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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
28 filings
$3M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
7 filings
$260K 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.
Anthony PodestaPodesta Group, Inc.19 filingsthrough 2017
Randall GerardPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Staff Asst, Sen. Comm., Science & Trans. Cmte.18 filingsthrough 2017
Lawrence E LevinsonDla Piper LLP (US)17 filingsthrough 2016
David MorgensternPodesta Group, Inc. Leg. Director / CoS, Sen. Lamar Alexander ; ; Leg. Assistant / Counsel, Sen. Lincoln Chafee ; ; Leg. Correspondent, Sen. Paul Coverdell
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 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-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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014
5 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1329113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20145 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4660113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20154 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2410113th CongressCarl Levin National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20154 filingsthrough 2014
S. 884113th CongressDeter Cyber Theft Act4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4435113th CongressHoward P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1353113th CongressCybersecurity Enhancement Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2013
S. 2437113th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20142 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 933113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.Res. 643113th CongressCalling for further defense against the People's Republic of China's state-sponsored cyber-enabled theft of trade secrets, including by the People's Liberation Army.2 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3979113th CongressCarl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20151 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 4310112th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20131 filingthrough 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.
Covered position:
16 filingsthrough 2016
Nathaniel James BellDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Senior Legislative Asst to Rep. Robert Andrew15 filingsthrough 2016
Oscar RamirezPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Special Asst. to the Secretary, Dept. of Labor ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Hilda Solis ; ; Leg. Director/Deputy CoS, Rep. Al Green ; ; Leg. Asst./Asst. LD/LD, Rep. Joe Baca13 filingsthrough 2017
John A MerriganDla Piper LLP (US)13 filingsthrough 2016
David AdamsPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Director, Rep. Gary Ackerman11 filingsthrough 2017
Michael Newbold CastleDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Member of Congress10 filingsthrough 2016
Matthew Lee JohnsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel/Counsel, Sen. John Cornyn7 filingsthrough 2017
Elizabeth Ann MorraPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Comm. Director, House Appropriations Cmte. ; ; Press Secretary, Sen. Thad Cochran ; ; News Dir./Co-Anchor/Prod'r, S. Repub. Conf.5 filingsthrough 2013
Rory DavenportOgilvy Public Relations Worldwide5 filingsthrough 2013
Dana ThompsonPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: LD/Chf. Counsel, Rep. Maxine Waters // L. Cnsl/C. Cnsl/Dpty COS/COS, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee4 filingsthrough 2016
Mark TavlaridesPodesta Group, Inc.Covered position: Dir. for Leg. Affairs, Nat'l Security Council // Sr. Spec. Asst., Office of Sec'y of Defense3 filingsthrough 2016
