46 filings from 3 registrants · 2010–2017 · latest filed Aug 15, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$3.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$2.5M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$880K
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.
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: solarcity.
$30K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
3 filings
$470K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$370K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
2 filings
$270K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$50K 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.
114th Congress
North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1213114th CongressFree Market Energy Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1219114th CongressA bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to provide for the safe and reliable interconnection of distributed resources and to provide for the examination of the effects of net metering.7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2012114th CongressEnergy Policy Modernization Act of 20167 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2412114th CongressNew Energy for America Act6 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20176 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1755114th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a 5-year extension of the tax credit for residential energy efficient property.6 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2943114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20176 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4599111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1462111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2899111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 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.
Podesta Group, Inc.
Covered position: Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee ; ; Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell
13 filingsthrough 2016
Hasan NazarSolarcityCovered position: U.S. Department of Energy, Senior Advisor; Legislative Affairs Specialist 2012-20157 filingsthrough 2016
Ed RothschildPodesta Group, Inc.7 filingsthrough 2013
Israel S KleinRoberti Global (Fka Roberti White, LLC)Covered position: Deputy Staff Director, Joint Economic Committee, Chairman Chuck SchumerSenior Communications Advisor, Rep. Ed MarkeyCommunications Director, Sen. Chuck SchumerPress Secretary and Legislative Assistant, Rep. Ed Markey6 filingsthrough 2016
Andrew KaudersPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Adv'r/Exec. Dir., House Democratic Caucus ; ; Sr. Adv'r/Comm. Dir., Sen. Robert Menendez ; ; Spokesperson/Dpty. Sec'y, Dept. of Agriculture ; ; Dpty. Comm. Dir., WH Climate Chg Task Force ; ; Special Assistant, Environ. Protection Agency5 filingsthrough 2015
John Maloney StantonSolarcity5 filingsthrough 2010
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of Labor4 filingsthrough 2015
