Includes letter from Representative Lionel Van Deerlin, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Communications to House members; various acts and resolutions before the House of Representatives reforming parts of the 1934 Communications Act, calling for national communications policies, or returning regulatory oversight to state commissions.

Mailing to stockholders suggesting they ask their representatives to oppose the Bell Bill; presentation materials for rebutting established AT&T arguments against competition; legislator mailing list for McGowan's letter urging opposition to Bell Bill and responses; correspondence from other sources and organizations; notes and drafts on miscellaneous tasks; summary sheet for Bell Bill of 1977.

Includes letter from A.G.W. Biddle, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, requesting support for Rep. Tim Wirth's re-election campaign, and suggesting that member companies form political action committees to support Wirth; drafts of letters from McGowan soliciting donations for Wirth campaign; list of donations made as a result of McGowan letter.

Includes mailing lists and responses to invitations to fund-raising reception for Representative Wirth; record of donations made by MCI employees and officers; memoranda from the Wirth steering committee regarding preparation for the reception.

Includes overviews and commentaries on House Resolution 13015, the Communications Act of 1978, by corporations and organizations including Satellite Business Systems, ACCT, and AT&T.

Boilerplate testimony for MCI representatives with preparatory materials.

Includes drafts, transcripts and summaries of statements to the House Communications Subcommittee on H.R. 13015 by McGowan and Kenneth A. Cox, Senior Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs; clipping from Telephony excerpting testimony regarding Section 333 of the Act dealing with divestiture of manufacturing subsidiaries.

Includes lists of suggested questions for AT&T witnesses; summaries of 1974 Senate hearings on competition in communications regarding anti-competitive practices by Bell companies; statement by Edward Crossland of AT&T on S. 2028, the Competition Improvements Act of 1975.

Includes MCI lobbying correspondence to U.S. Representatives and government officials in the matter of AT&T's use of the Execunet decision to promote support for the Bell Bill; Senate and House contact lists, hearing schedules, memoranda and lobbying correspondence; reports of lobbying calls on particular representatives offices and follow-up correspondence; committee reports and press clippings by the United States Independent Telephone Association outlining efforts in support of Bell Bill; AT&T response document to MCI allegations.

Includes correspondence regarding Senate Joint Resolution 30, the pro-competition resolution offered by Senator Gary Hart.

Includes quarterly reports detailing all activities related to lobbying against the Consumer Communications Reform Acts with dates of meetings and parties met, telephone conversations, correspondence and documents reviewed by Swezey and Kenneth A. Cox; costs and details of related mailings; general overview of related activities for McGowan and other executives.

Includes letter from Swezey to Andrew Margeson of the House Communications Subcommittee with extracts from Docket 20003 on cross subsidies and separations procedures and listing of AT&T filings with the FCC against MCI.

Includes annotated transcript of opening remarks of Rep. Marty Russo in Chicago field hearings for H.R. 13015; letter from FCC Chairman Charles Ferris to Van Deerlin.

Includes summaries of 1975 U.S. House of Representatives Communications Subcommittee hearings of competition in communication; letters from Swezey to Alan Pearce of the House Communications Subcommittee with information enclosures regarding telecommunications technology and FCC Docket 20003; list of abbreviations and terms from the FCC's 1972 Annual Report.

Includes 1979 memorandum from MCI's Robert S. Jackson to McGowan suggesting strategies for Congressional staff briefings; legislative impact analyses of various communications reform bills; statement of Kenneth Cox before House Communications Subcommittee's exploratory hearings on competition in domestic common carrier communications annotated on reverse with undated meeting notes by Swezey; submissions and statements to Subcommittee by various groups and individuals; drafts and transcripts of McGowan statement; agenda, notes and correspondence regarding 1977 Subcommittee panel discussions; Ad-Hoc Committee on Competitive Telecommunications [ACCT] draft testimony and interrogatory response.

Includes document prepared by MCI suggesting areas of consensus reached during the panel discussions before the House Communications Subcommittee's September 1977 hearings regarding competition in telecommunication.

Includes transcripts of statements and responses to statements before the Subcommittee's exploratory hearings on competition in domestic common carrier communications; Swezey's analysis and summaries of proceedings; background, briefing documents and transcripts of presentations including Competition in Telecommunications Whose Benefit What Cost briefing supporting Bell Bill proposals, Future Impact of Competition Policies [address to the United States Independent Telephone Association presenting the Systems Applications, Inc. competitive impact study].

