4th Quarter - Report

PUBLIC STRATEGIES WASHINGTON, INC. for NASDAQ OMX GROUP (FORMERLY "THE NASDAQ STOCK MARKET")

Firm
Client
Income
$60,000
Expenses
—

What was lobbied

2 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD

Trade-related proposals

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
STEVEN EICHENAUER —
THOMAS WAYNE NAGLE Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Tom Udall; Chief of Staff, U.S. Representative Tom Udall; Associate Staff, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations
JOSEPH O'NEILL —
PATRICK JOHN O'NEILL —

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities FIN

legislation to increase transparency and reduce conflicts of interest in the proxy advisory industry, H.R. 5116 - Corporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act of 2019; Legislation on confidential filing and test the waters, S. 536 - Encouraging Public Offerings Act of 2019; Trading and listings standards needed for a U.S. Venture Exchange, H.R. 2899 - Main Street Growth Act, S.2306 - Main Street Growth Act; Legislation requiring the prudential regulators to implement a risk-adjusted approach to value centrally-cleared exchange-listed derivatives, Options Markets Stability Act of 2019; Legislation on 10-Q optionality, H.R.4076 - Modernizing Disclosures for Investors Act; Legislation on reforming shareholder proposal rules: raise initial threshold eligibility, raise resubmission threshold, H.R.3088 - Shareholder Protection Act of 2019; SEC Conflict Minerals Rule, To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to repeal certain disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals; Incentives for the trading of small cap stocks/ETFs; Implementation and expansion of the Jobs Act (JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of 2018)/capital formation agenda/IPOs; Defend dual class structures; Stock buybacks; Financial transaction tax; Tax treatment of buybacks and dividends; Support diplomatic efforts by the PCAOB / SEC to ensure PCAOB review of foreign auditing firms; H1B visa/immigration reform; Equity, fixed income market structure/Regulation NMS; Proprietary ownership and distribution of market data; The regulatory role of exchanges and the legal protections necessary to function as a regulator of market activities; Limitations on SEC regulation of non-exchange activities; and Requiring transparency of short positions that match existing requirements on long position holders. Legislative proposals and implementation related to COVID-19 economic relief. SEC rules on board diversity disclosure

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
STEVEN EICHENAUER —
THOMAS WAYNE NAGLE Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Tom Udall; Chief of Staff, U.S. Representative Tom Udall; Associate Staff, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations
JOSEPH O'NEILL —
PATRICK JOHN O'NEILL —

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: S. 536 (116th), H.R. 4076 (116th), H.R. 2899 (116th), H.R. 5116 (116th), H.R. 3088 (116th), S. 2306 (116th)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.