Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Verizon Communications (Formerly Verizon Wireless)
District of Columbia
11 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2011 · latest filed Apr 13, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$750K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$750K
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
9 filings
$710K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$440K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
- H.R. 5450 110th CongressModernize Our Bookkeeping In the Law for Employee's Cell Phone Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
- H.R. 1105 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
- H.R. 1521 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
- S. 328
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- DANIEL C TATE jr Capitol SolutionsCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Energy ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. W.J. Billy Tauzin ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. W.J. Billy Tauzin12 filingsthrough 2010
- Don Lyster Capitol SolutionsCovered position: Projects Assistant, Office of Senator Paul S. Sarbanes ; ; Legislative Aide, Office of Senator Paul S. Sarbanes9 filingsthrough 2010
- DAVID F TAYLOR jr Capitol SolutionsCovered position: Maj Staff Director, Senate CJS Approps Subcomm ; ; Asst. to Republican Majority Leader, U.S. Senate ; ; Associate Director, OMB ; ; Leg. Asst. to the Republican Leader, U.S. Senate8 filingsthrough 2010
3 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: verizon-communications-formerly-verizon-wireless.