NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE for NETWORK
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What was lobbied
15 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Budget/Appropriations BUD
NETWORK Lobby urges Congress to pass FY25 appropriation bills that invest in the protection of the planet and in vulnerable people so all can thrive. We call for increased funding for housing, healthcare, election protection assistance, job training, and community support for returning citizens. NETWORK opposes increased funding for the military and wasteful border militarization.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RONNATE ASIRWATHAM | — |
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties CIV
Free and fair elections are the hallmark of our democracy. NETWORK strongly supports the following bills: the Support Our Election Workers Act which responds to the critical need to improve the support and retention of election workers; the Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act which responds to the ongoing need to expand protections for election workers and strengthens protections for election infrastructure; the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. NETWORK opposes H.R. 4563 - the American Confidence in Elections Act.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LAURA TRACY PERALTA-SCHULTE | — |
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products CSP
None to date.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LAURA TRACY PERALTA-SCHULTE | Senior Government Relations Advocate |
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption FAM
NETWORK strongly supports the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act which includes the following individual bills: 1. Make critical investments in social determinants of health that influence maternal health outcomes, like housing, transportation, and nutrition. 2. Extend WIC eligibility in the postpartum and breastfeeding periods. 3. Provide funding to community-based organizations that are working to improve maternal health outcomes and promote equity. 4. Increase funding for programs to improve maternal health care for veterans. 5. Grow and diversify the perinatal workforce to ensure that every mom in America receives maternal health care and support from people they trust. 6. Improve data collection processes and quality measures to better understand the causes of the maternal health crisis in the United States and inform solutions to address it. 7. Support moms with maternal mental health conditions and substance use disorders. NETWORK also supports passage of a fully refundable, inclusive, monthly Child Tax Credit to reduce child poverty in America. NETWORK supports supplemental spending for WIC and for childcare services.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LAURA TRACY PERALTA-SCHULTE | — |
| JARRETT SMITH | — |
Foreign Relations FOR
NETWORK strongly supports the reauthorization of the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. governments signature global health effort in the fight against HIV, which has saved tens of millions of lives saved over the past 20 years. NETWORK urges the Biden Administration to include the following provisions in all new trade agreements: facility-specific, rapid-response labor enforcement tools and include penalties for labor rights violations; binding requirements for countries to meet their Paris climate obligations backed with facility-specific enforcement tools; right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through sustainable methods and local inputs and removal of rules on intellectual property rights that prevent farmers from saving and sharing seeds; no new digital trade rules that include secrecy guarantees that restrict pre-screening or general review of algorithms or source code for racial biases, gender biases, labor law violations, and other potential abuses.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LAURA TRACY PERALTA-SCHULTE | — |
Health Issues HCR
The Catholic faith teaches that healthcare is a human right and thus all people deserve access to quality, affordable care. NETWORK supports MOMNIBUS legislation to end the Black Maternal health crisis in America. NETWORK rejects the Limit, Save, Grow Act which would put over 10 million Medicaid expansion enrollees - more than 1 in 5 of all Medicaid enrollees in expansion states - at risk of losing Medicaid coverage under the policy. New requirements would cause many low-income adults to lose coverage due to bureaucratic hurdles that dont reflect the complexity of peoples circumstances, as failed experiments in several states show.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LAURA TRACY PERALTA-SCHULTE | — |
Homeland Security HOM
NETWORK strongly opposes H.R. 2794, the Border Reinforcement Act of 2023. NETWORK strongly opposes HR 2, Secure the Border Act of 2023 NETWORK opposes increased funding for militarization of the US border through the Homeland Security appropriations bill or any supplemental funding request. NETWORK opposes the Laken-Riley Bill.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RONNATE ASIRWATHAM New | — |
Housing HOU
NETWORK Lobby strongly supports increased vouchers for families and individuals to access housing in FY 25 Appropriation packages. NETWORK Lobby strongly supports "Yes in God's Backyard" (S. 3910) which would provide technical assistance and grants for faith-based organizations, institutions of higher education, and local governments to increase the supply of affordable rental housing, and for other purposes. NETWORK Lobby supports the Home Act which creates a public option to meet the needs of people and communities that arent being served by the private market. These new options would be supported by a housing development authority, which will function as a public bank and developer and work directly with state, local and Tribal governmental agencies, mission-driven nonprofits, community land trusts and public housing authorities to build, rehabilitate, and maintain millions of sustainable, permanently affordable homes.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JARRETT SMITH New | — |
