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S. 3186-Constitutional Accountability Act-Issues Lobbied: Federal Law Enforcement Accountability, Policing Reform. S. 3674-SCAM Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. S. 3699-FOCUS Act-Issues Lobbied: Body Cam Legislation, Civil Liberties. S. 3805-End Sanctuary Cities Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Attacks on State and Local Governments. S. 558-Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech. S. 4199-Youth AI Privacy Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech. S. 3803-Right to Redress Act-Issues Lobbied: Policing Reform. S. 4143-Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Prison Reform. S .545-Combating Illicit Xylazine Act-Issues Lobbied: Drug Sentencing, Mass Incarceration. S. 1572-Federal Carjacking Enforcement Act-Issues Lobbied: Sentencing, Mass Incarceration. S. 3869-Healthy Families Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. S. 4081-Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. S. 51-Washington, D.C. Admission Act- Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 14-John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 12-Womens Health Protection Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. H.R. 28-Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 2487-Transgender Health Care Access Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 1954-Do No Harm Act-Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty. H.R. 22-SAVE Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 1-One Big Beautiful Bill Act-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic Justice (Reconciliation Package/AI moratorium). H.R. 15-Equality Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 3492-Protect Childrens Innocence Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 3708-No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 5068-MORE Act-Issues Lobbied: Marijuana Decriminalization. H.R. 59-Mens Rea Reform Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Sentencing Reform. H.R. 4889-To prohibit States from carrying out more than one Congressional redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 4358-Anti-Rigging Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 5507-Hidden Foster Care Transparency Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. H.R. 498-Do No Harm in Medicaid Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 4518-Cooper Davis and Devin Norring Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy. H.R. 3921-STOP CSAM Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy. H.R. 6291-Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R. 2683-Remote Access Security Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R. 4831-ENFORCE Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R. 6397-Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration Detention. H.R. 4611-EACH Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. H.R. 6091-Bivens Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Policing Reform, Federal Law Enforcement Accountability. H.R. 4250-PRESS Act-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. H.R. 7661-Stop the Sexualization of Children Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights, Free Speech. H.R. 7651-Chloe Cole Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 1028-Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 2616-PROTECT Kids Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 2617-Say No to Indoctrination Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights, Free Speech. H.Res. 1058-Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights to protect and codify the rights of transgender and nonbinary people under the law and ensure their access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.Res. 965-Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1689) to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status-Issues Lobbied: Temporary Protected Status. H.R. 7816-Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Section 702. H.R. 7901-To implement reforms relating to foreign intelligence surveillance authorities, and for other purposes-Issues Lobbied: Section 702. H.R. 4076-Insurrection Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Insurrection Act reform. H.R. 7147-Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, Abuse of Power, ICE and Border Patrol Accountability, Election Interference. H.Con.Res. 38-Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, War Authority. H.R. 7296-SAVE America Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Transgender Rights. H.R. 1958-Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. H.R. 7744-Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. H.R. 7423-No Sanctuary Cities Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Attacks on State and Local Governments. H.R. 7148-Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. H.R. 7161-No Private Bounty Hunters for Immigration Enforcement Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. H.R. 7709-Full-Body Restraint Prohibition Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. H.R. 7930-Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Press Freedom. H.R. 7691-Fight Book Bans Act- Issues Lobbied: Free Speech. H.R. 1007-Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech. H.R. 3149-App Store Accountability Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy. H.R. 6453-ADA 30 Days to Comply Act-Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights. H.R. 2029-Stop Comstock Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. H.R. 5973-Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act-Issues Lobbied: Federal Policing Reform; H.R .7125-Stop Body Camera Paywalls Act-Issues Lobbied: Policing Reform. H.R. 2853-Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Sentencing, Mass Incarceration. H.R. 1266-Combating Illicit Xylazine Act-Issues Lobbied: Drug Sentencing, Mass Incarceration. H.R. 7247-Prison Libraries Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Prison Reform. H.R. 8175-To amend title 10, United States Code, and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994, to codify and clarify gender neutral standards for members of certain Armed Forces, and for other purposes-Issues Lobbies: Womens Rights, Women in Combat. H.R. 7531-Healthy Families Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. H.R. 7856-Fair Housing for Survivors Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. H.R. 7917-Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. H.R. 7300-Make Elections Great Again Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 7621-Stop ICE Election Militarization Act-Issues Lobbied: Election Interference. H.R. 51-Washington, D.C. Admission Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. 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Agency - Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: Section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, related legislation and hearings, civil liberties and national security issues. Agency - Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: NIH data sharing platform, privacy, disability rights, abortion access for unaccompanied minors in ORR custody, access to mifepristone. Agency - Federal Communications Commission - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment violations, FCC commissioner pressuring private companies in violation of First Amendment. Agency - Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, prison conditions, PREA, Executive Order 14164: Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety - state opt in for certification, state lethal injection protocols covered by the EO. 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To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to issue rules for cancelled covered solicitations, to amend the Small Business Act to provide assistance to small business concerns relating to certain cancelled solicitations, and for other purposes. Support. H.R.1804 - 7(a) Loan Agent Oversight Act. To amend the Small Business Act to require a report on 7(a) agents, and for other purposes. Support. H.R.1816 - WOSB Accountability Act. To establish requirements relating to certification of small business concerns owned and controlled by women for certain purposes, and for other purposes. Support. S.202 - Helping Small Businesses To Hedge Risk and Insure against Volatile Expenses (THRIVE) Act. To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a program to allow small business concerns to purchase certain commodities futures, and for other purposes. Support. H.R.1 - One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 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H.R. 6855 - White House Conference on Small Business Act. To reauthorize the White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act, and for other purposes. Support. H.R.6453 - ADA 30 Days to Comply Act. To amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to provide for a remediation period before the commencement of a civil action. H.R.5371 - Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026. This bill provides continuing FY2026 appropriations for federal agencies, provides additional funding for security for federal officials, and extends various expiring programs and authorities. H.R.6855 - White House Conference on Small Business Act of 2025.To reauthorize the White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act. S.3971 - Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act. To extend the SBIR and STTR programs. S.4038 - Small Business Liberation 2.0 Act. 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