Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Zte USA
Texas
72 filings from 2 registrants · 2010–2022 · latest filed Feb 23, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$6.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$5.9M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1M
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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
38 filings
$6M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
20 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Manufacturing
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Peter Luke Ruffo Zte USACovered position: Legislative Correspondent, US Senate 2008-201128 filingsthrough 2017
- Jon L Christensen Appo-G, LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, 1994-199825 filingsthrough 2019
- Angela Simpson Zte USACovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce (2013-2017)4 filingsthrough 2018
- Jon Christensen Zte USACovered position: Member of Congress, 1994-1998
The filings
The 20 most recent of 72 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: zte-usa.