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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
2. Address
| Address1 | 1111 16TH STREET, NW |
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| City | WASHINGTON |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20036 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 1741-12
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6. House ID# 317170000
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| TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2008 |
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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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: Lisa Maatz, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations |
Date | 07/18/2008 |
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
H.Con.Res.312/S.Con.Res.70 Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for FY2009, in support of funding for public education and reject the Presidents Pell Grants for Kids voucher proposal and the plan to turn the 21st Century Learning Center program into an afterschool voucher program; Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2009, with regards to the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program; Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2009,
with regards to maternal and child health block grant, Title X family planning, WISEWOMAN Program, Healthy Start and other programs related to women's health, in support of comprehensive sexuality education and the elimination of abstinence only education programs, funding for the Violence Against Women Act through Title V programs and other programs related to women and sexual harassment; State Department, Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, 2009, in support of increased United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) funding; Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Act, in support of increased FY09 funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and for NSFs Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate to foster improvements in K-12, undergraduate, graduate, continuing education, vocational, and informal STEM education; H.R.2642 Supplemental Appropriations Act 2008, in support of education benefits for veterans and an extension of unemployment insurance 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 |
Lisa |
Maatz |
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Tracy |
Sherman |
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Legislative Assistant, Rep. Shelley Berkley |
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Hedgepeth |
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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
H.R.493/S.358 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, in support of protecting individual privacy and freedom from discrimination; ADA Amendments Act of 2008, in support of ensuring coverage for those individuals under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
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 |
Lisa |
Maatz |
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Tracy |
Sherman |
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Legislative Assistant, Rep. Shelley Berkley |
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Anne |
Hedgepeth |
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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 ECN
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R.2965 Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive Act of 2007, in support of economic opportunities for women in developing countries; H.R.5140 Recovery Rebates and Economic Stimulus for the American People Act of 2008, in support of Senate version extending unemployment benefits and tax rebates to low-income workers and seniors; in support of stimulus legislation with extended unemployment insurance benefits, Food Stamps, nutrition assistance, prevention of cuts in Medicaid,
SCHIP, and other services, help with home energy costs, restoration of child support enforcement funding, prevention of Head Start cutbacks, summer jobs for unemployed youth, and school repair projects; H.R.3609 Emergency Home Ownership and Mortgage Equity Protection Act, in support of substitute legislation to help families repay mortgage debt.
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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Lisa |
Maatz |
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Tracy |
Sherman |
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Legislative Assistant, Rep. Shelley Berkley |
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Hedgepeth |
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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
H.R.4137/S.1642 College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 and the Higher Education Amendments of 2007, in support of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, increasing Pell grants, providing year round Pell grants, creating Mink fellowships, improving CCAMPIS program, repealing the higher education financial aid drug penalty, aligning hate crimes reporting on campus with the FBI, increased funding for STEM education for women and minorities, a cost study of providing aid to less than half-time
students, a FIPSE grant to create an inter-institutional monitoring organization that examines racial and gender equity; H.R.901/S.518 High School Athletics Accountability Act and High School Sports Information Collection Act, in support of the collection and dissemination of participation and expense data regarding high school athletics; No Child Left Behind reauthorization in House and Senate, in support of strengthening STEM education for minorities and girls, reauthorize the Women's Educational Equity Act, including provisions from H.R.901/S.518, reducing high stakes testing, making funding mandatory, expanding the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, including bullying and harassment provisions, and making science a required component of the adequate yearly progress measure under Title I; H.R.3514 Gender Bias Elimination Act, in support of programs for women and girls pertaining to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; support for legislation on women in STEM education; H.R.6314/H.R.6263 Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Act of 2008, in support of reducing the gender barriers at college and universities that often deter women from entering STEM fields; H.R.3289 Providing Resources Early for Kids Act, in support of federal investment in high-quality preschool programs; H.R.5774 Pathways Advancing Career Training Act, in support of increasing career and vocational training opportunities for underrepresented groups.
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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Lisa |
Maatz |
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Tracy |
Sherman |
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Legislative Assistant, Rep. Shelley Berkley |
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Anne |
Hedgepeth |
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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
H.R.819/S.21 Prevention First Act, providing for increased access to contraceptives, comprehensive sexual education, provision of emergency contraception to overseas military women, expansion of Medicare funding of family planning services; H.R.4054/S.2347 Prevention Through Affordable Access Act, in support of fixing the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to permit university health care centers and other safety net health care providers to receive nominally priced birth control; H.R1653/S.972 Responsible Education
About Life (REAL) Act, in support of federally funded comprehensive sexual education in schools.
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 |
Lisa |
Maatz |
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Tracy |
Sherman |
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Legislative Assistant, Rep. Shelley Berkley |
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Anne |
Hedgepeth |
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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 LBR
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R.2831/S.1843 Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and Fair Pay Restoration Act, S.3209 Title VII Fairness Act, S.2945 Fair Pay Act of 2008, in support of clarifying that each discriminatory paycheck is in fact another act of discrimination; H.R.1338/S.766 Paycheck Fairness Act, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to add nonretaliation requirements, increase penalties and authorize the Secretary of Labor to seek additional compensatory or punitive damages; S.1681 Family Leave Insurance Act of 2007,
in support of providing additional paid leave for family responsibilities; H.R.1542/S.910 Healthy Families Act, in support of providing paid sick days for all workers; work with regards to the Family Medical Leave Act; H.R.6029 Family Fairness Act, in support of eliminating the hours of service requirement for benefits under the Family and Medical Leave Act; H.R.5781/S.3140 Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act, in support of providing paid parental leave for federal employees.
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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Lisa |
Maatz |
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Tracy |
Sherman |
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Legislative Assistant, Rep. Shelley Berkley |
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Hedgepeth |
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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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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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