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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Event Recap
II Meetings II Event
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On Wednesday, March 8, 2006, AeA organized a
series of Sarbanes-Oxley lobbying meetings with C-Level executives from around the country.
Meetings were held with members of the U.S. Congress and their staff; the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC); and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(PCAOB).
The days events included:
- A fly-in of AeA's national
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Working Group to meet with leaders of the SEC, PCAOB, and
Rep. Mike Oxley (R-OR) to discuss the burdensome costs of year two
implementation of SOX 404 requirements.
- A fly-in of Illinois technology executives
to meet with members of the Illinois Congressional Caucus on SOX and U.S.
Competitiveness.
- An AeA CyberSeries Luncheon, sponsored by
Hewlett-Packard, with Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) at AeA's Washington,
DC, headquarters.
- And a networking event of technology
executives from the greater Washington area.
AeA's Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Working
Group was formed in November 2004. For more information on the working
group and AeA's grassroots efforts to modify SOX 404, please visit www.aeanet.org/sox
or contact Marie Lee, Tax Counsel/Manager, Tax Policy, at 202.682.4448.
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(PCAOB)
- Daniel L. Goelzer, Board Member
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Commissioner Paul Atkins
- Commissioner Roel Campos
- Chairman Chris Cox's Staff
- Commissioner
Annette Nazareth's Staff
U.S. Congressional Offices
- Rep. Mike Oxley (R-OH)
- Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL)
- Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL)
- Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL)
- Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)
- Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL)
- Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL)
- Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-IL)
- Rep. John M. Shimkus (R-IL)
- Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR)
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AeA Board
Member Marty Singer, Chairman & CEO, PCTEL, discusses
the burdensome costs of SOX 404 to small- and mid-sized
public companies to SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins (L-R).
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SEC
Commissioner Paul Atkins details the proposed relief to
small- and mid-sized companies that was recommended by the
SEC's Advisory Committee on
Smaller Public Companies.
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John Hassell,
Hewlett-Packard; Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR); and William T.
Archey, President & CEO, at the AeA CyberSeries
Luncheon where Sen. Smith announced a new broadband bill
that he will soon be introducing in Congress (L-R).
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William T.
Archey, President & CEO, AeA; Kendall T. Hunt,
Chairman & CEO, VASCO Data International; Paul Broyer,
CFO, Candela Corp; and Bruce Rhine, Chairman & CEO,
Accent Optical; at a meeting with Rep. Mike Oxley's (R-OH)
legislative director (L-R).
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Mary Moore Hamrick, Director, Office of Government Relations,
PCAOB; Celeste Buiser, Associate Director, Office of Government Relations,
PCAOB; and AeA Board Member Thomas Brandt, CFO,
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc., discussing SOX 404 (L-R). |
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Daniel L. Goelzer, Board Member,
PCAOB; Thomas Ray, Chief Auditor, PCAOB; and Laura
Philips, Associate Chief Auditor, PCAOB; respond
to questions from AeA's national Sarbanes-Oxley Working
Group at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's
headquarters in Washington, DC (L-R).
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Affairs
John Palafoutas
(bio)
Senior Vice President, Domestic Policy and Congressional Affairs
601 Pennsylvania
Ave, NW
North Building, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20004
P: 202.682.4451
F: 202.682.9111
E: John_Palafoutas@aeanet.org |
AeA
Midwest Council
Ed Longanecker (bio)
Executive Director
One
Lincoln Centre
18W140 Butterfield Road, 15th Floor
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
P: 630.613.7174
F: 630.613.7175
E: Ed_Longanecker@aeanet.org |
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