Lobbying Relationship

Client

Verizon Communications, Inc. and various subsidiaries

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Lobbying firm

Empire Consulting Group

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  • Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). FCC spectrum auction authority. Issues related to DEI.

Duration: to

General Issues: Telecommunications, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Immigration

Spending: about $1,590,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2011: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, White House Office, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), House of Representatives,

Bills mentioned

S.J.RES.34: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter...

Sponsor: Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)

H.R.2666: No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act

Sponsor: Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.)

H.R.1731: National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015

Sponsor: Michael McCaul (R-Texas)

H.R.3086: Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act

Sponsor: Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va.)

H.R.4718: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify and make permanent...

Sponsor: Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio)

H.R.4572: STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014

Sponsor: Greg Walden (R-Ore.)

S.1431: Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

H.R.3309: Innovation Act

Sponsor: Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va.)

H.R.3077: TELE-MED Act of 2013

Sponsor: Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)

H.R.3523: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act

Sponsor: Mike Rogers (R-Mich.)

H.R.1860: Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2011

Sponsor: Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

H.R.1002: Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2011

Sponsor: Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.)

H.R.3596: United States Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act

Sponsor: Timothy H. Bishop (D-N.Y.)

H.R.3309: Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2012

Sponsor: Greg Walden (R-Ore.)

H.R.3310: Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act of 2012

Sponsor: Steve Scalise (R-La.)

H.R.1249: Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Sponsor: Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

H.R.654: Do Not Track Me Online Act

Sponsor: Jackie Speier (D-Calif.)

H.RES.873: Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 129)...

Sponsor: Mike Doyle (D-Pa.)

H.R.2063: E-FRONTIER Act

Sponsor: Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.)

S.918: E-FRONTIER Act

Sponsor: Ted Cruz (R-Texas)

H.R.2500: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020

Sponsor: Adam Smith (D-Wash.)

H.R.530: Accelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act...

Sponsor: Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.)

H.R.2: Moving Forward Act

Sponsor: Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.)

H.R.8152: American Data Privacy and Protection Act

Sponsor: Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)

H.R.7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

Sponsor: Adam Smith (D-Wash.)

H.R.7624: Spectrum Innovation Act of 2022

Sponsor: Mike Doyle (D-Pa.)

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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?
Mike McKay Sr. Advisor, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY)
Lavita Strickland LeGrys DHS-Dir/Office Leg. Affairs, Sr. Counselor/DHS Chief Procurement Officer, Sr. Adv/Assist. Sec. Private Sector; TSA-Assist. Admin. Legal Affairs; SBA-Cong. & Public Liaison; Sen. Feinstein-Jud. Counsel; Jordan Immigration Commission-Legal Counsel DHS-Dir/Office Leg. Affairs, Sr. Counselor/DHS Chief Procurement Officer, Sr. Adv./Asst. Sec. Private Sector; TSA-Assist. Admin. Leg. Affairs; SBA-Cong. & Public Liaison; Sen. Feinstein (D-CA)-Jud. Counsel; Jordan Immigration Commission-Legal Counsel
Mike Mullen Senior Advisor, Rep. Mike Doyle; and Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Turner
Ebony Meeks-Laidley Assistant Press Secretary, US Department of Energy
Brian Greer Prof. Staff-House Armed Services Comm.; Military Leg Asst.- Sen. Charles Schumer; Spec Asst.-Off. of Sec. of Defense; Military Leg Asst.- Rep. John Boccieri; Military Leg Asst.-Rep. Parker Griffith; Leg Asst., Staff Asst. & Leg Corr.-Rep. David Scott
Brandon Garrett Chief of Staff-Rep. Robin Kelly; Policy Dir.-Political Advisor to VP Joseph Biden for 2012 Obama/Biden Campaign; Policy Dir.-Cong. Black Caucus/Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II; Leg. Dir.-Rep. Marcia Fudge; and Leg. Asst.-Rep. Wm. Jefferson
Chaka Burgess n/a
Robert Branson 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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