43 filings from 4 registrants · 2010–2018 · latest filed Feb 22, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$458K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$458K
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.
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-focus.
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.
6 filings
$90K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
1 filing
$30K 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.
113th Congress
Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.
3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1602113th CongressFAIR CREDIT Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1396113th CongressA bill to authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to award mitigation financial assistance in certain areas affected by wildfire.3 filingsthrough 2013
S.Con.Res. 8113th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3020114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1396112th CongressChildren's Budget Act2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3295112th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2408114th CongressChild Poverty Reduction Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
S. 1599112th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
8 filings
through 2010
Joel PackerThe Raben Group8 filingsthrough 2010
Haley GriffinThe Raben Group5 filingsthrough 2010
Karen MarangiThe Raben GroupCovered position: Legis. Sec., Sen. Alan Cranson; Counsel Sen. Leah5 filingsthrough 2010
Jonathan J KentThe Raben GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant., Rep. Peter Welch5 filingsthrough 2010
ARANTHAN JONES iiPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: CoS/Policy Director, Rep. Andre Carson ; ; CoS/Policy Director, Rep. William Jefferson ; ; Health Policy Director, Cong. Black Caucus4 filingsthrough 2014
Binta BeardPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Health Leg. Assistant, Sen. Dick Durbin4 filingsthrough 2014
Rachelle M. JohnsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Asst., Sen. Thad Cochran; Professional Staff, S. Appropriations Cmte.2 filingsthrough 2014
Robert RabenThe Docanto Group, LLCCovered position: Asst Attorney General (DOJ) 1999-20012 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan KentThe Docanto Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2011
Joel PackerThe Docanto Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 8 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
