Lobbying client

WASHINGTON POST COMPANY

Media and education

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
44
Filed by
7
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

44 filings, newest first.
Filing Filed by Amount
2nd Quarter - Termination
2nd Quarter 2011
AVOQ, LLC $80,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Termination
2nd Quarter 2011
TONIO BURGOS & ASSOCIATES, INC. $30,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Termination
2nd Quarter 2011
THE RABEN GROUP $30,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report
1st Quarter 2011
TONIO BURGOS & ASSOCIATES, INC. $30,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report
1st Quarter 2011
THE RABEN GROUP $30,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report
1st Quarter 2011
AVOQ, LLC $80,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2010
AVOQ, LLC $80,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2010
TONIO BURGOS & ASSOCIATES, INC. $30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report
4th Quarter 2010
THE RABEN GROUP $40,000 reported
Registration - Amendment
3rd Quarter 2010
THE RABEN GROUP — 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
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.

Bills named in its filings

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

BillCongressTimes 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
S. 448 111th 1
H.R. 985 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.