Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ecats (a Division of Direct Technology)
California
8 filings from 1 registrant · 2016–2017 · latest filed Jan 19, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$160K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$160K
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.
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Diane J Blagman Greenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Bob Carr; Associate Staff, House Appropriations Committee5 filingsthrough 2016
- Robert Mangas Greenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff (95-98) & Counsel (87-94), Senator Wendell Ford5 filingsthrough 2016
- K Laurie Mckay Greenberg Traurig, LLP5 filingsthrough 2016
- Tim Hutchinson Greenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator (97-03); U.S. Congressman (93-97)
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: ecats-a-division-of-direct-technology.