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.
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
5 filings
$140K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$55K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1279110th CongressDirect Support Professionals Fairness and Security Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1279111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
Gary AndresDutko Worldwide, LLC5 filingsthrough 2008
Maria CardonaDewey Square Group3 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: mentor-network.
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.
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Veterans
VET
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Education
EDU
1 filing
$15K 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.
through 2008
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US Senate1 filingthrough 2008
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLC1 filingthrough 2008
Holland PattersonSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy White House Liaison for DOD1 filingthrough 2008
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLC1 filingthrough 2008
Rick DesimoneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, US Senate1 filingthrough 2008
Menda FifeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House1 filingthrough 2008
