I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2317 
To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require registered lobbyists 
to file quarterly reports on contributions bundled for certain recipients, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2007 
Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. EMANUEL, 
Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. BISHOP of New York, and Mr. WAXMAN) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require 
registered lobbyists to file quarterly reports on contribu-
tions bundled for certain recipients, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lobbying Trans-
parency Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. QUARTERLY REPORTS BY REGISTERED LOBBYISTS 
ON CONTRIBUTIONS BUNDLED FOR CERTAIN 
RECIPIENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5 of the Lobbying Disclo-
sure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1604) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(d) QUARTERLY
REPORTS
ON
CONTRIBUTIONS 
BUNDLED FOR CERTAIN RECIPIENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 45 days 
after the end of the quarterly period beginning on 
the first day of January, April, July, and October of 
each year, each registered lobbyist who bundles 2 or 
more contributions made to a covered recipient in an 
aggregate amount exceeding $5,000 for such covered 
recipient during such quarterly period shall file a re-
port with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk 
of the House of Representatives containing— 
‘‘(A) the name of the registered lobbyist; 
‘‘(B) in the case of an employee, his or her 
employer; and 
‘‘(C) the name of the covered recipient to 
whom the contribution is made, and to the ex-
tent known the aggregate amount of such con-
tributions (or a good faith estimate thereof) 
within the quarter for the covered recipient. 
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‘‘(2) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION.— 
In filing a report under paragraph (1), a registered 
lobbyist shall exclude from the report any informa-
tion described in paragraph (1)(C) which is included 
in any other report filed by the registered lobbyist 
with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of 
the House of Representatives under this Act. 
‘‘(3) REQUIRING SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION 
PRIOR TO FILING REPORTS.—Not later than 25 days 
after the end of a period for which a registered lob-
byist is required to file a report under paragraph (1) 
which includes any information described in such 
section with respect to a covered recipient, the reg-
istered lobbyist shall transmit by certified mail to 
the covered recipient involved a statement con-
taining— 
‘‘(A) the information that will be included 
in the report with respect to the covered recipi-
ent; and 
‘‘(B) the source of each contribution in-
cluded in the aggregate amount referred to in 
paragraph (1)(C) which the registered lobbyist 
bundled for the covered recipient during the pe-
riod covered by the report and the amount of 
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the contribution attributable to each such 
source. 
‘‘(4) DEFINITION OF REGISTERED LOBBYIST.— 
For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘registered 
lobbyist’ means a person who is registered or is re-
quired to register under paragraph (1) or (2) of sec-
tion 4(a), or an individual who is required to be list-
ed under section 4(b)(6) or subsection (b). 
‘‘(5) DEFINITION
OF
BUNDLED
CONTRIBU-
TION.—For purposes of this subsection, a registered 
lobbyist ‘bundles’ a contribution if— 
‘‘(A) the contribution is received by a reg-
istered lobbyist for, and forwarded by a reg-
istered lobbyist to, the covered recipient to 
whom the contribution is made; or 
‘‘(B) the contribution will be or has been 
credited or attributed to the registered lobbyist 
through records, designations, recognitions or 
other means of tracking by the covered recipi-
ent to whom the contribution is made. 
‘‘(6) 
OTHER
DEFINITIONS.—In 
this 
sub-
section— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘contribution’ has the mean-
ing given such term in the Federal Election 
Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et seq.), 
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except that such term does not include a con-
tribution in an amount which is less than $200; 
‘‘(B) the terms ‘candidate’, ‘political com-
mittee’, and ‘political party committee’ have the 
meaning given such terms in the Federal Elec-
tion Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et 
seq.); 
‘‘(C) the term ‘covered recipient’ means a 
Federal candidate, an individual holding Fed-
eral office, a leadership PAC, or a political 
party committee; and 
‘‘(D) the term ‘leadership PAC’, means 
with respect to an individual holding Federal 
office, an unauthorized political committee 
which is associated with an individual holding 
Federal office, except that such term shall not 
apply in the case of a political committee of a 
political party.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to the second quar-
terly period described in section 5(d)(1) of the Lobbying 
Disclosure Act of 1995 (as added by subsection (a)) which 
begins after the date of the enactment of this Act and 
each succeeding quarterly period. 
Æ 
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