MERCURY STRATEGIES, LLC for VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
What was lobbied
4 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX
H.R.235/S.431 - Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act/Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act; H.R.879 - Ax the Tax on Middle Class Americans Health Plans Act; H.R.1087 - Wireless Telecommunications Tax and Fee Collection Fairness Act of 2015; H.R.1643/S.851 - Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2015; H.R.2050 - Middle Class Health Benefit Tax Repeal Act of 2015; H.R.2775 - Remote transactions Parity Act of 2015 (to grant states the authority to enforce state and local sales and use tax laws on remote transactions); H.R.2821 -Partnership Audit Simplification Act of 2015; H.R.2889/S.1686 - Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2015; S.116 - Telephone Excise Tax Elimination Act of 2015; and S.386 - Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2015; S.698 - Marketplace Fairness Act of 2015; and S.1666 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation of the election to accelerate the AMT credit in lieu of bonus depreciation for 2015 and 2016.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ANDREW J FIELDS | — |
| JAMES F GREEN | — |
Intelligence INT
H.R.1560 - Protecting Cyber Networks Act; H.R.1731 - National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015; H.R.2048 - USA Freedom Act of 2015 (to reform the authorities of the Federal Government to require various forms of information gathering tor foreign intelligence and counterterrorism); S.754 - Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015; S.1035 & S. 1357 - To extend authority relating to roving surveillance, access to business records, and individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers under the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JAMES F GREEN | — |
Copyright/Patent/Trademark CPT
H.R.9 - Innovation Act (regarding patent infringement); and S.1137 - Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship (PATENT) Act of 2015.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ANDREW J FIELDS | — |
| JAMES F GREEN | — |
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV COM
H.R.734 - Federal Communications Commission Consolidation and Reporting Act of 2015; H.R.805 -Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act of 2015 (to provide for certain requirements relating to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority stewardship transition); H.R.1506 - Small Business Access to Spectrum Act; H.R.1770 - Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2015; H.R.2583 - Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2015; S.356 - Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments of 2015; and S.1618 - Wireless Innovation Act of 2015 (to reallocate Federal Government-held spectrum). General Lobbying on the following issues: Communications Act update/telecommunications reform; Net Neutrality/Internet Governance/FCC rules [including Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) functions]; privacy; data security; and Spectrum policy allocation issues; incentive auction policy; LTE-U issues (unlicensed spectrum as a potential alternative to Wi-Fi).
| 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.