35 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2017 · latest filed Oct 19, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
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.
Telecommunications
TEC
34 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$270K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 27 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3101111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 773111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4572113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
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: altice-cablevision.
LBR
3 filings
$140K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$80K 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.
113th Congress
Satellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 2014
3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3304111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3480111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2799113th CongressSatellite Television Access and Viewer Rights Act2 filingsthrough 2014
S. 978112th CongressA bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5548111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5777111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3828111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3086113th CongressPermanent Internet Tax Freedom Act1 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 3509112th CongressWireless Innovation and Public Safety Act of 20111 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
Cheryl L IsaacMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Law Clerk, Senator Charles Schumer5 filingsthrough 2011
Lauren SholleyMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Prof Staff/Comm on House Admin Minority Ofc.5 filingsthrough 2010
Cort BushMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Office of Representative Eric I. Cantor; Communications Director/Legislative Assistant, Office of Representative Mary Bono Mack; Legislative Correspondent, Office of Senator Gordon H. Smith3 filingsthrough 2015
Patrick D MaraMl Strategies, LLC2 filingsthrough 2008
Robert Neal MartinMl Strategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
