Lobbyists vs Elected Reps: Lobbying a protected activity under the U.S. Constitution, guarantees rights to free speech, assembly, petition government:


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Executive Summary

“Lobbying is a protected activity under the U.S. Constitution that guarantees rights to free speech, assembly, and petition to government. Lobbying is a regulated industry.”

Senator John F. Kennedy, 1956

Photo by Maria Oswalt on Unsplash

 

Policy Needs

XXXX continues to evolve the policy needs of its clients in their implementation of Federal and State legislation and any changes to it. Founded in February 2011, XXXX has already received recognition for PERSONALIZED ATTENTION, INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS AND GUIDED EXPERTISE.

 

Capitol Hill Relationships

XXXX assess the client’s level of involvement on Capitol Hill and identifies how the current and potential actions of the government will relate to their organization. Applying this analysis, XXXX can produce solutions that are both innovative and pioneering for the organisation being represented.

 

Strategy Formulation

A two-party system requires the compromises that XXXX’s bi-partisan position and creativity on the client’s behalf can address with an entire spectrum of relationships including key influencers. The synergy generates comprehensive strategies for corporate, municipal and entrepreneurial entities with coinciding interests.

 

Precision Driven Research

Each federal branch works in collaboration to advance the interests of the citizens of the United States. This same philosophy is used to advance the interests of our clients. The XXXX precision driven research is the basis for a truly focused program that aims to fulfil the client’s hard business objectives.

 

Innovate Solutions

XXXX relate the client’s interest with that philosophy to generate a tailored tactical guide to the legislative/executive process. The results are predictable in part, and in another part, less predictable. Recalibrating the tactical guide when necessary maintains the client’s success level in any subsequent phases.

 

Clients Priorities

Each federal branch works in collaboration to advance the interests of the citizens of the United States. This same philosophy is used to advance the interests of our clients. We work with government leaders and our client to advance both sets of goals and objectives. Therefore, we view ourselves as a synergistic extension of our clients’ staff and attempt to become fully integrated in their organization. A long-term working relationship is the basis for a measurable-definable strategy.

Representation and advocacy at the Federal level on behalf of XXXX County

 

XXXX will provide XXXX County with strong representation on Capitol Hill through its team of Government Affairs Professionals. With decades of experience applied to ensure this Representation is effective and covers all the required channels.

 

 

Will depict and illustrate through demonstration the right legislation for XXXX County and exemplification when required. Deliver statements, raise complaints, make submissions and arguments for and against changes in policy to enable compliance when applying Governance in the management of XXXX County day-to-day operations.

 

 

Take account of these policy changes and what they portray to the citizens in XXXX County, since some policies can be taken two ways through lack of clarity in drafting. Therefore, the description and interpretation will be checked, and points raised for changes to ensure plain language and maximum understanding is the outcome.

 

 

XXXX will apply advocacy by supporting and encouraging through backing and sponsorship of changes in legislation that make it cost effective to implement by the administration in XXXX County. This might also require promotion, activism and opposition to new legislation or changes to current legistration that would make it difficult to enforce or not cost effective to implement.

 

Work with industry bodies (for example, Chamber of commerce) to ensure legislation benefits business and helps employment prospects for those living in XXXX County.  This in turn would hopefully help reduce travel and road congestion.

 

Capitol Hill Players

Members of Congress and their staffs – XXXX track their politics and if they are left, centre or right of their party. What issues they follow and take an interest in and how they respond to changes requested. Who in their staff will be best to contact and get an idea on their response times against current workload or is it better to go through the committee.

 

Congressional committees – Members and Chairperson are tracked and their political leaning and outcomes to date that have been positive and negative for XXXX County. This sets the scene for the approach to lobbying and the outcomes sought.   

 

Executive departments – They need to be covered and relationships established to discover who lobbies them and what the outcomes have been. What is the current head of the department interested in and what are the relationships with Congressional committees and Members of Congress. They control their own department budgets and pass regulations that have undiscovered outcomes until they are implemented and been used.

 

Private sector parties – Most of these are trade bodies whose members are affected by new or changes to existing legislation. Their interested in compliance at the minimum cost to their members. Regulation that comes from this legislation is State and Federal controlled.

 

Also, communities in XXXX County will complain to the administration about how regulation is affecting them, and it might be mostly negative or positive and caused by the industry participants. (For example, Waste Water into local rivers causing contamination affecting river beds, plants and fish). This is easy to see and understand, but other times it might be mining work with heavy road traffic causing both congestion and noise.

 

Tracking and responding to Legislation

Drafting legislative language – XXXX will respond when changes to proposed legislation are required by drafting the changes in the right language. This will account for the interests of people, businesses and XXXX County council staff when implementing the legislation.

 

Arranging and attending relevant hearings and meetings – By doing this XXXX gets to known, the interests of those in Congress and from their research put their points across that will be accepted at the hearings and meetings.

 

Also, which staffers are open to changes and how to put the case over and gain their acceptance for the change in the legislation and this will enable them to present and propose the change to their member of Congress to gain their support for the change in legislation. Interpretation along the chain can make it easy or make it hard and may require clarification to obtain agreement.

 

Collecting and analysing relevant documents – The experience XXXX has gained over decades of doing this comes out in their understanding and what the Legislation outcomes will cause and the messages it gives to its readers. It gives the opportunity to raise questions before the Legislation is passed into Law and refer to other legislation that might be affected or made irrelevant.

 

Devising a legislative strategy best suited to the needs of XXXX County

XXXX prepare for this by checking the demographics and types of businesses in XXXX County and the occupations of those living there. This is then mapped to the Acts and pending Legislation known about.


Then an analysis is performed on the effects of the Legislation and given a weighting from 1 to 10. Any in 8 to 10 are examined to see if any changes might reduce costs (for example, getting farmers to buy together or not use pesticides that cause problems to the environment or waterways).

 

Other steps might be to encourage all households to use rain water tanks and farmers to look at Biomass, since the Chinese Government is encouraging all Farmers to do it.  Another approach might be to change Local Legislation which follows the Federal Legislation but allows wider scope in how it can be implemented.  

 

This is another part of the XXXX service that will benefit XXXX County be welcome by the businesses and people. Nearly everybody is affected by legislation during their life and businesses generally feel it every year. Trade Agreements being of concern to manufacturers and how their waste is handled and some of it recycled to be used again in new products and/or services.

 

Again, implementation of the legislation is the key and the transforming it from the Federal level to the Local level to reach a bottom line improvement for businesses and the community supported by the XXXX County Council. This might need changes in legislation to be requested and supported by the language in the drafting by XXXX.


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