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.
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: career-education-corporation.
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.
4 filings
$250K 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
H.R. 748111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 497111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3813111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 22110th CongressPost-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2280112th CongressKnow Before You Owe Private Student Loan Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3171111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3447111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2352110th CongressSchool Safety Enhancements Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3546110th CongressTo authorize the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program at fiscal year 2006 levels through 2012.3 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Podesta Group, Inc.
12 filingsthrough 2012
Donni TurnerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Richard Durbin12 filingsthrough 2011
Kenneth D SalomonDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC11 filingsthrough 2013
Christopher T MurrayDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC11 filingsthrough 2013
