Google Client Services (Previously Reported as Google)
District of Columbia
45 filings from 1 registrant · 2011–2022 · latest filed Jan 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$2.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.8M
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
27 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
26 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 356114th CongressElectronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
Thomas O'DonnellGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader36 filingsthrough 2021
Christina HamiltonGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Staff, House Appropriations Committee; Chief of Staff, Rep. Obey; Appropriations Coordinator, Rep. Obey; Administrative Assistant, Rep. Obey31 filingsthrough 2022
Kyle MulhallGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Senior Trial Attorney, DOT19 filingsthrough 2016
Scott BrennerGephardt Group Government Affairs
The filings
The 20 most recent of 45 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: google-client-services-previously-reported-as-google.
SCI
18 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
15 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
12 filings
$960K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$910K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
9 filings
$720K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$400K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$350K on those filings
Education
EDU
2 filings
$160K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
2 filings
$160K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$160K 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.
H.R. 2112112th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2011
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: Director of Communications, House T&I Comm
13 filingsthrough 2016
Sharon DanielsGephardt Group Government Affairs4 filingsthrough 2012
Richard GephardtGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Member of Congress3 filingsthrough 2016
Marti ThomasGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Tax and Budget, Treasury; Acting and Asst Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Treasury; Assistant to COS, House Majority Leader; Floor Aide and Executive Floor Asst, House Majority Leader2 filingsthrough 2017
Janice O'ConnellGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Prof Staff, Senate For Rel and Banking Comms2 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 7 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
