Arete Associates — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Arete Associates
California
34 filings from 2 registrants · 2011–2024 · latest filed Feb 9, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$865K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$865K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF
32 filings
$845K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$380K 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 — 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.
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20143 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20133 filingsthrough 2012
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: arete-associates.
$400K
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013
3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3254112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20142 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1197113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20142 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3304113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 933113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 1034113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20141 filingthrough 2013
S. 1329113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
S. 1429113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 1540112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20121 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2219112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2011
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.
12 filings
through 2013
Robert L LivingstonThe Livingston Group, LLCCovered position: Fmr Cong US House12 filingsthrough 2013
J Allen MartinThe Livingston Group, LLCCovered position: Fmr COS Cong. Livingston12 filingsthrough 2013
Richard RodgersThe Livingston Group, LLC12 filingsthrough 2013
James GauthierThe Livingston Group, LLCCovered position: Fmr. Staff, Sen. Gregg3 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 4 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
