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.
Telecommunications
TEC
71 filings
$6.6M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
3 filings
$74K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2054110th CongressUniversal Service Reform Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3821110th CongressBattle of Matewan Study Act5 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Lisa YoungersXo Communications33 filingsthrough 2015
Kevin JosephThe Joseph Group, LLCCovered position: House Energy and Commerce Committee 1987-1989. Senate Commerce Committee 1990-199930 filingsthrough 2016
Patrick ThompsonXo CommunicationsCovered position: LA to Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY)30 filingsthrough 2016
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: xo-communications.
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.
H.R. 5353110th CongressInternet Freedom Preservation Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6356110th CongressUniversal Service Reform, Accountability, and Efficiency Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3403110th CongressNET 911 Improvement Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 400111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
