lobbying_activities: 709045
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| 709045 | 92e51191-e4d7-4740-b21e-507cf50c8c19 | Q4 | NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION | 28674 | NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION | 2008 | fourth_quarter | TEC | Monitored, reacted to, and/or developed proposals and/or initiatives that will impact the operations of rural telecommunications providers, their consumers, and/or the association. With regard to the measures listed below, the association is committed to pursuing a policy environment that allows the associations members to continue effectively serving rural economically challenging markets. The association bases its approaches on whether or not policies are flexible in their application to rural carriers that have different needs and capabilities and that have far different economies of scale and competitive opportunities than larger carriers. There were issues where the association did not focus on legislation itself, but rather focused on concepts and worked with different members of Congress to help them understand the related issues and/or to develop and distribute some form of public statement on the given subject. For example we worked with a number of offices to try to ensure that the Federal Communications Commission understood that there were many members of Congress that are opposed to a drastic modifications in the universal service and intercarrier compensation cost recovery mechanisms that rural providers rely upon. We also routinely discuss access to spectrum, video programming and its equitable distribution and data transmission and all that entails. During the reporting period, in addition to discussing the issues outlined above, association representatives specifically discussed the following bills with policymakers: Broadband Deployment: H.R. 3428 -- To facilitate the deployment by the private sector of broadband telecommunications networks and capabilities (including wireless and satellite networks and capabilities) to underserved rural areas through federal grants and loans-all sections. Government Owned Networks: H.R. 3281 To promote competition and to preserve the ability of local governments to provide broadband capability and services all sections. S. 1853 To promote competition, and to preserve the ability of local governments to provide broadband capability and services all sections. Net Neutrality: H.R. 5353 To establish broadband policy and direct the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a proceeding and public broadband summits to assess competition, consumer protection, and consumer choice issues relating to broadband Internet access services all sections. H.R. 5994 To amend the Clayton Act with respect to competitive and nondiscriminatory access to the Internet all sections. S. 215 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure net neutrality all sections. Universal Service/Intercarrier Compensation/Cost Recovery: H.R. 2054 Universal Service Reform Act of 2007 to reform the universal service provisions of the Communications Act of 1954 and for other purposes all sections. H.R. 6356 To reform the collection and distribution of universal service support under the Communications Act of 1934 all sections. S.101 A bill to update and reinvigorate universal service provided under the Communications Act of 1934 all sections. S. 2919 To promote the accurate transmission of network traffic identification information all sections. | Agriculture, Dept of (USDA),Federal Communications Commission (FCC),HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,Internal Revenue Service (IRS),SENATE | 50000 | 0 | 0 | 2009-01-16T11:03:22-05:00 |