141 filings from 7 registrants · 2008–2020 · latest filed Jan 20, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$5.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$5.1M
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.
Christopher PutalaPutalastrategiesCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Judiciary Comm. (1989-98)44 filingsthrough 2020
Estuardo Valdemar RodriguezThe Raben GroupCovered position: Attorney at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Affairs27 filingsthrough 2020
Matthew TanielianFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senator Robert TorricelliChief Counsel, Courts Subcommittee, US Senate24 filingsthrough 2017
Joshua AckilFranklin Square Group, LLC Assoc Dir. Senate Democratic Steering CommAssist to Chief of Staff, House Min Leadr Gephardt
The filings
The 20 most recent of 141 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: sprint.
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.
COM
31 filings
$795K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
24 filings
$935K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
21 filings
$460K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
17 filings
$1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
12 filings
$860K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$70K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
$70K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
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
Wi-Fi Innovation Act
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 431114th CongressInternet Tax Freedom Forever Act5 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2505113th CongressWi-Fi Innovation Act3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 911112th CongressPublic Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3756111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 28112th CongressPublic Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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:
24 filingsthrough 2017
Brian PetersFranklin Square Group, LLC24 filingsthrough 2017
Kara Calvert CampbellFranklin Square Group, LLC24 filingsthrough 2017
Ryan TripletteFranklin Square Group, LLCCovered position: Chief IP Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee23 filingsthrough 2017
Kara D'Onofrio BylerLiebman & Associates, Inc.22 filingsthrough 2014
Rebecca BennBallard PartnersCovered position: LA to Sen. Cochran, Senate Committee on Appropriations.13 filingsthrough 2020
Daniel McfaulBallard PartnersCovered position: Legislative Director to U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough; Chief of Staff to U.S. Representatives Jeff Miller and Matt Gaetz.13 filingsthrough 2020
Diego SanchezThe Raben Group10 filingsthrough 2020
Lawrence Francisco GonzalezThe Raben Group9 filingsthrough 2016
