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.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
24 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
15 filings
$750K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 12112th CongressAmerican Jobs Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1804112th CongressState Video Tax Fairness Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
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: directv-group.
TAX
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
2 filings
$180K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$50K 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.
112th Congress
SAFE Data Act
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3675112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1549112th CongressAmerican Jobs Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2008112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 978112th CongressA bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3719113th CongressVideo CHOICE Act of 20131 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 3720113th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act1 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 4572113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 5036113th CongressSatellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 5728113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
S. 1680113th CongressConsumer Choice in Online Video Act1 filingthrough 2014
S. 2454113th CongressSatellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
S. 2799113th CongressSatellite Television Access and Viewer Rights Act1 filingthrough 2014
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.
Charles F. BassGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Member of Congress5 filingsthrough 2015
