This online system replaces the IBM forms , which will no longer be accepted after January 20, Filing online is fast and easy. Just log into the system using your Senate ID and password, and then follow the prompts for selecting filing year and type of report.
The next LD-2 quarterly filing deadline is January 20, for the reporting period October 1, through December 31, The second quarter report is due July 21, , covering April 1, through June 30, There are newer web based versions of the lobbying disclosure forms available for use on all of your future filings.
These new Online Lobbying Disclosure forms have been available for over three years now and will be replacing the IBM forms early next year. We encourage you to start using these forms as we will not be accepting IBM forms after the Fourth Quarter filing period ending January 20th, This revision contains the following update:.
Updated Registration Threshold As required by the LDA, the lobbying disclosure thresholds referenced throughout the Guidance have been updated to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index as determined by the Secretary of Labor during the preceding 4-year period. This revision contains changes to the following sections:. View the Revised Guidance.
This code can be used to report activity related to miscellaneous tariff bills. Download the PDF. This notice is in response to several questions raised about the recently posted Notice and Guidance Revisions. This notice responds to questions about the impact of filing an amended LD-1 or LD-2 report on the duty to file an LD report. Revised Guidance. In light of the thousands of new filers and the significant new disclosures required by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, we are considering revising and providing additional guidance.
Comments and suggestions should be directed to the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Legislative Resource Center in time for evaluation before the next reporting cycle. In order to accommodate the thousands of new filers who are required to participate in the LD disclosure process, we have amended our guidance to provide some clarification and assist new filers in the completion of the LD form.
I had fun at first. Unlimited expense accounts, nights out on the town, expensive bottles of wine, elaborate meals with sitting senators and Congress members — that was my life. It was an endless cycle of money trading hands for votes. But sometimes the subtlety goes away. When I was representing the wine and spirits distributors, I had scheduled a meeting with a member of the Nevada delegation.
I was asked to leave my clients in the lobby for the time being. So why exactly are you here for a meeting? He held in front of me a call sheet with the times and dates both he and his fundraiser had called us for donations.
They were highlighted in yellow. They walked in, we sat down as if nothing had happened, he said he supported every one of our pertinent legislative issues, and then we all shook hands and walked out. How easy could an all-but-basic bribe have been, really? Over the years, the work began to weigh on me. Every fundraiser was yet another legal bribe. This is what I was doing Monday through Friday for basically 52 weeks of the year, excluding congressional recesses and holidays.
Put yourself in my shoes. Think you could handle it? Think your bank account could handle it? Better yet, think your conscience, your morals could handle it? All too often, they just care about the money. After eight years of paying for meetings with politicians, I had to get out. I sat on Nantucket with the guy I was dating at the time, and we talked about how gross it all was.
Know this: Lobbyists are not bad people. Those reports are due every six months. Those rules clearly leave a huge gray area for people who are seeking to influence federal policy, said James Thurber, who heads the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University in Washington.
Current law requires registered lobbyists to file quarterly reports about any contacts with lawmakers or government officials. But lobbyists do not have to report a contact if the meeting was initiated by someone else, not them. The lobbying industry is arguably the U.
Yet critics say it undermines the country's democracy by tilting the power to influence policy in favor of those with unlimited financial resources. Nearly 12, active lobbyists in Washington, D. Jimmy Williams worked as a lobbyist from to Before that, he worked as a legislative staffer for nearly a decade.
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