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.
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Walter PryorCeannate CorpCovered position: Acting Counsel to AAG, Tax Division, DOJ25 filingsthrough 2019
Lauren MaddoxPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec'y / Comm. & Outreach, Dept. of Ed. ; ; Comm. Director, H. Republican Conference ; ; Deputy Press Secretary, Rep. Newt Gingrich ; ; Press Secretary, Rep. Joel Hefley21 filingsthrough 2017
Michael J QuarantaPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Castle19 filingsthrough 2017
Elizabeth SagePodesta Group, Inc.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: ceannate-corp.
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
$270K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
3 filings
$250K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
2 filings
$40K 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.
17 filings
through 2017
Paul S. BockHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Herb Kohl; Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee8 filingsthrough 2019
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director/Chief of Staff, Sen. Lamar Alexander // Legislative Assistant/Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee5 filingsthrough 2017
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Asst./Asst. LD/LD, Rep. Joe Baca4 filingsthrough 2016
Matthew Lee JohnsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Counsel/Chief Counsel, Sen. John Cornyn4 filingsthrough 2016
Michael QuarantaCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Castle3 filingsthrough 2018
Andrew J LewinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Asst./Leg. Director, Rep. Dennis Moore ; ; Leg. Asst./Leg. Director, Rep. Max Sandlin3 filingsthrough 2016
Dana ThompsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: LD/Chf. Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters // L. Cnsl/C. Cnsl/Dpty COS/COS, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee3 filingsthrough 2016
James W DyerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Dpty. Asst. to President for Leg. Affairs, Senate3 filingsthrough 2015
Jeff LandeThe Lande Group3 filingsthrough 2013
Kenneth D SalomonThompson Coburn LLP3 filingsthrough 2013
Christopher T. MurrayThompson Coburn LLP3 filingsthrough 2013
