1st Quarter - Report

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS for AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS

Firm
Client
Income
—
Expenses
$50,000
Expense method
A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

2 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Department of Defense Appropriations; promoting $50 million of funding for the peer reviewed Orthopaedics Extremity Trauma Research Program. H.R. 2043/S.1710 - Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008: Increase funding for the National Institutes of Health National I nstitute of Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases; & funding for National Trauma Networks. H.R. 2206 - Making emergency supplemental appropriations and additional supplemental appropriations for agricultural and other emergency assistance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, supporting amendments to institute a stacked cap on liability lawsuits against rural ob-gyns.

Contacted: SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Defense, Dept of (DOD); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

Bills named: S. 1710 (110th), H.R. 2206 (110th), H.R. 2043 (110th)

Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs MED

Improving health quality measures and enhancing the activities of the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); SENATE; Defense, Dept of (DOD)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.