VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC. — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 66 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

1,889

Filed by

Reported in-house

$240,288,060

Reported by firms

$62,884,750

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ millions 2007 to 2026

Filings

118 filings for 2011, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2011	MERCURY STRATEGIES, LLC	$40,000 reported
4th Quarter - Amendment 4th Quarter 2011	VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES	$3,230,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Amendment 3rd Quarter 2011	VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES	$3,240,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Amendment 2nd Quarter 2011	VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES	$4,450,000 reported
1st Quarter - Amendment 1st Quarter 2011	VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES	$4,770,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Termination Amendment 3rd Quarter 2011	KEN CUNNINGHAM GROUP, LLC	$10,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2011	AVOQ, LLC	$40,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2011	POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	$20,000 reported
4th Quarter - Termination (No Activity) 4th Quarter 2011	TIBER CREEK GROUP	— reported
4th Quarter - Reportreplaced 4th Quarter 2011	VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES	$3,190,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

Firm	Reports	Amount
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES In-house	77	$240,288,060
OGR	77	$5,730,000
AVOQ, LLC	77	$4,560,000
BGR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS	43	$3,960,000
CAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLP	71	$3,600,000
SINGER CONSULTING LLC	41	$3,264,000
THE LIVINGSTON GROUP, LLC	74	$3,000,000
POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	71	$2,900,000
MERCURY STRATEGIES, LLC	76	$2,710,000
MAYER BROWN LLP	76	$2,553,000
FORBES-TATE	53	$2,360,000
EMPIRE CONSULTING GROUP	63	$1,910,000
THE NORMANDY GROUP, LLC	46	$1,710,000
FIERCE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	20	$1,600,000
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP	28	$1,580,000
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GROUP, INC.	68	$1,545,000
CAPITOL HILL CONSULTING GROUP	46	$1,303,000
CAPITOL SOLUTIONS	15	$1,250,000
WILEY REIN LLP	61	$1,090,000
CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC	19	$950,000
LIEBMAN & ASSOCIATES, INC.	30	$920,000
COVE STRATEGIES	30	$840,000
MINDSET ADVOCACY, LLC	30	$800,000
CGCN GROUP, LLC	36	$774,000
CAPITOL CONSULTING GROUP LLC (DC)	25	$750,000
RESOLUTION PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC	31	$735,000
CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC	36	$710,000
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	10	$710,000
QGA PUBLIC AFFAIRS (FORMERLY QUINN GILLESPIE & ASSOCIATES)	11	$645,000
VENABLE LLP	30	$590,000
JONES GROUP INTERNATIONAL, LLC	16	$590,000
PHRONESISDC, LLC	10	$590,000
DLA PIPER LLP (US)	11	$560,000
DAVID LEACH	18	$530,000
MARSHALL & POPP, LLC	19	$510,000
ALPINE ADVISORS	7	$490,000
MJWT CONSULTING	38	$440,000
ALSTON & BIRD LLP	29	$430,000
TRAMMELL AND COMPANY	23	$400,000
D&D STRATEGIES, LLC	21	$387,500
PAUL HASTINGS LLP	7	$350,000
WESTNER ASSOCIATES	30	$335,250
KEN CUNNINGHAM GROUP, LLC	17	$290,000
KELSAY STRATEGIES LLC	29	$240,000
BLUEWATER STRATEGIES	15	$200,000
CONVERGENCE STRATEGIES, LLC	5	$195,000
SEXTONS CREEK	12	$190,000
TIBER CREEK GROUP	8	$180,000
CAPITOL HILL STRATEGIES, LLC	8	$160,000
PARK STRATEGIES, LLC	3	$160,000
HEARTLAND STRATEGIES LLC	13	$120,000
PETER MIRIJANIAN PUBLIC AFFAIRS	6	$120,000
MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.	4	$110,000
DALY CONSULTING GROUP	6	$68,000
THE RUSSELL GROUP, INC.	4	$60,000
MCGINLEY LLC	2	$50,000
KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP	11	$20,000
CREATIVE GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS LLC	3	$20,000
THE RHOADS GROUP	2	$20,000
TRACTION STRATEGIC	1	$10,000
BILL ANAYA	1	$10,000
THE NUSSLE GROUP	7	—
SCHMITZ GLOBAL PARTNERS LLP	3	—
THE FRITTS GROUP	1	—
ALPINE GROUP PARTNERS, LLC.	1	—

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Issue	Code	Mentions
Telecommunications	TEC	1,332
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	785
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV	COM	349
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	193
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	186
Health Issues	HCR	120
Intelligence	INT	92
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace	LBR	64
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice	LAW	49
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	41
Energy/Nuclear	ENG	35
Homeland Security	HOM	33
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities	FIN	28
Environment/Superfund	ENV	24
Science/Technology	SCI	23

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 1002	112th	84
H.R. 1521	111th	74
H.R. 3077	113th	68
S. 543	112th	58
H.R. 690	111th	58
H.R. 1860	112th	56
S. 144	111th	55
H.R. 3086	113th	53
S. 1364	113th	46
H.R. 5376	117th	45
H.R. 624	113th	43
H.R. 235	114th	42
H.R. 2309	113th	42
S. 31	113th	42
S. 851	114th	38
H.R. 1	111th	36
H.R. 748	116th	34
H.R. 5353	110th	34
S. 431	114th	33
H.R. 1643	114th	33
H.R. 9	114th	32
S. 918	116th	31
H.R. 434	113th	30
S. 1192	111th	30
H.R. 3309	113th	29

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.