39 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2017 · latest filed Jan 23, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$3.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.6M
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.
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: wal-mart.
$130K
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.
LBR
10 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
10 filings
$680K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
9 filings
$840K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
7 filings
$770K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$650K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
5 filings
$470K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
4 filings
$440K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$420K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
4 filings
$420K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$390K 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.
114th Congress
Remote Transactions Parity Act of 2015
7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 754114th CongressAn act to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1832112th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2998111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3249111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1478111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2460111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3200111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th 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.
20 filingsthrough 2017
Nicole C YoungPodesta Group, Inc.20 filingsthrough 2014
Andrew J LewinPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Asst & Director, Rep. Max Sandlin17 filingsthrough 2017
