Lobbying Relationship

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Lobbying firm

MEHLMAN VOGEL CASTAGNETTI, INC.

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  • General telecommunications issues; spectrum management; Internet legislation; special access; net regulation; wireless regulation; privacy; FCC regulatory; universal service fund; public safety.
  • Interoperability legislation
  • General Tax Issues.
  • Labor/management legislation and issues Arbitration Fairness Act

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

Spending: about $645,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Executive Office of the President (EOP),, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Bills mentioned

S.3427: Pre-Paid Mobile Device Identification Act

Sponsor: Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)

S.2171: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on ultra-high molecular weight...

Sponsor: Arlen Specter (D-Pa.)

H.R.3402: Crime Victims Fund Preservation Act of 2009

Sponsor: Ted Poe (R-Texas)

H.R.1597: To repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments...

Sponsor: Jim Matheson (D-Utah)

S.234: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service...

Sponsor: Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.)

H.R.3919: Clean Energy Empowerment Zone Act of 2009

Sponsor: Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.)

S.1927: Credit Card Rate Freeze Act of 2009

Sponsor: Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.)

H.R.3773: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time...

Sponsor: Donna Edwards (D-Md.)

H.R.6304: Office of the Homeowner Advocate Act of 2010

Sponsor: Joe Baca (D-Calif.)

S.1927: Protect America Act of 2007

Sponsor: Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

H.R.3773: FISA Amendments Act of 2008

Sponsor: John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)

H.R.6304: FISA Amendments Act of 2008

Sponsor: Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas)

S.2171: Uniform Wireless Consumer Protection Act

Sponsor: Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)

H.R.3402: Calling Card Consumer Protection Act

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

H.R.1597: Wireless Innovation Act of 2007

Sponsor: Jay Inslee (D-Wash.)

S.234: Wireless Innovation Act of 2007

Sponsor: John Kerry (D-Mass.)

H.R.3919: Broadband Census of America Act of 2007

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

S.2248: FISA Amendments Act of 2008

Sponsor: John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.)

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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?
Alex Vogel Chief Counsel, Sen. Frist
Kelly Bingel Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln
David Castagnetti Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus
Karin Hudson Legislative Asst. Sen. Chris Dodd
Dean Rosen Health Policy Director, Sen. Bill Frist
Elise Finley Pickering Chief of Staff, Rep. Shaddegg; Exec. Dir. RPC
David Thomas Chief of Staff, Rep. Zoe Lofgren
Allen Thompson Sr Prof Staff, House Cmte on Homeland Security
Stacey Rampy Legislative Dir., Rep Eshoo
Colette Desmarais Health Policy Advisor, Sen. Grassley
Jonathan Hoganson Policy Director, House Democratic Caucus;
Cynthia Brown Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bart Stupak
Brian Wild Sr. Advisor, Office of Speaker John Boehner; Dep. Assistant for Leg. Affairs, VP Cheney; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pat Toomey; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Hank Brown
Jamie Brown Special Asst. to President for Leg. Affairs
Bruce Mehlman Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy
Jonathan Hoganson (continued) Legislative Director, Rep. Rahm Emanuel
BRUCE P. MEHLMAN n/a
C. STEWART VERDERY n/a
Jamie Brown Hantman (Brown) 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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