40 filings from 2 registrants · 2015–2024 · latest filed Dec 26, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.5M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
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38 filings
$1.5M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act2 filingsthrough 2021
S. 4674118th CongressContent Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act of 20241 filingthrough 2024
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc. Special Assistant to the Secretary, Department of Labor / Chief of Staff, Rep. Hilda Solis / Legislative Director/Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Al Green / Legislative Assistant/Assistant Legislative Director/LD, Rep. Joe Baca
The filings
The 20 most recent of 40 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: pearl-mobile-dtv-company-llc.
Pearl Mobile Dtv Company LLC — Receipts Report
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.
115th Congress
Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2018
1 filingthrough 2018
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:
10 filingsthrough 2017
Elizabeth SagePodesta Group, Inc.10 filingsthrough 2017
Dana ThompsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director/Chief Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters / Legislative Counsel/Chief Counsel/Deputy Chief of Staff/Chief of Staff, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee10 filingsthrough 2017
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2017
Andrew KaudersCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Sr. Adv'r/Exec. Dir., House Democratic Caucus // Sr. Adv'r/Comm. Dir., Rep. Robert Menendez // Spksperson/Asst. to D. Sec'y, Dept. of Agriculture // Dpty. Comm. Dir., WH Climate Chg Task Force // Special Assistant, Environ. Protection Agency6 filingsthrough 2021
David OxnerCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Jerry Moran; Prof. Staff, House Financial Services Cmte.; Leg. Assistant/Policy Coordinator, Rep. Paul Gillmor3 filingsthrough 2023
Kevin MclaughlinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm.Director, Sen. John Cornyn // Public Affairs, Dept. of State3 filingsthrough 2017
Kevin MclaughlinCogent Strategies LLC1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 6 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
