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.
Education
EDU
88 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$120K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Todd WootenHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: LA, Counsel, Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Leg. Dir, Sen. Debbie Stabenow; Prof. Staff, Sen. Agriculture Cmte., Prof. Staff, Sen. Energy & Natural Resources Cmte., Prof. Staff, Sen. Finance Cmte.24 filingsthrough 2026
Susan BrophyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Byron Dorgan; Chief of Staff, Senator Tim Wirth; Dep. Asst.to the President for Leg. Affairs19 filingsthrough 2025
The filings
The 20 most recent of 90 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: ecmc-group.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015
2 filingsthrough 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.
Lauren MaddoxPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec'y / Comm. & Outreach, Dept. of Ed. ; ; Comm. Director, H. Republican Conference ; ; Deputy Press Secretary, Rep. Newt Gingrich ; ; Press Secretary, Rep. Joel Hefley
16 filingsthrough 2017
Matthew LaroccoArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to Secretary, Dept. of Interior13 filingsthrough 2012
Jim TurnerArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPCovered position: Member of Congress13 filingsthrough 2012
Paul S. BockHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Chief of Staff, Senator Herb Kohl12 filingsthrough 2020
Guillermina MooreFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Adam Smith; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Tony Cardenas; Office Manager, House Foreign Affairs Committee; Executive Assistant & Travel Coordinator, House Foreign Affairs Committee; Intern, House Foreign Affairs Committee11 filingsthrough 2023
Elizabeth SagePodesta Group, Inc.7 filingsthrough 2017
Dana ThompsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director/Chief Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters // Legislative Counsel/Chief Counsel/Deputy Chief of Staff/Chief of Staff, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee7 filingsthrough 2017
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Dpty. SD/Communications, Jt. Economic Cmte. ; ; Press Secy/LA/Sr. Comm. Adv, Rep. Ed Markey ; ; Comm. Director, Sen. Charles Schumer7 filingsthrough 2015
Matthew LaroccoQuorum Public Policy, Inc.Covered position: Spec. Assistant, Secretary of the Interior (Babbitt)7 filingsthrough 2014
Catharine Cyr RansomFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Bob Graham; Professional Staff and Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee; Sr. Climate and Environmental Advisor, Senator Max Baucus6 filingsthrough 2022
Michael J QuarantaPodesta Group, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2016
Kate KuhlmannArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP6 filingsthrough 2012
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of Labor // Chief of Staff, Rep. Hilda Solis // Leg. Director/Deputy CoS, Rep. Al Green // Leg. Asst./Asst. LD/LD, Rep. Joe Baca5 filingsthrough 2017
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Director / CoS, Sen. Lamar Alexander ; ; Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee5 filingsthrough 2017
Matthew LaroccoWilliams Mullen5 filingsthrough 2013
Matthew LaroccoGoddard Gunster, Inc.Covered position: Spec. Assistant, Secretary of the Interior (Babbitt)3 filingsthrough 2014
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Director, House Appropriations Cmte. ; ; Press Secretary, Sen. Thad Cochran ; ; News Dir./Co-Anchor/Prod'r, S. Repub. Conf.2 filingsthrough 2014
James W DyerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Appropriations Cmte. ; ; Minority Staff, House Appropriations Cmte.2 filingsthrough 2014
Kathryn H LehmanHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to Speaker of the House; Policy Director, House Majority Whip; Director of Coalition Outreach, Speaker of House; Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference1 filingthrough 2021
