14 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2012 · latest filed Oct 19, 2012
Reported on its behalf
$1.3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Retirement
RET
11 filings
$1M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
10 filings
$1M on those filings
Banking
BAN
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 23 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3936111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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: supervalu.
8 filings
$833K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$300K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
2 filings
$200K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$100K 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.
112th Congress
Consumers Payment System Protection Act
2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3700110th CongressFair Medicaid Drug Payment Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2751111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4849111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4853111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 759111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3610110th CongressFood and Drug Import Safety Act of 20071 filingthrough 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.
13 filingsthrough 2012
Michael BermanThe Duberstein Group Inc.13 filingsthrough 2012
Marti ThomasThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Acting & Asst Sec. Legis. Affrs, Treasury9 filingsthrough 2012
Daniel P MeyerThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Asst. to President,Legis.Affairs, Pres. GW Bush9 filingsthrough 2012
Henry GandyThe Duberstein Group Inc.4 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
