Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF · 21 clients
259 filings
$5.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 27 clients
161 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Health Issues
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Brent S FranzelCovered position: Staff Dir, Sen Intl Finance Subcom; Leg Counsel to Sen Bond468 filings31 clients · through 2026
Steven A WolfeCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (MA)304 filings27 clients · through 2024
Sean KirkendallCovered position: 1989-1994, Sen. Arlen Specter, Special Assistant34 filings9 clients · through 2011
Suzanne DumontCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Representative John Olver32 filings7 clients · through 2011
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Tanfield Group PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2009
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 825 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: cardinal-point-partners.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $16.1M in fees and $0 in expenses.
HCR · 8 clients
71 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 2 clients
63 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 8 clients
46 filings
$1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 4 clients
43 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 4 clients
43 filings
$740K on those filings
Utilities
UTI · 3 clients
28 filings
$910K on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 3 clients
20 filings
$560K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
19 filings
$704K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW · 4 clients
18 filings
$370K on those filings
Education
EDU · 3 clients
18 filings
$360K 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 money 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.
Paul Doerrer15 filings6 clients · through 2008
Julie Murphy Finn7 filings2 clients · through 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
