WESTERN UNION
Global financial services company best known for money transfers.
The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 12 of its records are shown together here.
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
Filings
| Filing | Filed by | Amount |
|---|---|---|
|
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2012
|
WESTERN UNION | $230,000 reported |
|
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2012
|
ERIS GROUP | $32,400 reported |
|
4th Quarter - Termination Amendment 4th Quarter 2012
|
ACG ADVOCACY | $40,000 reported |
|
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2012
|
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP | $40,000 reported |
|
4th Quarter - Reportreplaced 4th Quarter 2012
|
ACG ADVOCACY | $40,000 reported |
|
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2012
|
RADIUS ADVOCACY, LLC | $20,000 reported |
|
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2012
|
PENN AVENUE PARTNERS | $10,000 reported |
|
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2012
|
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP | $40,000 reported |
|
Registration 4th Quarter 2012
|
PENN AVENUE PARTNERS | — reported |
|
Registration 4th Quarter 2012
|
PENN AVENUE PARTNERS | — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WESTERN UNION In-house | 76 | $14,421,680 |
| BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP | 77 | $4,310,000 |
| ERIS GROUP | 57 | $1,938,400 |
| RADIUS ADVOCACY, LLC | 62 | $1,240,000 |
| ACG ADVOCACY | 21 | $1,080,000 |
| PENN AVENUE PARTNERS | 56 | $830,000 |
| GRAYROBINSON PA | 22 | $704,000 |
| HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP | 13 | $250,000 |
| BAKER & MCKENZIE, LLP | 12 | $220,000 |
| SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP | 12 | $50,000 |
| JTI MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS, INC. DBA JTI, INC. | 6 | — |
| BOLTON-ST. JOHNS, LLC | 4 | — |
Issues lobbied
How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.
| Issue | Code | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities | FIN | 281 |
| Banking | BAN | 243 |
| Immigration | IMM | 141 |
| Homeland Security | HOM | 94 |
| Taxation/Internal Revenue Code | TAX | 64 |
| Trade (domestic/foreign) | TRD | 51 |
| Consumer Issues/Safety/Products | CSP | 48 |
| Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice | LAW | 28 |
| Commodities (big ticket) | CDT | 23 |
| Postal | POS | 15 |
| Foreign Relations | FOR | 14 |
| Budget/Appropriations | BUD | 6 |
| Civil Rights/Civil Liberties | CIV | 4 |
| Disaster Planning/Emergencies | DIS | 4 |
| Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV | COM | 3 |
Bills named in its filings
Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.
| Bill | Congress | Times named |
|---|---|---|
| H.R. 114 | 118th | 59 |
| H.R. 672 | 118th | 59 |
| H.R. 1813 | 115th | 54 |
| H.R. 85 | 116th | 40 |
| H.R. 58 | 117th | 32 |
| H.R. 4173 | 111th | 19 |
| H.R. 2579 | 115th | 16 |
| S. 2860 | 118th | 14 |
| H.R. 2514 | 116th | 14 |
| H.R. 3126 | 111th | 14 |
| H.R. 1138 | 119th | 12 |
| H.R. 6817 | 118th | 12 |
| S. 3516 | 118th | 12 |
| S. 2563 | 116th | 12 |
| H.R. 6657 | 115th | 12 |
| S. 2326 | 119th | 8 |
| H.R. 1 | 119th | 7 |
| H.R. 8566 | 117th | 7 |
| H.R. 1 | 115th | 7 |
| H.R. 4049 | 110th | 7 |
| H.Con.Res. 14 | 119th | 6 |
| S.Con.Res. 7 | 119th | 6 |
| S. 1200 | 116th | 6 |
| H.R. 1595 | 116th | 6 |
| H.R. 6136 | 115th | 6 |
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.