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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
19 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
12 filings
$540K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4572113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2799113th CongressSatellite Television Access and Viewer Rights Act2 filingsthrough 2014
Peggy K BinzelPodesta Group, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2015
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Dpty. SD/Communications, Jt. Economic Cmte. ; ; Press Secy/LA/Sr. Comm. Adv, Rep. Ed Markey ; ; Comm. Director, Sen. Charles Schumer12 filingsthrough 2015
Randall GerardPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst, Sen. Comm., Science & Trans. Cmte.10 filingsthrough 2015
Timothy A MolinoTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senator Amy Klobuchar; Counsel, Senator Amy Klobuchar
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 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: ion-media-networks-inc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
116th Congress
The Heroes Act
1 filingthrough 2020
S. 2454113th CongressSatellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
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.
8 filings
through 2020
Nicole C YoungPodesta Group, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2014
Jeffrey ShapiroTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Adrian Smith; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lee Terry7 filingsthrough 2020
Jennifer OlsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Lindsey Graham; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Lindsey Graham; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Kolbe7 filingsthrough 2020
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: 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 Baca7 filingsthrough 2015
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Rep. Michael N. Castle6 filingsthrough 2012
Sean MclaughlinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: CoS/Gen. Counsel, H. Cmte. on Judiciary ; ; SD/Deputy Chf Min. Counsel, H. Cmte on Jud'y ; ; Deputy CoS & Gen. Counsel, H. Cmte on Jud'y ; ; Deputy Asst. Atty. General/Leg. Affairs, DOJ ; ; Counsel, H. Jud'y Cmte/Sub Crime, Terror, HS ; ; LD/Counsel, Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds5 filingsthrough 2014
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2009
Courtney HagenPodesta Group, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2009
B Robert OkunThe O Team LLCCovered position: Asst. to Speaker Newt Gingrich; Floor Asst. to House Republican Leader Robert H. Michel; Asst. Secretary of Education for Legislation, DOE3 filingsthrough 2018
John M LawsonIon Media Networks, Inc.3 filingsthrough 2009
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Communications Dir. House Approps Committee2 filingsthrough 2009
David MarinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm Dir. House Oversight & Gov Reform2 filingsthrough 2009
