Consumer Technology Association (Previously the Consumer Electronics Association
Virginia
39 filings from 1 registrant · 2011–2021 · latest filed Oct 19, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$2.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.6M
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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
37 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
36 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 76 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1283114th CongressSongwriter Equity Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 869114th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to broaden the special rules for certain governmental plans under section 105(j) to include plans established by political subdivisions.9 filingsthrough 2016
Elizabeth W FrazeeTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel - Rep.Goodlatte/Press Sec. House E&C39 filingsthrough 2021
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 Justice20 filingsthrough 2021
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: consumer-technology-association-previously-the-consumer-electronics-association.
CSP
35 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
34 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
33 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
31 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
24 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
23 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Intelligence
INT
23 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
23 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
21 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
20 filings
$1.5M 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.
114th Congress
Innovation Act
9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 632114th CongressSTRONG Patents Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
S. 662114th CongressSongwriter Equity Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
S. 698114th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1770114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 845113th CongressSaving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 310113th CongressStartup Act 3.08 filingsthrough 2014
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2131113th CongressSKILLS Visa Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1013113th CongressPatent Abuse Reduction Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 169113th CongressI-Squared Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 189113th CongressStartUp Visa Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Alexandria FullingTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Clerk, House Energy and Commerce Committee; Staff Assistant, Rep. Fred Upton4 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
