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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Education
EDU
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2772114th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1725114th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
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.
David MarinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Communications Director/Deputy Staff Director/Staff Director, House Oversight & Government Reform Committee // Press Secretary/Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Davis12 filingsthrough 2015
Matthew MowersValcour LLCCovered position: US Department of State - Senior White House Advisor4 filingsthrough 2026
Blake CenterValcour LLCCovered position: Intern, Sen. Bob Corker; Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide, Sen. Marsha Blackburn; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Kevin McCarthy; Legislative Assistant, 20th District of California; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Vince Fong.4 filingsthrough 2026
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: creative-associates-international.
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.
3 filings
$240K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$60K 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.
William Kenneth KillionValcour LLCCovered position: US Department of State - Director of House Affairs, Intergovernmental Affairs and Special Advisor for Oversight; Acting Director, Regional, Global, and Functional Affairs; Special Assistant for Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs.
4 filingsthrough 2026
James W DyerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Appropriations Committee2 filingsthrough 2015
