{"database": "lobbying", "table": "lobbying_activities", "rows": [[1226452, "11ec1731-3377-42bf-aa1b-414cb2320c8d", "Q1", "COMMON CAUSE", 10150, "COMMON CAUSE", 2012, "first_quarter", "GOV", "Supported  the Fair Elections Now Act, ( HR 1404) and (S 750), providing for a voluntary system of financing congressional elections using a mix of small private donations and federal money. Supported the work of the Office of Congressional Ethics \n\nSupported HR 862 introduced by Rep. Chris Murphy,  to extend the judicial code of ethics to the Supreme Court of the United States\n\nSupported the No Taxpayer Money for Corporate Campaigns Act - H.R. 1024 \n\nSupported S. 219, The Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act, requiring electronic filing of Senator's campaign finance reports electronically, introduced by Senators Tester and Cochran. In addition, we urged Senators to voluntarily file their campaign finance reports electronically with the Federal Election Commission. \n\n .Supported H.R.2517 : Shareholder Protection Act of 2011 sponsored by Rep Capuano, to require that shareholders approve political spending by corporations inwhich they own stock prior to the company spending that money.\n\nOpposed a proposed Constitutional Amendment to require a balanced budget.\n\nOpposed efforts to kill the presidential public financing system. \n\n Supported  the American Jobs Act and for proposals to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share in taxes.  .\n\nSupported congressional efforts to encouraged  the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)  to adopt rules requiring corporations to disclose their political spending to shareholders.  \n\nSupported efforts to defeat the termination the Election Assistance Commission.   \n\nSupported passage of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (STOCK ACT) HR 1448 designed to prevent congressional insider trading.\n\nSupported Rep. Eshoo amendment to HR 3309 that would require an entity that runs political ads on television to disclose the sources of funding for the entity of $10,000 or more and place a list of these funders in the political files of broadcast stations that run the ad.  This measure would help to ensure that viewers have access to information about the donors funding ads being run to influence their votes.\n\nSupport S2219, the DISCLOSE ACT sponsored by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse requiring disclosure of who is paying for campaign adds design to influence federal elections.  The legislation also fixes the problem of untimely disclosure of donors to Super PACs that surfaced during the 2012 presidential primaries.\n\nSupported HR 4010, the DISCLOSE ACT sponsored by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a companion bill to the Senate bill.\n\nSupported the efforts of Reps. and Senators to address the flawed Citizens United decision by introducing various Constitutional amendments to rollback that decision.\n\nSupported efforts in House and Senate to develope comprehensive voting rights, bills that prohigit certain acts of intimidation and voter suppression, deal with voter IDs and equal access to voting equipment thata worksand provides the ability to be re-counted. Opposed  the Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011 (H.R. 2483), The whistleblower programs that would be upended by H.R. 2483 are based on Americas most effective anti-corruption statute, the False Claims Act, which has returned more than $27 billion to taxpayers since 1987.\n\nSupported Rep. Louise Slaughter's efforts to have the Judicial conference investigate Justice Thomas' failure to file an accurate financial disclosure form for 13 years.", "Executive Office of the President (EOP),HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,SENATE", null, 50000, 0, 0, "2012-04-13T12:38:55.357000-04:00"]], "columns": ["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"], "primary_keys": ["id"], "primary_key_values": ["1226452"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 132.29898901772685, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}