Lobbying Relationship

Client

Microsoft Corporation

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Lobbying firm

GROOM LAW GROUP, CHARTERED

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  • Request relief from requirement to file a report of foreign bank and financial accounts.

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General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $140,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Treasury - Dept of, U.S. Senate,, Y Y Department of the Treasury

Bills mentioned

H.R.7060: Renewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 2008

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

H.R.1424: A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and...

Sponsor: Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.)

S.3125: Energy Independence and Tax Relief Act of 2008

Sponsor: Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

H.R.6049: Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008

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

H.R.3923: Offshore Deferred Compensation Reform Act of 2007

Sponsor: Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.)

S.2199: Offshore Deferred Compensation Reform Act of 2007

Sponsor: John Kerry (D-Mass.)

H.R.2: Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007

Sponsor: George Miller (D-Calif.)

H.R.1591: U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq...

Sponsor: David R. Obey (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?
William Sweetnam Jr. Benefits Tax Counsel
Brigen Winters Tax Counsel, Committee on Ways and Means

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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