14 filings from 2 registrants · 2010–2016 · latest filed Oct 12, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$170K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$170K
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.
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: oscar-m-cerna.
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.
GOV
3 filings
$40K 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
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016
1 filingthrough 2015
S. 3117114th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20171 filingthrough 2016
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.
James GauthierThe Livingston Group, LLC6 filingsthrough 2016
Gregory Scott JamesThe Livingston Group, LLC4 filingsthrough 2013
Steven KreseskiThe Livingston Group, LLCCovered position: Fmr. COS Cong. Ehrlich; Staff to Sen. Pressler4 filingsthrough 2013
Stuart E EizenstatCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1999-2001);, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (1997-1999); Under, Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, (1996-1997); U.S. Ambassador to the European, Union (1993-1996).3 filingsthrough 2010
Brian D SmithCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Department of Labor (OCIA)(1995).3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
