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.
Education
EDU
19 filings
$534K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
8 filings
$270K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Erin Michelle TarioBlackboard Inc.Covered position: U.S. Department of Labor Office of Congressional AffairsU.S. Small Business Administration Office of Intergovernment8 filingsthrough 2012
Patrick H WilliamsThe Cormac Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2011
Frank Martin CushingOldaker & Willison, LLPCovered position: Prof. Staff and Staff Dir, House Com. on Approps6 filingsthrough 2011
Campbell KaufmanCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2010
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: blackboard-inc.
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.
3 filings
$110K on those filings
Defense
DEF
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$29K 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.
Michael SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
4 filingsthrough 2010
Daniel Edison FlemingCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2010
Geoff J GonellaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2010
Paul Edward DininoCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2010
David RussellBryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Legislative Counsel, Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff for Senator Ted Stevens; Chief Counsel for the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee3 filingsthrough 2020
