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Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
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Address1 | 25 MASSACHUSETTS AVE., NW |
Address2 | SUITE 100 |
City | WASHINGTON |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20001 |
Country | USA |
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2011 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
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Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: Bruce Carnes, Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration |
Date | 07/15/2011 |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code COM
16. Specific lobbying issues
- HR 10 Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 67 To extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform
and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 68 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit Federal funding for the CPB - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 69 To prohibit Federal funding of certain public radio programming - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 87 To repeal the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 96 Internet Freedom Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 114 Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 116 Robo Calls Off Phones Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 137 Fairness in Political Advertising Act of 2011- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 144 Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 166 Internet, Investment, Innovation, and Competition Preservation Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 182 National Commission on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 213 Regulation Audit Revive Economy (RARE) Act of 2011- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 214 Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis, Creation, and Sunset and Review Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 235 Cut Unsustainable and Top-Heavy Spending Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 373 Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 400 To require certain warning labels to be placed on video games that are given certain ratings due to violent content - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 402 National Infrastructure Development Bank Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 408 Spending Reduction Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 417 To amend the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the expansion of certain information requirements to corporations and to payments for property, and to impose a surcharge on high income taxpayers - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 428 To repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communications services - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 447 Small Business Innovation Research Enhancement Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR448 Small Business Innovation and Enhancement Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 449 Small Business Technology Transfer (STIR) Program Enhancement Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 514 FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 527 Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 557 Consumer Financial Protection Oversight Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 599 Stimulus Repeal Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 607 Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 609 American Competitiveness Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 611 Building Effective Strategies To Promote Responsibility, Accountability, Choice, Transparency, Innovation, Consumer Expectations and Safeguards Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 620 Recovering Excessive Stimulus Expenditures for Taxpayers (RESET) Act -- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 629 To amend the IRS Code of 1986 to modify the private activity bond rules to except certain uses of intellectual property from the definition of private business use - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 642 Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 653 Financial Information Privacy Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 654 The Do Not Track Me Online Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 660 Jumpstarting Our Business Sector Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 696 Tax Relief Certainty Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 705 Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 710 Telework Tax Incentive Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 722 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction for direct-to-consumer advertisements of prescription drugs - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 800 Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 847 Kelsey Smith Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 911 To require the NTIA and the FCC to conduct an inventory of broadband spectrum, to authorize the Commission, contingent on the completion of such inventory, to conduct auctions of voluntarily relinquished spectrum usage rights and to share the revenues with the licensees who relinquished such rights, and for other purposes - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 934 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the corporate tax rate to 18% - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 942 American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 992 Building American Jobs Act of 2011- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1002 Wireless Tax Fairness Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1009 Federal Communications Collaboration Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1047 State Right to Vote Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1060 Prevent Lockout of Athletes This Year Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1061 Federal Agency Transparency Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1062 Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1074 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the corporate income tax rate to 10 percent and to lower the rate of tax on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1076 To prohibit Federal funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds to acquire radio content - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1083 To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish an Office of Rural Broadband Initiatives in the Department of Agriculture- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1111 Decreasing Spending Now Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1121 To replace the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with a five person Commission - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1136 the Executive Cyberspace Coordination Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1144 To increase the transparency of the Federal Government, and for other purposes - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1147 Community Recovery and Enhancement Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1166 To modify the prohibition on recognition by US courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1174 To amend title 31, USC, to provide for the licensing of Internet gambling activities - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1203 To amend title 17, USC, to include the US territories in the application of certain statutory copyright licenses related to low power television stations - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1235 Regulation Moratorium Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1249 America Invents Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1261 Chief Technology Officer Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1281 Restoring Economic Certainty Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1343 To return unused or reclaimed funds made available for broadband awards in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to the Treasury of the United States - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR1389 Global Online Freedom Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1404 Fair Elections Now Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1439 Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1473 Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1528 Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1605 CAP Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1622 Spectrum Innovation Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1693 Research and Development Tax Credit Extension Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1695 Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1707 Data Accountability and Trust Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1732 Innovative Technologies Investment Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1746 Community Access Preservation Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1752 Keeping Children Safe Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1773 Made in America Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1804 State Video Tax Fairness Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1805 USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1834 Freedom to Invest Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1841 Data Accountability and Trust Act ("DATA") of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1860 Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1864 Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1895 Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1962 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1963 To temporarily extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, and for other purposes.
