Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 1 client
68 filings
$40.1M on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART · 1 client
68 filings
$40.1M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
Members whose bills were lobbied
Members of Congress whose sponsored or cosponsored bills were named in this firm's lobbying filings from the same Congress, ranked by matched filings.
Mayra FloresR-Texas-AL
Bills: H.Con.Res. 33
2 filings
2 lobbyists
Jim HagedornR-Minnesota-AL
Bills: H.Con.Res. 33
1 filing
1 lobbyist
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Amy Isbell83 filings1 client · through 2026
Matthew T Gerson34 filings1 client · through 2015
CHARLES WELDON WADELINGTON jr33 filings1 client · through 2026
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Vivendi
France
4 filings
through 2021
Tencent
China
1 filing
through 2021
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 68 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: universal-music-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 $0 in fees and $40.1M in expenses.
CPT · 1 client
68 filings
$40.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
56 filings
$33.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
18 filings
$13M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
12 filings
$7M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
9 filings
$6.3M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 1 client
7 filings
$5.8M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV · 1 client
6 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Education
EDU · 1 client
5 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
5 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
4 filings
$3.2M 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.
Joseph SempolinskiR-New York-AL
Bills: H.Con.Res. 33
1 filing
1 lobbyist
What this shows · A row here means a lobbying activity in this firm's filings named a bill this member is on record sponsoring or cosponsoring in the same Congress — a bill-reference match, not a claim that the filing named the member's office. Bill numbers are reused every Congress, so the match is scoped to the Congress the filing was made under; a filing that cites an enacted law by its original bill number can therefore land on a later Congress's bill of the same number. Member names and bill references are cited as filed; both link to their own record once their sections leave beta.
