**Important Announcement**

**Lobby Day 2020 Canceled**

Thank you for your patience as ADA leadership and staff have been dealing with immediate issues relating to COVID-19.  As much as we hoped all would resolve itself positively in time for Lobby Day, we know with extended dental office/dental school closures and federal, state and local suggestions/mandates/guidelines, we must cancel the 2020 ADA Dentist and Student Lobby Day. 

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Lobby Day 2021 

March 14 - 16, 2021

The Washington Hilton
Washington, D.C.

Join over 1100 dentists and dental students from across the country in the nation’s capital to advocate for your patients, profession and practice. At the ADA Dentist and Student Lobby Day, attendees will hear from political analysts, subject matter experts and politically involved dentists on issues that affect oral health in the United States. 

Lobby Day 2019

Lobby Day Agenda

2019 Draft Agenda

Lobby Day Issues

McCarran-Ferguson Reform for Health Insurance

During Lobby Day we will be lobbying Congress to support amending the McCarran-Ferguson Act to empower the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice to enforce the full range of federal antitrust laws against health insurance companies engaged in anticompetitive conduct, by supporting S.350 in the Senate and H.R.1418 in the House.

McCarran-Ferguson Issue Sheet

Student Loan Programs and the Higher Education Act

The Higher Education Act is several years overdue for reauthorization, therefore during Lobby Day we will be urging Congress to reauthorize the HEA and urge them to combat the exorbitant amounts of dental student debt.

Student Loan Issue Sheet

Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act - S. 560 / H.R. 1379

One in every 33 children in the United States is born with a congenital anomaly or birth defect that affects the way they look, develop or function. A number of these congenital anomalies include severe oral and facial defects such as cleft lip or palate, skeletal and maxillofacial deformities, hypodontia (absence of teeth), and enamel hypoplasia.  With this in mind we are urging Congress to support S. 560/H.R. 1379, the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act (ELSA), and urge you to co-sponsor this important bipartisan bill. By doing so, you can ensure that children suffering from congenital anomalies and birth defects are able to receive the treatment they need. 

ELSA Issue Sheet

Lobby Day Documents

ADPAC Guide to DC

Questions

For more information on the Lobby Day, please contact Peter Aiello, Grassroots Manager, at aiellop@ada.org or call 202.789.5168.