Independent Film and Television Alliance — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Independent Film and Television Alliance
California
35 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2017 · latest filed Jan 23, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$2.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.5M
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.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
35 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
33 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 25 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1619114th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20164 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 3458111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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: independent-film-and-television-alliance.
TRD
33 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
9 filings
$700K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
7 filings
$450K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
1 filing
$70K on those filings
Constitution
CON
1 filing
$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.
115th Congress
Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 2017
3 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1010115th CongressRegister of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 4572113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2454113th CongressSatellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2029112th CongressOPEN Act3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 968112th CongressPROTECT IP Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 978112th CongressA bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2764111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5353110th CongressInternet Freedom Preservation Act of 20083 filingsthrough 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.
Podesta Group, Inc.
31 filingsthrough 2017
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.22 filingsthrough 2017
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Rep. Michael N. Castle13 filingsthrough 2014
Nicole C YoungPodesta Group, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2014
