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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.

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16. Specific lobbying issues

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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.

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21. Client new principal place of business (if different than line 20)

22. New General description of client’s business or activities

LOBBYIST UPDATE

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ISSUE UPDATE

24. General lobbying issue that no longer pertains

AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS

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FOREIGN ENTITIES

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