{"database": "lobbying", "table": "lobbying_activities", "rows": [[1872304, "f717d4ea-a51c-4d37-a638-733d1a5be521", "Q3", "THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SYSTEM", 51811, "THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SYSTEM", 2016, "third_quarter", "GOV", "The Administration and Congress should harmonize, streamline, and, when possible, eliminate unnecessary and duplicative regulations and reporting requirements. \n\nThe Administration and Federal agencies should not impose requirements or mandates without the proper statutory authority provided by Congress.  When regulations, requirements or mandates are necessary, the Administration and Federal agencies should follow an open and public rule-making process in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).\n\nAdvance recommendations of the Alexander-Mikulski-Burr-Bennet Task Force on regulations and requirements under Department of Education (ED) jurisdiction.\n\nEngage the House and Senate Committees of jurisdiction on regulatory reform, unfunded mandates reform, and the Congressional Review Act (CRA).\nPursue legislation that reinforces the Government Accountability Office (GAO) ruling that federal agencies must submit sub-regulatory guidance for review as rules under the CRA.\nClarify the definition of rule. Congress should make it clear that the term is intended to be expansive and specifically include documents that implement or interpret law or policy. \nAdvocate for amendment of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) to clarify that sub- regulatory guidance is subject to the act.\nNarrow the definition of good cause exception and require agencies to provide justification to the House and Senate Committees of jurisdiction when using the exception.\nRequire federal agencies to perform a cost analysis of sub-regulatory guidance compliance.  The sub-regulatory guidance and cost analysis should be published in the Federal Register for public comment.\nAdvocate for proper rule-making process within the bounds of EDs statutory authority for new requirements.  Rule-making should be inclusive with reasonable timelines.\nED should avoid issuing interpretive rules, policy statements or other guidance that set new legal standards or requirements of the public.  If such rules, statements or guidance are necessary then ED should seek public comment.\nCoordinate rather than duplicate efforts to support student Veterans.  Five separate federal agencies have efforts to protect student veterans.\nRepeal the Affordable Care Act provision mandating employer-sponsored health care for employees working 30-hours-per-week and replace with a provision that applies the threshold to employees working a 40-hours-per-week.\nReconcile the differences between immigration reform proposals offered by the Administration and Congress.\nSupport EEO initiatives that are narrowly tailored to remedy documented discrimination in the workplace and carefully drafted to minimize burdens, confusion and unintended consequences. \nMonitor implementation of the new omni-circular, OMB Circular A-81.", "Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS),Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC),Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),Education, Dept of,Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS),HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,Labor, Dept of (DOL),Natl Institutes of Health (NIH),Office of Management & Budget (OMB),President of the U.S.,SENATE,Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)", null, 50000, 0, 0, "2016-09-29T13:35:34.250000-04:00"]], "columns": ["id", "filing_uuid", "filing_type", "registrant_name", "registrant_id", "client_name", "filing_year", "filing_period", "issue_code", "specific_issues", "government_entities", "income_amount", "expense_amount", "is_no_activity", "is_termination", "received_date"], "primary_keys": ["id"], "primary_key_values": ["1872304"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.5550460452213883, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}