48 filings from 2 registrants · 2012–2023 · latest filed Oct 20, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$2.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.8M
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: sothebys.
fees reported
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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.
TAX
32 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$780K 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.
117th Congress
Forest TECH Improvement Act
6 filingsthrough 2022
S. 1790117th CongressSecure Equipment Act of 20216 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1881114th CongressAmerican Royalties Too Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1887114th CongressProtect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 977114th CongressAmerican Royalties Too Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2563116th CongressILLICIT CASH Act5 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4103113th CongressAmerican Royalties Too Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2045113th CongressAmerican Royalties Too Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3688112th CongressEquity for Visual Artists Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2000112th CongressEquity for Visual Artists Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1471117th CongressSafeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5886115th CongressIllicit Art and Antiquities Trafficking Prevention Act4 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Covered position:
23 filingsthrough 2017
David OxnerCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor, Sen. Jerry Moran // Prof. Staff, House Financial Services Cmte. // Leg. Assistant/Policy Coordinator, Rep. Paul Gillmor18 filingsthrough 2023
David AdamsCogent Strategies LLCCovered position: Asst Secy for Leg Affairs, Dept. of State // Dpty Asst Secy for House Affairs, DOS // SD, H For Aff Cmte/Sub on M East & S Asia // Prof Staff, H For Aff Cmte // Minority Prof Staff, Subcmte on W Hem // Sp Asst Rep Akerman14 filingsthrough 2021
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Press Secy/LA/Sr. Comm. Adv, Rep. Ed Markey ; ; Comm. Director, Sen. Charles Schumer13 filingsthrough 2015
Sean MclaughlinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: SD/Deputy Chf Min. Counsel, H. Cmte on Jud'y ; ; Deputy CoS & Gen. Counsel, H. Cmte on Jud'y ; ; Deputy Asst. Atty. General/Leg. Affairs, DOJ ; ; Counsel, H. Jud'y Cmte/Sub Crime, Terror, HS ; ; LD/Counsel, Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds11 filingsthrough 2014
Andrew J LewinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Asst./Leg. Director, Rep. Max Sandlin8 filingsthrough 2017
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee ; ; Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell8 filingsthrough 2014
Andrew KaudersCogent Strategies LLCCovered 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 Agency4 filingsthrough 2020
Matthew Lee JohnsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Counsel/Chief Counsel, Sen. John Cornyn4 filingsthrough 2016
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Director, House Appropriations Cmte.2 filingsthrough 2017
Elizabeth SagePodesta Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2015
