2nd Quarter - Report — DANCE/USA for DANCE/USA (2013)

Firm

DANCE/USA

Client

DANCE/USA

Income

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Expenses

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No amount is shown when the filer reports less than $5,000 for the period, which the form does not ask them to state.

What was lobbied

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

Immigration IMM

S. 744 2013 Senate Immigration Reofrm Bill and SA. 1183: Support for the ARTS Provision: Streamlining O and P visa processing by and on behalf of nonprofit arts organizations; Imporvements to visa processing for O and P visas

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
BRANDON G GRYDE	Director of Government Affairs

Contacted: Federal Communications Commission (FCC); Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Education, Dept of; State, Dept of (DOS); White House Office

Bills named: S. 744 (113th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

FY14 Appropriations for the National Endowment for the Arts FY14 Appropriations for Arts in Education at the U.S. Department of Education FY14 State and Foreign Ops Appropriations: Cultural Exchange funding at the U.S. Department of State

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
BRANDON G GRYDE	Director of Government Affairs

Contacted: Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS); Education, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Federal Communications Commission (FCC); State, Dept of (DOS); White House Office; SENATE

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Incentives for Charitable Giving; H.R. 1497 Preserve the Charitable Contribution Deduction Act (Pease Provision); Extension of the IRA charitable rollover, an expansion of tax-free distributions from individual retirement accounts for charitable purposes;H.R. 2582 (Artist-Museum Partnership Act): provide a deduction equal to the fair market value for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions created by the donor.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
BRANDON G GRYDE	Director of Government Affairs

Contacted: Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS); Education, Dept of; Federal Communications Commission (FCC); White House Office; State, Dept of (DOS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 2582 (113th), H.R. 1497 (113th)

Education EDU

S. 1094 (Strengthening America's Schools ACt) and H.R. 5 (Student Success Act): Support for Arts Education in the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; Implementation of Fast Response Statistical Survey in Arts Education and the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the Arts

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
BRANDON G GRYDE	Director of Education

Contacted: Federal Communications Commission (FCC); White House Office; Education, Dept of; Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; State, Dept of (DOS)

Bills named: S. 1094 (113th), H.R. 5 (113th)

Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV COM

Broadcast Spectrum Reallocation - ongoing protections and considerations for nonprofit performing arts sector as wireless microphone users.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
BRANDON G GRYDE	Director of Government Affairs

Contacted: Federal Communications Commission (FCC); White House Office; Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS); State, Dept of (DOS); Education, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

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.