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.
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-servicemaster-company.
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.
10 filings
$480K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
10 filings
$480K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
10 filings
$330K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
6 filings
$250K 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
Water Resources Development Act of 2013
3 filingsthrough 2013
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act3 filingsthrough 2013
S. 802113th CongressSensible Environmental Protection Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3130113th CongressProtect Family Values at the Border Act2 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3611113th CongressDHS Immigration Accountability and Transparency Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
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.
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2010
John ScofieldPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Assistant Press Secretary, Sen. Mark Hatfield ; ; Communication Dir. House Approps Com'ttee4 filingsthrough 2010
Ed RothschildPodesta Group, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2010
Dale OakPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst & Dir. House Approps Committee4 filingsthrough 2010
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Communications Dir., Sen. Charles Schumer ; ; Sr. Comm. Adv/Press Secy Rep. Edward Markey4 filingsthrough 2010
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Hilda Solis ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff for Rep. Al Green ; ; Legislative Director for Rep. Joe Baca4 filingsthrough 2010
