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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
55 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1597111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 3402111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 3919111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kevin JosephThe Joseph Group, LLCCovered position: House Energy and Commerce Committee 1987-1989. Senate Commerce Committee 1990-199947 filingsthrough 2020
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Director, Sen. Bill Frist11 filingsthrough 2011
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Zoe Lofgren11 filingsthrough 2011
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Shaddegg; Exec. Dir. RPC
The filings
The 20 most recent of 62 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-nextel.
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.
LBR
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
1 filing
$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.
through 2009
S. 2171111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 234111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 3427111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1597110th CongressWireless Innovation Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3773110th CongressFISA Amendments Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3919110th CongressBroadband Census of America Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6304110th CongressFISA Amendments Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1927110th CongressProtect America Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2171110th CongressUniform Wireless Consumer Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 234110th CongressWireless Innovation Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
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.
