110 filings from 14 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed May 2, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$5.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$5.8M
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.
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: interactive-gaming-council.
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.
BAN
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
6 filings
$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.
S. 3616
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2046110th CongressInternet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6870110th CongressPayments System Protection Act of 20086 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3616110th CongressInternet Skill Game Licensing and Control 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.
Michael E WilliamsGreenberg Traurig, LLP15 filingsthrough 2012
Alan SlomowitzGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Prof. Staff Member, House Transportation Cmt.14 filingsthrough 2012
Robert RabenThe Raben GroupCovered position: Asst. Att. General, DOJ; Counsel House Judiciary14 filingsthrough 2012
Lawrence Francisco GonzalezThe Raben Group14 filingsthrough 2012
John Patrick FeeheryThe Feehery Group12 filingsthrough 2010
William J DonovanVenable LLP10 filingsthrough 2010
William R NordwindVenable LLPCovered position: Counsel, Telecommunications Subcommittee10 filingsthrough 2010
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Wes Watkins10 filingsthrough 2010
Edward P AyoobBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: n/a9 filingsthrough 2011
Thomas H QuinnVenable LLP8 filingsthrough 2010
Jim TozziThe Center for Regulatory EffectivenessCovered position: N/A8 filingsthrough 2010
Amanda ThayerMoffett Group, LLCCovered position: Intern, Office of Rep. Jim Cooper (Unpaid)6 filingsthrough 2012
Michael Johnson KelleyMoffett Group, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Office of Rep. Stephen Buyer6 filingsthrough 2012
