Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Centurylink (Formerly Known as Level 3 Communications)
Virginia
35 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2018 · latest filed Apr 19, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$1.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.8M
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
34 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
1 filing
$50K 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 — 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.
- H.R. 1 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Kevin Joseph The Joseph Group, LLCCovered position: House Energy and Commerce Committee 1987-1989. Senate Commerce Committee 1990-199935 filingsthrough 2018
- Chani Wiggins The Joseph Group, LLCCovered position: LD - Stupak; LA - Harkin, Research - Boxer6 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 2 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 35 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: centurylink-formerly-known-as-level-3-communications.