First Data Corporation — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
First Data Corporation
District of Columbia
35 filings from 4 registrants · 2011–2017 · latest filed Jan 22, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$1.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
21 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Banking
BAN
21 filings
$1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2013
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Deputy Staff Director, Communications, Joint Economic Cmte. ; ; Press Sec'y / LA / Sr. Comm. Adviser, Rep. Edward Markey ; ; Communications Director, Sen. Charles Schumer16 filingsthrough 2015
Michael J QuarantaPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael N. Castle16 filingsthrough 2015
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: first-data-corporation.
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.
FIN
9 filings
$200K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$80K 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.
11 filingsthrough 2017
Warren J. TryonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, House Financial Services Committee; and Deputy Chief of Staff & Legislative Director, Rep. Spencer Bachus11 filingsthrough 2017
Clinton RobinsonCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Associate Administrator, General Service Administration; and Legislative Director, Rep. John Linder11 filingsthrough 2017
Adam C. BordesCard & Associates, LLCCovered position: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Office of Congressman Louis Stokes; Office of Congressman William Clay, Sr.6 filingsthrough 2017
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.3 filingsthrough 2017
Israel S KleinRoberti Global (Fka Roberti White, LLC)Covered position: Deputy Staff Director, Joint Economic Committee, Chairman Chuck Schumer; Senior Communications Advisor, Representative Ed Markey; Communications Director, Senator Chuck Schumer; Press Secretary and Legislative Assistant, Representative Ed Markey3 filingsthrough 2017
Lydia StrunkRoberti Global (Fka Roberti White, LLC)Covered position: Deputy Floor Director Speaker Ryan (2015-17); Deputy Floor Director Speaker Boehner (2013-15); House Rules Committee 2011-13; House Republican Cloakroom Floor Assistant 2008-2011 (Minority Leader Boehner/Speaker Boehner)3 filingsthrough 2017
Drew K. ColeRoberti Global (Fka Roberti White, LLC)Covered position: Intern for Senator Don Nickels (R-OK)3 filingsthrough 2017
Christine Anne ClarkPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: CoS / Sr. Adviser, Treasury / Terrorism & Fin. Intelligence ; ; LC / LA / Foreign Policy & Defense Adviser, Sen. Jon Kyl ; ; Staff Assistant, Senate Foreign Relations Committee3 filingsthrough 2012
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, Congressional Black Caucus ; ; CoS/Dpty. Asst. Sec'y, Dept. of Labor / Empl't Stds. Admin. ; ; Special Assistant to the Secretary, Department of Labor ; ; Intern, Rep. Michael N. Castle ; ; Intern, Rep. Tom Carper2 filingsthrough 2011
David MarinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Dir. / Dpty. SD / Staff Dir., H. Oversight & GR Cmte. ; ; Press Secretary / Legislative Director, Rep. Tom Davis2 filingsthrough 2011
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Special Assistant to the Secretary, Department of Labor ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Hilda Solis ; ; Legislative Director / Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Al Green ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. Joe Baca2 filingsthrough 2011
