52 filings from 10 registrants · 2010–2014 · latest filed Jan 30, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$2.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.6M
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: lightsquared.
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.
BUD
14 filings
$785K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
12 filings
$860K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$92K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$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.
112th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20131 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20131 filingthrough 2012
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.
11 filingsthrough 2014
John WinburnPalmetto Group11 filingsthrough 2014
Norm ColemanNormincCovered position: U.S. Senator8 filingsthrough 2014
GEORGE R NETHERCUTT jrNethercutt Consulting, LLC5 filingsthrough 2012
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Director for Leg. Affairs at OMB4 filingsthrough 2012
Albert WynnDickstein Shapiro LLP4 filingsthrough 2012
ADRIAN R KING jrBallard Spahr LLPCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2012
Mark PaolettaDickstein Shapiro LLP3 filingsthrough 2012
Edward G RendellBallard Spahr LLPCovered position: N/A3 filingsthrough 2012
Michael BarberaAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Curt Weldon2 filingsthrough 2012
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter2 filingsthrough 2011
Tim HutchinsonDickstein Shapiro LLP1 filingthrough 2012
Brian A BenczkowskiKirkland & Ellis LLP1 filingthrough 2012
James W DyerPodesta Group, Inc.1 filingthrough 2012
Norm ColemanHogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (Fka Hogan Lovells US LLP)Covered position: US Senator1 filingthrough 2012
Sharon DanielsGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Admin and Exec Asst, House Dem Leader1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 12 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
