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.
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Byron DorganArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator (1992-2011)12 filingsthrough 2023
Kristina WilcoxCapitol Hill Consulting Group8 filingsthrough 2022
WILLIAM STEVE SOUTHERLAND iiCapitol Hill Consulting GroupCovered position: William Steve Southerland, II served as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015.8 filingsthrough 2022
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2011
The filings
The 20 most recent of 30 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: securing-americas-future-energy-safe.
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.
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
5 filings
$160K 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.
Jessica Lawrence-VacaPodesta Group, Inc.
5 filingsthrough 2011
David ConoverKinder Morgan, Inc.Covered position: PDAS, PI - USDOE5 filingsthrough 2009
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Comm. Adv/Press Secy Rep. Edward Markey4 filingsthrough 2011
