). H.R.1913, Byrne/JAG Program Accountability Act - Support a bill that would require all states and localities receiving funds through the Byrne/JAG Program to implement policies and practices to identify and reduce racial and ethnic disparities
within their criminal justice systems, without establishing or requiring numerical standards or quotas.
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 |
Lawrence |
Moore |
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Asua |
Ofosu |
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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
The Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act: the initiative attempts to redress matters of recruitment/retention as it pertains to the Social Work profession and its paucity of minority practitioners; (H.R.795/S.686); H.R. 1106 and S. 584, Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act - Support establishing a Social Work Reinvestment Commission to address recruitment, retention, research, and reinvestment in the social work profession.
S. 41, National Center for Social Work Research Act
Support establishing the National Center for Social Work Research as an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct, support, and disseminate targeted research on social work methods and outcomes related to problems of significant social concern.
S. 42, Strengthen Social Work Workforce Act of 2011
Support ensuring that social work students or social work schools are eligible for support under certain programs that would assist individuals in pursuing health careers or for grants for training projects in geriatrics, and to establish a social work training program.
PL 111-148, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The focus is on the implementation the law. NASW has submitted comments to various agencies on implantation rules.
S. 31, Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2011
Support efforts to amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate for lower prices for Medicare prescription drugs.
H.R. 1085 and S. 578, the Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act
Support efforts to Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to: (1) eliminate the abstinence-only education program, (2) rescind unobligated FY2010-FY2011 program appropriations, and (3) reprogram such rescinded appropriations for the personal responsibility education program (PREP) for FY2012-FY2014.
S. 818 and H.R. 1543, Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2011
Support efforts to amend the Medicare statute's definition of "post-hospital extended care services" to clarify that Medicare beneficiaries in observation are deemed inpatients in the hospital. The bill addresses the problem faced by Medicare beneficiaries who are placed in observation status instead of being formally admitted to the hospital as inpatients.
H.R. 3, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
Oppose the bill imposes a blanket ban on the use federal funding for abortion services; modifies tax breaks given for health insurance coverage to exclude abortion from such credits; prohibits federal medical facilities from providing abortion services; and establishes "conscience protections" for health care providers who object to providing abortion services.
H.RES.260/S.RES.11, Social Work Month Resolution
Support resolution promoting the goals and ideals of Professional Social Work Month and World Social Work Day.
S.1095, Caring for an Aging America Act - Support efforts to include geriatrics and gerontology in the definition of `primary health services' under the National Health Service Corps program.
S. 584 (Mikulski) Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act
Issue: Health/Social Work Workforce
Support a bill establishing the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress on policy issues associated with the recruitment, retention, research, and reinvestment in the profession of social work.
H.R. 1106 (Towns) Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act
Issue: Health/Social Work Workforce
Support a bill establishing the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent
counsel to Congress on policy issues associated with the recruitment, retention, research, and reinvestment in the profession of social work.
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 |
Lawrence |
Moore |
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Asua |
Ofosu |
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Finley |
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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 IMM
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R. 1842/S. 952, Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act)
Support efforts to permit certain immigrant students who have grown up in the U.S. to apply for temporary legal status and to eventually obtain permanent legal status and become eligible for U.S. citizenship if they go to college or serve in the U.S. military.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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 |
Asua |
Ofosu |
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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 EDU
16. Specific lobbying issues
Dorothy Height/Whitney Young Social Work Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1106/ S. 584). This bill will improve the social work workforce. We have made numerous phone calls to House and Senate staff. H.R.1138 : School Social Workers Improving Student Success Act. Sent a letter to Rep. Moore in support of her bill. Reducing Barriers to Learning Act of 2011 (H.R. 1995). Sent an alert to NASW members urging them to contact their House members to increase co-sponsorship of this bill.
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 |
Nancy McFall |
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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
S. 583 (Mikulski) Clinical Social Work Medicare Equity Act Issues: Medicare Mental Health Coverage/Payment - Support a bill amending title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit direct payment under the Medicare program for clinical social worker services provided to residents of skilled nursing facilities. S. 539, (Whitehouse) the "Behavioral Health Information Technology Act" - Issues: Medicare, Medicaid, health system reform, HIT Support a bill extending eligibility to clinical social
workers and other behavioral health providers for electronic health record incentive payments established under Medicare and Medicaid.
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
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
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Finley |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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FOREIGN ENTITIES
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