To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes.

H.R.768 - Title: To establish a commission on the tax and fiscal implications of the regulation of financial products and arrangements and to study the current financial crisis, its causes and impact on the Federal deficit and tax revenues. Issue: tax implications on life insurance. H.R.2452 - Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.3399 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.3669 - Title: To prohibit employers from carrying life insurance policies on their rank and file employees. Issue: use of COLI H.R.4013 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.4173 - Title: Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (Title XVI) H.R.4191 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.4412 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 50 percent tax on bonuses paid by TARP. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.156 - Title: Small Business Stimulus Act of 2009; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend enhanced small business expensing and to provide for a 5-year net operating loss carryback for losses incurred in 2008 or 2009. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.722 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent alternative minimum tax relief, middle class tax relief, and estate tax relief, and to permanently extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.823 - Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: tax as it effects life insurance. S.1835 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies. S.1937 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies. S.2927 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies. H.R. 3408/ S.2882 Title: Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability and Consistency Act of 2009. Issue: Independent contractors. Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee (not introduced) - To assess a fee or tax on financial services companies to repay TARP. TRACKING H.R.96 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.99 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.173 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.205 - Title: To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.436 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.533 - Title: To make full estate tax repeal, small business expensing, and SECA tax deduction for health insurance permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1960 - Title: To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1986 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $4,000,000, reduce the maximum estate tax rate to 40 percent, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax H.R.2023 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2658 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance.

Client expense: $2,316,895 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Treasury, Dept of

HR 2748/S 1297 - Retirement Security Needs Lifetime Pay Act; Issue: use tax code to encourage lifetime income payments HR 436, HR 498, HR 1960, HR 1986, HR 2023, HR 2658, HR 3463,HR 3841, HR 3905, HR 4015, HR 4035, HR 4154, HR 5475, S 722, S 2784, and S 3533 - various bills to extend, repeal, or make changes to the federal estate tax; Issue: need for certainty for our customers re the estate tax HR 3399 - Consolidated Returns; Issue: need to permit consolidation of tax returns for life and non-life insurance companies

Client expense: $70,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R.768 - Title: To establish a commission on the tax and fiscal implications of the regulation of financial products and arrangements and to study the current financial crisis, its causes and impact on the Federal deficit and tax revenues. Issue: tax implications on life insurance. H.R.251 - Title: Life Insurance Employee Notification Act. Issue: effects of company owned life insurance. H.R.2452 - Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.3399 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.3669 - Title: To prohibit employers from carrying life insurance policies on their rank and file employees. Issue: use of COLI H.R.4013 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.4191 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.4412 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 50 percent tax on bonuses paid by TARP. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.156 - Title: Small Business Stimulus Act of 2009; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend enhanced small business expensing and to provide for a 5-year net operating loss carryback for losses incurred in 2008 or 2009. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.722 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent alternative minimum tax relief, middle class tax relief, and estate tax relief, and to permanently extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.823 - Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: tax as it effects life insurance. S.1835 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies. S.1937 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies. S.2927 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies. H.R. 3408/ S.2882 Title: Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability and Consistency Act of 2009. Issue: Independent contractors. TRACKING H.R.96 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.99 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.173 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.205 - Title: To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.436 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.533 - Title: To make full estate tax repeal, small business expensing, and SECA tax deduction for health insurance permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1960 - Title: To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1986 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $4,000,000, reduce the maximum estate tax rate to 40 percent, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax H.R.2023 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2658 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee (not introduced) - To assess a fee or tax on financial services companies to repay TARP.

HR 2748/S 1297 - Retirement Security Needs Lifetime Pay Act; Issue: use tax code to encourage lifetime income payments HR 3399 - Consolidated Returns; Issue: need to permit consolidation of tax returns for life and non-life insurance companies HR 436, HR 498, HR 1960, HR 1986, HR 2023, HR 2658, HR 3463,HR 3841, HR 3905, HR 4015, HR 4154, S 722, and S 2784 - various bills to extend and make changes to the federal estate tax; Issue: need for certainty for our customers re the estate tax

Client expense: $100,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R.768 : To establish a commission on the tax and fiscal implications of the regulation of financial products and arrangements and to study the current financial crisis, its causes and impact on the Federal deficit and tax revenues. Issue: tax implications on life insurance. H.R.251 - Life Insurance Employee Notification Act. Issue: effects of company owned life insurance. S.722 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent alternative minimum tax relief, middle class tax relief, and estate tax relief, and to permanently extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2452 Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.156 Title: Small Business Stimulus Act of 2009; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend enhanced small business expensing and to provide for a 5-year net operating loss carryback for losses incurred in 2008 or 2009. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.823 Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.3399 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.3669 - Title: To prohibit employers from carrying life insurance policies on their rank and file employees. Issue: use of COLI TRACKING H.R.96 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.99 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.173 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.205 : To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.436 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.533 : To make full estate tax repeal, small business expensing, and SECA tax deduction for health insurance permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1960 : To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1986 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $4,000,000, reduce the maximum estate tax rate to 40 percent, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax H.R.2023 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2658 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance.

