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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
9 filings
$140K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
4 filings
$40K 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.
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 978112th CongressA bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2012
Julian A HaywoodForge Federal Affairs LLCCovered position: StaffDir/Counsel,HouseOversight&GovtReformSubcommitteeMinority Counsel,HouseOversight&GovtReformCommitteeCounsel, House Committee on Standards of Official ConductLegislative Assistant & Counsel, Rep. Steny HoyerLegislative Assistant, Rep. Julian Dixon5 filingsthrough 2012
Karl GallantAduston Consulting, LLC4 filingsthrough 2012
Robert PowersAduston Consulting, LLC4 filingsthrough 2012
Paul GellerEscape Media Group, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2012
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: escape-media-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.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
Stop Online Piracy Act
3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 611111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 654111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1223111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 799111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 913111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 968111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 978111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Philip Corwin
Aduston Consulting, LLC
1 filingthrough 2011
Heather PodestaInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, Representative Robert Matsui,Counsel, Representative Earl PomeroyLegislative Fellow, Senator Bill BradleyResearch Assistant, Congressional Budget Office1 filingthrough 2010
Julian A HaywoodInvariant LLCCovered position: Min Counsel, House Govt Reform CommCnsl, House Comm on Stds of Official ConductLegislative Asst & Counsel, Rep. Steny HoyerLegislative Assistant, Rep. Julian Dixon1 filingthrough 2010
Eric RosenInvariant LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Judiciary CommitteeLegislative Director, Rep. Anthony WeinerDep Dir, Dept of Justice Office of Intergovt AffairLegislative Assistant, Rep. Chet Atkins1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 4 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
