30 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2017 · latest filed Jan 23, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$890K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$890K
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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
18 filings
$540K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
12 filings
$350K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2273112th CongressCoal Residuals Reuse and Management Act5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1751112th CongressCoal Residuals Reuse and Management Act4 filingsthrough 2012
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: shaw-industries-group-inc.
BUD
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$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.
112th Congress
Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th 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
S. 3512112th CongressCoal Ash Recycling and Oversight Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3177111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 763112th CongressSafe and Efficient Transportation Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
S. 747112th CongressSafe and Efficient Transportation Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5303114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20161 filingthrough 2016
H.R. 8114th CongressNorth American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 20151 filingthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20161 filingthrough 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.
6 filingsthrough 2014
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: LA / Press Sec'y / Sr. Comm. Adv., Rep. Ed Markey3 filingsthrough 2010
Alexander StapletonPodesta Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2017
Dana ThompsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director/Chief Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters / Legislative Counsel/Chief Counsel/Deputy Chief of Staff/Chief of Staff, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee2 filingsthrough 2015
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2009
Ed RothschildPodesta Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2009
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: DOT, General Counsel's Honors Program1 filingthrough 2010
