Podesta Group
The Podesta Group is a lobbying and public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in 1988 by brothers John Podesta and Tony Podesta and has previously been known as Podesta Associates, podesta.com and PodestaMattoon. The firm most recently reorganized in January 2007 after current Chairman Tony Podesta split with former business partner Dan Mattoon.
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Campaign Finance
$1,214,293 GivenFigures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
- corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
- organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.
For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.
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Top Recipients
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Bundled Contributions
Money raised by the firm from multiple donors on behalf of the recipient. The firm's own contributions are not included.Recipient Lobbyist Amount Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte Tony Podesta $318,300 Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte Tony Podesta $182,000 Searchlight Leadership Fund Tony Podesta $35,500 Harry Reid Tony Podesta $25,400 Charles E. Schumer $21,000 Robert Menendez Andrew Kauders $16,100
Lobbying
$47,970,000 IncomeFigures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.
Lobbying Carried Out by Podesta Group
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Names of Lobbyists
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Client Amount Wells Fargo $1,190,000 Lockheed Martin $1,010,000 Career Education Corp $930,000 Caesars Entertainment $810,000 McGraw-Hill Companies $780,000 BAE Systems $770,000 Wal-Mart Stores $770,000 Google Inc $750,000 Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries $740,000 US Renewables Group $710,000 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Fed Budget & Appropriations,
- Health Issues,
- Taxes,
- Medicare & Medicaid,
- Defense,
- Finance,
- Energy & Nuclear Power,
- Transportation,
- Copyright, Patent & Trademark,
- Environment & Superfund
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title H.R.2608 Small Business Program Extension and Reform Act of 2011 S.365 Budget Control Act of 2011 H.R.2017 Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 H.R.2219 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2012 H.R.2112 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 H.12 American Jobs Act of 2011 S.1599 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 S.23 Patent Reform Act of 2011 H.R.1249 America Invents Act H.R.3630 Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011 -
Recent Lobbying Contracts
Date Client Summary April 22, 2013 New York State Broadcasters Association Broadcasting issues. View registration April 18, 2013 Infilaw Corporation Higher Education Act reform. View registration April 18, 2013 SunEdison International and domestic solar projects. View registration March 25, 2013 ROCKSTAR, Inc. Legislation and oversight regarding energy drinks. View registration March 15, 2013 Hitomi Financial Ltd. Promoting the business of the company, its owners and subsidiaries with partners and governments in the region and the EU and the US. View registration
Regulations
Mentioned in 1 docketAll data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.
Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.
Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.
Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.
The tables show occurrences of "Podesta Group" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Mentions in Document Text
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