Description
Using our intelligently designed and intuitive dataset, you can quickly understand how National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (NRUC) is lobbying the U.S. government, how much they’re spending on it, and most importantly – the bills and specific issues on which they lobby.
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1. Clients: The publicly traded company, privately owned company, interest group, NGO, or state or local government that employs or retains a lobbyist or lobbying firm.
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3. Lobbyists: The names and past government work experience of the individual lobbyists working on a lobbying contract. 3. General Issues: The general issues for which clients lobby on (ex: ENV – Environment, TOB – Tobacco, FAM – Family Issues/Abortion).
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5. Bills Lobbied On: The exact congressional bills and public/private laws lobbied on, parsed from lobbying report specific issues (ex: H.R. 2347, S. 1117, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (NRUC) lobbying for?
The National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation hired lobbying firms National Cooperative Services Corporation, Llp and Greenberg Traurig to lobby on general issues such as Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Banking, Housing, Agriculture, Budget/Appropriations, and specific issues such as the Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act of 2013 and S.888, H.R. 4413, and the Implementation of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. They lobbied government agencies such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Department of Treasury, White House Office, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Senate, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Farm Credit Administration, and Federal Reserve System.
One could infer that the company is lobbying on these issues to protect their interests in the financial sector, as well as to advocate for agricultural appropriations for programs within the jurisdiction of the USDA Rural Utilities Service. They may also be seeking exemption from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to reduce compliance costs and business risks. Additionally, they may be monitoring legislative and administrative activity related to the implementation of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to ensure that their end-user/hedging and related exemptions and issues are adequately addressed.