- HR 1981 Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2096 Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2040 National Right-to-Work Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2041 Returning to Responsible Fiscal Policies Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2102 FCC Commissioners Technical Resource Enhancement Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2112 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Regulatory Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2163 Broadband Affordability Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2168 Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2228 Support for Teachers in Education and Mentoring (STEM 2) Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2281 Next Generation Wireless Disclosure Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2289 FCC Analysis of Benefits and Costs all provisions relating to cable.
- HConRes 3 Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should issue, and Congress should hold hearings on, a report and a certification regarding the responsibilities, authorities, and powers of his czars all provisions relating to cable.
- HConRes 21 Supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HJRes 37 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 57 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United Nation and other international governmental organizations shall not be allowed to exercise control over the Internet all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 72 Directing certain standing committees to inventory and review existing, pending, and proposed regulations and orders from agencies of the Federal Government, particularly with respect to their effect on jobs and economic growth all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 91 Expressing the support of the House of Representatives for efforts to increase diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and recognizing the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) for its 40 years of service all provisions relating to cable.
- HRES 95 Supporting the preservation of Internet entrepreneurs and small businesses - all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 142 Amending the rules of the House of Representatives to require authorizing committees to hold annual hearings on GAO investigative reports on the identification, consolidation, and elimination of duplicative Government programs all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 175 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that in order to continue aggressive growth in the Nations telecommunications and technology industries, the US Government should Get Out of the Way and Stay Out of the Way all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 178 Amending the rules of the House of Representatives to require a committee report on a bill or joint resolution to include a statement of whether the legislation creates any duplicative programs all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1 American Competitiveness Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 7 Comprehensive and Fair Tax Reform Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 12 To provide additional tax relief for private sector job creations all provisions relating to cable.
- S 14 To establish a Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies all provisions relating to cable.
- S 18 To repeal the expansion of information reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations all provisions relating to cable.
- S 21 Cyber Security and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 23 Patent Reform Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 28 Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 72 To repeal the expansion of information reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations all provisions relating to cable.
- S 74 Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion and Consumer Protection Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 85 To reduce the maximum rate of tax on the income of corporations to 20 percent all provisions relating to cable.
- S 106 To repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communications services all provisions relating to cable.
- S 135 To make the moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce permanent all provisions relating to cable.
- S 149 To extend the expiring provision of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 155 To provide an enhanced credit for research and development by companies that manufacture products in the US all provisions relating to cable.
- S 162 To cut $500,000,000,000 in spending in fiscal year 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 174 Healthy Lifestyles & Prevention America Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 178 To reduce Federal spending by $2.5 trillion through fiscal year 2021 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 193 USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 211 Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 225 Access to Information About Missing Children Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 239 Innovate America Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 245 Commitment to American Prosperity (CAP) Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 256 American Opportunity Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- S 257 Small Business Broadband and Emerging Information Technology Enhancement Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 289 FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 290 USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 291 USA PARIOT Reauthorization Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 297 To amend section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that funds received as universal service contributions and the universal service support programs established pursuant to that section are not subject to certain provisions all provisions relating to cable.
- S 299 Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 336 Tax Relief Certainty Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- S 358 To codify and modify regulatory requirements of Federal agencies all provisions relating to cable.
- S 359 Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 372 Cybersecurity and Internet Safety Standards Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 391 Recovering Excessive Stimulus Expenditures for Taxpayers Act or the RESET Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- S 410 To provide for media coverage of Federal court proceedings all provisions relating to cable.
- S 413 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and other laws to enhance the security and resiliency of the cyber and communications infrastructure of the U.S. all provisions relating to cable.
- S 415 Spectrum Optimization Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 455 the Reforming Airwaves by Developing Incentives and Opportunistic Sharing (RADIOS) Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 463 Effective STEM Teaching and Learning Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 465 Senior Financial Empowerment Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 474 To reform the regulatory process to ensure that small businesses are free to compete and to create jobs, and for other purposes all provisions relating to cable.
