Directv Group Inc — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Directv Group Inc
* Undetermined
76 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Oct 20, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$20.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$18.9M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.6M
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: directv-group-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.
TAX
22 filings
$12.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$3.9M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$690K 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.
110th Congress
Television Freedom Act of 2007
10 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3675112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act8 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2008112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3679110th CongressState Video Tax Fairness Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2994111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1670111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3304111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4572113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1680113th CongressConsumer Choice in Online Video Act5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2454113th CongressSatellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3570111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1770114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 20154 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.
through 2011
Brenda ReeseBockorny Group, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2011
Todd ThorpeBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Chris Cannon (04-06)10 filingsthrough 2011
Patrick H WilliamsThe Cormac Group, LLC10 filingsthrough 2011
Andrew Charles DodsonBockorny Group, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2011
