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: agstar-financial-services-aca.
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.
BUD
18 filings
$650K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$680K on those filings
Banking
BAN
12 filings
$360K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
2 filings
$80K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$20K 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.
113th Congress
Providing for the appointment of Michael Lynton as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
5 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3240113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2013
H.Res. 591114th CongressCommending the cooperative owners and the employees of the Farm Credit System for their continuing service in meeting the credit and financial-services needs of rural communities and agriculture.4 filingsthrough 2016
S.Res. 349114th CongressA resolution congratulating the Farm Credit System on the celebration of its 100th anniversary.4 filingsthrough 2016
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4800113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2389113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2410113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1244113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3336112th CongressSmall Business Credit Availability Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6083112th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Clark & Weinstock
Covered position: Assistant, House Republican Whip
13 filingsthrough 2011
Christopher Robert DarcyClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg Assistant, Rep. Ron Marlenee10 filingsthrough 2011
Sandra K StuartClark & WeinstockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Vic Fazio10 filingsthrough 2011
Alan EliasMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA Sen. Ron Johnson9 filingsthrough 2014
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA, Sen. Jim Talent, Sr. Advisor US Treasury7 filingsthrough 2013
Margaret McglinchClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg. Aide Hon. Daniel Patrick Moynihan5 filingsthrough 2011
Ed KutlerMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Asst ofc of the Speaker, Asst. House Republican Whip2 filingsthrough 2014
Jonathan SchwantesClark & WeinstockCovered position: Gen Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee2 filingsthrough 2011
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress1 filingthrough 2012
Jonathan SchwantesMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Gen. Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee1 filingthrough 2012
James DyerClark & WeinstockCovered position: Budget Consultant, Department of Navy, DOD1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 13 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
