27 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2010 · latest filed May 8, 2012
Reported on its behalf
$498K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$498K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
26 filings
$498K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: m2z-networks.
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.
110th Congress
Open Wireless Internet Act
2 filingsthrough 2008
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 2010
Michael R GardnerMichael R. Gardner9 filingsthrough 2010
Robert Loren MartinE-Copernicus, LLC8 filingsthrough 2009
Steve PerryDutko Worldwide, LLC7 filingsthrough 2010
Kim Koontz BaylissDutko Worldwide, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director.6 filingsthrough 2010
Lou LehrmanDutko Worldwide, LLCCovered position: Legislative Aide for Congressman Alex McMillian5 filingsthrough 2010
William SimmonsDutko Worldwide, LLC5 filingsthrough 2010
Jennifer HoltzE-Copernicus, LLC5 filingsthrough 2010
Roger FlemingDutko Worldwide, LLCCovered position: Maritime Comm.5 filingsthrough 2009
Andrew Scott WrightDutko Worldwide, LLCCovered position: Congressman Brad Sherman.4 filingsthrough 2010
