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THE LIAISON GROUP, LLC

Lobbying for UNITED STATES CANNABIS ROUNDTABLE · Business Trade Association

Filing 3rd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

3rd Quarter 2025

July 1 - Sep 30 · Posted Oct 7, 2025

Income

$45,000.00

What the client paid this registrant for the period.

Client based in

Illinois

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 1

DAVID MANGONE ESQ

Previously held: Legislative Fellow (Charlie Rangel 2016)

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Government bodies contacted 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Bills named in this filing 2

HR 1447
No Deductions for Marijuana Businesses Act
S 471
No Deductions for Marijuana Businesses Act

Lobbying activity 4

Banking

USCR is advancing a legislative agenda that allows for (1) the rescheduling of cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III on the Controlled Substances Act (2) states to set their own policies related to cannabis (2) allows for the safe banking and access to capital for the state-regulated cannabis industry (3) Advances aspect of cannabis research (4) ends needless arrests and incarceration for cannabis conduct. Specific bills today include opposing HR 1447 the No Deductions for Marijuana Businesses Act, supporting the SAFE Banking Ac t(to be introduced in 119th Congress), and supporting the Veterans Equal Access Act. USCR supports other legislative initiatives that move towards ending federal cannabis prohibition including the States Act 2.0 and the Evidence Based Drug Policy Act

Budget/Appropriations

Advocating for language that prevents DOJ from expending allocated funds on state legal cannabis activity or using funds to hinder cannabis reclassification process. Supportive of appropriations language that would allow the VA to complete paperwork for state legal medical cannabis programs for VA Patients. Language that would 'close the farm bill loophole' as it relates to unregulated intoxicating hemp products.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Opposing the No Deductions for Marijuana Businesses Act (HR 1447, S. 471) Supporting efforts to remove application of Internal Revenue code 280(e)

Consumer Issues/Safety/Products

Educating on dangers of unregulated intoxicating hemp products, and supporting efforts to close farm bill loophole

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.