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: city-of-berkeley.
fees reported
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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.
8 filings
$59K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
6 filings
$39K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$39K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
5 filings
$33K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$33K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
1 filing
$6K 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.
H.R. 2730112th CongressStrengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2759112th CongressBusiness Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 519113th CongressUniting American Families Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 296113th CongressUniting American Families Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.J.Res. 90112th CongressProposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to expressly exclude for-profit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States, prohibit corporate spending in all elections, and affirm the authority of Congress and the States to regulate corporations and to regulate and set limits on all election contributions and expenditures.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1084113th CongressTo authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Muhammad Ali in recognition of his contributions to the Nation.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 1611113th CongressTo authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to use funds derived from conservation-related programs executed on National Forest System lands to utilize the Agriculture Conservation Experienced Services Program.1 filingthrough 2013
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.
Covered position:
6 filingsthrough 2026
Bryan LanzaTownsend Public Affairs6 filingsthrough 2014
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm Dir., House Approps. Committee5 filingsthrough 2009
Ed RothschildPodesta Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
Andrew KaudersPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr Adv Sen. Bob Menendez; ED House Dem Caucus5 filingsthrough 2009
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Exec. Dir., Congressional Black Caucus5 filingsthrough 2009
Donni TurnerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Richard Durbin5 filingsthrough 2009
Cindy BoydTownsend Public Affairs3 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 6 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
