15 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Oct 20, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$250K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$250K
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.
Robert B CharlesThe Charles Group, LLCCovered position: Ass Secy State INL; Staff Dir Govt Oversight Subc6 filingsthrough 2011
Ben BawdenThe Charles Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2011
Graham MathewsGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Sr.Advisor & Minority Approp Clerk, Sen. Mikulski ('94-'96) ; ; Sr Advr, Sen. Byrd(86-94);Asst.Clrk Sen. Int.Approps (89-94)5 filingsthrough 2015
Maria PetrakisThe Charles Group, LLC5 filingsthrough 2010
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: erickson-air-crane-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.
BUD
4 filings
$20K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$20K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$20K 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
Wildfire Disaster Funding Act of 2015
3 filingsthrough 2015
S. 508114th CongressFLAME Act Amendments of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 1735114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20162 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2647114th CongressEmergency Wildfire and Forest Management Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2822114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1376114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20162 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1645114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20161 filingthrough 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.
Pete HoekstraGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman ('93-'11)
4 filingsthrough 2015
Robert L LivingstonThe Livingston Group, LLCCovered position: Frmr Cong. US House4 filingsthrough 2008
J Allen MartinThe Livingston Group, LLCCovered position: Frmr COS Cong. Livingston4 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
