11 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2013 · latest filed Mar 20, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$400K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$400K
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.
Foreign Relations
FOR
10 filings
$380K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
10 filings
$380K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
ARANTHAN JONES iiPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Policy Director, Rep James Clyburn ; ; Chief of Staff/Policy Adv., Rep. Andre Carson ; ; Health Policy Dir., Congressional Black Caucus12 filingsthrough 2013
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Press Secretary, Sen. Mark Hatfield ; ; Communication Dir. House Approps Com'ttee4 filingsthrough 2011
Ben ChangPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Dir. Press & Comm., Nat'l Security Staff2 filingsthrough 2013
Mark TavlaridesPodesta Group, Inc.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: livestrong.
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
3 filings
$120K 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: Sr. Spec. Asst., Office of Sec'y of Defense
1 filingthrough 2013
David AdamsPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Director, Rep. Gary Ackerman1 filingthrough 2013
Randall GerardPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Sen. John McCain1 filingthrough 2011
David MarinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Director/Press Secretary, Rep. Tom Davis1 filingthrough 2011
Robert P TaylorPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: For. Affairs Specialist, Sec'y of Defense, DOD1 filingthrough 2011
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 9 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