Immigration IMM
NETWORK strongly supports President Biden's Executive Order providing healthcare to DACA recipients. NETWORK strongly supports President Biden's Executive Order providing access to work visas and other supports to citizen spouses. NETWORK strongly supports Temporary Protective Status to persons from Central America, Haiti, Palestine, Ukraine, Venezula and Sudan. NETWORK strongly opposes increased militarization at the border. NETWORK strongly opposes HR 2, Secure the Border Act of 2023.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RONNATE ASIRWATHAM New | — |
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR
NETWORK strongly supports the extension of paid medical and family leave for all workers. NETWORK strongly supports PRO Act so that all workers have a rights to organize and form a union. NETWORK strongly supports an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit so that no worker is taxed INTO poverty. NETWORK supports the Biden Administration's proposed rule to increase nursing home standards. This will save lives and provide greater dignity for low-paid workers.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JARRETT SMITH New | — |
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice LAW
NETWORK strongly supports returning citizens to receive SNAP and TANF to support reintegration. We seek for the RESTORE ACT to in the Farm Bill. NETWORK strongly supports the Equal Act to end sentencing disparities between cocaine and crack cocaine. NETWORK strongly supports the MORE Act which provides robust sentencing reform for those incarcerated for the sale of marijuana. We also support the bill's provisions which invest in communities targeted in the "war on drugs."
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LAURA TRACY PERALTA-SCHULTE | — |
Medicare/Medicaid MMM
NETWORK strongly supports all efforts to strengthen Medicaid. This is the nation's largest health program and is critical to support life. We call on all states to expand Medicaid immediately. NETWORK strongly supports all states extending 12 month pre and post-natal health coverage for all pregnant persons and new mothers. NETWORK strongly support the Biden Administration effort to implement the Inflation Reduction Act requiring price negotiations for drug sales to Medicare.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LAURA TRACY PERALTA-SCHULTE | — |
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX
NETWORK Lobby strongly supports efforts to ensure that the wealthy and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes. This includes support for: Robust funding for the Internal Revenue Service to allow the agency to ensure the wealthy and corporation meet their tax obligations. Support for the Billionaire Minimum Tax Support for closing the carried interest tax loophole. Opposition to the extension of the Trump Tax Cuts which overwhelmingly provided tax relief to the wealthy and corporations. Supports permanent, fully refundable, monthly Child Tax Credit to help end child poverty in America. Supports a permanent, expanded Earned Income Tax Credit to ensure no worker is taxed into poverty. Supports the Treasury and IRS new Direct File pilot project.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JARRETT SMITH | — |
Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD
NETWORK urges the Biden Administration to include the following provisions in all new trade agreements: facility-specific, rapid-response labor enforcement tools and include real penalties for labor rights violations; binding requirements for countries to meet their Paris climate obligations backed with facility-specific enforcement tools; ensure countries have a right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through sustainable methods and local inputs and removal of rules on intellectual property rights that prevent farmers from saving and sharing seeds; no new digital trade rules that include secrecy guarantees that restrict pre-screening or general review of algorithms or source code for racial biases, gender biases, labor law violations, and other potential abuses. NETWORK supports the Biden Administrations effort to allow governments to use compulsory licensing power allowable under the TRIPS agreement to provide access to critical medicines. NETWORK urges the Biden Administration to support robust protections for low income countries to access critical medicines in times of pandemic in negotiations on the WHO Pandemic Treaty. NETWORK supports removing ISDS from all bilateral and multilateral trade treaties. NETWORK supports review of the US-Peru trade agreement related to ensuring wood products imported into the United States are not illegally logged. NETWORK supports inclusion of strong, binding and enforceable labor, environmental and human rights provisions in any Critical Mineral Agreement based on the Inflation Reduction Act.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LAURA TRACY PERALTA-SCHULTE | — |
Welfare WEL
NETWORK strongly supports strengthening the SNAP and WIC food programs in the Farm Bill. These are vitally important to ensure families and individuals have the food they need for health. NETWORK strongly opposes any effort that cuts domestic human needs programs and would restructure Medicaid, SNAP, Medicare, or Social Security.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| LAURA TRACY PERALTA-SCHULTE | — |
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