Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Virent Inc
Wisconsin
30 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Aug 18, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$433K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$377K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$56K
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.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
18 filings
$374K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 5658 110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20091 filingthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Mary Blanchard Virent, Inc.Covered position: N/A23 filingsthrough 2013
- David Hitchcock Virent, Inc.6 filingsthrough 2013
- JAMES MCVANEY jr Kinetic Solutions GroupCovered position: Congressional Staff3 filingsthrough 2014
Covered positions · 2 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 30 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: virent-inc.