AT&T spent more than $3.3 million to lobby in 2Q

AT&T spent more than $3.3 million in the second quarter to lobby on a host of issues, including a bill signed earlier this month by President Bush that granted the nation's largest telephone companies immunity for participating in a secret government eavesdropping program. AT&T lobbied on health care legislation, consumer protection bills, efforts to reform Universal Service, against proposed Network Neutrality rules and on a bills that would prevent states from taxing satellite, cable and Internet television services differently, and that would prohibit US companies hosting online content, such as Web pages or e-mail, from giving users' personal information to governments that restrict Internet access.