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GAC Monthly Conference Call

GAC Monthly Conference Call. April 22, 2010. April Legislative Summary. Spring Break Financial reform Nuclear proliferation Baseball starts. White House. Export Control Proposal to combine lists and agencies to streamline process

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GAC Monthly Conference Call

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  1. GAC Monthly Conference Call April 22, 2010

  2. April Legislative Summary Spring Break Financial reform Nuclear proliferation Baseball starts

  3. White House • Export Control • Proposal to combine lists and agencies to streamline process • Attempt to classify items based on proliferation threat (no exports) and military uses (maybe exports) • Preliminary

  4. White House • Commerce Department Request for Information on Internet Policy • Asking for ways to help companies take better advantage of the internet • Looks like focus will be on reducing restrictions rather than imposing new limits • Very preliminary

  5. Energy & Aerospace • Energy Policy • Kerry / Graham / Lieberman Bill • Cap greenhouse gasses from utilities in 2012 • Cap stationary sources by 2016 • Greenhouse gas reductions thereafter • Still theoretical, but it has potential • Space Policy • Obama visit to NASA • Increased support for parts of President’s plan

  6. Legislative Update • K-12 education • Cosponsor list • 8 in House • 8 in Senate • Hill visits accelerating • Lots of work left to be done

  7. Immigration • Comprehensive Bill • Might not be dead • Democrats appear to have decided to do something, starting in May. • We don’t know what • We don’t know if they are serious • IEEE-USA met with Competes America yesterday to work on a common green-card strategy • Model Bill • http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/issues/Immigration/model-bill.asp

  8. Legislative Update • Intellectual Property • Intellectual property bill is back on the fast-track … • Senate leadership wants it out of committee before Supreme Court hearings start • It is not clear when that will be • Stevens steps down at the end of this term, July 1 • We still don’t like the bill, but …. • Senate staffers are talking to us about changes

  9. Other Issues • CVD • April 28 – 29 • Focus on America Competes Act • Energy Fly-In • May 17 & 18 • Focus on energy policy • Probably Lieberman / Kerry Bill

  10. Upcoming Events • My Travel • Rochester, MN May 10 • Long Island, NY May 27

  11. What else? State and local issues.

  12. Next Call Proposed May 25nd 1:00 Eastern

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