ORACLE — 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 37 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

859

Filed by

Reported in-house

$145,710,000

Reported by firms

$46,595,000

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, $ millions 2007 to 2026

Filings

44 filings for 2008, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
1st Quarter - Termination Amendment 1st Quarter 2008	ASHCROFT GROUP	$90,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Amendment 2nd Quarter 2008	CHESAPEAKE ENTERPRISES	$25,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Reportreplaced 2nd Quarter 2008	CHESAPEAKE ENTERPRISES	$25,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	ORACLE CORPORATION	$980,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	THE LIVINGSTON GROUP, LLC	$80,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	ASHCROFT GROUP	$30,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	ROBERTI ASSOCIATES GLOBAL, LLC FORMERLY KNOWN AS VAR II, LLC	— reported
4th Quarter - Report (No Activity) 4th Quarter 2008	THE COHEN GROUP	— reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	CHESAPEAKE ENTERPRISES	$25,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2008	CAPITOL HILL CONSULTING GROUP	$50,000 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
ORACLE CORPORATION In-house	77	$145,710,000
THE LIVINGSTON GROUP, LLC	71	$5,830,000
THE NICKLES GROUP, LLC	45	$4,035,000
FIERCE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	41	$3,680,000
PODESTA GROUP, INC.	35	$3,590,000
CASSIDY & ASSOCIATES, INC.	53	$3,230,000
CAPITOL HILL CONSULTING GROUP	54	$3,170,000
POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	46	$3,140,000
THE MICHAEL LEWAN COMPANY	45	$2,640,000
FORBES-TATE	39	$2,600,000
RESOLUTION PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC	19	$1,520,000
BROWN RUDNICK LLP	23	$1,440,000
FIERCE, ISAKOWITZ & BLALOCK	16	$1,300,000
ACG ADVOCACY	21	$1,240,000
AVENUE SOLUTIONS	19	$1,140,000
A1.9 STRATEGIES LLC	20	$880,000
GUIDEPOSTSTRATEGIES, LLC	9	$770,000
HORIZON GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS	14	$740,000
ASHCROFT GROUP	11	$690,000
CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC	20	$620,000
ROBERTI ASSOCIATES GLOBAL, LLC FORMERLY KNOWN AS VAR II, LLC	7	$600,000
DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP	14	$560,000
DLA PIPER LLP (US)	10	$540,000
CHESAPEAKE ENTERPRISES	14	$420,000
THEGROUP DC, LLC	7	$420,000
CAUTHEN FORBES & WILLIAMS	6	$360,000
BGR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS	2	$360,000
VENABLE LLP	15	$310,000
BEN BARNES GROUP LP	5	$200,000
CANFIELD CONSULTING, LLC	6	$160,000
DUDDINGTON GLOBAL STRATEGIES LLC	5	$150,000
CG CONSULTING GROUP, INC.	9	$90,000
CORLEY CONSULTING, LLC	3	$70,000
THE COHEN GROUP	7	$50,000
US POLICY STRATEGIES	1	$50,000
MR. JAMES TAYLOR	8	—
SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS	6	—

Issues lobbied

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

Issue	Code	Mentions
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	361
Computer Industry	CPI	335
Defense	DEF	330
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	263
Health Issues	HCR	251
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	222
Veterans	VET	177
Homeland Security	HOM	153
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	145
Immigration	IMM	140
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace	LBR	130
Education	EDU	127
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	114
Telecommunications	TEC	108
Government Issues	GOV	89

Bills named in its filings

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

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 624	113th	46
S. 931	118th	29
H.R. 1695	118th	28
H.R. 2500	116th	28
S. 744	113th	28
H.R. 1	111th	28
H.R. 3012	113th	26
S. 23	112th	25
H.R. 699	114th	24
S. 356	114th	24
S. 607	113th	24
H.R. 2131	113th	24
S. 917	118th	21
S. 1197	113th	19
H.R. 1960	113th	19
H.R. 592	118th	18
H.R. 4262	114th	18
S. 512	114th	18
H.R. 4909	114th	18
H.R. 1174	114th	18
S. 413	112th	18
H.R. 2968	116th	16
S. 2987	115th	16
H.R. 1260	111th	16
H.R. 608	118th	15

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.