SOTHEBY'S — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 2 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

Filed by

Reported in-house

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Reported by firms

$2,790,000

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ thousands 2012 to 2023

Filings

4 filings for 2016, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2016	PODESTA GROUP, INC.	$60,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2016	PODESTA GROUP, INC.	$60,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2016	PODESTA GROUP, INC.	$60,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report 1st Quarter 2016	PODESTA GROUP, INC.	$60,000 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.

Firm	Reports	Amount
PODESTA GROUP, INC.	24	$1,410,000
COGENT STRATEGIES LLC	24	$1,380,000

Issues lobbied

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

Issue	Code	Mentions
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	50
Arts/Entertainment	ART	39
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	33
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	13

Bills named in its filings

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

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 1493	114th	8
H.R. 2514	116th	7
H.R. 2500	117th	6
S. 1790	117th	6
S. 977	114th	6
H.R. 1881	114th	6
S. 1887	114th	6
S. 2563	116th	5
S. 2000	112th	5
H.R. 3688	112th	5
H.R. 5525	117th	4
S. 1471	117th	4
H.R. 4103	113th	4
S. 2045	113th	4
H.R. 5886	115th	3
S. 2763	114th	3
S. 1790	116th	2
H.R. 2500	116th	2
H.R. 2285	114th	2
S. 2587	113th	2
H.R. 5052	113th	2
H.R. 6868	115th	1
S. 3488	115th	1
H.R. 83	113th	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.