74 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2018 · latest filed Dec 20, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$2.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.5M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
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.
Michael CiesinskiFlextech AllianceCovered position: CEO43 filingsthrough 2018
James W DyerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Appropriations Cmte. ; ; Minority Staff, House Appropriations Cmte. ; ; Dpty. Asst. to President for Leg. Affairs, Senate24 filingsthrough 2017
Elizabeth A InadomiPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Stf Counsel, S. Comm., Science & Trans. Cmte. ; ; Counsel, H. Science Cmte. / Subcmte. on Space23 filingsthrough 2017
Jessica Lawrence-VacaPodesta Group, Inc. Leg. Aide/LA/Sr. Policy Adv'r, Rep. Albio Sires ; ; Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Patty Murray ; ; Staff Assistant/LC, Rep. Steve Rothman
The filings
The 20 most recent of 74 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: flextech-alliance.
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.
CSP
4 filings
$60K 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.
110th Congress
Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1585110th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20081 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 3222110th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
Covered position:
14 filingsthrough 2015
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.13 filingsthrough 2015
Josh HollyPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Dir./Spksmn/Staff, H. Armed Svc. Cmte. ; ; Dir. Media Affairs, H. Ed. & Workforce Cmte. ; ; Press Secretary, Rep. Ernie Fletcher6 filingsthrough 2014
Steven M HyjekHyjek & Fix, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2010
Karl H StegengaHyjek & Fix, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2010
Donald J FixHyjek & Fix, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2010
Scott WeaverWiley Rein LLPCovered position: Policy Advisor, Rep. Sullivan (2003-2005)Chief of Staff, Rep. Harris (2005-2007)5 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
