75 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Aug 21, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$3.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.8M
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.
Moses MercadoOgrCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff,Gephardt;Chief of Staff,Green44 filingsthrough 2019
Gordon TaylorOgr44 filingsthrough 2019
Dean AguillenOgr39 filingsthrough 2019
Chris IsraelAcg AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Coordinator for International IP Enforcement; Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Commerce; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tech Policy, Department of Commerce
The filings
The 20 most recent of 75 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: viacom.
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.
TEC
28 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
24 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
21 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
16 filings
$870K on those filings
Sports/Athletics
SPO
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
3 filings
$20K 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.
112th Congress
Stop Online Piracy Act
7 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 44115th CongressMuhammad Ali Expansion Act6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4952114th CongressFair Federal Firearms Licensing Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1741114th CongressTruth in Healthcare Marketing Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4952113th CongressCell Phone Freedom Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3804111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4572113th CongressSTELA Reauthorization Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5036113th CongressSatellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2454113th CongressSatellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3804112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2011
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.
Stephen PinkosAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Policy Director/General Counsel, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for IP; Staff Director, House Judiciary Committee13 filingsthrough 2016
Timothy McgivernOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Brownback11 filingsthrough 2017
William O'NeillOgrCovered position: SrStaff/PolAdv,HouseCommGovReform;LD,Roe9 filingsthrough 2014
Alissa CleesOgrCovered position: Scheduler, Senator Ben Nelson7 filingsthrough 2017
DAVID F PEARCE jrAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Representative Amo Houghton; Legislative Counsel, Representative Michael Castle7 filingsthrough 2015
JOHN J O'NEILL jrOgrCovered position: PolDir/Coun,SenMinWhip;Couns,SenFinComm7 filingsthrough 2012
Julie DammannOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Christopher S. Bond7 filingsthrough 2010
Brian Weir FitzgeraldAcg Advocacy5 filingsthrough 2012
Andrew RosenbergOgr5 filingsthrough 2009
James DavidsonPolsinelli PC4 filingsthrough 2015
Chris IsraelPct Government RelationsCovered position: Dep Asst Sec for Tech Policy, Dept of Commerce4 filingsthrough 2010
