lobbying_activities: 749127

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
749127	33f5bfaf-84b3-4aa5-831b-c646716d0bcd	Q1	NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION	28674	NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION	2009	first_quarter	TEC	The association monitors and reacts to policy concepts that will impact the operations of rural telecommunications providers, their consumers, and/or the association. The associations underlying interest is maintaining a commitment 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. During the reporting period, regarding introduced measures the association focused on the following: Broadband: The broadband provisions of the economic stimulus legislation outlined above in the BUD issue section. Universal Service: Concepts for modifying the federal universal service program and draft legislative concepts that Representatives Rick Boucher and Lee Terry are considering. DTV Transition: H.R.661 - A bill to provide additional coupons for the digital-to-analog converter box program and to expedite delivery of coupons under such program all sections. H.R.681 A bill to amend the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 and the Communications Act of 1934 to establish a new digital television transition date, to improve the digital-to-analog converter box program, and for other purposes all sections S.352 - A bill to postpone the DTV transition date all sections.	Agriculture, Dept of (USDA),Federal Communications Commission (FCC),HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA),Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC),SENATE,Small Business Administration (SBA)		93000	0	0	2009-04-14T16:40:22-04:00