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
PATRICK JOHN O'NEILL —

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities FIN

COVID Pandemic Issues: Ensure that stock exchange personnel are listed as critical infrastructure employees by the DHS for areas where workplace restrictions are in place; Communications with the government regarding the resiliency/market operations of varying asset class trading during the COVID-19 pandemic; Provisions in the American Rescue Plan; Legislation to increase transparency and reduce conflicts of interest in the proxy advisory industry Trading and listings standards needed for a U.S. Venture Exchange Legislation requiring the prudential regulators to implement a risk-adjusted approach to value centrally-cleared exchange-listed derivatives; Legislation on 10-Q optionality; Legislation on reforming shareholder proposal rules: raise initial threshold eligibility, raise resubmission threshold; 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; Support for Nasdaq Board Diversity filing with the SEC; Defend dual class structures; Federal 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.

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
PATRICK JOHN O'NEILL —

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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.