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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
85 filings
$2M on those filings
Education
EDU
81 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 21 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 3182110th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
Donni TurnerPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Senior Staff Counsel, Sen. Max Cleland ; ; Legislative Director, Rep. David Scott ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator Richard Durbin
The filings
The 20 most recent of 85 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: university-of-south-carolina.
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.
70 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
69 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
68 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Defense
DEF
68 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
68 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
67 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Aerospace
AER
64 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
57 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
50 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
47 filings
$1M 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.
110th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2610113th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
S. 1243113th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2997111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 7322111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3182111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3230111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3261111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
7 filingsthrough 2011
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates6 filingsthrough 2009
Ray ColeVan Scoyoc Associates6 filingsthrough 2009
Bryan BlomVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Intern, Congressman Frank J. Sensenbrenner6 filingsthrough 2009
Brooke McchesneyVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Constituent Services Rep, Senator Bill Frist6 filingsthrough 2009
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2013
Randall GerardPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Intern, Sen. John McCain2 filingsthrough 2010
Hewitt StrangePodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Projects Assistant, Senator John Breaux1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 7 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
