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DOCUiENT PISUMI
02837 - [A2153273]
Disclosure of Lobbyiig Activities. August 2, 1977. 15 pp.
Testimony befort the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs;
by Robert F. Keller, Deputy Comptroller General.
Contact: Office of the Comptroller General.
Eudget Function: General Government (800).,
Congressional Rulevance: Senate Committee on Governmental
kffairs.
Authority: Federal Regulation -,v Lobbying Act. S. 1785 (95th
Cong.).
The proposed bill S. 1785 would eliminate most of the
ineffectiveness of the present Federal Regulation of Lobbying
Act. Various threshold tpst- would define the organizations that
must register and report as lobbyists and the information they
must disclose. Th3 aost important provisions of the bill for
eliminating weaknesses in the present law deal with enforcement.
The Co'mptroller General would have investigatory authority and
limited authority to go to court to enforce subpoenas and orders
and to co-rect apFarent civil violations of the law by informal
methods of conference and conciliation. Vesting civil
enforcement powers in the Comptroller General. will not only
place the enforcement of the legislative branch's information
gathering pouer witbin the legiilative brunch where it should be
but will also eliminate oote&tial cotflict between the
Comptroller General and the ).ttorney Gener-l, who would retain
authority for any criminal prosecution. 3. 1785 should be
amended to authorize the Comptroller General to defend advisory
opinions and to initiate civil enftrc~ment action unhampered by
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