17 filings from 2 registrants · 2011–2016 · latest filed May 27, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$585K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$585K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
13 filings
$515K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1946114th CongressTax Relief Extension Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Hilda Solis ; ; Leg. Director/Deputy CoS, Rep. Al Green ; ; Leg. Asst./Asst. LD/LD, Rep. Joe Baca13 filingsthrough 2016
Josh HollyPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Communications Director/Spokesman/Staff, House Armed Services Committee / Director Media Affairs, House Education & Workforce Committee / Press Secretary, Rep. Ernie Fletcher9 filingsthrough 2015
Ed RothschildPodesta Group, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2013
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: sunedison.
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.
1 filing
$30K 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.
6 filingsthrough 2016
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Dpty. SD/Communications, Jt. Economic Cmte. ; ; Press Secy/LA/Sr. Comm. Adv, Rep. Ed Markey ; ; Comm. Director, Sen. Charles Schumer6 filingsthrough 2015
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of Labor4 filingsthrough 2015
Mark TavlaridesPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Director of Legislative Affairs, National Security Council; Sr. Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary of Defense2 filingsthrough 2015
Ben ChangPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Dir. Press & Comm., Nat'l Security Staff2 filingsthrough 2013
Marland BucknerGlobal Strategic Partners, LLCCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor 1997-98; Chief of Staff 1999-2001Congressman Harold Ford Jr. (D Tn 09)Legislative Assistant to Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) 19992 filingsthrough 2011
Matthew Lee JohnsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Counsel/Chief Counsel, Sen. John Cornyn1 filingthrough 2016
Andrew KaudersPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Adv'r/Executive Dir., House Democratic Caucus // Sr. Adv'r/Communications Dir., Rep. Robert Menendez // Spokesperson/Asst. to Dpty Sec'y, Dept. of Agriculture // Dpty. Comm. Dir., WH Climate Chg Task Force // Special Assistant, EPA1 filingthrough 2015
Jordan ValdesPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sr. Adviser, Small Business Administration1 filingthrough 2015
