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lobbying_activities: 197692

Individual lobbying activities reported in quarterly filings. Each row is one issue area for one client — includes the specific issues lobbied on, government entities contacted, and income/expense amounts.

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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
197692 c5ff7faf-a6d8-40ed-8f0d-ac723342b9e7 YY GUIDANT CORPORATION 17124 GUIDANT CORPORATION 2002 year_end FIN S. 1677: " Independent Investment Advice Act of 2001" Legislation to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to create a safe harbor for retirement plan sponsors in the designation and monitoring of investment advisers for workers managing their retirement income assets. S. 1838, H.R. 3640, H.R. 3692: "Pension Protection and Diversification Act of 2001" Legislation to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that individual account plans protect workers by limiting the amount of employer stock each worker may hold and encouraging diversification of investment of plan assets, and for other purposes. S. 1919, H.R. 3657: "Retirement Security Protection Act of 2002" Legislation to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for improved disclosure, diversification, account access, and accountability under individual account plans. S. 1921: "Pension Plan Protection Act" Legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide greater protection of workers' retirement plans, to prohibit certain activities by persons providing auditing services to issuers of public securities, and for other purposes. S. 1969. S. 1992, H.R. 2269, H.R. 3669, H.Res. 386, H.R. 3762: "Pension Security Act of 2002" Legislation to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional protections to participants and beneficiaries in individual account plans from excessive investment in employer securities and to promote the provision of retirement investment advice to workers managing their retirement income assets, and to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit insider trades during any suspension of the ability of plan participants or beneficiaries to direct investment away from equity securities of the plan sponsor. S. 1971: "National Employee Savings and Trust Equity Guarantee Act" Legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to protect the retirement security of American workers by ensuring that pension assets are adequately diversified and by providing workers with adequate access to, and information about, their pension plans, and for other purposes. S. 2032: "Investor-Employees Need Financial Facts and Options for Responsible Retirement Plan Management Act of 2002" Legislation to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for improved disclosure, diversification, account access, and accountability under individual account plans. S. 2460: "Shareholder Bill of Rights Act" Legislation to guarantee persons who invest in publicly held companies accurate information about the financial condition of such companies so they can make fully informed investment decisions, to increase the independence of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and for other purposes. S. 2673, H.R. 3763, H.R. 5070: " Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002" Legislation to improve quality and transparency in financial reporting and independent audits and accounting services for public companies, to create a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, to enhance the standard setting process for accounting practices, to strengthen the independence of firms that audit public companies, to increase corporate responsibility and the usefulness of corporate financial disclosure, to protect the objectivity and independence of securities analysts, to improve Securities and Exchange Commission resources and oversight, and for other purposes. S. 2822: " Prevention of Stock Option Abuse Act" Legislation to prevent publicly traded corporations from issuing stock options to top management in a manner that is detrimental to the long-term interests of shareholders. S. 3010 Legislation to provide information and advice to pension plan participants to assist them in making decisions regarding the investment of their pension plan assets, and for other purposes. H.R. 3463: "Pension Protection Act" Legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide protections for participants in cash or deferred arrangements under section 401(k) with respect to the acquisition and holding of employer securities. H.R. 3509: "Pension Protection Bill" Legislation to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide additional fiduciary protections for participants and beneficiaries under employee stock ownership plans with respect to lockdowns placed on plan assets. H.R. 3622: "Emergency Worker and Investor Protection Act of 2002" Legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the golden parachute excise tax to sales of company stock by corporate insiders occurring when the company prevents rank-and-file employees from selling company stock held in their 401(k) plan, and to ensure more accurate reporting of liabilities to workers and shareholders. H.R. 3623: "Employee Savings Protection Act of 2002" Legislation to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to prohibit knowing misrepresentations by fiduciaries of 401(k) plans which may induce participants and beneficiaries to act contrary to their own best interest in controlling the assets in their own accounts, and to amend title 11 of the United States Code to protect claims based on such misrepresentations. H.R. 3642: "401(k) Pension Right to Know Act of 2002" Legislation to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require plan administrators of 401(k) plans to provide semiannual reports to participants and beneficiaries fully and accurately disclosing the financial health of the plan sponsor and promoting diversification of investment of their plan assets. H.R. 3677: "Safeguarding America's Retirement Act of 2002" Legislation to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide new protections under applicable fiduciary rules for participants and beneficiaries under 401(k) plans and to provide for 3-year vesting of elective deferrals under such plans. H.R. 3840: "Inside Stock Sales Employee Notification Act of 2002" Legislation to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for timely notification of plan participants and beneficiaries whose individual accounts hold employer securities of insider trading in employer securities. H.R. 4075: "Ending the Double Standard for Stock Options Act" Legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that corporate tax benefits from stock option compensation expenses are allowed only to the extent such expenses are included in a corporation's financial statements. Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),Commerce, Dept of (DOC),Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS),HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,Office of Management & Budget (OMB),SENATE,Treasury, Dept of,U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) 80000   0 0 2003-02-11T00:00:00-05:00
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