Lobbying Relationship

Client

Southern Company

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Lobbying firm

Heather Podesta + Partners, LLC

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  • Monitor climate change and energy legislation, including renewable portfolio standards, transmission, and emissions allocations for coal-based utilities; monitor EPA regulation of coal ash under Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
  • Monitor financial services matters related to derivitives (H.R. 4173, the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 ).

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General Issues: Energy/Nuclear, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities

Spending: about $330,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

Bills mentioned

H.R.4173: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Sponsor: Barney Frank (D-Mass.)

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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?
Heather Podesta Counsel, Representative Robert Matsui Counsel, Representative Earl Pomeroy Legislative Fellow, Senator Bill Bradley Research Assistant, Congressional Budget Office
Julian A. Haywood Staff Dir/Counsel, House Govt Reform Subcomm on Info Policy Minority Counsel, House Committee on Government Reform Counsel, House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct Legislative Assistant & Counsel, Representative Steny Hoyer Law Intern, U.S. Attorneys Office, Southern District of NY Legislative Assistant, Representative Julian Dixon Staff Dir/Csl, House Govt Reform Subcomm Min Counsel, House Govt Reform Comm Cnsl, House Comm on Stds of Official Conduct Legislative Asst & Counsel, Rep. Steny Hoyer Legislative Assistant, Rep. Julian Dixon Counsel,House Comm on Stds of Official Conduct Legislative Assistant & Counsel, Rep. Steny Hoyer
Eric Rosen Counsel, Senate Committee on the Judiciary Asst. U.S. Attorney, Northern District of California Legislative Director, Rep. Anthony Weiner Deputy Dir, U.S. Dept of Justice, Ofc of Intergovt Affairs Legislative Assistant, Rep. Chet Atkins Asst U.S. Atty, N. Dist of CA, Dept of Justice Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee Dep Dir, Dept of Justice Off of Intergovt Affair
Mary Stanton Legislative Assistant, Senator Herb Kohl Policy Advisor, Senate Aging Committee Legislative Assistant, Rep. Anthony Weiner Legislative Correspondent, Senator Herb Kohl Staff Assistant, Senator Herb Kohl Intern, Rep. Richard Gephardt
Benjamin Klein Legislative Director, Senator Byron Dorgan Legislative Assistant, Senator Byron Dorgan

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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Registration

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

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