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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
25 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
23 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Small Business
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 394113th CongressMetal Theft Prevention Act of 201311 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 867113th CongressMetal Theft Prevention Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
Elizabeth SagePodesta Group, Inc.18 filingsthrough 2014
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.17 filingsthrough 2015
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc. Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of Labor / Chief of Staff, Rep. Hilda Solis / Leg. Director/Deputy CoS, Rep. Al Green / Leg. Asst./Asst. LD/LD, Rep. Joe Baca
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: institute-of-scrap-recycling-industries.
SMB
6 filings
$380K 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.
113th Congress
Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013
S. 1270112th CongressResponsible Electronics Recycling Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3209111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6091112th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5820111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 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.
Covered position:
9 filingsthrough 2015
Timothy A GlasscoPodesta Group, Inc.9 filingsthrough 2013
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Comm. Adv/Press Secy Rep. Edward Markey8 filingsthrough 2015
Zach OlsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst./LC/Corsp. Dir., Sen. Lisa Murkowski8 filingsthrough 2014
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: DOT, General Counsel's Honors Program7 filingsthrough 2014
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell6 filingsthrough 2014
Gregg Thomas NunziataManatt, Phelps, and PhillipsCovered position: General Counsel Sen. Rubio5 filingsthrough 2020
Hewitt StrangePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Field Assistant, Senator Landrieu5 filingsthrough 2010
