33 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2017 · latest filed Jan 23, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
19 filings
$1M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
14 filings
$410K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4909114th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20174 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act1 filingthrough 2016
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.
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.29 filingsthrough 2017
Elizabeth A InadomiPodesta Group, Inc.23 filingsthrough 2017
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Press Secy, Leg. Aide, Rep. Edward Markey17 filingsthrough 2015
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: synthetic-genomics.
7 filings
$520K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
7 filings
$520K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$320K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
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.
Podesta Group, Inc.
Covered position: Comm. Dir/Dpty SD/SD, H. Oversight Cmte. // Press Sec'y/Leg. Director, Rep. Tom Davis
12 filingsthrough 2017
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Communications Dir., House Approps. Committee10 filingsthrough 2011
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Director, House Appropriations Cmte.6 filingsthrough 2017