- S 475 To enact President Obamas recommendations for program terminations all provisions relating to cable.
- S 492 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting all provisions relating to cable.
- S 504 National Right to Work Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 522 Spectrum Relocation and Improvement Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 543 Wireless Tax Fairness Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 611 To provide greater technical resources to FCC Commissioners all provisions relating to cable.
- S 619 To assist in the coordination among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics efforts in the States, etc. all provisions relating to cable.
- S 712 Financial Takeover Repeal Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 726 Decrease Spending Now all provisions relating to cable.
- S 727 Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 732 Cell Phone Bill Shock Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 737 Responsible Consumer Financial Protection Regulations Act of 2011- all provisions relating to cable.
- S 746 Dodd-Frank Repeal Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 750 Fair Elections Now Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 758 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Master Teacher Corps Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 799 Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 831 Cyber Security Public Awareness Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 907 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment all provisions relating to cable.
- S 911 Strengthening Public Safety and Enhancing Communications Through Reform, Utilization, and Modernization (SPECTRUM) Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 913 Do Not Track Online Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 968 Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property (PROTECT IP) Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 971 Digital Goods and Services Tax Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 978 To amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes all provisions relating to cable.
- S 990 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1011 Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1012 Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1022 PATRIOT Sunset Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1038 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1040 Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1114 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1125 USA PATRIOT Act Improvement Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1030 Freedom from Restrictive Executive Demands and Onerous Mandates Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1151 Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1152 Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1159 Cyberspace Warriors Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1207 Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1212 Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act (GPS Act) all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1223 Location Privacy Protection Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1272 Biennial Appropriations Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1308 To amend Title 18, United States Code, with respect to child pornography and child exploitation offenses all provisions relating to cable.
- SConRes 7 A concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act all provisions relating to cable.
- SJRes 6 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices all provisions relating to cable.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. Copyright Office, Education - Dept of, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Dean |
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Lee |
Friedman |
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Rita |
Lewis |
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Lane |
Lofton |
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Daphna |
Peled |
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Clifford |
Riccio |
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Rzepka |
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Dianne |
Smith |
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Wanda |
Townsend |
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Sonya |
Wendell |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code TEC
16. Specific lobbying issues
- HR 10 Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 67 To extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform
and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 68 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit Federal funding for the CPB - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 69 To prohibit Federal funding of certain public radio programming - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 87 To repeal the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 96 Internet Freedom Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 114 Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 116 Robo Calls Off Phones Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 137 Fairness in Political Advertising Act of 2011- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 144 Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 166 Internet, Investment, Innovation, and Competition Preservation Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 182 National Commission on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 213 Regulation Audit Revive Economy (RARE) Act of 2011- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 214 Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis, Creation, and Sunset and Review Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 235 Cut Unsustainable and Top-Heavy Spending Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 373 Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 400 To require certain warning labels to be placed on video games that are given certain ratings due to violent content - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 402 National Infrastructure Development Bank Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 408 Spending Reduction Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 417 To amend the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the expansion of certain information requirements to corporations and to payments for property, and to impose a surcharge on high income taxpayers - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 428 To repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communications services - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 447 Small Business Innovation Research Enhancement Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR448 Small Business Innovation and Enhancement Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 449 Small Business Technology Transfer (STIR) Program Enhancement Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 514 FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 527 Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 557 Consumer Financial Protection Oversight Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 599 Stimulus Repeal Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 607 Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 609 American Competitiveness Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 611 Building Effective Strategies To Promote Responsibility, Accountability, Choice, Transparency, Innovation, Consumer Expectations and Safeguards Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 620 Recovering Excessive Stimulus Expenditures for Taxpayers (RESET) Act -- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 629 To amend the IRS Code of 1986 to modify the private activity bond rules to except certain uses of intellectual property from the definition of private business use - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 642 Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 653 Financial Information Privacy Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 654 The Do Not Track Me Online Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 660 Jumpstarting Our Business Sector Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 696 Tax Relief Certainty Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 705 Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 710 Telework Tax Incentive Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 722 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction for direct-to-consumer advertisements of prescription drugs - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 