Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Sybase Inc
California
7 filings from 2 registrants · 2008 · latest filed Jan 21, 2009
Reported on its behalf
$450K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$330K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$120K
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.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Homeland Security
HOM
7 filings
$450K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
3 filings
$330K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1908 110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
- S. 1145 110th CongressPatent Reform 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Ryan Spangler Monument Advocacy4 filingsthrough 2008
- Andrew Howell Monument Advocacy4 filingsthrough 2008
- Timothy Punke Monument Advocacy4 filingsthrough 2008
- CHARLES STEWART VERDERY jr Monument Advocacy4 filingsthrough 2008
- Edward Hearst Sybase, Inc3 filingsthrough 2008
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: sybase-inc.