1st Quarter - Amendment

THE RABEN GROUP for COMPASSION & CHOICES

Firm
Client
Income
$20,000
Expenses
—

Versions of this report

Every filing the register holds for this firm, client and period, oldest first. The most recent one is the version LegiList counts.

Filing Filed Amount Counted
1st Quarter - Report Apr 19, 2009 $20,000 Replaced
1st Quarter - Report Jun 10, 2010 $20,000 Replaced
1st Quarter - Amendment (this page) Jun 10, 2010 $20,000 Yes

What was lobbied

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

Health Issues HCR

S. 465, Advance Directive Improvement and Education Act (Sen. Nelson (FL)), to improve access to information about individuals' health care options and legal rights for care near the end of life, to promote advance care planning and decision making so that individuals' wishes are known should they become unable to speak for themselves, continued on next page... Continued: S. 465, to engage health care providers in disseminating information about and assisting in the preparation of advance directives, which include living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care, and for other purposes. H.R. 2994, National Pain Care Policy Act (Rep. Capps), to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to pain care. H.R. 7181, Life Sustaining Treatment Preferences Act of 2008 (Rep. Blumenauer). To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program for consultations regarding orders for life sustaining treatment and to provide grants for the development and expansion of programs for such orders. H.R.1898, Life Sustaining Treatment Preferences Act of 2009, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare Program for consultations regarding orders for life sustaining treatment and to provide grants for the development and expansion of programs for such orders.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
NANCY BUERMEYER —
LICY DO CANTO New —
ROBERT RABEN —

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 1898 (111th), H.R. 7181 (111th), S. 465 (111th), H.R. 2994 (111th)

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.