84 filings from 6 registrants · 2008–2017 · latest filed Dec 22, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$1.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.8M
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.
Insurance
INS
53 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
35 filings
$858K 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 — 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. 1101113th CongressHomeowners and Taxpayers Protection Act of 20139 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2555111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1264111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
Witt O'Brien'S, LLC (F/K/A Witt Group Holdings, LLC)
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: protectingamerica-org.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
110th Congress
Homeowners' Defense Act of 2007
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2555112th CongressHistoric Homeownership Revitalization Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
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.
EDWARD FRY iiWitt O'Brien'S, LLC (F/K/A Witt Group Holdings, LLC)Covered position: Former Congressional Chief of Staff13 filingsthrough 2011
Robert Wesley HarrisFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: House Floor Assistant, Rep. G.K. Butterfield11 filingsthrough 2013
Jonathan J HarschWitt O'Brien'S, LLC (F/K/A Witt Group Holdings, LLC)8 filingsthrough 2014
Brian Steven GastonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Leadership Advisor, Rep. Roy Blunt8 filingsthrough 2013
George KoppWitt O'Brien'S, LLC (F/K/A Witt Group Holdings, LLC)7 filingsthrough 2014
Craig S BurkhardtBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: n/a6 filingsthrough 2011
Gregg RothschildFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Committee on Energy and Commerce5 filingsthrough 2010
Richard R BoykinBarnes & Thornburg, LLPCovered position: n/a4 filingsthrough 2011
Susan BrophyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Affairs4 filingsthrough 2010
William G CoursonCourson Nickel LLC4 filingsthrough 2009
James W NickelCourson Nickel LLC4 filingsthrough 2009
Barry W ScanlonWitt O'Brien'S, LLC (F/K/A Witt Group Holdings, LLC)Covered position: Former Congressional Committee Staff4 filingsthrough 2008
Margaret CosentinoThe Cohen Group3 filingsthrough 2008
Robert W PorterThe Cohen Group3 filingsthrough 2008
Lindsay PasternakFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Maria Cantwell2 filingsthrough 2010
Joyce BrayboyFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Mel Watt2 filingsthrough 2009
