WASHINGTON POST COMPANY — 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 7 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

Filed by

Reported in-house

$497,000

Reported by firms

$740,000

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 2011

Filings

5 filings for 2007, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
Year-End Report Year-End 2007	PODESTA GROUP, INC.	$40,000 reported
Year-End Report Year-End 2007	WASHINGTON POST COMPANY	$96,000 reported
Mid-Year Report Mid-Year 2007	WASHINGTON POST COMPANY	$91,000 reported
Mid-Year Termination Mid-Year 2007	COVINGTON & BURLING LLP	— reported
Mid-Year Report Mid-Year 2007	PODESTA GROUP, INC.	$40,000 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
WASHINGTON POST COMPANY In-house	8	$497,000
AVOQ, LLC	4	$270,000
PODESTA GROUP, INC.	7	$170,000
THE RABEN GROUP	4	$110,000
TONIO BURGOS & ASSOCIATES, INC.	4	$100,000
COVINGTON & BURLING LLP	6	$70,000
MOFFETT GROUP, LLC	2	$20,000

Issues lobbied

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

Issue	Code	Mentions
Education	EDU	21
Constitution	CON	18
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	7
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV	COM	6
Utilities	UTI	2

Bills named in its filings

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

Bill	Congress	Times named
S. 1267	110th	8
H.R. 2102	110th	8
S. 849	110th	7
H.R. 1309	110th	6
S. 2035	110th	5
H.R. 1	112th	2
H.R. 985	111th	1
S. 448	111th	1
H.R. 2764	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.