Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC · 14 clients
79 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
13 filings
$360K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Patricia J PaolettaCovered position: Special Ass't to Dir., Office of Int'l Comm. (FCC); Senior Legal Advisor to Int'l Bureau (FCC); Director of Telecommunications Trade (USTR); Counsel to House Commerce Committee.74 filings12 clients · through 2025
Michael D NilssonCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Counsel to Sen. Rockefeller (WV)44 filings2 clients · through 2025
John NakahataCovered position: Staff Director, Subcomm. on Reg. and Gov. Info., Sen. Comm. on Gov. Affairs; Counsel, Sen. Comm. on Gov. Affairs; Legislative Assistant and Counsel, Sen. Lieberman (CT)15 filings3 clients · through 2015
Renee WentzelCovered position: Summer Intern, Congressman Paul Gillmor
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Telefon Ab Lm Ericsson
Sweden
1 filing
through 2018
Deutsche Telekom Ag
Germany
1 filing
through 2014
Tyco Electronics Ltd.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 160 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: hwg-llp-f-k-a-harris-wiltshire-grannis-llp.
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 $1.8M in fees and $0 in expenses.
COM · 3 clients
11 filings
$85K on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA · 1 client
5 filings
$20K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN · 1 client
1 filing
$10K 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.
10 filings2 clients · through 2012
Darah FranklinCovered position: Intern, Senator Barack Obama9 filings1 client · through 2012
Kent D Bressie6 filings2 clients · through 2008
Jared Marx2 filings1 client · through 2024
Covered positions · 5 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.
Bermuda
1 filing
through 2009
Wolters Kluwer Nv
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2008
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.
