18 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Oct 18, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$750K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$750K
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.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
17 filings
$750K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
2 filings
$180K 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 — 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
The 15 most-cited of 41 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3513111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1492110th CongressBroadband Data Improvement Act3 filingsthrough 2008
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: ustelecom.
spend on filings that named this issue
110th Congress
Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2007
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1521111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 690111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 144111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3606111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3636111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3677111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1248110th CongressClean Railroads Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6003110th CongressPassenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1190110th CongressConnect The Nation Act2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1965110th CongressProtecting Children in the 21st Century Act2 filingsthrough 2008
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.
