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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$420K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
$240K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Ed RothschildPodesta Group, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2011
Hewitt StrangePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Projects Assistant, Senator John Breaux8 filingsthrough 2011
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Communications Adv., Rep. Edward Markey ; ; Communications Dir., Sen. Charles Schumer ; ; Press Secy, Leg. Aide, Rep. Edward Markey8 filingsthrough 2011
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Communication Dir. House Approps Com'ttee
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: purestream-technology-inc.
3 filings
$240K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
2 filings
$180K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
WAS
1 filing
$60K 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.
7 filings
through 2011
Melissa MerzPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Press Secretary, Rep. Frank McCloskey ; ; Press Secretary Rep. Dick Durbin ; ; Communications Director, Sen. Dick Durbin ; ; Communications Director, Sen. Ron Wyden6 filingsthrough 2010
