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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
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| Address1 | 1220 LINDEN DRIVE, 1764 VAN HISE HALL |
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| City | MADISON |
State | WI |
Zip Code | 53706 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 71314-12
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6. House ID# 359560000
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| TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2010 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report
| 10. Check if this is a Termination Report | Termination Date | |
11. No Lobbying Issue Activity |
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| INCOME relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period was: | EXPENSE relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period were: | ||||||||
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| Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Method A.
Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
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| Signature | Digitally Signed By: Kristine D. Andrews, Assistant Vice President for Federal Relations |
Date | 04/20/2010 |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code TAX
16. Specific lobbying issues
U.S. Treasury and discontinuation of Form 1098-T
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
| First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Kristine |
Andrews |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code TEC
16. Specific lobbying issues
National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Broadband High-Speed Internet Access Grant
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Natl Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
| First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Kristine |
Andrews |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code IMM
16. Specific lobbying issues
S. 729 & H.R. 1751, DREAM ACT, support for legislation
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
| First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Kristine |
Andrews |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code SCI
16. Specific lobbying issues
National Science Foundation Reauthorization Act, strengthening undergraduate STEM education, transformative research at undergraduate institutions, and research infrastructure capacity, especially at Emerging Research Institutions; NIST/Manufacturing Extension Partnership reauthorization, strengthening funding
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Natl Science Foundation (NSF)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
| First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Kristine |
Andrews |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code EDU
16. Specific lobbying issues
Signatory to letter urging the Administration to strengthen U.S.-Indonesian institutions of higher education partnerships; signatory to letter urging the Administration making science and mathematics teacher preparation a priority; H.R. 3221, Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, including Section 505, on-line courseware, college success and completion undergraduate research report language, conversion to Direct Loan; Department of Education Race to the Top grant; conversion of TEACH grant to forgivable loan
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
President of the U.S., U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Education - Dept of
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
| First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Kristine |
Andrews |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code TRA
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R. 2830, Section 403, Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute reauthorization
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
| First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Kristine |
Andrews |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code SMB
16. Specific lobbying issues
Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs reauthorization, providing permanent status and increasing funding guidelines
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
| First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Kristine |
Andrews |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code BUD
16. Specific lobbying issues
Pub.L. 111-152, Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act, student aid funding; House Draft/Senate Draft, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, National Institute for Food and Agriculture program, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education program, and capacity building grant for non-land grant colleges of agriculture funding; House Draft/Senate Draft, Commerce, Justice, Science, Economic Development Administration University Centers, Hollings Manufacturing Extension
Partnership, Justice, Department of, NASA Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, Natinoal Estuarine Research Reserve, National Science Foundation, and Natinoal Sea Grant College program funding; Draft House/Draft Senate Financial Services and General Government, Small Business Development Centers funding; Draft House/Draft Senate Interior, Environment, Environmental Educaton and Training Partnership, Green Power Partnership, National Endowment for the Humanities, State Water Resources Research Institute Program, Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center funding; Draft House/Draft Senate Labor-HHS-Education, AmeriCorps National and AmeriCorps VISTA, Area Health Education Center program, campus-based financial aid programs, community development and nonprofit capacity building, Pell Grant, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, GEAR UP, Head Start, Health Resources and Services Administration, Improving Teacher Quality Grants, Teacher Quality Partnership Grants, International Business and Education , Title VI B, international education, Labor, Department of, National Institutions of Health, National Professional Development Program, National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant and Academic Competitiveness Grant, Public Radio and Television, Strengthening Institutions Program, Teaching American History Grant Program, TRIO, Higher Education Sustainability Act funding; Draft House/Draft Senate State, Foreign Operations, Foreign Language Instruction, National Security Language Initiative for Youth, Young Entrepreneurs Program funding.
Other FY2011 appropriations requests: UW-Parkside to develop curriculum and professional development with water emphasis, to build environmental research in partnership with the Center for Environmental Education, Demonstration, and Applied Research and the Root River Environmental Education Community Center; UW-Rock County to expand collaborative nursing program and create a program to improve access and retention. UW-Whitewater for the Business Growth and Improved Competitiveness Project, seed fund support for technology start-ups, applied research, and entrepreneur-in-residence program; and student small business incubator initiative. UW-Baraboo/Sauk County for a proposed Living and Learning Center dedicated to sustainable resources and environmental conservation, to build and remodel science labs and classrooms to address shortages of science and health care graduates. UW-Eau Claire for a research project to develop a new class of inhibitors of the vitamin K oxide reductase; UW-Platteville to establish the Riverlands Center for Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship; UW-River Falls, to support the Tissue and Cellular Innovation Center; UW-Stout, for the Discovery Center, Digital Fabrication Laboratory and Focused Technology Centers.
UW-Milwaukee for a USDA/ARS cooperative research initiative to develop advanced technologies, to expand a Public Health Impact Institute developed in cooperation with the City of Milwaukee Health Department, to develop technologies for mass producing nanostructured materials, to create a research center for energy storage devices and batteries, to support research in the areas of high-efficiency solar cells through the creation of advanced engineered nanomaterials, for the creation of a Center for Water Equipment and Policy, and for development of an instructional program developed at the university for use in Milwaukee public high schools.
UW-Oshkosh for the establishment of the Biomass for Energy Testing initiative, for the development of a Center for Advanced Electrical Energy Storage Devices, to establish a business, industry, local government and non-profit virtual center, to develop and teach courses in nusing informatics to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as curricula for practicing nurses and Master of Science in Nursing. UW-Fox Valley to construct and equip a nursing student human anatomy training facility.
UW-Stevens Point to develop the Central Wisconsin Nursing Education Center, for a UW-Stevens Point Non-Traditional and Veteran Students with Disabilities initiative, and for the Wisconsin Center for Sustainable Technologies to further nanotechnology and sustainable waste management initiatives. UW-Superior for a National Estuarine Research Reserve operations grant and to increase on-line and hubrid programs through the Distance Learning Center leading to degree completion. UW-Green Bay for the establishment of a Center for Middle East Partnerships; for developing and institutionalizing a formalized environmental internship program, and for The Phuture Phoenix program.
UW-Extension for the Wisconsin Conservation Technology Transfer Program, to expand a program that addresses food security through improved access to school breakfast, to advance potato and vegetable growers' use of biointensive IPM and reduce reliance on high-risk pesticides, to increase grower profitability through pesticide reductions and increased adoption of integrated pest management in vegetables and horticulatural crops, to update and digitize geologic and hydrogeologic information in northwestern Wisconsin appropviate for groundwater decision-making and management, for the Red
Cliff Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility, for the urban horticulture initaitive and, in cooperation with UW-Stout, to assist small and medium-sized manufacturing companies with new technologies and manufacturing systems.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
25. Add the following affiliated organization(s)
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26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client
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FOREIGN ENTITIES
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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization
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