81 filings from 7 registrants · 2008–2024 · latest filed Oct 21, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$140K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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.
Victor SmithBose Public Affairs Group16 filingsthrough 2022
Josh HollyPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Dir./Spksmn/Staff, H. Armed Svc. Cmte. ; ; Dir. Media Affairs, H. Ed. & Workforce Cmte. ; ; Stf Counsel, S. Comm., Science & Trans. Cmte.14 filingsthrough 2017
David CraneQuadripoint Strategies LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Majority Leader/Republican Leader Trent Lott, Professional Staff, Senate Commerce Committee, Chairman John McCain, LA/LD Senator Dan Coats10 filingsthrough 2020
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: fulcrum-bioenergy-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.
6 filings
$280K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$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.
114th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017
3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5142111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5343111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1946114th CongressTax Relief Extension Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 4853111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 5893111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3513111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3663111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3793111th 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.
9 filingsthrough 2017
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Press Secy/LA/Sr. Comm. Adv, Rep. Ed Markey ; ; Comm. Director, Sen. Charles Schumer9 filingsthrough 2015
Jessica M LenardDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Hon. Richard J. Durbin8 filingsthrough 2011
Alexander StapletonPodesta Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2017
M Robert CarrDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2010
Roger R SzemrajOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: House Appropriations; COS, Rep. Marcy Kaptur3 filingsthrough 2012
Eric BurschOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC3 filingsthrough 2012
Stephanie Herseth SandlinOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: Member of Congress (SD-AL)3 filingsthrough 2012
NORMAN LENT iiiDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2011
Michael ScrivnerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Hon. Norman F. Lent, Jr.3 filingsthrough 2009
Eric S KesslerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Hon. John D. Dingell3 filingsthrough 2009
Kenneth D SalomonDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2009
Stephen C SayleDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Maj. Counsel, House Energy & Commerce Com.3 filingsthrough 2009
David CraneBose Public Affairs GroupCovered position: Domestic Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader- Republican Leader Trent Lott, Professional Staff - Senate Commerce Committee - Chairman John McCain, Leg Assistant, Leg Director Senator Dan Coats2 filingsthrough 2021
James M WickettHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)2 filingsthrough 2017
THEODORE MAX KNIESCHE ivFulcrum Bioenergy, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2009
Pete LeonDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Hon. Eliot Engel2 filingsthrough 2008
Lance D BultenaHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)1 filingthrough 2017
Dana ThompsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: LD/Chf. Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters // L. Cnsl/C. Cnsl/Dpty COS/COS, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee1 filingthrough 2016
M Kenneth BowlerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC1 filingthrough 2010
Haley Akins DavisDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Staff Assistant, Hon. Bill Shuster1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 16 of 25 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