800 Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 847 Kelsey Smith Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 911 To require the NTIA and the FCC to conduct an inventory of broadband spectrum, to authorize the Commission, contingent on the completion of such inventory, to conduct auctions of voluntarily relinquished spectrum usage rights and to share the revenues with the licensees who relinquished such rights, and for other purposes - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 934 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the corporate tax rate to 18% - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 942 American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 992 Building American Jobs Act of 2011- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1002 Wireless Tax Fairness Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1009 Federal Communications Collaboration Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1047 State Right to Vote Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1060 Prevent Lockout of Athletes This Year Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1061 Federal Agency Transparency Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1062 Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1074 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the corporate income tax rate to 10 percent and to lower the rate of tax on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1076 To prohibit Federal funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds to acquire radio content - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1083 To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish an Office of Rural Broadband Initiatives in the Department of Agriculture- all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1111 Decreasing Spending Now Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1121 To replace the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with a five person Commission - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1136 the Executive Cyberspace Coordination Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1144 To increase the transparency of the Federal Government, and for other purposes - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1147 Community Recovery and Enhancement Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1166 To modify the prohibition on recognition by US courts of certain rights relating to certain marks, trade names, or commercial names - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1174 To amend title 31, USC, to provide for the licensing of Internet gambling activities - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1203 To amend title 17, USC, to include the US territories in the application of certain statutory copyright licenses related to low power television stations - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1235 Regulation Moratorium Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1249 America Invents Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1261 Chief Technology Officer Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1281 Restoring Economic Certainty Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1343 To return unused or reclaimed funds made available for broadband awards in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to the Treasury of the United States - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR1389 Global Online Freedom Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1404 Fair Elections Now Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1439 Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1473 Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1528 Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1605 CAP Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1622 Spectrum Innovation Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1693 Research and Development Tax Credit Extension Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1695 Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1707 Data Accountability and Trust Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1732 Innovative Technologies Investment Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1746 Community Access Preservation Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1752 Keeping Children Safe Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1773 Made in America Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1804 State Video Tax Fairness Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1805 USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1834 Freedom to Invest Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1841 Data Accountability and Trust Act ("DATA") of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1860 Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1864 Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1895 Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1962 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 1963 To temporarily extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, and for other purposes.
- HR 1981 Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2096 Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2040 National Right-to-Work Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2041 Returning to Responsible Fiscal Policies Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2102 FCC Commissioners Technical Resource Enhancement Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2112 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Regulatory Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2163 Broadband Affordability Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2168 Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2228 Support for Teachers in Education and Mentoring (STEM 2) Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2281 Next Generation Wireless Disclosure Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HR 2289 FCC Analysis of Benefits and Costs all provisions relating to cable.
- HConRes 3 Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should issue, and Congress should hold hearings on, a report and a certification regarding the responsibilities, authorities, and powers of his czars all provisions relating to cable.
- HConRes 21 Supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act all provisions relating to cable.
- HJRes 37 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 57 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United Nation and other international governmental organizations shall not be allowed to exercise control over the Internet all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 72 Directing certain standing committees to inventory and review existing, pending, and proposed regulations and orders from agencies of the Federal Government, particularly with respect to their effect on jobs and economic growth all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 91 Expressing the support of the House of Representatives for efforts to increase diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and recognizing the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) for its 40 years of service all provisions relating to cable.
- HRES 95 Supporting the preservation of Internet entrepreneurs and small businesses - all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 142 Amending the rules of the House of Representatives to require authorizing committees to hold annual hearings on GAO investigative reports on the identification, consolidation, and elimination of duplicative Government programs all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 175 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that in order to continue aggressive growth in the Nations telecommunications and technology industries, the US Government should Get Out of the Way and Stay Out of the Way all provisions relating to cable.
- HRes 178 Amending the rules of the House of Representatives to require a committee report on a bill or joint resolution to include a statement of whether the legislation creates any duplicative programs all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1 American Competitiveness Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 7 Comprehensive and Fair Tax Reform Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 12 To provide additional tax relief for private sector job creations all provisions relating to cable.
- S 14 To establish a Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies all provisions relating to cable.
- S 18 To repeal the expansion of information reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations all provisions relating to cable.
