APRIL 22, 2010 GAC Monthly Conference Call

April Legislative Summary Spring Break Financial reform Nuclear proliferation Baseball starts

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

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

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

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

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  bill.asp

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

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

Upcoming Events My Travel  Rochester, MN May 10  Long Island, NYMay 27

STATE AND LOCAL ISSUES. What else?

PROPOSED MAY 25 ND 1:00 EASTERN Next Call