WILL YOU SIMPLY BE A REGISTRANT IN THE NEW EP-EC TRANSPARENCY REGISTER OR A LOBBYIST?

Beside AALEP willingness to register in the soon to be uncovered EP-EC Transparency Register, we most certainly don't want to be perceived as simply 'Registrants' so for all intents and purposes we will still continue to call ourselves lobbyists because that's what we are.

AALEP believes that those of us who seek to use our relationships, information and considerable skills to influence appointed and elected officials to make sound public decisions affecting the society as a whole need to reclaim the word and the idea behind it: 'I'm a lobbyist'. Nothing to be ashamed of!