Includes AT&T response package to hearings with Newton Minow of Sidley & Austin's analysis of deregulation and selective competition in the railroad industry and Embedded Direct Cost Study by AT&T determining cost and revenue of services; statement by Alfred Kahn, chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission; summary of sessions and conclusion memoranda by Swezey for FCC Oversight Hearings; Interrogatory No. 339 listing repetitive issues, arguments and pleadings; MCI's Enterprise of Progress mailing.

Includes pro-competition presentations from FCC's Paul Darling and Joseph Fogarty; Petition for...Investigation of Improper Political Activity of [AT&T]; McGowan mailing to Senators in support of Senator Hart's pro-competition resolution; highlights of ACCT report on historical perspective of competition; ACCT activity summary, legislative program expense report for Swezey; preparatory and follow up materials for 1976 Annual Meeting of Stockholders; preparatory material for New York Society of Security Analysts presentation.

Transcripts of testimonies and statements of specialized carriers, including MCI, ACCT and Satellite Business Systems.

Includes summaries of panel discussions held on domestic common carrier policy prepared for members and staff of the subcommittee; drafts of MCI's comments on the panel discussion and draft annotated and revised by Kenneth A. Cox, with recommendations for future legislative framework.

Testimonies and submissions to the senate Antitrust and Monopolies Subcommittee's hearings of S.1167, the Industrial Reorganization bill includes transcript of AT&T's W.L. Mobraaten's 1974 speech to the Atlanta Society of Financial Analysts on financing and competition; statement by Jack Baird, Vice President- Engineering for AT&T, annotations by Swezey; transcription of portion of hearing discussion between Senators Kennedy and Hart and Stephen Fletcher, of the Western Electric Company; summary of antitrust study; testimony of Jerry Cohen, former chief counsel to the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, in FCC Docket 18128, on AT&T monopoly and anti-competitive practices.

Includes letter to David Aylward, of the office of Representative Timothy Wirth, regarding the Execunet decision.

Draft schedules for calls on legislators, reports on lobbying visits and calls made to various legislators offices with results of visit, recommendations for follow up and subsequent actions; follow-up mailing to legislators; summary of lobbying visit activity and outcomes; draft of resolution regarding an extensive review of telecommunications policy and evaluation of resolution as alternative to Bell Bill.

Includes selections from Congressional Record dealing with the Consumer Communications Reform Act.

Includes newsletter summarizing exploratory hearings on competition; agenda for MCI Telecommunications Corporation Officers meeting with notes for Swezey's presentation on Bell Bill hearings.

Includes Bell Operating Companies lobbying material Crisis in Telecommunications; MCI response mailing with fact sheet Competition in U.S. Telecommunications; draft press releases and transcripts by William G. McGowan commenting on AT&T lobbying activities; memoranda and correspondence with media outlets and organizations; clippings and transcripts regarding legislative and regulatory matters.

Includes letter from Timothy Wirth to legislators seeking support for joint resolution in support of competition; MCI proposal to form the Telecommunications Industry Conference lobbying group to support pro-competition legislation, with list of prospective members and plan for activities; 1976 conference on rural communications discussion paper opposing AT&T position on the impact of competition on rural communities and discussing possible positive impact of Satellite Business Systems; correspondence between legislators and interest groups; legislative contact lists and activity reports for Swezey; briefing documents on technology questions to present to AT&T witnesses; drafts of brochures for MCI services and marketing.

Includes MCI presentation annotated by Swezey chronicling and interpreting House Resolution 12323, the Consumer Communications Reform Act of 1976, also referred to as the Bell Bill; clippings from Congressional Record; McGowan and Kenneth Cox letters to U.S. Senators; fact and summary sheets addressing various competitive issues and claims made by AT&T; Inquiry into Public Interest Considerations Regarding Establishment of a Communications Monopoly in the matter of FCC docket number 20640...Tariff FCC No.1. Execunet Service.

Includes transcript of MCI officers presentation to the NYSSA with question and answer session discussing Consumer Communications Reform Act; opinion and order in United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia case no. 73-2051, regarding AT&T's motion to dismiss MCI's petition for review of FCC tariff increases; private investigation report on Goeken, on behalf of Oppenheimer & Co.; press release announcing MCI's antitrust action against AT&T; transcript of December 1973 remarks by Bernard Strassburg, chief of the common carrier division of the FCC, regarding anti-competitive activities by AT&T.