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From: Ryan Jham

Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 7:46 AM

To: Mike Ryan Ryan@DCCC.ORG; Adam Broder broder@dccc.org

Subject: pay-to-play update

Here is the pay-to-play update.

You can see drafts of reviewed legislation here:

P:\Special Projects\Pay to Play

Timing:
Early next week is likely the last chance to pitch these anything and have it written before election.

Jham’s Suggestion of What to Focus on:
HR 3356 – Disability Bill – Give it to Amanda to do it correctly

Bills Reviewed (Assessment)
Bass - HR 4017 – Energy Bill (without knowing what the bill does, we can’t prove the bill benefits anyone)
Denham – HR 1604 – Central Valley Projects and Environmental impact proposals (those that had contracts in the Central Valley didn’t contribute – dead)
Denham – HR 2904 – IPAWS (very little circumstantial evidence and the bill is about early warning systems)
Bilbray – HR 4056 – Drug Warehouses (All we have is circumstantial evidence. We don’t have comparisons of donations in previous cycles)
Renacci – HR 3128 - Emigrant Savings Bank (Dead. No pay-to-play)

Pending (Assessment):
Biggert – HR 2446 – Real Estate (This wasn’t written when the Real Estate industry bought ads for her. Moreover, the industry cites the bill as reason to support her)
Duffy – HR 1315 – Financial Services and Dodd-Frank (We currently don’t have a working knowledge of what this bill does to begin the project)

Bills That We Were on the Fence About Investigating/Going to Ask Political:
Bass – HR 1756 – Oil Heat Alliance
Gerlach – HR 488 – Medical Devices

Bills Previously Decided We Aren’t Going to Investigate:
Grimm – HR 1610 – Derivatives
Grimm – HR 2483 – Whistleblowers
Heck – HR 1613 – Fire Extinguishers
Bass – HR 1343 – Telecom Bill
Bass – HR 3211 – Medical Device Manufactures
Bilbray – HR 734 – Removing taxes on Medical devices
Bilbray – HR 1149 – Bio fuels