Fiscal Receipts

Senate LDA lobbying filing

INSIGHTS ASSOCIATION (FKA: MARKETING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION)

Registrant: INSIGHTS ASSOCIATION (FKA: MARKETING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION) Year: 2024 Period: Third Quarter Type: Q3

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Reported income

not reported

Reported expenses

$10.0K

Tracked program mentions5

Quoted activity text is clipped to a short extract; each filing’s full description is under Lobbying activities below.

Lobbying activities7

  • Budget/AppropriationsBUD

    Advocacy for FY2025 funding of the Census Bureau; support for transparency and outsourcing of the Census Household Panel (formerly known as the Ask U.S. Panel); opposition to Sec. 621 of House Appropriations CJS bill; opposition to Section 741 of the FSGG appropriations bill.

  • Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TVCOM

    Improving the APRA privacy bill. Support for comprehensive federal consumer data privacy legislation. Reforming the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) restrictions on autodialer calls to cell phones. Requiring white listing of legitimate market research callers from call blocking and labeling. General issues: consumer and data privacy; online behavioral tracking; data security and security breach notification; data brokers; Big Data; artificial intelligence.

  • Computer IndustryCPI

    Support for legislation regulating artificial intelligence that is carefully focused on high risk use and reasonable transparency measures.

  • Government IssuesGOV

    Support for transparency and outsourcing of the Census Household Panel (formerly known as the Ask U.S. Panel) and opposition to any similar efforts/programs that would compete with the insights industry. Opposition to amendments and legislation that would make response to the American Community Survey (ACS) voluntary instead of mandatory or do away with the ACS entirely; opposition to other legislation and amendments harming the conduct of the ACS and the decennial Census; and preparation for the 2030 Census. Urging OMB to recognize the validity of online market research. Support for the Yellow Pages test and competitive sourcing of government services and for the Freedom from Government Competition Act (H.R. 2744).

  • Labor Issues/Antitrust/WorkplaceLBR

    Urging the appropriate classification of research subjects as independent contractors. Support for independent contractor status protections; opposition to the PRO Act unless amended to protect research subjects. Opposition to uncompensated noncompete agreements, for anyone but senior staff.

  • Taxation/Internal Revenue CodeTAX

    Support for the Freedom to Invest in Tomorrows Workforce Act (S. 722, H.R. 1477), and Education and Workforce Freedom Act (H.R. 8915), which would expand qualified expenses under 529 savings plans to include postsecondary training and credentialing, such as licenses and professional certifications and certificates.

  • Trade (domestic/foreign)TRD

    Support for international trade agreements, like USMCA, that promote digital trade and combat data localization policies and cross-border restrictions on data privacy.

Lobbyists1

  • HOWARD FIENBERG

Source: U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database. Dollar figures (underlined) cite the filing record on lda.senate.gov — click to view the citation. Amounts shown as “not reported” are absent from the filing itself.