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: orange-county-florida.
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.
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
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.
110th Congress
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3043110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3074110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3093110th CongressDepartments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5647110th CongressTo provide public charter school options for those students that attend schools that are in need of improvement and have been identified for restructuring and those schools with a graduation rate of less than 60 percent, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5672110th CongressWomen's Business Ownership Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6110th CongressEnergy Independence and Security Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2577114th CongressMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2685114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1558114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1430118th CongressWater Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1953117th CongressSurface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2021
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.
through 2022
Dana ThompsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: LD/Chf. Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters // L. Cnsl/C. Cnsl/Dpty COS/COS, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee6 filingsthrough 2017
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, Congressional Black Caucus6 filingsthrough 2010
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
Courtney HagenPodesta Group, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2008
Andrew KaudersPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Adv. Sen. Menendez; ED, House Demo Caucus4 filingsthrough 2008
Elizabeth MorraCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Comm. Director, House Appropriations Cmte.3 filingsthrough 2018
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director/Chief of Staff, Sen. Lamar Alexander // Legislative Assistant/Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee1 filingthrough 2015
