Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Oasis Institute
Missouri
4 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2011 · latest filed Apr 20, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$80K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$80K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 887 112th CongressTo direct the Secretary of the Interior to submit a report on Indian land fractionation, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2011
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.
- Elizabeth Ann Morra Podesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Thad Cochran, conference & personal staff ; ; House Appropriations Committee5 filingsthrough 2011
- Oscar Ramirez Podesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor ; ; Chief of Staff to Rep. Hilda Solis ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff for Rep. Al Green ; ; Legislative Director for Rep. Joe Baca5 filingsthrough 2011
- Jessica Lawrence-Vaca Podesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Rep. Albio Sires ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Patty Murray ; ; Leg. Correspondent, Rep. Steve Rothman5 filingsthrough 2011
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: the-oasis-institute.