Competitive Carriers Association (Formerly — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Competitive Carriers Association (Formerly Rural Cellular Association)
District of Columbia
36 filings from 1 registrant · 2011–2020 · latest filed Oct 20, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
34 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
28 filings
$1M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 99 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Debra DixonTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Chief of staff to Rep. Xavier Becerra, legislative director to Rep. Becerra, legislative counsel to Rep. Becerra, chief of staff, Office of Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Education, Immigration Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice16 filingsthrough 2020
Sharon Ringley
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: competitive-carriers-association-formerly-rural-cellular-association.
CSP
20 filings
$640K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
20 filings
$640K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
4 filings
$150K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Twinlogic Strategies, LLP
Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff - Former Rep. Rick Boucher
Sarah Dumont-MerchakTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Senate Banking Committee professional staff member, former Rep. Bill McCollum, senior banking associate, former Rep. Bill Barr, deputy legislative director, House Banking and Financial Service Committee staff member12 filingsthrough 2018
