9 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2010 · latest filed Jan 20, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$125K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$125K
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
8 filings
$115K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 84 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3745111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3679110th CongressState Video Tax Fairness Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1492110th CongressBroadband Data Improvement Act3 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Mark BakerAnderson & Baker9 filingsthrough 2010
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: bresnan-communications-llc.
1 filing
$10K 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.
through 2008
S. 2607110th CongressDTV Transition Assistance Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3101111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3125111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4061111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4545111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4829111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4851111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4860111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3295111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 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.
