Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Cogent Systems
Virginia
6 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2010 · latest filed Jul 20, 2010
Reported on its behalf
$140K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$140K
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.
Immigration
IMM
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 2200 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
- Tovah Ladier Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP5 filingsthrough 2010
- Mark Robertson Williams Mullen Strategies5 filingsthrough 2008
- Tovah Ladier Williams Mullen Strategies4 filingsthrough 2008
- David Russell Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP1 filingthrough 2010
- Jeff Berman Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP1 filingthrough 2010
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: cogent-systems.