Virgin America Airlines — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Virgin America Airlines
California
19 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed Oct 16, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$545K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$545K
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.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
18 filings
$545K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
18 filings
$545K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 658112th CongressFAA Modernization and Reform Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
S. 223112th CongressFAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act4 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Stefan BaileyPrime Policy GroupCovered position: Legislative Director, Cong. Nick Rahall13 filingsthrough 2013
M B OGLESBY jrPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A8 filingsthrough 2012
R Scott PastrickPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A7 filingsthrough 2011
Paul Dustin WeissPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A
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: virgin-america-airlines.
fees reported
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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.
18 filings
$545K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$425K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$15K 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.
7 filings
through 2011
Becky B WeberPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2011
M B OGLESBY jrBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Becky B WeberBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
R Scott PastrickBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Stefan BaileyBksh & AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Director, Cong. Nick Rahall6 filingsthrough 2009
Keith SmithPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2010
Charles BlackPrime Policy GroupCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2010
