Lobbying Relationship

Client

Sotheby's

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Lobbying firm

PODESTA GROUP, INC.

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  • Issues related to copyright reform
  • Regulation of art and antiquities.
  • Corporate tax reform

Duration: to

General Issues: Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Arts/Entertainment, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $1,410,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2012: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Interior - Dept of (DOI), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), State - Dept of (DOS), U.S. Copyright Office

Bills mentioned

H.R.1881: American Royalties Too Act of 2015

Sponsor: Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)

S.977: American Royalties Too Act of 2015

Sponsor: Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)

H.R.1493: Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act

Sponsor: Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.)

S.1887: Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act

Sponsor: Bob Casey (D-Pa.)

H.R.2285: Prevent Trafficking in Cultural Property Act

Sponsor: Bill Keating (D-Mass.)

S.2763: Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016

Sponsor: John Cornyn (R-Texas)

H.R.4103: American Royalties Too Act of 2014

Sponsor: Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)

S.2045: American Royalties Too Act of 2014

Sponsor: Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)

H.R.83: Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015

Sponsor: Donna M.C. Christensen (D-Virgin Islands)

H.R.5052: Lawful Ivory Protection Act of 2014

Sponsor: Steve Daines (R-Mont.)

S.2587: Lawful Ivory Protection Act of 2014

Sponsor: Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)

H.R.3688: Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011

Sponsor: Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)

S.2000: Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011

Sponsor: Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
Christine Clark CoS/Sr. Adv'r, Treasury/Terrorism & Fin. Intel. LC/LA/For. Policy. & Def. Adv'r, Sen. Jon Kyl Staff Assistant, Senate Foreign Relations Cmte.
Randall Gerard Staff Asst, Sen. Comm., Science & Trans. Cmte. Intern, Sen. John McCain
Israel Klein Dpty. SD/Communications, Jt. Economic Cmte. Press Secy/LA/Sr. Comm. Adv, Rep. Ed Markey Comm. Director, Sen. Charles Schumer
Sean McLaughlin CoS/General Counsel, H. Cmte. on Judiciary SD/Deputy Chf Min. Counsel, H. Cmte on Jud'y Deputy CoS & Gen. Counsel, H. Cmte on Jud'y Deputy Asst. Atty. General/Leg. Affairs, DOJ Counsel, H. Jud'y Cmte/Sub Crime, Terror, HS LD/Counsel, Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds
David Morgenstern Leg. Director / CoS, Sen. Lamar Alexander Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell
Elizabeth Morra Comm. Director, House Appropriations Cmte.
Andrew Lewin Leg. Asst./Leg. Director, Rep. Dennis Moore Leg. Asst./Leg. Director, Rep. Max Sandlin
Matthew Johnson Counsel/Chief Counsel, Sen. John Cornyn
Josh Holly Comm. Dir./Spksmn/Staff, H. Armed Svc. Cmte. Dir. Media Affairs, H. Ed. & Workforce Cmte. Press Secretary, Rep. Ernie Fletcher
Mark Tavlarides Director for Leg. Affairs, Nat'l Security Council Sr. Spec. Asst., Office of Sec'y of Defense
Anthony Podesta n/a
Claudia James n/a
Elizabeth Sage n/a
Cristina Antelo n/a
Daniele Baierlein n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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