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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Aerospace
AER
19 filings
$890K 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. 5855113th CongressTo require a report on procurement supply chain vulnerabilities within the Department of Defense.6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3216113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4903113th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress18 filingsthrough 2014
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, U.S. Treasury15 filingsthrough 2013
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: U.S. Dept. of Labor, HUD13 filingsthrough 2014
Brett ThompsonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. J. Talent
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: air-canada.
fees reported
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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.
3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2534113th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3216112th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3547114th CongressLawrence J. Hackett Jr. Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Fairness Act1 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 4903114th CongressTo prohibit the use of funds by the Internal Revenue Service to target citizens of the United States for exercising any right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.1 filingthrough 2015
S. 2534114th CongressSecurity Officer Screening Improvement Act of 20161 filingthrough 2015
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.
5 filingsthrough 2015
Jesse AppletonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Ass't, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, US Treasury5 filingsthrough 2015
Paul SweetMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: COS, Rep. Vic Fazio3 filingsthrough 2010
Richard HoarBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff & Leg. Dir., U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis2 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
