TechAmerica
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TechAmerica is a US-based technology trade association. It was formed from the merger of AeA (formerly known as the America Electronics Association), the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA), and the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) in 2009. The organization claims to be the "high-tech industry's leading trade association."[1]
Barlett Cleland and Connections to the American Legislative Exchange Council
TechAmerica is connected to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Bartlett Cleland, Senior Director of Policy and Commercial Sector Group,[2][3]is Tech America's representative to ALEC. Cleland is an experienced lobbyist; he was a registered lobbyist for ITAA from 2000-2004, as well as 2007-2008, before it merged with TechAmerica, according to the Center for Responsive Politics' Open Secrets Lobbyist Database.[4] Cleland also lobbied previously for Americans for Tax Reform.[5]
Through Cleland, TechAmerica is the co-chair of the Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force of ALEC. [6]
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References
- ↑ [1], "About TechAmerica." TechAmerica.org. Accessed July 6, 2011.
- ↑ [2], "Federal ICD-10 Subcommittee." TechAmerica. TechAmerica.org. Accessed July 6, 2011.
- ↑ [3], "Federal." TechAmerica. TechAmerica.org. Accessed July 6, 2011.
- ↑ [4], "Cleland, Bartlett." Lobbyist Profile. Center for Responsive Politics. Open Secrets. OpenSecrets.org. Accessed July 6, 2011.
- ↑ [5], "Cleland, Bartlett." Lobbyist Profile. Center for Responsive Politics. Open Secrets. OpenSecrets.org. Accessed July 6, 2011.
- ↑ Telecommunications and Information Technology, ALEC website, Accessed May, 2011
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