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.
Education
EDU
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1135115th CongressTo reauthorize the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Preservation program.2 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 51115th CongressFunding for Student Scholarships for the 1890s Land-Grant African-American Colleges and Universities Act2 filingsthrough 2017
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, Congressional Black Caucus // Chief of Staff/Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Labor // Special Assistant to the Secretary, Department of Labor.7 filingsthrough 2017
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director/Chief of Staff, Sen. Lamar Alexander // Legislative Assistant/Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee6 filingsthrough 2017
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: delaware-state-university-foundation-on-behalf-of-council-of-1890-universities.
1 filing
$40K 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.
114th Congress
To reauthorize the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Preservation program.
H.R. 2810115th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20181 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 6020114th CongressFunding for Student Scholarships for the 1890s Land-Grant African-American Colleges and Universities Act1 filingthrough 2016
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.
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Communications Director, House Appropriations Committee
3 filingsthrough 2017
Alexandra SollbergerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Communications Director, House Education & Workforce Committee / Communications Director, House Small Business Committee / Press Secretary/Communications Director, Rep. Geoff Davis1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 5 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
