Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
14 filings
$800K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 29 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3970110th CongressTax Reduction and Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 436112th CongressHealth Care Cost Reduction Act of 2012
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Christopher JavensCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. Grassley, Sen. Finance Comm.16 filingsthrough 2025
Richard GrafmeyerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, JCT11 filingsthrough 2011
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: 3-m-company.
2 filings
through 2011
H.R. 488112th CongressSave Our Medical Devices Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 17112th CongressMedical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 262112th CongressA bill to repeal the excise tax on medical device manufacturers.2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3793111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3816111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1424111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1586111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
11 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan TalismanCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy11 filingsthrough 2011
Joseph MikrutCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Legislative Counsel - US Treasury11 filingsthrough 2011
Sarah Elizabeth ShiveCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Senior Counsel, Sen. Debbie Stabenow; Senior Counsel, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV.5 filingsthrough 2025
James DennisCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen Robb - Counsel, Sen Bingaman4 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
