META PLATFORMS, INC. — 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 32 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

886

Filed by

Reported in-house

$228,781,268

Reported by firms

$33,898,750

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 2009 to 2026

Filings

5 filings for 2010, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
Registration 3rd Quarter 2010	AVOQ, LLC	— reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2010	META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES	$130,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2010	META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES	$120,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2010	META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES	$60,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report 1st Quarter 2010	META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES	$41,390 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
META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES In-house	70	$228,781,268
AVOQ, LLC	63	$4,110,000
HARBINGER STRATEGIES, LLC	47	$2,740,000
STEWART STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS, LLC	59	$2,615,000
STEPTOE LLP	46	$2,370,000
CAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLP	33	$1,850,000
STERNHELL GROUP	29	$1,720,000
THEGROUP DC, LLC	30	$1,640,000
SALT POINT STRATEGIES	28	$1,560,000
ELEVATE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC	28	$1,400,000
OFF HILL STRATEGIES L.L.C.	30	$1,327,500
BLUE MOUNTAIN STRATEGIES	36	$1,315,000
S-3 GROUP	22	$1,240,000
BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP	24	$1,160,000
TELEMEDIA POLICY CORP.	32	$976,250
MINDSET ADVOCACY, LLC	19	$910,000
OGR	29	$860,000
JEFFRIES STRATEGIES LLC	16	$720,000
HOLLIER & ASSOCIATES	29	$660,000
535 GROUP, LLC	22	$660,000
STANTON PARK GROUP	18	$635,000
MASON STREET CONSULTING, LLC	29	$580,000
VENABLE LLP	14	$530,000
MCGINLEY LLC	6	$480,000
BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER LLP	20	$460,000
MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.	6	$300,000
TAFT STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP DBA TAFT ADVISORS LLC FKA (TAFT, STETTINIUS & HO	9	$290,000
RMP STRATEGIES, LLC	13	$250,000
DCI GROUP, L.L.C.	5	$240,000
SALINAS STRATEGIES LLC	4	$120,000
HILLTOP ADVOCACY	10	$90,000
THE WILLIAMS GROUP	3	$90,000

Issues lobbied

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

Issue	Code	Mentions
Computer Industry	CPI	489
Telecommunications	TEC	214
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice	LAW	170
Homeland Security	HOM	159
Intelligence	INT	141
Media (information/publishing)	MIA	136
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	135
Science/Technology	SCI	112
Immigration	IMM	109
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	CSP	93
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	88
Copyright/Patent/Trademark	CPT	80
Banking	BAN	72
Government Issues	GOV	60
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities	FIN	53

Bills named in its filings

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

Bill	Congress	Times named
S. 1409	118th	32
S. 1418	118th	30
S. 486	118th	29
S. 1356	116th	26
S. 1094	118th	25
S. 1199	118th	24
S. 1207	118th	24
S. 2992	117th	23
S. 299	117th	22
H.R. 3149	119th	20
S. 799	112th	20
H.R. 8152	117th	19
H.R. 3843	117th	18
S. 1291	118th	17
H.R. 3825	117th	17
H.R. 3826	117th	17
H.R. 3816	117th	17
S. 2691	118th	16
S. 4258	118th	16
S. 1356	117th	16
S. 1084	116th	16
S. 169	113th	16
S. 1989	115th	15
S. 1260	117th	14
S. 1951	116th	14

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.