National Cable and Telecommunications… — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
National Cable and Telecommunications Association Fka National Cable Television
District of Columbia
26 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 20, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$2.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.3M
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
26 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
14 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 63 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1084113th CongressTo authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Muhammad Ali in recognition of his contributions to the Nation.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1804113th CongressVeterans Accountability Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
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: national-cable-and-telecommunications-association-fka-national-cable-television.
TAX
12 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
10 filings
$900K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
9 filings
$810K 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.
113th Congress
Cure for AIDS Act of 2013
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 434113th CongressPermanent Internet Tax Freedom Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 86113th CongressCybersecurity Education Enhancement Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2309113th CongressWireless Tax Fairness Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2342113th CongressCARE 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.
26 filings
through 2015
Nick KolovosRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: LA Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-California)22 filingsthrough 2015
Jeffery C MortierRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: Prof Staff on E&C Cmte and LA Rep Whitfield16 filingsthrough 2015
William D PhillipsRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Rodney HoppeRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: Deputy Press Secretary, Energy and Commerce4 filingsthrough 2008
Douglas R NappiRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Banking Committee4 filingsthrough 2008
George C O'ConnorRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
