• infrastructure financing; proxy adviser regulations; Basel III minimum requirements applying to internationally active banks.
• ongoing implementation of Dodd-Frank; access to the proxy; corporate governance issues; executive compensation; public pension plan accounting and disclosure; investor (trustee) education; SEC state settlements re: bond disclosures; state of municipal securities markets; municipal adviser registration; proxy advisory services; applying the Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) to the investment earnings of state and local governments retirement systems; infrastructure financing; ESG investments; Federal restrictions on investments of institutional investors; financial transactions tax; regulations implementing restrictions on stimulus aid to state and local governments related to public pensions; Implementation of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) issued by Treasury entitled Provisions Pertaining to U.S. Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern; Basel III minimum requirements applying to internationally active banks.
• IRS Governmental plans compliance; IRS Normal Retirement Age regulations; IRS revenue ruling 2006-43; IRS ANPRM on definition of a governmental plan; funding of governmental plans; general pension plan reform; governmental plan accounting and disclosure; disclosure of state death records; tax deferrals related to pension contributions and earnings;applying the Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) to the investment earnings of state and local government retirement systems; Office of State and Local Finance public pension plan interests; the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act (PEPTA); solvency of Multiemployer Plans deliberations; reform of the windfall elimination provision (WEP); SECURE Act dealing with overall retirement security and implementation of the law; Federal restrictions on institutional investor investment activity; CARES Act stimulus checks and retired public employees not covered by Social Security; restrictions related to public pensions on any Federal aid to states in negotiations on new COVID stimulus legislation; H.R. 2954, retirement security legisltion and issues affecting public pensions; implementation of SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) issued by Treasury entitled Provisions Pertaining to U.S. Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern; OMBs Office of Federal Financial Management proposed rule to revise their Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements, stipulating how public pension costs are to be reimbursed for a state or local employee whose position is partially or fully federally funded; repeal of WEP and the Government Pension Offset (HR 82
• IRS Governmental plans compliance; IRS Normal Retirement Age regulations; IRS revenue ruling 2006-43; IRS ANPRM on definition of a governmental plan; funding of governmental plans; general pension plan reform; tax deferral of pension contributions and earnings; application of the Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) to the investment earnings of state and local government retirement systems; Office of State and Local Finance public pension plan interests; infrastructure financing; Public Employee Pension Transparency Act (PEPTA); solvency of Multiemployer Plans deliberations (H.R.397); infrastructure financing; SECURE Act (H.R. 1994), its implementation and changes in the IRC to enhance retirement security; financial transaction tax issues; the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Act implementation and stimulus checks to retired public employees not covered by Social Security; implementation of SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022
• governmental bankruptcy issues; Federal aid to states
• implementation of pension provisions of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act of 2016; infrastructure financing; general Federal regulation and taxation of state and local governmental retirement systems; restrictions related to public pensions on Federal aid to states in 2021 COVID-19 stimulus package; implementation of SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) issued by Treasury entitled Provisions Pertaining to U.S. Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern; OMBs Office of Federal Financial Management proposed rule to revise their Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements, stipulating how public pension costs are to be reimbursed for a state or local employee whose position is partially or fully federally funded.
• general issues pertaining to teacher retirement; student loans; Federal grants covering teacher benefits; impact of COVID-19 on teachers, education support professionals, and public education; infrastructure spending related to schools, education; OMBs Office of Federal Financial Management proposed rule to revise their Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements, stipulating how public pension costs are to be reimbursed for a state or local employee whose position is partially or fully federally funded ; repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO)(HR 82)

Duration: June 1, 2009 to present

General Issues: Banking, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Retirement, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Bankruptcy, Government Issues, Education, Health Issues, Accounting

Spending: about $1,991,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury - Dept of, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Social Security Administration (SSA), Government Accountability Office (GAO)