Lobbying Relationship

Client

Writers Guild of America, West

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Lobbying firm

Forscey, PLLC

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  • Work in support of FCC effort to reinstate its Open Internet Order of 2015 and in opposition to legislation that would block or prohibit the FCCs effort to do so.
  • Work on developing and advocating on behalf of legislation the use and application of artificial intelligence by the private sector.
  • Work in opposition to legislation that would reduce previously enacted government approved funding for distressed multi-employer pension plans and in opposition to proposals that would increase PBGC premiums on multi-employer plans.
  • Work on legislation to reform U.S. Antitrust laws to generally strengthen standards governing competition and corporate conduct in the technology, entertainment and media, and communications sectors. Work on legislation to limit the use and application of artificial intelligence by employers. Work in support of the American Innovation and Online Choice Act.

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General Issues: Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Retirement, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Budget/Appropriations, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Health Issues

Spending: about $1,780,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2009: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), Treasury - Dept of, Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Commerce - Dept of (DOC)

Bills mentioned

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

Sponsor: Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)

H.R.2520: BROWSER Act of 2017

Sponsor: Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)

H.R.2050: Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2015

Sponsor: Joe Courtney (D-Conn.)

S.2075: American Worker Health Care Tax Relief Act of 2015

Sponsor: Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)

H.R.3719: Video CHOICE Act of 2013

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

H.R.3675: Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2014

Sponsor: Greg Walden (R-Ore.)

H.R.3674: Federal Spectrum Incentive Act of 2013

Sponsor: Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.)

H.R.3458: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure the...

Sponsor: Aaron Schock (R-Ill.)

S.J.RES.6: A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal...

Sponsor: Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas)

S.968: PROTECT IP Act of 2011

Sponsor: Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)

H.R.3261: Stop Online Piracy Act

Sponsor: Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

H.R.3458: Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009

Sponsor: Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.)

H.R.1796: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act

Sponsor: Jim Matheson (D-Utah)

S.1679: Affordable Health Choices Act

Sponsor: Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

H.R.3200: America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

Sponsor: John D. Dingell (D-Mich.)

H.R.4213: Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010

Sponsor: Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.)

H.R.1644: Save the Internet Act of 2019

Sponsor: Mike Doyle (D-Pa.)

H.R.397: Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act of 2019

Sponsor: Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.)

S.2789: STAR Act of 2019

Sponsor: Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)

H.R.5035: Television Viewer Protection Act of 2019

Sponsor: Mike Doyle (D-Pa.)

H.R.6201: Families First Coronavirus Response Act

Sponsor: Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.)

S.3548: CARES Act

Sponsor: Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

H.R.6800: The Heroes Act

Sponsor: Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.)

H.R.3957: Expanding Broadcast Ownership Opportunities Act of 2019

Sponsor: G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.)

H.R.5564: Enhancing Broadcaster DIVERSITY Data Act

Sponsor: Yvette D. Clarke (D-N.Y.)

H.R.2: Moving Forward Act

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

H.R.1319: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

Sponsor: John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)

H.R.3843: Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022

Sponsor: Joe Neguse (D-Colo.)

H.R.3460: State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act of 2022

Sponsor: Ken Buck (R-Colo.)

H.R.3849: ACCESS Act of 2021

Sponsor: Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.)

H.R.3826: Platform Competition and Opportunity Act of 2021

Sponsor: Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

H.R.3816: American Innovation and Choice Online Act

Sponsor: David Cicilline (D-R.I.)

S.225: Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021

Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

S.228: Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2021

Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

S.3880: SMART Copyright Act of 2022

Sponsor: Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)

S.2992: American Innovation and Choice Online Act

Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

H.R.3825: Ending Platform Monopolies Act

Sponsor: Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.)

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Lobbyists

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Lobbyist Covered positions?
Michael Forscey Managing Partner
Michael A. Forscey Partner Managing Partner
Katherine R Forscey Partner Member
Katherine R. Forscey 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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