A H Belo Corporation — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
A H Belo Corporation
Texas
17 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Oct 21, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$280K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$280K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
17 filings
$280K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 36 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: a-h-belo-corporation.
TAX
1 filing
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
112th Congress
Wireless Innovation and Public Safety Act of 2011
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3675112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1549112th CongressAmerican Jobs Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2008112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 911112th CongressPublic Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2035110th CongressFree Flow of Information Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2507110th CongressDTV Border Fix Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S.J.Res. 28110th CongressA joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3101111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 607112th CongressBroadband for First Responders Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 28112th CongressPublic Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2994111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
