21 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2009 · latest filed Jan 20, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$870K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$695K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$175K
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: xm-satellite-radio-inc.
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.
CPT
3 filings
$635K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$635K 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.
H.R. 7157110th CongressRadio All Digital Channel Receiver Act1 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.
Steve GlazePalmetto GroupCovered position: Legislative Assistant for Senator David Pryor3 filingsthrough 2008
John WinburnPalmetto Group3 filingsthrough 2008
Ed JenkinsPalmetto GroupCovered position: Former Member of Congress - Georgia3 filingsthrough 2008
CHANCELLOR PATTERSON esqXm Satellite Radio Inc.2 filingsthrough 2009
Courtney SnowdenThe Raben Group2 filingsthrough 2008
DAVE GRIMALDI jrThe Raben Group2 filingsthrough 2008
Robert RabenThe Raben Group2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
