Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC · 29 clients
483 filings
$19.4M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 2 clients
72 filings
$475K on those filings
Intelligence
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Kevin JosephCovered position: House Energy and Commerce Committee 1987-1989 Senate Commerce Committee 1990-1999733 filings42 clients · through 2026
Chani WigginsCovered position: LA - Harkin; Research Asst. - Boxer79 filings14 clients · through 2012
Covered positions · 2 of 2 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.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Deutsche Telekom Ag
Germany
1 filing
through 2020
Softbank Corp.
Japan
1 filing
through 2020
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 707 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: the-joseph-group-llc.
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 $23.9M in fees and $0 in expenses.
INT · 2 clients
67 filings
$2M on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI · 3 clients
23 filings
$910K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 14 clients
20 filings
$631K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 2 clients
18 filings
$485K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
17 filings
Small Business
SMB · 1 client
15 filings
$450K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
14 filings
$410K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
7 filings
$238K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
7 filings
$238K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
7 filings
$238K 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.
