33 filings from 3 registrants · 2012–2015 · latest filed Mar 16, 2016
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.
Paul A JacksonJackson Consulting GroupCovered position: Special Asst., Office of Comm'r Michael K. Powell, FCC16 filingsthrough 2015
Elizabeth W FrazeeTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel and Director for Rep. Bob Goodlatte/Press Secretary, House Energy and Commerce Committee15 filingsthrough 2015
Alyssa Gowens-BetzTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel to Former Rep. Mel Watt15 filingsthrough 2015
Sharon RingleyTwinlogic Strategies, LLP Deputy Chief of Staff - Former Rep. Rick Boucher
The filings
The 20 most recent of 33 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: the-directv-group-inc.
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
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$50K 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.
113th Congress
Consumer Choice in Online Video Act
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3675112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act8 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2008112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4572113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5036113th CongressSatellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2454113th CongressSatellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 20146 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2799113th CongressSatellite Television Access and Viewer Rights Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1770114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5728113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2354112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20121 filingthrough 2012
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.
