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B-129874 1 (1978-03-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachkp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: t CoMPTROLLER GENERAL OF TH- UNITED STATES 483 * ~WASHINGTON, D.C. WAS4 • - . • -129874 MAR 15 1978 The. Honorable Abraham A. Ribicoff Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affair s united Otatet Senate Dear )mr.. Chairmen .. This responds to your request for our views on S. 2026, a bill entitled the *Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1977.0 S. 2026 is in some respects similar to S. 1785, a bill on which we furnished you our comments earlier in this Congress. B-129874, September 15, 1977. Both bills deal with the public disclosure of 'lobbying and related activities S. 2026.lik. S. 1785, would replace the present lobbying disclosure law, the Federal Regulation of Lebbying Act (2 U.S.C. s261 et seq.). with a comprehensive new statute defining the organia-mtns that must register and report as lobbyists and specifically describing the information that those organizations must disclose. As we said in. our earlier report, enactment of S. 1785 would constitute a significant improvement over the existing -lobbying, disclosure law. In addition to broadeninq and clarify- ing the definitioh of those organizations subjectto lobbying dis.closure requirements, S. 1785 would provide, the investiga- tive and enforcement powers needed to make the proposed law effictive. Al*though S. 2026 would also constitute a marked improvement over the existing lobbying law, there are certain ambiguities and o issions in the bill that should be corrected. I. Scop_ of Coverage Section .4 would define who must comply with the bill's registration, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements. S. 2026 would apply to any *organization (defined in §3(10)) -whose lobbying activities during a Oquarterly filing period (S3,(12)) satisfied one of two so-called threshold tests. -- ! F,.

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