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The fight over HR815-118

Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for

Removing Extraneous Loopholes Insuring Every Veteran Emergency Act or the RELIEVE Act This bill expands eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reimbursement of emergency treatment for veterans who are treated in a non-VA facility. Specifically, the bill waives the requirement that a veteran must have received VA care within t…

160 lobbying reports name this bill73 organizations

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THE LOBBYING SURGE

Federal lobbying reports naming this bill, per quarter · dashed lines = what Congress did, on the same axis

⚠ chart still assembling — 6% of this bill's 160 reports are dated so far; bars grow as filing periods are extracted

hover a bar for that quarter's top organizations · striped bar = quarter still filling · semiannual filings bucket to the quarter they end in

WHO SHOWED UP

Organizations by reports naming this bill · a report discloses activity, not a position

1SIERRA CLUB8

2DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS6

3REPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION4

4U.S. GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN4

5ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY (FKA ZURICH)4

6AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS4

7FWD.US4

8MAXAR INTELLIGENCE INC.4

9JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC4

10YUMA, ARIZONA4

THE REVOLVING DOOR

Lobbyists on this bill with disclosed former government roles (LDA §4)

Naomi Mathis

then: Assistant National Legislative Director

now for: DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

Shane Liermann

then: Deputy National Legislative Director

now for: DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

Marquis Barefield

then: Assistant National Legislative Director

now for: DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

Jon Retzer

then: Assistant National Legislative Director

now for: DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

Peter Dickinson

then: Senior Executive Advisor

now for: DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

Joy Ilem

then: National Legislative Director

now for: DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

John Noonan

then: Professional Staff Member, House Armed Services Committee; National Security Advisor, Senator Tom Cotton

now for: EPIRUS, INC.

Tyler Jensen

then: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Adam Smith

now for: GALLATIN AI

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THE MONEY BEHIND THE VOTE

Final passage: 66 YEA / 15 NAY · each side's top donor industries (all-cycles totals to those members)

⬆ YEA voters — top donor industries

1. Lawyers & Lobbyists$92.9M

2. Securities & Investment$62.7M

3. Health Services$50.8M

⬇ NAY voters — top donor industries

1. Lawyers & Lobbyists$10.8M

2. Securities & Investment$9.9M

3. Health Services$9.6M

Dem YEA 36Dem NAY 2Ind YEA 1Ind NAY 1Rep NAY 12Rep YEA 29

Dollar figures are each industry's total contributions to those members across all tracked cycles — not money given for this bill. Correlation, not causation.

Sources: Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (lda.gov), FEC campaign finance records, Congress.gov. A lobbying report naming a bill discloses activity on it — filings do not state a position for or against. Share this page: https://www.capitol-trail.com/war-room/making-emergency-supplemental-appropriations-for-the-fiscal-hr815-118