Motion Picture Assn of America
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), originally the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), was founded in 1922 and is designed to advance the business interests of its members. MPAA is a United States non-profit business Trade Organization and administers the voluntary, but dominant MPAA film rating system.
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Campaign Finance
$2,275,615 GivenFigures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
- corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
- organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.
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Bundled Contributions
Money raised by the firm from multiple donors on behalf of the recipient. The firm's own contributions are not included.Recipient Lobbyist Amount Henry A Waxman $27,000
Lobbying
$20,499,220 SpentFigures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
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Lobbying On Behalf of Motion Picture Assn of America
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Names of Lobbyists
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Firm Hired Amount Akin, Gump et al $5,340,000 Capitol Tax Partners $2,310,000 Laxalt Corp $1,249,904 Baker & Hostetler $1,060,000 Ernst & Young $1,040,000 Parry, Romani et al $1,000,000 American Continental Group $740,000 Fritts Group $700,000 Cathy Abernathy Consultants $700,000 Mitch Rose Strategic Consulting $692,500 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Copyright, Patent & Trademark,
- Taxes,
- Arts & Entertainment,
- Radio & TV Broadcasting,
- Trade,
- Telecommunications,
- Education,
- Law Enforcement & Crime,
- Computers & Information Tech,
- Fed Budget & Appropriations
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title H.R.2994 Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act H.R.4137 College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 S.1642 Higher Education Amendments of 2007 H.R.4279 Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 H.R.1201 Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 S.3804 Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act H.R.496 Trade Enforcement Act of 2009 S.2686 Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 H.R.1201 Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005
Regulations
81 Mentions; 11 SubmissionsAll data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.
Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.
Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.
Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.
The tables show occurrences of "Motion Picture Assn of America" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Mentions in Document Text
Advisory Committees
4 people on 6 committeesData is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.
The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.
Table shows employees of "Motion Picture Assn of America" that sat on federal advisory committees.
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