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.
Telecommunications
TEC
61 filings
$3.4M 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kevin JosephThe Joseph Group, LLCCovered position: House Energy and Commerce Committee 1987-1989. Senate Commerce Committee 1990-199955 filingsthrough 2026
Mitch RoseMitch Rose Strategic Consulting LLC5 filingsthrough 2014
John C GarrettSquire Patton Boggs4 filingsthrough 2019
Thomas P. CassidySquire Patton Boggs4 filingsthrough 2019
Sarah Groothuis VilmsSquire Patton Boggs Dec. 1990- Jan. 1991, Intern, Cong. Barbara Kennelly; Aug. 1992, Intern, Sen. Joseph Lieberman
The filings
The 20 most recent of 62 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: granite-telecommunications.
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.
Covered position:
3 filingsthrough 2019
JOHN J DESCHAUER jrSquire Patton Boggs3 filingsthrough 2019
Chester Trent LottSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: US Senator, January 1989-December 2007; US Congressman, January 1972-December 19893 filingsthrough 2019
Samuel AdcockSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Jan-1996-March 1997: Dir. of Defense and Security Policy, Office of Senate Majority Leader; Jan. 1990-Dec. 1996: Legis. Dir., Sen. Trent Lott; Nov. 1989-Jan. 1990: Legis. Assist., Sen. Trent Lott3 filingsthrough 2019
David LesstrangSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1996 -2001: Dep. COS and LD, Rep. Jerry Lewis; Jan. 2005- Jan. 2007: Dep. Staff Dir., Com. on Approps; Jan. 2007-Jan. 2011: Professional Staff, House Com.on Approps; Jan. 2011-Aug. 2018: Clerk, Sub. on Interior, Environ. and Related Agencies.2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 5 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
