Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Center for Technology Commercialization
Massachusetts
18 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2011 · latest filed Apr 20, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$338K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$338K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
17 filings
$338K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- S. 3182 110th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20091 filingthrough 2008
- S. 3301 110th CongressMilitary Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20091 filingthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Scott Ferson Liberty Square GroupCovered position: Press Secretary, Senator Kennedy9 filingsthrough 2009
- Tracy Spicer Avenue SolutionsCovered position: Staff Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy6 filingsthrough 2010
- JAMES M MCCARTHY iii Liberty Square GroupCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Senator Moynihan4 filingsthrough 2010
- Tracy Spicer Liberty Square DC, LLCCovered position: Staff Asst, Senator Edward Kennedy
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: center-for-technology-commercialization.