Seaworld Parks and Entertainment, Inc. — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Seaworld Parks and Entertainment, Inc.
District of Columbia
10 filings from 1 registrant · 2015–2017 · latest filed Jan 23, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1M
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.
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.
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
10 filings
$1M on those filings
Animals
ANI
8 filings
$910K 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. 4019114th CongressOrca Responsibility and Care Advancement Act of 20155 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1456115th CongressShark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
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: seaworld-parks-and-entertainment-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
PACT Act
4 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 1584115th CongressOrca Responsibility and Care Advancement Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
S. 793115th CongressShark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 2494114th CongressEliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5584114th CongressShark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2385114th CongressEliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act3 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3095114th CongressShark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
H.Res. 773114th CongressTo express support for recognition of June 2016 as National Orca Protection Month.2 filingsthrough 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.
Claudia JamesPodesta Group, Inc.
6 filingsthrough 2017
Andrew J LewinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant/Director, Rep. Max Sandlin // Legislative Assistant/Director, Rep. Dennis Moore6 filingsthrough 2017
Mark TavlaridesPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Policy Adviser, Office of the Secretary of Defense6 filingsthrough 2017
David AdamsPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Asst Secy for Legislative Affairs, Dept. of State / Dpty. Asst Secy for House Affairs, Dept. of State / SD, H. For. Aff. Cmte./Sub. on M. East & S. Asia / Prof. Staff, H. Foreign Affairs Cmte.6 filingsthrough 2017
Josh HollyPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Dir./Spksmn/Staff, H. Armed Svc. Cmte. // Dir. Media Affairs, H. Ed. & Workforce Cmte. // Press Secretary, Rep. Ernie Fletcher4 filingsthrough 2017
Peggy K BinzelPodesta Group, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2016
Jordan ValdesPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Adviser, Small Business Administration4 filingsthrough 2016
Andrew KaudersPodesta Group, Inc.Covered 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 Agency3 filingsthrough 2017
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, Cong. Black Caucus // CoS/Deputy Asst. Secy, DOL/Empl't Stds. Adm. // Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of Labor3 filingsthrough 2017
Matthew Lee JohnsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Counsel/Chief Counsel, Sen. John Cornyn3 filingsthrough 2017
Kevin MclaughlinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm.Director, Sen. John Cornyn // Public Affairs, Dept. of State3 filingsthrough 2017
Binta BeardPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Health Legislative Assistant, Sen. Dick Durbin3 filingsthrough 2016
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Director / CoS, Sen. Lamar Alexander // Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee2 filingsthrough 2016
Amy PellegrinoPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Health Policy Adv'r, Sen. Olympia Snowe; Leg. Asst., Rep. Rob Simmons1 filingthrough 2017
James W DyerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Appropriations Cmte.1 filingthrough 2016
Covered positions · 15 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
