Viacom International Services Inc (Formerly Filing as Viacom)
District of Columbia
4 filings from 1 registrant · 2008 · latest filed Jan 15, 2009
Reported on its behalf
$190K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$190K
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
4 filings
$190K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1201110th CongressFreedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3389110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the election to treat the cost of qualified film and television productions as an expense which is not chargeable to capital account.2 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: viacom-international-services-inc-formerly-filing-as-viacom.
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$100K 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
Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2008
2 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.
4 filingsthrough 2008
Karin HudsonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Asst. Sen. Chris Dodd4 filingsthrough 2008
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Max Baucus4 filingsthrough 2008
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Frist4 filingsthrough 2008
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst. Sec. of Commerce for Tech Policy4 filingsthrough 2008
Jamie BrownMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to President for Leg. Affairs4 filingsthrough 2008
Colette DesmaraisMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Director, Sen. Grassley4 filingsthrough 2008
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln3 filingsthrough 2008
Jonathan Russell HogansonMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Rahm Emanuel2 filingsthrough 2008
Kelly VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 13 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
