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B-129874 1 (1980-01-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjqt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: *ji 1 CPt -7 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 IN REY B-129874 R ER TO- January 18, 1980 The Honorable Abraham A. Ribicoff Chairman, Committee on Governmental I Affairs IJO( o NIVVAO United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This responds to your request for ourlews on S. 1782, a-b4l-ent-it.lead the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1979.2 We provided our views and recommendations on S. 1564, the more demanding and comprehensive of the disclosure proposals, in testimony before the Committee on September 26, 1979. We note that many of those recommendations have been incorporated in S. 2160, a successor bill to S. 1564. S. 1782, like the other lobbying bills pending before the Congress, would replace the present lobbying disclosure law, the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act (2 U.S.C. 9§261 et seq.), with a new statute defining the organizations that must register and report as lobbyists, and specifically des- cribing the information that those organizations must disclose. Although we believe S. 1782 would represent an improvement over the existing disclosure law, there are certain ambiguities, omissions, and shortcomings in the bill that should be cor- rected. I. Scope of Coverage (Section 4) Section 4 would define who must comply with the bill's registration, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements. S. 1782 would apply to any organization, a term defined by subsection 3(10) of the bill, whose lobbying activities during a quarterly filing period satisfied one of two so-called threshold tests. A. Threshold Tests (Section 4) 1. Retained Lobbyist Quarterly Expenditure Threshold (§4(a)) Under subsection 4(a), the bill would apply to any organization that spends in excess of $5,000 in any quarterly

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