21 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2015 · latest filed Jan 20, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$1.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.7M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
21 filings
$1.7M 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 749112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the subpart F exemption for active financing income.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 961114th CongressPermanent Active Financing Exception Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
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: active-finance-working-group.
Active Finance Working Group — Receipts Report
113th Congress
Permanent Active Financing Exception Act of 2014
4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1944111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 4853111th 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.
Covered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee
23 filingsthrough 2015
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Exec. Asst, Sen. Adams; Admin. Asst, Rep. Eckart ; ; Admin. Asst, House Majority Leader ; ; Deputy COS and COS, House Minority Leader23 filingsthrough 2015
James RyanAvoq, LLC22 filingsthrough 2015
Stacey AlexanderAvoq, LLC22 filingsthrough 2015
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Senator Baucus16 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
