52 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2022 · latest filed Dec 16, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$5.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$5M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$330K
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.
Kristen MalinconicoGrant Thornton LLPCovered position: N/A36 filingsthrough 2019
Charles CooperSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: CoS, Rep. Adam Putnam; Policy Director, House Rep Conference; Staff Director, Rep Policy Committee; LD, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart; LA, Rep. Felix Grucci; LC, Senator Jon Kyl; Staff Asst., Senator Connie Mack10 filingsthrough 2022
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: grant-thornton-llp.
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.
FIN
14 filings
$2M on those filings
Veterans
VET
6 filings
$930K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
6 filings
$664K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
6 filings
$210K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
6 filings
$210K on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$460K on those filings
Banking
BAN
4 filings
$130K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
4 filings
$130K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$270K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$94K 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.
115th Congress
Buy Smarter and Save Act of 2017
5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2315114th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1393115th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 116115th CongressMain Street Fairness Act3 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 4174115th CongressFoundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2821114th CongressPartnership Audit Simplification Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5076114th CongressMain Street Fairness Act3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 880114th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 905113th CongressResearch and Development Tax Credit Extension Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3606112th CongressJumpstart Our Business Startups3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4318110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the penalty on the understatement of taxpayer's liability by tax return preparers.3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2851110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the penalty on the understatement of taxpayer's liability by tax return preparers.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1869116th CongressRestoring Investment in Improvements Act2 filingsthrough 2019
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:
6 filingsthrough 2018
Charles Al MoskowitzSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Sr. Policy Counsel, Dem. Minority Staff, Senate Homeland & Govt. Affairs Committee; Leg. Counsel, Senator Claire McCaskill; Counsel, Subcommittee on Financial & Contracting Oversight, Senate Homeland Sec. & Gov. Affairs Comm; LA, Rep. John Tierney4 filingsthrough 2021
Fred F MurrayGrant Thornton LLPCovered position: Director, Tax Practice Policy & Quality3 filingsthrough 2008
Paul Theodore AndersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: LTC, US Army (Retired)1 filingthrough 2020
NOE GARCIA iiiSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist; Associate Political Director, The White House; Senior Advisor, Public Affairs, US Treasury Department; Public Liaison, US Treasury Department; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Kay Bailey Hutchison1 filingthrough 2020
Barbara W CosgriffGrant Thornton LLPCovered position: National Managing Principal, PPEA1 filingthrough 2008
Georgette PerrosGrant Thornton LLPCovered position: Director, Government Affairs1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 10 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
