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.
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this client's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Mayra FloresR-Texas-AL
Bills: H.Con.Res. 33
2 filings
2 lobbyists
Jim HagedornR-Minnesota-AL
Bills: H.Con.Res. 33
1 filing
1 lobbyist
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Amy IsbellUniversal Music Group83 filingsthrough 2026
Matthew T GersonUniversal Music Group34 filingsthrough 2015
CHARLES WELDON WADELINGTON jrUniversal Music Group33 filingsthrough 2026
Jennifer BendallEris Group10 filingsthrough 2011
Doyle BartlettEris Group10 filingsthrough 2011
The filings
The 20 most recent of 86 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: universal-music-group.
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.
COM
69 filings
$40.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
56 filings
$33.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
22 filings
$13.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
16 filings
$7.4M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
9 filings
$6.3M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
7 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
6 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Education
EDU
5 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$3.2M 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.
114th Congress
Fair Play Fair Pay Act of 2015
11 filingsthrough 2016
S. 662114th CongressSongwriter Equity Act of 201511 filingsthrough 2016
S.Con.Res. 4114th CongressA concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.11 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4279110th CongressPrioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 200811 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4789110th CongressPerformance Rights Act11 filingsthrough 2008
H.Con.Res. 13115th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.10 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1695115th CongressRegister of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1836115th CongressFair Play Fair Pay Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1914115th CongressPROMOTE Act of 201710 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 890115th CongressCopyright Office for the Digital Economy Act10 filingsthrough 2018
S.Con.Res. 6115th CongressA concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.10 filingsthrough 2018
H.Con.Res. 16113th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.10 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.
Joseph SempolinskiR-New York-AL
Bills: H.Con.Res. 33
1 filing
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this client's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2012
Paul BrathwaitePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Executive Director, Cong. Black Caucus ; ; CoS/Deputy Asst. Secy, DOL/Empl't Stds. Adm. ; ; Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of Labor ; ; Intern, Rep. Michael N. Castle2 filingsthrough 2012
Peggy K BinzelPodesta Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2012
Israel S KleinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Director, Sen. Charles Schumer1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 7 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
