16 filings from 2 registrants · 2010–2014 · latest filed May 16, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$7.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$7.5M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$195K
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.
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: advocacy-fund.
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.
2 filings
$250K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$150K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$145K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$90K 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.
1 filing
through 2013
H.R. 1670111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 5902111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 670111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.Res. 1670111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3455111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3827111th 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.
Advocacy Fund
The Advocacy Fund
2 filingsthrough 2012
The Advocacy FundThe Advocacy Fund1 filingthrough 2012
Joe WeissfeldThe Advocacy Fund1 filingthrough 2012
