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: federal-business-group.
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 $4.6M in fees and $0 in expenses.
BUD · 3 clients
22 filings
$459K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 4 clients
15 filings
$30K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 2 clients
13 filings
$260K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
13 filings
$259K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Utilities
UTI · 1 client
7 filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
7 filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
4 filings
$80K 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.
54 filings14 clients · through 2013
Richard Matthew KaelinCovered position: Former House Member Chief of Staff18 filings6 clients · through 2012
Covered positions · 2 of 7 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.
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2017
Thales
France
1 filing
through 2013
Gilat
Israel
1 filing
through 2012
Rio Tinto PLC
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2012
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.
