8 filings from 2 registrants · 2013–2014 · latest filed Jan 15, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$520K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$520K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
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6 filings
$520K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4572113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Daniel P MeyerThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Speaker Newt Gingrich ; ; Asst. to President,Legis.Affairs, Pres. GW Bush5 filingsthrough 2014
Steven ChamplinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, House Dem. Caucus4 filingsthrough 2014
Kenneth DubersteinThe Duberstein Group Inc.3 filingsthrough 2014
Brian GriffinThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: StaffAsst, DemPolicyComm; FlrAsst, MinoritySec ; ; Sr. Ldrship Advisor, Sen. Dorgan
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-weather-company.
$120K
fees reported
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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.
3 filings
through 2014
Marti ThomasThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Deputy Asst Sec Tax & Budget, Treasury ; ; Acting & Asst Sec. Legis. Affrs, Treasury3 filingsthrough 2014
Gregg RothschildFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator John Kerry ; ; Counsel, Senate Committee on Small Business ; ; Minority Telecommunications Counsel, House ; ; Committee On Energy and Commerce ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Counsel, ; ; House Committee on Energy and Commerce3 filingsthrough 2014
Brian Steven GastonFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Member Services Director, Republican ; ; Conference Committee, Chairman Dick Armey ; ; Republican Conference Committee Chairman ; ; John Boehner ; ; Policy Director, House Maj. Leader Dick Armey ; ; Policy Director, House Maj.Whip Roy Blunt ; ; Chief of Staff, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt ; ; Leadership Advisor, Rep. Roy Blunt3 filingsthrough 2014
Grant Leslie MitchellFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Aide for Senator Tom Daschle ; ; Legislative Director for Senator Ken Salazar ; ; Senior Advisor to Secretary Tom Vilsack3 filingsthrough 2014
Matt MandelFgs Global (US) LLC (Fka Fgh Holdings LLC)Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Cliff Stearns ; ; Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Cliff Stearns ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Eric Cantor ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Tom Bliley ; ; Staff Assistant, House Committee on ; ; International Relations3 filingsthrough 2014
David J SchiappaThe Duberstein Group Inc.Covered position: Senate Republican Cloakroom Assistant ; ; Senate Republican Floor Assistant ; ; Senate Assistant Secretary for the Majority ; ; Senate Secretary for Majority/for Minority3 filingsthrough 2014
Michael BermanThe Duberstein Group Inc.2 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 9 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
