INTRODUCTION
Capitol Strategies Group (CSG) is pleased to submit a proposal to provide government affairs consulting to Compliance Innovations, LLC. Capitol Strategies Group’s team of experts has decades of experience successfully advocating on behalf of a wide range of clients. Our strong ties to the legislative and executive branches of government, long-standing bi-partisan relationships, and institutional knowledge has attracted major companies, trade associations, and other organizations to Capitol Strategies Group for insight, access, and results.
Our firm has a strong portfolio of clients that provide our lobbyists with high level exposure on numerous issues. Our access to the decision makers in Lansing is strong and we are confident
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Navigating bureaucratic and legislative minefields is often tricky and requires the ability to strategize above and beyond conventional government relations. CSG legislative services will include, but are not limited to:
• Increase the visibility and name I.D. of Compliance Innovations to all state lawmakers and policymakers
• Identify, plan, develop, and implement legislative strategies that address the needs and goals of Compliance Innovations and successfully promote its legislative agenda
• Monitoring legislation, including all legislative initiatives of Compliance Innovations, from the drafting stages through final passage
• Identify and prioritize opportunities and challenges throughout the legislative process facing Compliance Innovations as directed by its Board of Directors
• Perform high quality, objective research, and analysis on legislation and policy impacting Compliance Innovations
• Prepare testimony legislative position papers for distribution
• Educate members of the legislature and their staff, the executive branch, state departments and outside interest groups on legislative matters relevant to Compliance
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His legislative career spans more than 20 years in the state of Michigan, including as staff assistant to the attorney general and then as manager of governmental relations for the Michigan State Medical Society.
An experienced coalition-builder, Daniel puts people and organizations together for mutual benefit. His knowledge of the legislative process and of governmental regulations has yielded a solid track record of success for multiple clients.
Daniel founded The Farhat Group in 1992 before forming Capitol Strategies Group. As the firm’s president, he is actively involved in the daily management of the firm as well as in strategic counsel and political action efforts. He has demonstrated his ability time and time again by achieving a number of political successes for various clients, including the passage of medical and product liability reforms. These reforms became the blueprint and set the standard for nationwide liability reform legislation. Daniel was also integrally involved in the passage of the Michigan Patient Bill of Rights Act, the 1997 Motor Fuel Tax reform, major insurance code revisions, and mandatory use of seatbelts in
American Legislative Exchange Council headquarters is located at 2900 Crystal Drive, 6th Floor Arlington, VA 22202 with no other officially reported branches. According the company’s most recent tax documents, this organization grossed nearly $9 million; however, their net profit for 2013 was just under $200k. In addition to gaining worldwide financial supporters, ALEC has not shown much growth in the last two years according to the same tax forms (ALEC, 2014). ALEC is the l...
Monitoring and sanctions are the more costly of oversight functions and the least likely to be used; they also do not ensure that the noncompliance problem will end. (McCubbins, Noll and Weingast 1987) This follows with McCubbins and Schwartz who theorize that members of congress do not neglect monitoring and their oversight functions but that they prefer the fire-alarm policing in which citizens tend to alert them to problems because it allows them to also do their legislative work (1984). Monitoring along with its economic costs also has political costs if an action that an agency takes in its noncompliance creates a new political interest then by sanctioning them members can incur political costs that would not have otherwise been present with proper anticipation and prevention. (McCubbins, Noll and Weingast 1987) Anticipatory prevention of noncompliance is a form of latent control that congress can exercise that is more effective; Calvert, McCubbins and Weingast develop a theory that includes this finding, “Latent oversight is, by definition, never observed; but its role in implementing political control over the agency is in principle just as important as that of active control (Calvert, McCubbins and Weingast, 1989).” This often occurs when the agent fears sanction in the case of this theory developed the veto, this point would
of corrupting government officials, taxivision, and fraud. Many lobbyist today are doing a lot of the same things Abramoff did but in a legal ways due to loopholes in the proposal. The government has invested into the use of watchdogs but are they really effective hence their are so many loopholes to get around all the prohibited ideas. The United States needs to tighten lobbying restrictions to help better where all the wasted bribing money could
You have been asked by the state representative to analyze and write a report on a very important piece of legislation. You have kept track of this legislation, but been having a...
