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.
Telecommunications
TEC
7 filings
$430K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 26 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1110111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1258111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1521111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 144111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Ken InouyeThe Fritts GroupCovered position: Did not lobby Senate8 filingsthrough 2010
Edward O. FrittsThe Fritts Group8 filingsthrough 2010
Kathleen M RamseyThe Fritts GroupCovered position: Dir. of H.R., U.S. Senate Sergeant of Arms8 filingsthrough 2010
Bruce CoxThe Fritts Group4 filingsthrough 2010
John Lively
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: verizon-and-affiliates.
CSP
1 filing
$45K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 2428111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2994111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3125111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3570111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3646111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1192111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2764111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2879111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 649111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 773111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
The Fritts Group
Covered position: Staff Asst. & L.A., Sen. Gregg
3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
