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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 | 111 K Street, NE |
Address2 | Suite 700 |
City | WASHINGTON |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20002-8110 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 27467-12
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6. House ID# 303670000
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2021 |
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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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: Max Richtman |
Date | 7/20/2021 4:15:01 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
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies appropriations for Fiscal Year 2022 (No bill number): provisions pertaining to appropriations for the Social Security Administrations operating budget including support for the Presidents funding level, restoration of statement mailings to all workers, providing sufficient funds for field offices, concerns regarding SSA administering the paid family leave program and prohibition of funding for implementation of SSA regulations regarding the use of Administrative Appeals Judges in the hearing process, Older Americans Act programs, State Health Insurance Assistance Program funding, the Community Service Employment program, and the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Treasury - Dept of, Social Security Administration (SSA)
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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Richtman |
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Adcock |
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Lisa |
Swirsky |
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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
Additional Coronavirus Health Care Relief. Advancing Connectivity during the Coronavirus to Ensure Support for Seniors (ACCESS) Act, S. 57 and H.R. 596: Proposals to authorize an emergency supplemental appropriation of $50 million for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Telehealth Resource Center to assist nursing facilities receiving funding through Medicare or Medicaid in expanding their use of telehealth services; establish a grant program authorizing HHS to award grants to nursing facilities to enable residents to participate in virtual visits with loved ones while the health risk of in-person visits remains high during the pandemic; and require the Secretary of HHS to issue guidance on additional ways to improve access to telehealth services in nursing facilities during the pandemic.
Medicare Observation Stays. The Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2021, H.R. 3650 and S. 2048: Proposals to count time spent in observation status toward the three-day prior inpatient stay required under Medicare for coverage of a subsequent stay in a skilled nursing facility.
Drug Costs. Fair Accountability and Innovative Research Drug Pricing Act, S. 898: Proposal to require drug manufacturers to notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and submit a transparency and justification report 30 days before they increase the price of certain drugs that cost at least $100 by more than 10 percent in one year or 25 percent over three years. The report will require manufacturers to provide a justification for each price increase; manufacturing, research and development costs for the qualifying drug; net profits attributable to the qualifying drug; marketing and advertising spending on the qualifying drug; and other information as deemed appropriate.
Medicaid Financing. Coronavirus Medicaid Response Act, S. 439 and H.R. 1353: Proposal to establish an automatic connection between the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) and state unemployment levels to fund Medicaid and its providers during difficult economic times.
COVID Drug Database. The Taxpayer Research and Coronavirus Knowledge Act of 2021, H.R. 1391 and S. 482: Proposals to require a single user-friendly database of federal biomedical investments in COVID-19 vaccines, drugs, therapies, medical devices, or other products.
Medicare Prescription Drugs. The Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, H.R. 3: Proposals to allow Medicare to negotiate prices with drug makers, cap prices at inflation in Part B and D, cap beneficiary out-of-pocket costs in Part D.
Medicare Hearing Coverage. The Medicare Hearing Aid Coverage Act of 2021 (H.R. 1118): Proposal to expand Medicare coverage to include hearing aids and services for seniors under Part B of the Medicare program.
Medicare Disability Wait. (No bill) Stop the Wait Act: Proposal to eliminate two provisions that delay the start of both Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare benefits for disabled individuals, making the commencement of benefits contemporaneous with the decision that a person is disabled.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Administration on Aging, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
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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Richtman |
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Adcock |
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Swirsky |
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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 RET
16. Specific lobbying issues
Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA). Fair COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) for Seniors Act, H.R. 4315: Proposal to adopt the Consumer Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E) for the purpose of determining COLAs for Social Security beneficiaries.
Social Security Expansion. (No bill): Proposals to improve benefits and to strengthen Social Security's financing by altering the payroll tax cap, among other changes.
Caregiver Social Security Credits. Social Security Caregiver Credits Act, H.R. 3632 and S. 1955: Proposal to provide Social Security wage credits for individuals who reduce their participation in the workforce or leave the workforce to provide care to specified family members and relatives.
Social Security Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision, H.R. 82 and S. 1302, and the Social Security Fairness Act of 2021 and H.R. 2337, the Public Servants Protection and Fairness Act of 2021: Proposals to repeal or modify the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision.
Social Security Notch. (No bill): Proposals to ensure that Social Security benefits for individuals born in 1960 and 1961 are not reduced as a result of coronavirus-related drop in the average wage index.
Emergency COVID-19 Payment to Social Security Beneficiaries and Others. (No bill): Proposal to provide a monthly payment to all Social Security, Veterans, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries through the end of 2021.
Protecting Seniors from Garnishment. (No bill): Proposal to protect Social Security beneficiaries from having their Social Security benefits garnished to recover unpaid student loans.
Eligibility for Economic Impact Payment. (No bill): Ensuring the Treasury Department and the Social Security Administration made Social Security, SSI and Veterans beneficiaries automatically eligible to receive Economic Impact Payments as required by the American Rescue Plan Act (P.L. 117-2).
Social Security Disability Insurance Claim Adjudication. H.J. Res. 38: Joint resolution nullifies the rule finalized by the Social Security Administration on November 16, 2020, that outlines when its administrative appeals judges may hold hearings and issue decisions on individual cases. Currently, these judges serve an appellate function where they review, at the request of Social Security claimants, the decisions of the administrative law judges who issue decisions in individual cases.
Social Security Overpayments. (No bill): Proposals to protect retirees, survivors and people with disabilities from being forced to repay extra Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits they received because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Strengthening Beneficiaries Rights. (No bill): Various proposals relating to the protection and rights available to Social Security and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries.
Social Security Benefit Statements. Know your Social Security Act, H.R. 4143 and S. 2204: Legislation to implement section 1143 of the Social Security Act by clarifying the Social Security Administration is required to mail annual benefit statements to all workers over age 25.
Supplemental Social Security (SSI) Program. Supplemental Social Security Income Restoration Act, H.R. 3824 and S. 2065: Legislation to strengthen and restore the Social Security Income (SSI) program.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Social Security Administration (SSA), Administration on Aging, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Treasury - Dept of
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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Richtman |
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Adcock |
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Lisa |
Swirsky |
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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
Social Security and Medicare Trust Fund Committees. The Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act, S. Amdt. 803 to S. Con. Res. 5: Proposals to set a process to require Congress to consider recommendations made by committees created by this legislation that would likely include plans to cut Social Security and Medicare 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 |
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Richtman |
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Adcock |
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Swirsky |
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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
Age Discrimination. The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act, H.R. 2062 and S. 880: Proposal to restore the standard of proof in age discrimination cases to the pre-2009 level, and treat age discrimination as unjust as other forms of employment discrimination.
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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Swirsky |
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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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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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