- S 21 Cyber Security and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 23 Patent Reform Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 28 Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 72 To repeal the expansion of information reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations all provisions relating to cable.
- S 74 Internet Freedom, Broadband Promotion and Consumer Protection Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 85 To reduce the maximum rate of tax on the income of corporations to 20 percent all provisions relating to cable.
- S 106 To repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communications services all provisions relating to cable.
- S 135 To make the moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce permanent all provisions relating to cable.
- S 149 To extend the expiring provision of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 155 To provide an enhanced credit for research and development by companies that manufacture products in the US all provisions relating to cable.
- S 162 To cut $500,000,000,000 in spending in fiscal year 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 174 Healthy Lifestyles & Prevention America Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 178 To reduce Federal spending by $2.5 trillion through fiscal year 2021 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 193 USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 211 Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 225 Access to Information About Missing Children Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 239 Innovate America Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 245 Commitment to American Prosperity (CAP) Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 256 American Opportunity Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- S 257 Small Business Broadband and Emerging Information Technology Enhancement Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 289 FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 290 USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 291 USA PARIOT Reauthorization Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 297 To amend section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that funds received as universal service contributions and the universal service support programs established pursuant to that section are not subject to certain provisions all provisions relating to cable.
- S 299 Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 336 Tax Relief Certainty Act of 2011 - all provisions relating to cable.
- S 358 To codify and modify regulatory requirements of Federal agencies all provisions relating to cable.
- S 359 Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 372 Cybersecurity and Internet Safety Standards Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 391 Recovering Excessive Stimulus Expenditures for Taxpayers Act or the RESET Act - all provisions relating to cable.
- S 410 To provide for media coverage of Federal court proceedings all provisions relating to cable.
- S 413 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and other laws to enhance the security and resiliency of the cyber and communications infrastructure of the U.S. all provisions relating to cable.
- S 415 Spectrum Optimization Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 455 the Reforming Airwaves by Developing Incentives and Opportunistic Sharing (RADIOS) Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 463 Effective STEM Teaching and Learning Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 465 Senior Financial Empowerment Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 474 To reform the regulatory process to ensure that small businesses are free to compete and to create jobs, and for other purposes all provisions relating to cable.
- S 475 To enact President Obamas recommendations for program terminations all provisions relating to cable.
- S 492 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting all provisions relating to cable.
- S 504 National Right to Work Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 522 Spectrum Relocation and Improvement Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 543 Wireless Tax Fairness Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 611 To provide greater technical resources to FCC Commissioners all provisions relating to cable.
- S 619 To assist in the coordination among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics efforts in the States, etc. all provisions relating to cable.
- S 712 Financial Takeover Repeal Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 726 Decrease Spending Now all provisions relating to cable.
- S 727 Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 732 Cell Phone Bill Shock Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 737 Responsible Consumer Financial Protection Regulations Act of 2011- all provisions relating to cable.
- S 746 Dodd-Frank Repeal Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 750 Fair Elections Now Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 758 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Master Teacher Corps Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 799 Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 831 Cyber Security Public Awareness Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 907 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the reduction in the deductible portion of expenses for business meals and entertainment all provisions relating to cable.
- S 911 Strengthening Public Safety and Enhancing Communications Through Reform, Utilization, and Modernization (SPECTRUM) Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 913 Do Not Track Online Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 968 Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property (PROTECT IP) Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 971 Digital Goods and Services Tax Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 978 To amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes all provisions relating to cable.
- S 990 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1011 Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1012 Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1022 PATRIOT Sunset Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1038 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1040 Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1114 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1125 USA PATRIOT Act Improvement Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1030 Freedom from Restrictive Executive Demands and Onerous Mandates Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1151 Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1152 Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1159 Cyberspace Warriors Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1207 Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2011 all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1212 Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act (GPS Act) all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1223 Location Privacy Protection Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1272 Biennial Appropriations Act all provisions relating to cable.
- S 1308 To amend Title 18, United States Code, with respect to child pornography and child exploitation offenses all provisions relating to cable.
- SConRes 7 A concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act all provisions relating to cable.
- SJRes 6 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices all provisions relating to cable.
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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Education - Dept of, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Copyright Office, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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