17 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Jan 21, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$1.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.6M
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.
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.
Telecommunications
TEC
13 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
10 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Homeland Security
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 3465110th CongressRESPONDER Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Alfred MotturBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Communications Counsel-Sen. Commerce Com ; ; Law Clerk-Federal District Court-Bangor, ME19 filingsthrough 2013
Norman BrownsteinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP11 filingsthrough 2010
David Phillip CohenBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP11 filingsthrough 2010
Michael B LevyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP9 filingsthrough 2010
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-formerly-skyterra-communications-inc.
HOM
8 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
7 filings
$950K 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.
Covered position: Legislative Intern - Congressman Jim Kolbe
9 filingsthrough 2010
Brooks BrunsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Spec. Asst. to Chief of Staff-Hs. Republican Conf7 filingsthrough 2013
Steven WallBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP7 filingsthrough 2009
Marc LampkinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: General Counsel - House Republican Conference ; ; Staff/Counsel - House Education and Labor Committee6 filingsthrough 2013
Manuel OrtizBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP4 filingsthrough 2013
Michael EisenbergBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Intern Congressman Joe Hoeffel3 filingsthrough 2013
Christopher D OrnelasBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Commun. Counsel - Sen. Gordon H. Smith3 filingsthrough 2010
Regina E MahonyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Asst., Congressman Tim Roemer1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 7 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