H.R.768 - Title: To establish a commission on the tax and fiscal implications of the regulation of financial products and arrangements and to study the current financial crisis, its causes and impact on the Federal deficit and tax revenues. Issue: tax implications on life insurance H.R.251 - Title: Life Insurance Employee Notification Act. Issue: effects of company owned life insurance. H.R.2452 - Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.3399 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.3669 - Title: To prohibit employers from carrying life insurance policies on their rank and file employees. Issue: use of COLI H.R.4013 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.4191 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.4412 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 50 percent tax on bonuses paid by TARP. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.156 - Title: Small Business Stimulus Act of 2009; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend enhanced small business expensing and to provide for a 5-year net operating loss carryback for losses incurred in 2008 or 2009. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.722 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent alternative minimum tax relief, middle class tax relief, and estate tax relief, and to permanently extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.823 - Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: tax as it effects life insurance. S.1835 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.1937 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.2927 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies TRACKING H.R.96 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.99 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.173 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.205 - Title: To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.436 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.533 - Title: To make full estate tax repeal, small business expensing, and SECA tax deduction for health insurance permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1960 - Title: To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1986 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $4,000,000, reduce the maximum estate tax rate to 40 percent, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax H.R.2023 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2658 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance.

H.R.768 - Title: To establish a commission on the tax and fiscal implications of the regulation of financial products and arrangements and to study the current financial crisis, its causes and impact on the Federal deficit and tax revenues. Issue: tax implications on life insurance H.R.251 - Title: Life Insurance Employee Notification Act. Issue: effects of company owned life insurance. H.R.2452 - Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.3399 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.3669 - Title: To prohibit employers from carrying life insurance policies on their rank and file employees. Issue: use of COLI H.R.4013 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.4191 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.4412 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 50 percent tax on bonuses paid by TARP. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.156 - Title: Small Business Stimulus Act of 2009; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend enhanced small business expensing and to provide for a 5-year net operating loss carryback for losses incurred in 2008 or 2009. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.722 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent alternative minimum tax relief, middle class tax relief, and estate tax relief, and to permanently extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.823 - Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: tax as it effects life insurance. S.1835 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.1937 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.2927 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies TRACKING H.R.96 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.99 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.173 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.205 - Title: To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.436 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.533 - Title: To make full estate tax repeal, small business expensing, and SECA tax deduction for health insurance permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1960 - Title: To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1986 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $4,000,000, reduce the maximum estate tax rate to 40 percent, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax H.R.2023 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2658 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance.

S 823 and HR 2452 - Net Operating Loss Carryback Act; Issue: the need for business tax relief HR 3548 - Unemployment Extension Bill - Net Operating Loss Carryback provision included - Support HR 2748/S 1297 - Retirement Security Needs Lifetime Pay Act; Issue: use tax code to encourage lifetime income payments HR 3399 - Consolidated Returns; Issue: need to permit consolidation of tax returns for life and non-life insurance companies HR 436, HR 498, HR 1960, HR 1986, HR 2023, HR 2658, HR 3463,HR 3841, HR 3905, HR 4015, HR 4154, S 722, and S 2784 - various bills to extend and make changes to the federal estate tax; Issue: the need for certainty for our customers with regards to the estate tax

Client expense: $50,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R.768 - Title: To establish a commission on the tax and fiscal implications of the regulation of financial products and arrangements and to study the current financial crisis, its causes and impact on the Federal deficit and tax revenues. Issue: tax implications on life insurance H.R.251 - Title: Life Insurance Employee Notification Act. Issue: effects of company owned life insurance. H.R.2452 - Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.3399 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.3669 - Title: To prohibit employers from carrying life insurance policies on their rank and file employees. Issue: use of COLI H.R.4013 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.4191 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.4412 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 50 percent tax on bonuses paid by TARP. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.156 - Title: Small Business Stimulus Act of 2009; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend enhanced small business expensing and to provide for a 5-year net operating loss carryback for losses incurred in 2008 or 2009. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.722 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent alternative minimum tax relief, middle class tax relief, and estate tax relief, and to permanently extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.823 - Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: tax as it effects life insurance. S.1835 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.1937 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies S.2927 - Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on certain securities transactions to fund job creation and deficit reduction, and for other purposes. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies TRACKING H.R.96 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.99 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.173 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.205 - Title: To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.436 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.533 - Title: To make full estate tax repeal, small business expensing, and SECA tax deduction for health insurance permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1960 - Title: To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1986 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $4,000,000, reduce the maximum estate tax rate to 40 percent, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax H.R.2023 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2658 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance.

