Note · At least one filing discloses a foreign entity with an interest in a client this registrant represents. Those disclosures are listed below.
Revenue over time
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 they lobby for
Every client this registrant has billed a fee to represent, by fees reported.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 13 clients
148 filings
$5.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 3 clients
38 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Jennifer LatouretteCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Steven LaTourette; Special Assistant/Senior Legislative Assistant/Scheduler, Congressman Robert Borski; and Press Intern/Deputy Finance Director, Senator Max Baucus156 filings21 clients · through 2016
Lauren Henry CowlesCovered position: Appropriations Legislative Assistant, Senator Mark Pryor; Professional Staff Member, Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee; Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant, Senator Mark Pryor110 filings17 clients · through 2016
Hilary FulpCovered position: Legislative Assistant/Staff Assistant/Intern, Congressman Steven C. LaTourette100 filings21 clients · through 2016
Matt Henken Legislative Director, Congressman Ed Perlmutter; Associate Staff, House Committee on Rules; and Congressional Aide, Congressman Mark Udall
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Brambles Limited
Australia
1 filing
through 2013
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 199 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: mcdonald-hopkins-government-strategies-llc.
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 $6.7M in fees and $0 in expenses.
MMM · 4 clients
36 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 5 clients
36 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 3 clients
35 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Railroads
RRR · 3 clients
29 filings
$950K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 2 clients
26 filings
$900K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 4 clients
20 filings
$650K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 2 clients
19 filings
$630K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 1 client
16 filings
$420K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 2 clients
12 filings
$570K on those filings
Veterans
VET · 1 client
10 filings
$600K 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.
Covered position:
96 filings16 clients · through 2016
Steven C LatouretteCovered position: Member, U.S. House of Representatives72 filings17 clients · through 2016
Michael Robert PaskoCovered position: Legislative Assistant/Legislative Correspondent/Staff Asst, Congressman Aaron Schock; Executive Assistant to the Chairman, Executive Office of the President, Council on Environmental Quality; and Student Asst, Executive Office of the President, CEQ63 filings9 clients · through 2016
Christopher Barron3 filings1 client · through 2016
Mark Henken1 filing1 client · through 2014
Covered positions · 6 of 8 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.
