3rd Quarter - Report — CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC. for CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC (2020)

Firm

CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC.

Client

CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC

Income

—

Expenses

$110,000

Expense method

A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

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

Energy/Nuclear ENG

Securing the United States Bulk-Power System - Request for Information (Docket No. DOE-HQ-2020-0028) Advocated for the interests of the domestic electrical steel industry in formal comments submitted in response to this RFI.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
PATRICK M BLOOM	—
BETH DEBROSSE LUDWIG	—

Contacted: U.S. Customs & Border Protection; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); SENATE; Executive Office of the President (EOP); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Energy, Dept of

Natural Resources NAT

Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2021, H.R. 3052. Language relating to the prohibition of federal review of any proposed mine plan within the Rainy River watershed of the Superior National Forest. Advocated for an exception from this prohibition for existing iron ore mines and processing facilities.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
PATRICK M BLOOM	—

Contacted: Energy, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); SENATE; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); U.S. Customs & Border Protection; Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Bills named: H.R. 3052 (116th)

Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD

Advocated in support of the Section 232 National Security Investigation of Imports of Laminations for Stacked Cores for Incorporation into Transformers, Stacked Cores for Incorporation Into Transformers, Wound Cores for Incorporation Into Transformers, Electrical Transformers, and Transformer Regulators (Docket ID: BIS-2020-0015). Advocated for maintenance and strengthening of existing steel Section 232 trade remedies. Lobbied in response to steel Section 232 tariff/quota product exclusion requests. Advocated for the changes to the Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) system announced by the International Trade Administration on September 11, 2020 (Docket No. 200806-0208). Lobbied for Department of Commerce trade law enforcement funding through the FY 2021 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations bill, H.R. 7617.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
PATRICK M BLOOM	—
BETH DEBROSSE LUDWIG	—

Contacted: U.S. Customs & Border Protection; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Executive Office of the President (EOP); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Energy, Dept of; SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 7617 (116th)

Retirement RET

Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act (the HEROES Act), H.R. 6800. Lobbied for single and multi-employer pension plan provisions included in Division D of H.R. 6800.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
PATRICK M BLOOM	—
BETH DEBROSSE LUDWIG	—

Contacted: Executive Office of the President (EOP); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); U.S. Customs & Border Protection; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Energy, Dept of

Bills named: H.R. 6800 (116th)

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.