Lobbying client

BLACKBOARD INC

Education and Technology

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 5 of its records are shown together here.

Filings
68
Filed by
5
Reported in-house
$327,250
Reported by firms
$910,000

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 2009 to 2024

Filings

68 filings, newest first.

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
THE CORMAC GROUP, LLC 15 $350,000
BLACKBOARD INC. In-house 8 $327,250
OLDAKER & WILLISON, LLP 11 $290,000
CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, INC. 7 $260,000
BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER LLP 19 $10,000

Issues lobbied

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

IssueCodeMentions
Education EDU 33
Budget/Appropriations BUD 18
Homeland Security HOM 11
Defense DEF 6
Science/Technology SCI 4
Telecommunications TEC 2
Banking BAN 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.