Most individuals with a general background knowledge of the United States Federal Government system are aware that in order for a bill to become a law, it must first pass a majority vote in Congress. There is, however, a very important step in the legislative process that sometimes goes unnoticed. The committee system of the legislation process ensures that the appropriate attention is given to each bill introduced to Congress. Each member of both chambers are assigned to committees and subcommittees, and are expected to become subject matter experts in their respective roles as committee members.
Bureaucratic agencies give information on the subject of the bill pressuring the congressional committees to listen to the interest groups and to pass the legislature.
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Political systems within the United States work together to establish laws and create boundaries for their people. Government officials work with the Senate in Congress to help establish regulations not only for the American people but also for corporations in order to not become monopolies in today’s market. This all corresponds to a legislative process in order for Congress to have a clear idea of passing effective laws that help reinforce results within our society. Members of Congress and political affiliations are impacted by representatives from large business corporations through the process of bribing these government officials into supporting the ideas and desires of these corporations. In order for this to occur, these companies engage in lobbying. Lobbying is the attempt to influence government officials in decision making processes or swaying the government by employing tactics through various agreements in the form of verbal or written statements to public officials in Congress. This usually occurs through donations of large amounts of money to members of Congress as a way of bribing them to support the representatives of these corporations. Therefore, corporations have widely influenced Congress, making it difficult to pass laws and bills that are not in favor of these corporations. Thus, lobbying is influenced by money and promotes the interests of these specific corporations.
National Conference of State Legislatures. Wendy Underhill , 26 Mar. 2014. Web. 30 Mar. 2014.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Legislative Process and Healthcare Lobbying in the United States of America. Before a law is passed and implemented in America under both state and federal level, it has to go often time through a very lengthy legislative process except in the case of an executive order. And, without the skills and expertise of the lobbying strategies, the idea which might intended to become law may not even make it to the level of a bill not to mention the chance of it to become law. It is important for us as nurses, to understand the legislative process and become very familiar with the lobbying process and take early and prompt action to defend our interests and help prevent any negative impact that any idea or bill that may become law may have on the nursing profession.
(W. Lease, personal communication, July 23, 2010), the “unknown” of the recent health care reform legislation is an external influence that is most relevant to our organization, stated by William Lease, senior vice president of clinical support services. Mr. Lease states, that health care reform legislation will impact our organization in many ways; especially after 2014. While more employees will have health insurance coverage and there will be more patients to treat; the need for controlling costs and improving efficiency is i...
Essentially, interest groups use many different tactics to accomplish their central goals but this paper will detail 2 of them. The first being lobbying, which is the act of persuading businesses as well as government leaders to help a specific organization by changing laws or creating events in favor of that group. Interest groups use this technique by hiring someone to represent them and advocate their cause to on the behalf of the entire group. These hired representatives usually have more than enough experience within the political field and are able to persuade connections within the government for help with their concerns. This method gets a lot of criticism because although lobbyist offer their input to government officials on pending laws, they only look at what is favorable for their cause. When trying to make a difference you have to not only reflect on your argument but on the side affects of that argument as
Lobbying involves more than persuading legislators. Professional lobbyists investigate and examine legislation or dogmatic proposals, are present at congressional hearings, and teach government officials and company officers on imperative issues. Lobbyists in addition work to transform public opinion all the way through advertising campaigns or by control 'opinion leaders'. There are approximately 30,000 recorded lobbyists, other than that does not comprise the public relations experts, marketers, support personnel pollsters, and others who support their work. The majority lobbyists are hard–working professionals who comprehend how to find the way the political process, gain access to lawmakers and main executive–branch officials, and construct a strategy to accomplish their legislative objective. Whether or not you like the renowned place they engage in our system, lobbyists have turn out to be such an essential part of...
Rabin, J. (2003). Encyclopedia of public administration and public policy: K-Z. United States: CRC press.
...ice of public administration will continue to change with the further advances in society. Already there are many of issues that tomorrow’s public administrators will be dealing with. These issues will be varied and complex and will concern the ongoing development of computers, possible advancements in health care and science, and even major social and legislative shifts.