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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
2. Address
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25 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Suite 330
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WASHINGTON
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20001
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USA
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5. Senate ID#
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6. House ID#
300530000
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year |
2011
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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 from 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. | ||||||||
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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Digitally Signed By: Julie Kirchner, Executive Director
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Date |
10/19/2011
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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
See attached.
H.R.704 Rep. Goodlatte, Bob (R-VA) - SAFE for America Act (Provisions that would amend
the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program.)
H.R.800 Rep. Carter, John R. (R-TX) - Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American
Workforce Act of 2011 (Provisions that would amend the Illegal Immigration Reform
and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to make the E-Verify Program (Program) permanent
and mandatory.)
H.R.1473 Rep. Rogers, Harold (R-KY) - Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2011 (Provisions that would: 1. decrease appropriations for United
States Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), including for processing applications
for asylum and refugee status and for the E-Verify Program. 2. Increase appropriations
to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for salaries and expenses, but decreases
funding for automation modernization and eliminates appropriations for construction.
3. Decrease appropriations for the National Protection and Programs Directorate for
management and administration, infrastructure protection and information security,
and United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT).
H.R. 1505 Rep. Bishop, Rob (R-UT) National Security and Federal Lands Protection
Act (Provisions that would prevent the Departments of Interior and Agriculture from
impeding or restricting activities of the Border Patrol on federal lands undertaken
to achieve operational control of the border.)
H.R. 1741 Rep. Smith, Lamar (R-TX) - Secure Visas Act (Provisions that would amend
the Homeland Security Act to grant the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) (Secretary),
except for the Secretary of State's authority with respect to diplomatic- and international
organization-related visas, exclusive authority to issue regulations, establish policy,
and administer and enforce the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)
and all other immigration or nationality laws relating to U.S. consular officer visa
functions.)
H.R.1822 Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana (R-CA) - No Health Care Subsidies for Illegal Aliens
Act of 2011 (Provisions to amend title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act to provide for appropriate procedures under such title for verification of
citizenship status.)
H.R.1842 Rep. Berman Howard (D-CA) - Development, Relief, and Education for Alien
Minors Act of 2011 (DREAM ACT) (Provisions that authorizes the Secretary of Homeland
Security (DHS) to cancel the removal of, and adjust to the status of an alien lawfully
admitted for permanent residence on a conditional basis, an alien who: (1) entered
the United States on or before his or her 15th birthday and has been present in the
United States for at least five years immediately preceding this Act's enactment,
(2) is a person of good moral character, (3) is not inadmissible under specified grounds
of the Immigration and Nationality Act, (4) has been admitted to an institution of
higher education (IHE) in the United States or has earned a high school diploma or
general education development certificate in the United States, and (5) was age 32
or younger on the date of this Act's enactment.)
H.R.1932 Rep. Smith, Lamar (R-TX) - Keep Our Communities Safe Act of 2011 (Provisions
that amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow the Secretary of Homeland
Security (DHS) to detain indefinitely, subject to six-month review, an alien under
orders of removal who cannot be removed, if: (1) the alien will be removed in the
reasonably foreseeable future; (2) the alien would have been removed but for the alien's
refusal to cooperate with the Secretary's identification and removal efforts; (3)
the alien has a highly contagious disease that poses a public safety threat; (4) release
would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences; (5) release would threaten
national security; (6) release would threaten the safety of the community or any person
and the alien has been convicted of either one or more aggravated felonies or crimes
of violence and, because of a mental or personality condition, is likely to engage
in future acts of violence; or (7) release would threaten the safety of the community
or any person and the alien has been convicted of one or more aggravated felonies.)
H.R.1933 Rep. Smith, Lamar (R-TX) - To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act
to modify the requirements for admission of nonimmigrant nurses in health professional
shortage areas. (Provisions that would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act regarding
the admission of nonimmigrant nurses in health professional shortage areas to: (1)
permit a one-time three-year extension of admission, and (2) reduce the maximum number
of such visas per fiscal year to 300.)
H.R.2017 Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. (R-AL) - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations
Act, 2012 (Provisions that would (1) make appropriations for FY2012 for: United States
Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including for automation modernization, border
security fencing, infrastructure, and technology, air and marine interdiction, operations,
maintenance, and procurement, and construction and facilities management; United
States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including for reimbursement of other
agencies for costs associated with the repatriation of smuggled aliens unlawfully
present in the United States, prioritizing the identification and removal of aliens
convicted of a crime by the severity of that crime, and automation modernization.
