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.
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: valente-associates.
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 $12.2M in fees and $0 in expenses.
MMM · 4 clients
71 filings
$3M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 6 clients
63 filings
$2M on those filings
Education
EDU · 6 clients
55 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 4 clients
53 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 2 clients
40 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Insurance
INS · 1 client
26 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 2 clients
23 filings
$890K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 3 clients
19 filings
$620K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD · 1 client
15 filings
$630K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN · 1 client
15 filings
$630K 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.
J Daniel WalshCovered position: Leg. Dir., Rep. Wayne Gilchrest; Leg. Asst., Rep. Jack Buechner40 filings7 clients · through 2016
William E FlynnCovered position: Associate Director, Senior Policy Adviser, OPM34 filings2 clients · through 2016
Karen JohnsonCovered position: Asst. Sec. of Ed. for Leg. and Cong. Aff.30 filings6 clients · through 2009
Claudia Barker ValenteCovered position: Special Asst. to the Comptroller, U.S. DoD19 filings9 clients · through 2016
Alan LopatinCovered position: Dep. Counsel, House Comm. on Edu. and Labor16 filings2 clients · through 2011
Joanna Acocella5 filings3 clients · through 2009
Covered positions · 9 of 10 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.
France
1 filing
through 2012
Azure Dynamics Corporation
(Canadian Owned)
United States of America
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.
