20 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed Aug 30, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$930K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$930K
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.
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: clear-channel-communications-inc.
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.
TRA
4 filings
$530K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
4 filings
$140K 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.
5 filings
through 2010
H.R. 1147111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 848111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 34111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 379111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 592111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S.Con.Res. 14111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 26111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.Con.Res. 244110th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2905110th CongressBroadcaster Freedom Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3003110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives to encourage diversity of ownership of telecommunications businesses, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4789110th CongressPerformance Rights Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4835110th CongressMedia Ownership Act of 20074 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.
3 filings
through 2009
Sara MorrisPaul Hastings LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 1 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
