Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Health Issues
HCR · 26 clients
206 filings
$9.3M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 20 clients
195 filings
$11.4M on those filings
Defense
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Richard GephardtCovered position: Member of Congress, 1977-2005613 filings74 clients · through 2026
Thomas O'DonnellCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt588 filings59 clients · through 2021
Christina HamiltonCovered position: Staff, House Appropriations Committee; Chief of Staff, Approps Coord, and AA, Rep. Obey371 filings30 clients · through 2026
Sharon DanielsCovered position: Executive Assistant, House Majority Leader Administrative Assistant, House Democratic Leader343 filings
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Consolidated Contractors Company
Greece
2 filings
through 2014
Degremont S.A./SUEZ
France
2 filings
through 2014
Gic (Ventures) Pte. Ltd
The filings
The 20 most recent of 1,709 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: gephardt-group-government-affairs.
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 $59.2M in fees and $0 in expenses.
DEF · 9 clients
175 filings
$10.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 31 clients
173 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 15 clients
171 filings
$10.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 22 clients
145 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 10 clients
120 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 17 clients
119 filings
$7.8M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 12 clients
96 filings
$5M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 17 clients
94 filings
$6.7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 12 clients
85 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 5 clients
68 filings
$2.7M 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.
Gregory Carnrick186 filings13 clients · through 2023
Scott BrennerCovered position: Director of Communications, House T&I Committee168 filings32 clients · through 2016
Kyle MulhallCovered position: Counsel, Rep. Gephardt; Senior Policy Advisor, House Democratic Leader; Senior Trial Attorney, Department of Transportation157 filings24 clients · through 2016
Michael MessmerCovered position: Executive Assistant, House Democratic Leader93 filings17 clients · through 2017
Andrea KingCovered position: Staff Director, Rep. Gephardt71 filings12 clients · through 2014
Marti ThomasCovered position: Floor Aide and Executive Floor Asst, House Majority Leader59 filings6 clients · through 2018
Joel Freedman44 filings8 clients · through 2013
Thomas BlankCovered position: Acting Deputy Administrator, TSA42 filings6 clients · through 2016
Amanda Armistead40 filings9 clients · through 2015
Robert EpplinCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Finance CommitteeAnalyst, OMB Budget Review DivisionLegislative Assistant and Legislative Dir, Senator SmithLegislative Director, Senator Collins34 filings8 clients · through 2015
Jeremy Pollack30 filings6 clients · through 2017
Nicholas W Plebani27 filings3 clients · through 2025
Hannah HagstromCovered position: Research Assistant, Senator Johnson7 filings4 clients · through 2012
Catherine Perkinson1 filing1 client · through 2012
Catherine Goode1 filing1 client · through 2012
Covered positions · 14 of 22 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.
Singapore
1 filing
through 2018
Ashmore Group
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2014
Bayer Ag
Germany
1 filing
through 2014
Lanxess Ag
Germany
1 filing
through 2014
Orvet Uk
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2014
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
Israel
1 filing
through 2014
Teva Pharmaceuticals Europe Bv
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2014
Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/NV
Belgium
1 filing
through 2013
Inbev Services B.V.
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2013
Digen Pharmaceuticals Gmbh
Austria
1 filing
through 2011
Sodexo Group
France
1 filing
through 2010
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.
