HP + P represents our clients before a wide range of congressional committees, individual Members of Congress, and executive branch agencies. We influence legislation on our clients’ behalf in a broad spectrum of issue areas, including but not limited to the following:

Appropriations | Education | Energy and Environment | Health | Judiciary | Tax/Trade | Defense

Appropriations

HP + P’s team includes professionals with years of experience drafting authorization language to ensure federal dollars are allocated to purposes where they can affect the most change, fully funding authorized federal programs, and securing federal earmarks. Whether it is funding a weapons system, reauthorizing a program to expand educational services in museums, or funding a federal initiative to replicate effective public charter schools nationwide, we have a track record of funding successes on behalf of our clients.

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Education

With college costs rising and the government’s role in elementary and secondary schools in a state of flux, more and more educators and education professionals realize they need to understand Congress’ motivations and intentions in the area of federal education policy. Our professionals help corporations, non-profit foundations, for-profit education providers, and associations navigate the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind and the Higher Education act. We understand the messages and policies that resonate with federal legislators, and we put our expertise and relationships to work to ensure our clients’ voices are heard when Congress attempts extensive revisions to federal education policy.

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Energy and Environment

HP + P provides lobbying, strategic counsel on a wide range of environment and energy issues, including renewable energy. Our professionals bring pertinent hands-on legislative expertise to assist clients in making their case to the resource, environment, and energy committees. As Congress sits poised to tackle the creation of a long-term energy and climate change policy HP + P is perfectly positioned to advocate on behalf of a client to ensure its interests are properly addressed.

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Health

HP+P is a leader in representing health care clients. Health care is a high-profile issue that involves numerous public policy questions and involves extensive legislative contacts.

Our health care practice provides comprehensive government relations experience to every aspect of health policy, representing providers, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, suppliers and patient advocacy organizations. We are experts on the implications of policy changes and we provide integrated strategies to help our clients be successful. We understand our clients’ objectives and what elicits the interest of public officials because we have decades of experience working on the staffs of Congressional health leaders. We focus not only on the Congressional committees with direct jurisdiction over health care issues, but also on individual members of Congress whose home districts are affected by health care businesses, products, and concerns.

Our health care team provides strategic advice for moving or halting particular legislative proposals; providing information to key members of Congress and their staffs; negotiating the landscapes of investigations, hearings and testimony; strategizing ways to maximize opportunities to provide positive messages; preparing witnesses for testimony; and navigating political and legal minefields associated with any issue before Congress.

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Judiciary

Whether it’s intellectual property protection, homeland security policies, or antitrust concerns, companies need to stay in touch with Members of Congress who legislate in these areas to ensure their policy goals are met. We work closely with the House and Senate Judiciary committees on matters ranging from patent reform to industrial design protection, from school security to the establishment of a federal reporters’ privilege, to make sure our clients are at the table when decisions are made. Our experience on congressional investigations set us apart from other firms. We assist clients in effectively responding to Congressional inquiries while minimizing the considerable public relations risks that these kinds of investigations can pose for them.

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Tax / Trade

HP + P provides substantive expertise in the areas of tax and trade policy. We represent a broad range of clients who have matters pending before the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee. Whether it is advocating against proposed changes to tax policy or working to create energy tax incentives or pushing for greater enforcement of our existing trade laws, we have the experience with these committees to provide our clients with valuable opportunities to help shape policy.

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Defense

HP+P works successfully with clients in the aerospace and defense industry to develop and implement effective strategies to promote and protect funding for critical military defense systems and to stifle or mitigate adverse funding and policy proposals. This work involves communicating to members of key congressional committees, as well as Members and Senators at large, the strategic and technical merits of defense programs and technologies designed to put the American war-fighter in the best position to protect and defend our nation’s homeland, our international allies abroad, and U.S. and joint interests overseas, while also educating the Hill about the importance of these programs to employment opportunities and economic growth in states and districts throughout the United States.

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