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.
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
10 filings
$100K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
10 filings
$100K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1443111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 584111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: News Dir/Co-Anchor/Prod'r, Sen. Republican Conf.6 filingsthrough 2010
Donni TurnerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Richard Durbin5 filingsthrough 2011
Walter PryorPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Mark Pryor5 filingsthrough 2009
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
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: sacramento-metropolitan-air-quality-management-district.
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$20K 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.
H.R. 5951110th CongressSafe and Complete Streets Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 802110th CongressMaritime Pollution Prevention Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2686110th CongressComplete Streets Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3177111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 582111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm Dir., House Approps. Committee5 filingsthrough 2009
Ed RothschildPodesta Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
Andrew KaudersPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Adv, Sen. Menendez; ED House Dem Caucus5 filingsthrough 2009