(2) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act: (1) in contravention of
a provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of
1996 restricting any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from,
the responsible federal immigration agency information regarding the citizenship or
immigration status of any individual; (2) to parole an alien into the United States,
or to grant deferred action of a final order of removal, for any reason other than
on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.)
H.R.2164 Rep. Smith, Lamar (R-TX) - Legal Workforce Act (Provisions that would amend
the current employment eligibility verification process all employers must use to
ensure their workers are legal. (INA 274A; 8 U.S.C. 1324a) The bill maintains the
existing framework for the employment eligibility verification process (including
the I-9), but also makes important changes, such as mandating E-Verify and increasing
penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens or fail to use E-Verify.
H.R.2164 also preempts states from imposing civil or criminal penalties on employers
who knowingly hire illegal aliens or fail to use E-Verify. The bill does permit states
to exercise their licensing authority to penalize employers for failure to use E-Verify.)
H.R.2497 Rep. Smith, Lamar (R-TX) - HALT Act, Hinder the Administrations Legalization
Temptation Act (Provisions that would suspend the Obama Administrations ability to
grant administrative amnesty to illegal aliens.)
H.R.2847 Rep. Smith, Lamar (R-TX) - American Specialty Agriculture Act (Provisions
that creates a new guest worker program to import agricultural workers. The bill
seeks to replace the existing H-2A visa program, an agricultural guest worker program
created in 1986 as part of under the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA).
H.R.2885 Rep. Smith, Lamar (R-TX) - Legal Workforce Act (Provisions that Amends
the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS)
to establish an employment eligibility verification system (EEVS), patterned after
the E-Verify system. (Eliminates the current paper-based I-9 system.)
H.R.2895 Rep. Lungren, Dan (R-CA) - Legal Workforce Act (Provisions that would create
a large new agricultural guest worker program in addition to existing guest worker
programs, also would create a new W visa program to admit foreign agricultural labor
as an alternative to both the current H-2A guest worker program. )
S.723 Sen. Vitter, David (R-LA) - Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 (Provisions
that would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to consider a person born in
the United States "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States for citizenship
at birth purposes only if the person is born in the United States of parents, one
of whom is: (1) a U.S. citizen or national, (2) a lawful permanent resident alien
whose residence is in the United States, or (3) an alien performing active service
in the U.S. Armed Forces.)
S.952 Sen. Durbin, Richard (D-IL) - Development, Relief, and Education for Alien
Minors Act of 2011 (DREAM ACT) (Provisions that authorizes the Secretary of Homeland
Security (DHS) to cancel the removal of, and adjust to the status of an alien lawfully
admitted for permanent residence on a conditional basis, an alien who: (1) entered
the United States on or before his or her 15th birthday and has been present in the
United States for at least five years immediately preceding this Act's enactment,
(2) is a person of good moral character, (3) is not inadmissible under specified grounds
of the Immigration and Nationality Act, (4) has been admitted to an institution of
higher education (IHE) in the United States or has earned a high school diploma or
general education development certificate in the United States, and (5) was age 32
or younger on the date of this Act's enactment.)
S.1196 Sen. Grassley, Chuck (R-IA) - Accountability Through Electronic Verification
Act (Provisions that would make E-Verify program permanent and amends the Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA) of 1996 to change the
programs name from a pilot program to E-Verify.)
S.1380 Sen. Vitter, David (R-LA) - HALT Act, Hinder the Administrations Legalization
Temptation Act (Provisions that suspends until January 21, 2013, the Attorney Generals
(DOJ) authority regarding: (1) waiver of inadmissibility of aliens unlawfully present
in the United States; (2) cancellation of removal and adjustment of status for certain
non-permanent residents; (3) parole authority, except for parole entries for humanitarian,
law enforcement, or security purposes; and (4) designation of a country for temporary
protected status.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, White House Office
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Julie
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Kirchner
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Sarah
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Dansereau
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Amanda
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Carroll
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.
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LOBBYIST UPDATE
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ISSUE UPDATE
24. General lobbying issue that no longer pertains
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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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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