IBM

Spending by Year

Lobbying Firms

What They Lobby For

• Provisions that would protect the ability to move data across borders freely and that limit government requirements to store data on servers within national boundaries. Potential renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. H.R. 4311/S. 2098, the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act, provisions relating to potential review of outbound international commercial activity.
• H.R. 2353, Reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Perkins CTE Act to improve the supply of workforce-ready graduates, align CTE programs to local, state, and regional market needs, and support collaboration between secondary and post-secondary institutions and employers.
• H.R. 1770/S. 760, the Open Government Data Act; S.1671, the International Communications Privacy Act, proposals that would enhance digital privacy protections while imposing legal safeguards on government access to data; H.R. 589, exascale computing research program. S.1693/H.R. 1865, Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, provisions to to prevent new technologies and online services from being abused by criminals.
• Patent reform; provisions relating to software patents
• The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act; proposals relating to changes to the tax treatment of foreign earnings, base erosion and anti-abuse tax.
• H.R. 1770/S. 760, the Open Government Data Act; S.1671, the International Communications Privacy Act, proposals that would enhance digital privacy protections while imposing legal safeguards on government access to data; H.R. 589, exascale computing research program.
• Provisions that would protect the ability to move data across borders freely and that limit government requirements to store data on servers within national boundaries, U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. China trade tariffs.
• Higher Education Act, provisions relating to work study programs, workforce Pell grants, federal student loans.
• Regulations relating to implementation of the base erosion and anti-abuse tax.
• U.S. Mexico Canada Free Trade Agreement, particularly provisions allowing the free movement of data across borders, prohibiting requirements to store or process data locally, ensuring free and fair market access for digital goods and services, and protecting source code, algorithms and other sensitive IP from disclosure requirements. U.S.-China trade issues. U.S. Department of Commerce on Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking concerning review of export controls for certain emerging technologies.

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