Federal Funding & Appropriations
Our bipartisan team takes innovative approaches to the federal funding process in order to advance our clients’ funding and policy priorities. We understand the intricacies of the appropriations process to help clients secure federal funding through programmatic, directive report language, and congressionally directed spending projects (earmarks). We have secured billions of dollars in federal funding for clients through annual appropriations, reconciliation bills, and supplemental funding packages. Our team works with clients through each step of the process to help identify funding opportunities, develop compelling appropriations requests, and cultivate congressional champions to secure support for their priorities. We also have decades of experience working with federal agencies to position our clients to be successful in securing competitive federal funding. Our team has excellent bipartisan relationships with House and Senate Appropriations Committees and includes former appropriations staff.
Experience Highlights
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On behalf of a foreign sovereign client, successfully secured the passage of the Compact of Free Association (COFA) Amendments Act of 2024 in the FY 2024 minibus appropriations package, which extends economic assistance of $3.3 billion in mandatory appropriations over the next 20-year period (FY 2024-2043).
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Secured in multiple fiscal years $14.5 million set aside for the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth’s newest cohort and report language directing the Bureau of Labor Statistics to prioritize this work.
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Secured $12 million over two fiscal years for an educational nonprofit that provides scholarships for undergraduate students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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Secured $20 million in the FY 2023 and FY 2024 Defense appropriations bills to fund an institution’s point-of-need innovation center research.
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$5 million in the FY 2023 Defense appropriations bill to fund a university spectrum research center and secured language in the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act authorizing this funding for the establishment of a spectrum research center.
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$2.2 million in the FY 2024 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill for a university’s two congressionally directed spending projects related to materials science equipment and arctic environments research.
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$500,000 in the FY 2024 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education appropriations bill for an institution of higher education to develop a national security internship program.
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On behalf of a hospital, secured a $963,000 congressionally directed spending request for a Child and Adolescent Support, Advocacy & Resource Center (CASARC) in the FY24 Commerce Justice Science appropriations bill.
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Secured the inclusion of report language encouraging nuclear medicine inclusion in grants under the DOD’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program in the FY24 DOD appropriations bill.
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Secured language which would create a microelectronics research program to advance the next generation of microelectronics and other provisions relating to semiconductor incentives, and 5G policy.
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$5 billion in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to establish an EV charging program for interstate and community charging without software and payment mandates.
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$3.2 billion for the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program to reimburse broadband internet service providers for connecting needy households during the public health emergency, and $300 million for competitive grants through the Broadband Infrastructure Program for the deployment of fixed broadband infrastructure in unserved communities.
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