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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
2. Address
Address1 | 218 D STREET SE |
Address2 | 1st Floor |
City | WASHINGTON |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20003 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 38814-12
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2009 |
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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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: Richard Trilsch, Administrative Director |
Date | 04/20/2009 |
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
Fair Elections Now Act, H.R. 1826, S. 752, S.751; E.L.E.C.T Act, H.R. 899; Student Voter Act, H.R. 6704; Voter Registration Modernization Campaign-Bill number to be assigned
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 |
Gilbert |
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Gary |
Kalman |
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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 TRA
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.Con.Res 85 - Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2010 - all provisions, S.Con.Res 13 - Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2010; S.1 and HR 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - all provisions pertaining to transportation; Congressional authorization of the federal surface transportation funding bill - not yet introduced (all provisions)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Transportation - Dept of (DOT)
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 |
John |
Krieger |
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Gary |
Kalman |
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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 COM
16. Specific lobbying issues
HR 1147, S. 592 Low Power FM, A bill to implement the recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM service.
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 |
Amina |
Fazlullah |
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Gary |
Kalman |
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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 TEC
16. Specific lobbying issues
Universal Service Fund Reform, National Broadband Strategy; Online Privacy; HR. 1 ARRA, Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)
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 |
Amina |
Fazlullah |
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Gary |
Kalman |
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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 CHM
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Act of 2008 (HR 5577in 110th Congress; not yet introduced in 111th), all titles; support Kid Safe Chemicals Act (HR 6100; S3040 in 110th ; not yet introduced in 111th) all titles; support measures to ban or restrict use of Bisphenol A (HR 1523; S.593; S753); support reinstatement of reporting requirements in Toxic Release Inventory
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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 |
Elizabeth |
Hitchcock |
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Gary |
Kalman |
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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 CSP
16. Specific lobbying issues
Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act (PL 110-314); Supported efforts to implement new Consumer Product Safety Commission Improvement Act, add resources, regulate dangerous and/or toxic products. Provided comments to hill, signed letters, lobbied on all aspects of legislation and proposed regulations pertaining to reform. Testified in previous quarters. Specific new law is PL 110-314 (HR 4040, Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act).
2) Supported efforts, Medical Device Safety Act (S. 540, HR 1346) to overturn Supreme Court decision in Riegel v. Medtronic limiting state common law remedies against certain medical device manufacturers. 3) Broadly support all other efforts to preserve consumer private rights of action and to oppose preemption of stronger state consumer financial or health and safety laws.
OTHER ACTIVITIES: Supported various efforts to protect consumers from unfair business or marketplace practices by signing letters, lobbying or commenting on various proposals: 1) Mandatory Arbitration: Support (letters) for HR 1020, the Arbitration Fairness Act to ban mandatory arbitration in consumer laws. 2) Opposed (letter) S. 202 and S. 164, the "Passenger Vehicle Loss Disclosure Act of 2009" 3) Letters limited to opposition to elimination of inequitable conduct defense in the Patent Reform Act (S 515, HR 1260), to encourage generic substitutes for brand name pharmaceuticals. 4) Opposition to the Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act, S 738, HR 1744, which would legalize unfair practices of predatory rent to own stores. 5) Supported aspects of Federal Aviation Administration reforms pertaining to Airline Passengers Bill of Rights (HR 915, FAA Reauthorization) 5) Support strong enforcement of antitrust laws, including opposition to merger of Ticketmaster and LiveNation (testimony in House).
PRIVACY: Support efforts to ensure that federal law provides consumers with strong privacy protection, prevents identity theft, and holds companies and government agencies accountable when they lose consumer data. Support includes lobbying, letters, and communications as necessary.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Federal Reserve System, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Treasury - Dept of, Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC)
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 |
Elizabeth |
Hitchcock |
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Gary |
Kalman |
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Edmund |
Mierzwinski |
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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 ENV
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support reauthorization of Superfund polluter pays tax.
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 |
Elizabeth |
Hitchcock |
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Gary |
Kalman |
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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 BAN
16. Specific lobbying issues
1) Reform Credit Card Practices. Provided comments to hill, signed letters, lobbied on all aspects of legislation and proposed regulations pertaining to reform of unfair practices of credit card industry. Testified in House. Bills include S 414, Credit CARD Act; HR 627, Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights Act;
2) Reform Mortgage Practices and Reform Financial Services Regulation. Provided comments to hill, signed letters, lobbied on all aspects of legislation and proposed regulations pertaining to reform of mortgage and predatory lending. Bills included HR 1728 and HR 1782 on mortgage reform, supporting in part and opposing in part.
3) Provided comments to hill, signed letters, lobbied on all aspects of legislation and proposed regulations pertaining to reform of financial industry by establishment of Financial Product Safety Commission, S. 566 and HR 1705 and other reforms.
4) Support efforts against unfair bank fees, including support for HR 1456, the Consumer Overdraft Protection Fair Practices Act (testified in House).
5) Support reinstatement of federal usury ceilings on financial transactions (S. 500/HR 1608).
6) Support efforts to implement strong consumer and transparency protections in regulations and enforcement of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (HR 1424-Division A, became PL 110-343) and related bills. Supported bills including HR 384 and S 195 to reform the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and other programs established either by EESA or by federal regulators concerning financial reform and bailout funding. These and other similar bills would restore original purposes of bailout funds, increase transparency, limit executive compensation, grant greater authority to oversight agencies, etc.
7) Supported Section 626 of HR 1105 (Omnibus Appropriations) to grant greater authority to FTC and state attorneys general to better protect consumers against financial fraud and impose greater sanctions against wrongdoers.
Regarding the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), specifically additional oversight and transparency measures. S.195 (initially) in the Senate, but meeting were more generally focused on more robust measures that have yet to be introduced.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC), Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), Natl Credit Union Administration (NCUA), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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 |
Edmund |
Mierzwinski |
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Gary |
Kalman |
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Larry |
McNeely |
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Nicole |
Tichon |
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L.A. with Rep. Sisisky; Leg. Corresp. w./ Sen. Levin |
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 BNK
16. Specific lobbying issues
1) Restructure Mortgages in Bankruptcy: Provided comments to hill, signed letters, lobbied on all aspects of legislation and proposed regulations pertaining to reform Supported efforts to enact strongest possible provisions to allow bankruptcy judges to restructure first mortgages. Bills included S 61, HR 200 and HR 1106. 2) Support efforts to repeal/amend 2005 bankruptcy law (PL 109-8) restrictions on consumer rights. Testimony in House.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC), Federal Reserve System
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 |
Edmund |
Mierzwinski |
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Gary |
Kalman |
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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
Comprehensive Health Reform; Inclusion of Health Care reform in 2009 budget resolutions.
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 |
Larry |
McNeely |
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Kalman |
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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
Higher Education Opportunity Act regulatory; Title IV student aid - Issues related to lender interactions with students; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - issues related to the Pell grant; House Concurrent Resolution on the Budget - issues related to the Pell grant; Senate Concurrent Resolution on the Budget - issues related to the Pell grant; Higher Education Opportunity Act regulatory - Title IV student aid, issues related to lender solicitations of private loans
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Education - Dept of, Federal Reserve System
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 |
Richard |
Williams |
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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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