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.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
22 filings
$2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$170K on those filings
Beverage Industry
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3020114th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20172 filingsthrough 2016
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.13 filingsthrough 2016
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Dpty. SD/Communications, Jt. Economic Cmte. ; ; Press Secy/LA/Sr. Comm. Adv, Rep. Ed Markey ; ; Comm. Director, Sen. Charles Schumer12 filingsthrough 2015
Gina M VetereCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor to Deputy USTR (2006-08); Director for IP and Innovation (2009-10)9 filingsthrough 2019
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Director / CoS, Sen. Lamar Alexander ; ; Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee ; ; Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell
The filings
The 20 most recent of 65 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: monster-energy-company.
fees reported
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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.
BEV
3 filings
$170K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$170K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$100K 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.
114th Congress
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016
2 filingsthrough 2015
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.
9 filingsthrough 2016
Holly FechnerCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Policy Director, Senator Edward M. Kennedy9 filingsthrough 2015
Sean MclaughlinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: CoS/General Counsel, H. Cmte. on Judiciary ; ; SD/Deputy Chf Min. Counsel, H. Cmte on Jud'y ; ; Deputy CoS & Gen. Counsel, H. Cmte on Jud'y ; ; Deputy Asst. Atty. General/Leg. Affairs, DOJ ; ; Counsel, H. Jud'y Cmte/Sub Crime, Terror, Homeland Security ; ; LD/Counsel, Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds9 filingsthrough 2014
Josh HollyPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Dir./Spksmn/Staff, H. Armed Svc. Cmte. ; ; Dir. Media Affairs, H. Ed. & Workforce Cmte. ; ; Press Secretary, Rep. Ernie Fletcher8 filingsthrough 2016
Amy PellegrinoPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Senior Health Policy Adviser, Sen. Olympia Snowe // Legislative Assistant, Rep. Rob Simmons6 filingsthrough 2016
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Director, House Appropriations Cmte. ; ; Press Secretary, Sen. Thad Cochran ; ; News Dir./Co-Anchor/Prod'r, S. Repub. Conf.6 filingsthrough 2014
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Asst to President Bush and Deputy Director OPL ; ; (continued) Rep. Joe Pitts - Chief of Staff5 filingsthrough 2013
Dan BryantCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: U.S. Dept. of Justice - Asst. Attorney General for Legal ; ; (continued) Senate Gov. Affairs Cmte. - Professional Staff.5 filingsthrough 2013
Joan KutcherCovington & Burling LLP4 filingsthrough 2015
Richard HertlingCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Staff Director & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Acting Assistant AG, Office of Leg. Affairs, DoJ; Deputy Assistant AG, Office of Legal Policy, DoJ; Deputy CoS & Leg. Dir., Senator Lamar Alexander, Chief of Staff, Senator Peter Fitzgerald; Sr. Counsel, Senate Government Affairs; Chief Counsel, Senator Arlen Specter4 filingsthrough 2015
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Joseph Pitts4 filingsthrough 2015
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Office of Legislative Affairs, Special Assistant to the President; Office of Senator Michael F. Bennet, Legislative Director; House Committee on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Office of Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Legislative Director, Office of Senator Maria Cantwell, Legislative Counsel; Office of Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Legal Counsel3 filingsthrough 2015
Stephen NorthrupPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Adviser, Sen. Michael Enzi2 filingsthrough 2013
