3rd Quarter - Report

MERCURY STRATEGIES, LLC for AT&T SERVICES INC AND ITS AFFILIATES

Firm
Client
Income
$50,000
Expenses
—

What was lobbied

2 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

General lobbying on issues impacting corporate taxation, including the following specific bills: H.R.1 - Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (implementation provisions); H.R.184 - Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2017 (provisions on excise tax on medical devices); H.R.1393/S.540 - Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2017 (as it relates to changes to non-resident personal income tax returns); H.R.2193 - Remote Transaction Parity Act of 2017 (provisions related to sourcing issues for interstate sales and telecom tax simplification); H.R.6756 - American Innovation Act (provisions relating to corporate taxation); H.R.6757 - Family Savings Act (provisions relating to corporate taxation); H.R.6760 - Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act of 2018 (provisions relating to corporate taxation); and S.976 - Marketplace Fairness Act of 2017 (provisions related to sourcing issues for interstate sales and telecom tax simplification).

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
ANDREW J FIELDS —
JAMES F GREEN —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 1 (115th), H.R. 6760 (115th), H.R. 6756 (115th), S. 540 (115th), S. 976 (115th), H.R. 2193 (115th), H.R. 1393 (115th), H.R. 6757 (115th), H.R. 184 (115th)

Telecommunications TEC

Issues related to the availability and appropriate uses of commercial wireless spectrum, the integrity and security of communications networks, appropriate governance structures for Internet and communications services, broadband availability, universal service, infrastructure investment and development, data management, privacy, data security, domestic telecommunications supply chain security, cross border law enforcement requests, implementation of the First Responder Network; and legislation designed to streamline infrastructure deployment. Legislation designed to expedite and streamline the process for locating broadband infrastructure on local, state and federal property: H.R.4795-Communications Facilities Deployment on Federal Property Act of 2018; H.R.4798 - Inventory of Assets for Communications Facilities Act of 2018; H.R.4800 - Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2018; H.R. 4802 - Streamlining and Expediting Approval for Communications Technologies Act; H.R. 4810 - MAPPING NOW Act of 2018; H.R.4813 - WIFI STUDY Act; H.R.4814 - Community Broadband Act of 2018; H.R. 4817 - PEERING Act of 2018; H.R.4824 - Rural Broadband Permitting Act of 2018; H.R.4839 - RESTORED Act of 2018; ; H.R.4845 - Connecting Communities Post Disasters Act of 2018; H.R4847/S.1363 - Broadband Deployment Streamlining Act; H.R.4858 - CLIMB ONCE Act; H.R.4876 - Connecting Broadband Deserts Act of 2018; H.R.2903/S.2418 - Reasonable and Comparable Wireless Act of 2017 (provisions related to broadband metrics); H.R.288/S.288 - Small Business Broadband Deployment Act (all provisions ); S.277 - Rural Telecommunications and Broadband act of 2017 (issues concerning rural broadband deployment); H.R.2425 - Public Lands Telecommunications Act (provisions related to federal rights-of-way rents); S.1676/H.R.4232 - B-CROP Act (issues related to rural broadband support); H.R.4308 - Rural Broadband Expansion Act (issues related to broadband funding); H.R.4287 - Broadband Infrastructure Finance Innovation Act of 2017 (issues related to broadband funding); H.R.4842/H.R.4847 - Streamlining Permitting to Enable Efficient Deployment of Broadband Infrastructure Act of 2018 (issues related go communication facility placement); and S.2343/H.R,4881 - Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act (provisions relating to broadband infrastructure deployment). H.R.2/S.3042 - Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (provisions related to expansion of RUS programs to support broadband in unserved rural areas); H.R.686/S.88 - DIGIT Act (provisions related to the regulation of the Internet of Things and spectrum availability); H.R.1139 - PSC Oversight Act of 2017 (issues concerning federal universal service programs); H.R.1888 - Federal Spectrum Incentive Act of 2017 (to amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to provide incentives for reallocation of Federal Government Spectrum for commercial use); H.R.2520 - Browser Act of 2017 (issues related to privacy regulation); H.R.2810/S.1519 - National Defense Authorization Act (provisions related to supply chain); H.R.2870/S.1013 - Gigabit Opportunity Act (to amend the IRs Code of 1986 to provide tax benefits for investments in gigabit opportunity zones); H.R.4151 -- STREET Act (provisions relating to smart cities); H.R.5661 - Tribal Connect Act of 2018 (issues related to e-rate eligible services); H.R.5983/S.2973 - Kelsey Smith Act (provisions related to service provider obligations to provide location information in emergencies); H.R.5815/S.2639 - CONSENT Act (privacy provisions); H.R.6032 - SMART IoT Act (issues related to connected devices); H.R.6073 - Reprioritizing Unserved Rural Ares and Locations for Broadband Act of 2018 (provisions related to expansion of RUS programs to support broadband in unserved rural areas); H.R.6147 - Interior, Environment Financial Services and General Government, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act for 2019 (communications related provisions); H.R.6258/S.3107 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act for 2019 (communications and related provisions); H.R.6286 - Bus Act of 2018 (issues related to e-rate eligible services); H.R.6393 - 21st Century Internet Act (issues relating to net neutrality and Internet peering arrangements); H.R.6494 - Next Generation Marketplace Fairness Act (issues relating to modernization of broadcast television carriage rules); H.R.6943 - CEASE (Robocalls) Act (all provisions); S.964 - MY DATA (to protect broadband users from unfair or deceptive practices relating to privacy or data security); S.1405/H.R.2997 - FAA Appropriations issues related to unmanned aircraft systems and unmarked towers; S.1682/H.R.4953 - AIRWAVES Act (issues relating to spectrum auctions); S.1691 - Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017 (issues related to cybersecurity provisions for IoT devices); S.1809/H.R.3901 -- Moving FIRST Act (provisions relating to smart cities); S.1904 -- Smart Cities Community Act of 2017 (issues relating to smart cities); S.2391/H.R.4747 - Defending U.S. Government Communications Act (procurement related issues); and S.2510/H.R.4682 - Internet Preservation Act (Issues relating to the preservation of the open internet); S.2694 - Robocall Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2018 (provisions related to enforcement of laws against unauthorized robocalling); S.2728 - Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Protection Rights Act of 2018 (provisions related to online privacy protections); S.3157 - STREAMLINE Small Cell Deployment Act; S.3255 - E-FRONTIER Act (issues related to federal construction or operation of a nationwide broadband network); S.3828 - Authenticating Local Emergencies and Real Threats (ALERT) Act (issues relating to improvement of the emergency alert system); and S.JRes.52/H.J.Res129 - Providing for Congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of Title 5, U.S.Code, of the rule submitted by the FCC relating to Restoring Internet Freedom.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
ANDREW J FIELDS —
JAMES F GREEN —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 6943 (115th), S. 1363 (115th), S. 2343 (115th), H.R. 2903 (115th), H.R. 6032 (115th), S. 1676 (115th), S. 88 (115th), S. 277 (115th), S. 3042 (115th), S. 1519 (115th), S. 1682 (115th), S. 2391 (115th), S. 1013 (115th), H.R. 4842 (115th), S. 1904 (115th), H.R. 6258 (115th), H.R. 4876 (115th), S. 3157 (115th), H.R. 4814 (115th), H.R. 5983 (115th), H.R. 2425 (115th), H.R. 2 (115th), H.R. 4287 (115th), S. 1405 (115th), H.R. 4798 (115th), H.R. 4800 (115th), H.R. 4232 (115th), H.R. 5661 (115th), H.R. 4845 (115th), H.R. 4151 (115th), S. 2694 (115th), H.R. 6073 (115th), S. 2728 (115th), S. 3828 (115th), H.R. 1139 (115th), H.R. 2810 (115th), H.R. 2870 (115th), H.R. 686 (115th), H.R. 4308 (115th), H.R. 3901 (115th), H.R. 4682 (115th), H.R. 4817 (115th), H.R. 6286 (115th), H.R. 4802 (115th), H.R. 6393 (115th), H.R. 5815 (115th), H.R. 4824 (115th), H.R. 4795 (115th), H.R. 4847 (115th), H.J.Res. 129 (115th), S. 288 (115th), S. 3107 (115th), S. 2973 (115th), H.R. 2520 (115th), H.R. 4813 (115th), H.R. 2997 (115th), H.R. 4953 (115th), S. 3255 (115th), H.R. 1888 (115th), H.R. 4810 (115th), S. 1691 (115th), H.R. 6147 (115th), H.R. 4747 (115th), S. 1809 (115th), H.R. 6494 (115th), H.R. 4858 (115th), S.J.Res. 52 (115th), S. 2418 (115th), S. 2510 (115th), H.R. 288 (115th), S. 964 (115th), H.R. 4839 (115th), S. 2639 (115th)

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.