MERCURY STRATEGIES, LLC for VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
What was lobbied
5 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX
General lobbying on the following issues: Digital Economy Directives proposed by OECD; State and local Taxation of Digital Good and Services; Corporate Interest Tax Deduction Regulations; Corporate Tax Rates; Dividend Taxation; Pension Smoothing; Foreign Taxation of Digital Services; State and Local Taxation of the Internet; Expensing (Bonus) Depreciation; Like Kind Exchanges; International Tax Regulations; and Term Asset Backed Security Loan Facility (TALF) Program. Lobbying on the following specific legislation: H.R. 748/S. 3548 - Employee Retention Credit; H.R. 1725/S. 765 - Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2019; H.R. 1869/S. 803 - Restoring Investment in Improvement Act; H.R. 4796 - Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2019; H.R. 5674 - Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2020; H.R. 6802/S.3296 - Accelerate Long-Term Investment Growth Now (ALIGN) Act; H.R. 8056 - Remote Worker Relief Act of 2020; S. 604 - Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2019; S.3995 - Remote and Mobile Worker Relief Act of 2020; and S. 4318 - American Workers, Families, and Employers Assistance Act.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ANDREW J FIELDS | — |
| JAMES F GREEN | — |
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV COM
General lobbying on the following issues: federal privacy legislation; spectrum, including 3.45-3.55 GHz, C-Band, 6GHz and the need for mid-band and high-band; 5G deployment/nationalization; FirstNet; rural broadband mapping; Section 230 immunity legislation; blocking illegal use of contraband phones in prisons; GSA Wireless Deployment issues in Washington DC; FCC Connect America Pledge; Department of Defense RFI on spectrum sharing; network buildout and tower location on public lands; disaster response and network resiliency; and broadband permitting and regulatory reform. Lobbying on the following Bills: H.R. 451 - Don't Break Up the T-Band Act of 2019; H.R. 748/S. 3548 - Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (The CARES Act); H.R. 1289 - Preserving Home and Office Numbers in Emergencies Act of 2019 (PHONE Act); H.R. 4855 - Clearing Broad Airwaves for New Deployment Act (C-Band Act); H.R. 5918 - To Direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue reports after activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System, and to make improvements to network outage reporting;H.R. 6096, Reliable Emergency Alert Distribution Improvement (IREADI) Act of 2020; H.R. 6201 - Families First Coronavirus Response Act; H.R. 6563 /S. 3690 - Emergency Educational Connections Act; H.R. 6624 - The USA Telecommunications Act; H.R. 6800 - The HEROES Act; H.R. 7020 - COVID Justice and Accountability Act; H.R. 7022 - Rural Broadband Acceleration Act; H.R. 7302 - To Make High-Speed Broadband Internet Service Accessible and Affordable to All Americans, and for other purposes; H.R. 7310, -- Spectrum IT Modernization Act of 2020; H.R. 8132 - American Competitiveness of a More Productive Emerging Tech Economy Act (American COMPETE Act); H. Res. 908/S. Res. 580 - Condemning all forms of anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID-19; S. 3189 - A bill to use proceeds from spectrum auctions to support supply chain innovation and multilateral security; S. 3394 - Network Security Trade Act of 2020; S. 3398 - Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020 (EARN IT Act of 2020); S. 3717 - Spectrum IT Modernization Act of 2020; S. 4015 - Rural Connectivity Advancement Program Act of 2020; S. 4021 - Accelerating Broadband Connectivity Act of 2020; S. 4049 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021; S. 4159 - A bill to amend the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act to accommodate emerging technologies (E-Sign Act); and S. 4626 - To establish data privacy and data security protections for consumers in the US.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ANDREW J FIELDS | — |
| JAMES F GREEN | — |
Intelligence INT
General lobbying on FISA reauthorization and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine learning. Lobbying on the following bill: H.R. 8132, American COMPETE Act.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JAMES F GREEN | — |
Telecommunications TEC
General lobbying on the Tracfone acquisition, as well as the following bills: H.R. 4194 - National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2019; H.R. 4564 - Suicide Prevention Lifeline Improvement Act of 2020; H.R. 4585 - National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2019; and H.R. 5619 - Suicide Prevention Act.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ANDREW J FIELDS | — |
| JAMES F GREEN | — |
Copyright/Patent/Trademark CPT
General lobbying on digital streaming copyright legislation and issues regarding the Patent Trial and appeals board, as well as the following bill: S. 4632 - Online Content Policy Modernization Act.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ANDREW J FIELDS | — |
| JAMES F GREEN | — |
Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.