H.R.768 : To establish a commission on the tax and fiscal implications of the regulation of financial products and arrangements and to study the current financial crisis, its causes and impact on the Federal deficit and tax revenues. Issue: tax implications on life insurance. H.R.251 - Life Insurance Employee Notification Act. Issue: effects of company owned life insurance. S.722 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent alternative minimum tax relief, middle class tax relief, and estate tax relief, and to permanently extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2452 Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.156 Title: Small Business Stimulus Act of 2009; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend enhanced small business expensing and to provide for a 5-year net operating loss carryback for losses incurred in 2008 or 2009. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.823 Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.3399 - Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R.3669 - Title: To prohibit employers from carrying life insurance policies on their rank and file employees. Issue: use of COLI TRACKING H.R.96 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.99 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.173 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.205 : To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.436 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.533 : To make full estate tax repeal, small business expensing, and SECA tax deduction for health insurance permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1960 : To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1986 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $4,000,000, reduce the maximum estate tax rate to 40 percent, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax H.R.2023 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2658 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance.

See attachment. TAX Third Quarter Report 2009 H.R. 251 - Life Insurance Employee Notification Act. Issue: effects of company owned life insurance. H.R. 768 - To establish a commission on the tax and fiscal implications of the regulation of financial products and arrangements and to study the current financial crisis, its causes and impact on the Federal deficit and tax revenues. Issue: tax implications on life insurance. H.R. 2452 - Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carry back Act; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carry back of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R. 3399 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies. Issue: taxation of life insurance companies H.R. 3669 - To prohibit employers from carrying life insurance policies on their rank and file employees. Issue: use of COLI S.156 - Small Business Stimulus Act of 2009; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend enhanced small business expensing and to provide for a 5-year net operating loss carry back for losses incurred in 2008 or 2009. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S. 722 - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent alternative minimum tax relief, middle class tax relief, and estate tax relief, and to permanently extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.823 - Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carry back Act; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carry back of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: tax as it effects life insurance. TRACKING H.R. 96 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R. 99 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R. 173 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R. 205 - To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R. 436 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R. 533 - To make full estate tax repeal, small business expensing, and SECA tax deduction for health insurance permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R. 1960 - To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1986 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $4,000,000, reduce the maximum estate tax rate to 40 percent, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax H.R. 2023 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R. 2658 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance.

H.R.768 : To establish a commission on the tax and fiscal implications of the regulation of financial products and arrangements and to study the current financial crisis, its causes and impact on the Federal deficit and tax revenues. Issue: tax implications on life insurance. H.R.251 - Life Insurance Employee Notification Act. Issue: effects of company owned life insurance. H.CON.RES.85 : Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2009 and 2011 through 2014. Issue: Budgetary issues for upcoming fiscal years. TRACKING H.R.96 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the maximum reduction in estate tax value for farmland and other special use property, to restore and increase the estate tax deduction for family-owned business interests, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.99 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce taxes by providing an alternative determination of income tax liability for individuals, repealing the estate and gift taxes, reducing corporate income tax rates, reducing the maximum tax for individuals on capital gains and dividends to 10 percent, indexing the basis of assets for purposes of determining capital gain or loss, creating tax-free accounts for retirement savings, lifetime savings, and life skills, repealing the adjusted gross income threshold in the medical care deduction for individuals under age 65 who have no employer health coverage, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.173 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.205 : To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.436 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.533 : To make full estate tax repeal, small business expensing, and SECA tax deduction for health insurance permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.1960 : To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.CON.RES.13 Title: An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.722 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for permanent alternative minimum tax relief, middle class tax relief, and estate tax relief, and to permanently extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.AMDT.873 to S.CON.RES.13 To create a deficit-neutral reserve fund for estate tax relief. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.AMDT.974 to S.CON.RES.13 To provide that no additional estate tax relief beyond that which is already assumed in this resolution, which protects over 99.7 percent of estates from the estate tax, shall be allowed under any deficit-neutral reserve fund unless an equal amount of aggregate tax relief is also provided to Americans earning less than $100,000 per year. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2023 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the estate and gift tax. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2658 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, to adjust such amount for inflation, to repeal the 1-year termination of the estate tax, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. H.R.2452 Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.156 Title: Small Business Stimulus Act of 2009; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend enhanced small business expensing and to provide for a 5-year net operating loss carryback for losses incurred in 2008 or 2009. Issue: estate tax as it effects life insurance. S.350 Title: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; an original bill to provide for a portion of the economic recovery package relating to revenue measures, unemployment, and health. Issue: tax as it effects life insurance. S.823 Title: Net Operating Loss (NOL) Carryback Act; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a 5-year carryback of operating losses, and for other purposes. Issue: tax as it effects life insurance. TRACKING: H.R.1986 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $4,000,000, reduce the maximum estate tax rate to 40 percent, and for other purposes. Issue: estate tax