55 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2022 · latest filed Nov 29, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$1.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.8M
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
48 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
48 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 43 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2740116th CongressLabor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 202012 filingsthrough 2020
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: vaisala-inc.
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.
39 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
33 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Defense
DEF
33 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
32 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
19 filings
$830K 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
Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2016
7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1331114th CongressSeasonal Forecasting Improvement Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1573114th CongressWeather Alerts for a Ready Nation Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3614114th CongressAirport and Airway Extension Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1319117th CongressAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 3055116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5293114th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
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.
11 filingsthrough 2020
Meg ThompsonOldaker Group, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff, House Approps., Sen. Approps.10 filingsthrough 2014
Philip Jackson ByeOldaker Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2014
David Joseph McnittOldaker Group, LLC7 filingsthrough 2013
Frank M CushingOldaker Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Dir. House Approps Com., Prof Staff Senate6 filingsthrough 2012
Edmund GraberEdmund Graber6 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
