4th Quarter - Report — CATERPILLAR INC. for CATERPILLAR INC (2017)

A later version of this report replaces this one, so LegiList's totals use the current version instead. This page shows this version exactly as filed.

Firm

CATERPILLAR INC.

Client

CATERPILLAR INC

Income

—

Expenses

$630,000

Expense method

A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

Versions of this report

Every filing the register holds for this firm, client and period, oldest first. The most recent one is the version LegiList counts.

Filing	Filed	Amount	Counted
4th Quarter - Report (this page)	Jan 22, 2018	$630,000	Replaced
4th Quarter - Amendment	Jan 22, 2018	$630,000	Yes

What was lobbied

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

Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD

General discussions related to trade policy (no bill number) Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 2017 (H.R. 4318/S. 2108) - entire bill Education efforts concerning trade issues related to Department of Commerce, Sec. 232 Investigation on steel mill product imports (no bill number) Education efforts concerning trade issues related to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (no bill number)

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
KATIE HAYS (STRONG)	—
KAI K. HIRABAYASHI	—
CHRISTOPHER MYERS	—

Contacted: SENATE; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Executive Office of the President (EOP); Treasury, Dept of

Bills named: S. 2108 (115th), H.R. 4318 (115th)

Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities FIN

Nominations for the Export Import Bank Board of Directors (no bill number)

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
KATIE HAYS (STRONG)	—
CHRISTOPHER MYERS	—

Contacted: Executive Office of the President (EOP); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Treasury, Dept of; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); SENATE

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

H.R. 1 - Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (entire bill) - P.L.115-97 Issues surrounding OECD Base-Erosion & Profit Shifting (BEPS) (no bill number)

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
KATIE HAYS (STRONG)	—
KAI K. HIRABAYASHI	—
CHRISTOPHER MYERS	—

Contacted: Executive Office of the President (EOP); SENATE; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Treasury, Dept of

Bills named: H.R. 1 (115th)

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

General issues relating to labor relations

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
KAI K. HIRABAYASHI	—

Contacted: Executive Office of the President (EOP); Commerce, Dept of (DOC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Treasury, Dept of

Health Issues HCR

H.R. 1628 "American Health Care Act" (Title I, Subtitle D, and Title II) No Bill Number "Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson" proposal (provisions related to employer sponsored health care) General issues relating to health care

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
KAI K. HIRABAYASHI	—

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Treasury, Dept of; SENATE; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Bills named: H.R. 1628 (115th)

Retirement RET

Changes to Pension Nondiscrimination Testing for Defined Benefit Pension Plans (IRS REG-125761-14) S.852 and H.R. 1968 "Retirement Security Preservation Act of 2017" (entire bill)

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
KATIE HAYS (STRONG)	—

Contacted: Executive Office of the President (EOP); Treasury, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); SENATE

Bills named: S. 852 (115th), H.R. 1968 (115th)

Copyright/Patent/Trademark CPT

General issues relating to patent reform and intellectual property.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
KAI K. HIRABAYASHI	—

Contacted: Executive Office of the President (EOP); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Treasury, Dept of

Energy/Nuclear ENG

S. 1460: To provide for the modernization of the energy and natural resources policies of the United States (Whole Bill) S. 1447, H.R. 3107: The Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2017 (Whole Bill) H.R. 3354 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2018 - Funding for Diesel Emissions Reduction Act

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
JASON LYNN	—

Contacted: Treasury, Dept of; SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Executive Office of the President (EOP); Commerce, Dept of (DOC)

Bills named: H.R. 3107 (115th), S. 1447 (115th), H.R. 3354 (115th), S. 1460 (115th)

Immigration IMM

Executive Order 13788, "Buy American and Hire American" (Sec. 5, "Ensuring the integrity of the Immigration System in order to 'Hire American.'")

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
KAI K. HIRABAYASHI	—

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Treasury, Dept of; SENATE

Education EDU

H.R. 2353 "Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act" (entire bill)

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
KAI K. HIRABAYASHI	—

Contacted: Treasury, Dept of; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); SENATE; Executive Office of the President (EOP); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 2353 (115th)

Transportation TRA

Funding for the Highway Trust Fund (No bill number)

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
JASON LYNN	—

Contacted: SENATE; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Executive Office of the President (EOP); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Treasury, Dept of

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.