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.
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: nbc-universal.
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.
COM
8 filings
$80K on those filings
Education
EDU
6 filings
$66K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
1 filing
$30K 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.
113th Congress
Protecting Financial Aid for Students and Taxpayers Act
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4279110th CongressPrioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 20087 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3325110th CongressPrioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 20086 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 722112th CongressSay No to Drug Ads Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3333111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2831113th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction for marketing directed at children to promote the consumption of food of poor nutritional quality.3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2342113th CongressStop Subsidizing Childhood Obesity Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5020111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6320110th CongressTwenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1284113th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20142 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3804111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Covered position:
6 filingsthrough 2011
Lucy K HouseChartwell Education Group LLC6 filingsthrough 2009
Regina VargoGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Assistant USTR of the Americas5 filingsthrough 2011
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates5 filingsthrough 2010
Cybele DaleyVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Intern, Senator Dennis DeConcini5 filingsthrough 2010
Chris IsraelPct Government RelationsCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for IP enforcement5 filingsthrough 2008
Vance W SchuemannPaul Hastings LLP4 filingsthrough 2009
Lawrence R SidmanPaul Hastings LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Sharon DanielsGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Admin and Exec Asst, House Dem Leader3 filingsthrough 2011
Allen Scott FlemingChartwell Education Group LLC3 filingsthrough 2009
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2009
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Dir., House Approps. Committee2 filingsthrough 2009
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, Congressional Black Caucus2 filingsthrough 2009
William HansenChartwell Education Group LLC2 filingsthrough 2008
James H DavidsonDavidson & Company2 filingsthrough 2008
Thomas O'DonnellGephardt Group Government Affairs1 filingthrough 2011
Richard GephardtGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Member of Congress1 filingthrough 2011
Chris IsraelAcg AdvocacyCovered position: US Coord for Int'l IP EnforcementDep Chief of Staff, Dept of CommerceDep Asst Sec for Tech Policy, Dept of Commerce1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 11 of 24 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
