Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Livingston Group (for the National Federation of the Blind)
Maryland
27 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2017 · latest filed Apr 20, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$505K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$505K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
22 filings
$465K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
- H.R. 164 113th CongressTo amend title 10, United States Code, to permit veterans who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces entitled to such travel.8 filingsthrough 2014
- H.R. 381 113th CongressReinvesting and Ensuring America's Ability to Lead Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
- H.R. 3086
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- WILLIAM H ZELIFF jr Zeliff EnterprisesCovered position: Former Member of Congress (NH)28 filingsthrough 2016
Covered positions · 1 of 1 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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: livingston-group-for-the-national-federation-of-the-blind.