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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Foreign Relations
FOR
42 filings
$1.2M on those filings
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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2403117th CongressTurkey Human Rights Promotion Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
David AdamsCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Asst Secy for Legislative Affairs, Dept. of State // Dpty. Asst Secy for House Affairs, Dept. of State // SD, H. For. Aff. Cmte./Sub. on M. East & S. Asia // Prof. Staff, H. Foreign Affairs Cmte.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 45 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: alliance-for-shared-values.
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.
118th Congress
Stop Transnational Repression Act
4 filingsthrough 2024
S. 831118th CongressTransnational Repression Policy Act4 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2139119th CongressStrengthening State and Local Efforts to Counter Transnational Repression Act2 filingsthrough 2025
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.
17 filingsthrough 2021
Mark TavlaridesPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Dir. for Leg. Affairs, Nat'l Security Council // Sr. Spec. Asst., Office of Sec'y of Defense8 filingsthrough 2017
David AdamsPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Asst Secy for Legislative Affairs, Dept. of State // Dpty. Asst Secy for House Affairs, Dept. of State // SD, H. For. Aff. Cmte./Sub. on M. East & S. Asia // Prof. Staff, H. Foreign Affairs Cmte. // Leg. Director, Rep. Gary Ackerman7 filingsthrough 2017
Riley MoorePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Intern/Dpty Clk/Prof Staff, H Cmte For. Affairs // Del. Scty, US Del to NATO Parl. Assembly6 filingsthrough 2017
Suleyman TurhanogullariWashington Diplomacy Group, LLC (Formerly Known as: Washington Strategy Group LLC)3 filingsthrough 2017
Cemil TeberWashington Diplomacy Group, LLC (Formerly Known as: Washington Strategy Group LLC)3 filingsthrough 2017
Bilal EksiliWashington Diplomacy Group, LLC (Formerly Known as: Washington Strategy Group LLC)3 filingsthrough 2017
