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
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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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