VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES for VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES
What was lobbied
6 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV COM
-HR 4521 and S. 1260, America COMPETES Act/USICA (funding for Open RAN programs, CHIPS funding, and supply chain programs) -HR 5378 The Spectrum Innovation Act -S. 1472 Improving Spectrum Coordination Act -HR 5926 RESILIENT Networks Act -HR 678 The PHONE Act -HR 7783 Extending Americas Spectrum Auction Leadership Act of 2022 -S. 4117, HR 7624 Spectrum Innovation Act of 2022 -S. 3236, S. 2427 Reforming Broadband Connectivity Act of 2021 (USF Reform) -HR 8152 Privacy - the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) -S. 4865, HR 8858 - Digital Equity Foundation Act -S. 1472 - GRID Broadband Act -H.R. 2617 Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 -S. 5137-Rural Internet Improvement Act of 2022 -S. 5001- Tribal Connect Act of 2022 -Marian Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act, S.1541 - Prison Phone Act -5G -C-Band Deployment/FAA Altimeter conflict -Spectrum Pipeline -Broadband Affordability -Broadband Regulation/Net Neutrality - Broadband deployment and affordability/Implementation of NTIA's BEAD program - Notice of Funding Opportunity - BroadbandUSA (BEAD NOFO)
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| BROOKS BRUNSON-PITTS | — |
| THOMAS EDWARDS | — |
| ROBERT FISHER | — |
| ANNALEE KAIN | — |
| HANK KILGORE | — |
| JOSHUA LYNCH | — |
| CHRISTOPHER MACKAY | — |
| COURTNEY REINHARD | — |
| STACEY L SPRINKLE | — |
| MARCELA URRUTIA ZAMORA | — |
Copyright/Patent/Trademark CPT
-Patent Eligibility requirements -HR 4350, S 2791 & S 1605 - National Defense Authorization Act for 2022 (NDAA) (Cyber security, spectrum, Software bill of materials and drones) -S 3880 SMART Copyright Act of 2022 (Standard Technical Measures) -FY23NDAA (HR 7900) - Semiconductor Chips Amendment (Sec. 889), Systematic Important Entities Amendment (SEI) and Software bill of materials (S-BOM) Amendment. -Site Blocking for online copyright/IP violations - HR 7776, the Jim Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, amendment related to semiconductors.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ROBERT FISHER | — |
| ANNALEE KAIN | — |
| JOSHUA LYNCH | — |
| CHRISTOPHER MACKAY | — |
| COURTNEY REINHARD | — |
Intelligence INT
-Cybersecurity Future Networks Act (H.R.4045) -Cybersecurity
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| BROOKS BRUNSON-PITTS | — |
| ROBERT FISHER | — |
| JOSHUA LYNCH | — |
| CHRISTOPHER MACKAY | — |
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX
-S.1274 - Remote and Mobile Worker Relief Act of 2021 -HR 5376 - Build Back Better Act -HR 2558 & S.1166 - ALIGN Act -HR 4346 - Supreme Court Security Funding Act of 2022, AKA CHIPS Act of 2022 -HR 9449 & S 5021 - Broadband Grant Tax Treatment Act: A bill to exclude certain broadband grants from gross income -HR 5371 & S 1077 - Permanently Preserving America's Investment in Manufacturing Act: Makes permanent the allowance for depreciation, amortization, or depletion for purposes of determining the income limitation on the tax deduction for business interest. -HR 8913 - The TCJA Permanency Act: makes permanent provisions affecting individual and business taxpayers that were enacted in 2017 by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. -HR 1304 & S 749 - American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 2021 -Fair Access to Interstate Remedies (a measure to prevent the imposition of discriminatory taxation and undue burdens on interstate commerce by providing taxpayers access to judicial remedies in federal court: not yet introduced) -OECD Tax Proposals -Expensing of Research and Experimentation Costs -Corporate Income Tax Rates -Dividend Taxation -Expensing [Bonus] Depreciation -Like Kind Exchanges of Spectrum -Book Minimum Tax Treatment on Spectrum -Book Minimum Tax Treatment of Pensions -Book Minimum Tax Treatment of Depreciation -Digital Economy Directives proposed by the OECD -State and local Taxation of Digital Goods and Services -State and local Taxation of the Internet -Mobile Workforce State Income Legislation -Remote Worker State Payroll Withholding Tax Legislation - Foreign Taxation of Digital Service -International Tax changes to GILTI -Interest Tax Deduction Limitation under 163(j) of the I.R.C. -Extending Expiring Tax Benefits -Tax issues related to expensing and research and development expensing
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| THOMAS EDWARDS | — |
| ROBERT FISHER | — |
| ANNALEE KAIN | — |
| CHRISTOPHER MACKAY | — |
| MARK MULLET | — |
| STACEY L SPRINKLE | — |
Telecommunications TEC
-S. 120, HR 7132 SAFE Connections Act of 2022 -S. 3014 Next Generation Telecommunications Act (6th Generation of Wireless "6G") -HR 4045 "FUTURE Networks Act" (6th Generation of Wireless "6G") -Political Bias Email Act (S.4409, H.R.8160) -HR 8152 - The American Data Privacy Protection Act (ADPPA), Clean Slate for Kids Online Act of 2021 (S. 1423) -S. 3335 Robocalls -Public Lands and National Parks Access (Omni Prep)
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| BROOKS BRUNSON-PITTS | — |
| ROBERT FISHER | — |
| HANK KILGORE | — |
| JOSHUA LYNCH | — |
| CHRISTOPHER MACKAY | — |
| COURTNEY REINHARD | — |
| MARCELA URRUTIA ZAMORA | — |
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR
-Antitrust Enforcement -S. 2992 - American Innovation and Choice Online Act (Competition/Antitrust)
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ROBERT FISHER | — |
| MICHONE JOHNSON | — |
| CHRISTOPHER MACKAY | — |
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.