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: internet2.
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.
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$120K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Veterans
VET
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
2 filings
$20K 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.
110th Congress
Promoting Health Information Technology Act of 2008
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6357110th CongressPRO(TECH)T Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6898110th CongressHealth-e Information Technology Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3082111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
through 2009
Andrew KaudersPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Adv, Sen. Menendez; ED House Dem Caucus6 filingsthrough 2009
Chyna MeltonThe Madison GroupCovered position: Special Advisor, CISA 2021-2022; Legislative Aide, Office of Rep. Cedric Richmond 2018-2021; Digital Press Secretary, Office of Rep. Val Demings 2018; Legislative Intern, Office of Rep. Cedric Richmond 20174 filingsthrough 2024
Thomas B SparkmanPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Intern, Senate HELP Committee4 filingsthrough 2009
Patrick H WilliamsThe Cormac Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2015
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Dir., House Approps. Committee2 filingsthrough 2009
