Lobbying client

ADVANTA CORPORATION

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 4 of its records are shown together here.

Filings
38
Filed by
4
Reported in-house
$2,155,000
Reported by firms
$530,000

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ thousands 2007 to 2009

Filings

38 filings, newest first.
Filing Filed by Amount
4th Quarter - Termination
4th Quarter 2009
ADVANTA CORPORATION $40,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report
3rd Quarter 2009
ADVANTA CORPORATION $90,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report
2nd Quarter 2009
ADVANTA CORPORATION $70,000 reported
1st Quarter - Termination
1st Quarter 2009
CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC $20,000 reported
1st Quarter - Termination
1st Quarter 2009
BUTERA & ANDREWS $10,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report
1st Quarter 2009
ADVANTA CORPORATION $140,000 reported
1st Quarter - Termination (No Activity)
1st Quarter 2009
ACG ADVOCACY — reported
4th Quarter - Amendment
4th Quarter 2008
ACG ADVOCACY $30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2008
CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC $60,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2008
BUTERA & ANDREWS $15,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

FirmReportsAmount
ADVANTA CORPORATION In-house 10 $2,155,000
CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC 6 $300,000
BUTERA & ANDREWS 7 $160,000
ACG ADVOCACY 6 $70,000

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

BillCongressTimes named
S. 1395 110th 17
H.R. 1461 110th 16
H.R. 698 110th 12
H.R. 5244 110th 12
S. 1356 110th 11
S. 2753 110th 8
H.R. 873 110th 7
S. 3252 110th 6
H.R. 6248 110th 6
H.R. 5546 110th 6
S. 3086 110th 6
H.R. 627 111th 3
H.R. 2130 110th 3
H.R. 2695 111th 2
S. 414 111th 2
S. 1212 111th 2
H.R. 6620 110th 2
H.R. 3457 111th 1
S. 1395 111th 1
H.R. 3396 111th 1
H.R. 5244 111th 1
H.R. 378 110th 1

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.