43 filings from 3 registrants · 2010–2015 · latest filed Jan 19, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$2.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$1.2M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.1M
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: airgas-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
TAX
17 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$500K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$150K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$60K 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
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide a specific limited exemption from the overtime pay requirements of such Act for work related to disaster or catastrophe claims adjustment after a major disaster.
6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1832113th CongressA bill for the relief of Esther Karinge.4 filingsthrough 2013
S. 2995111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2374112th CongressHelium Stewardship Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2227112th CongressMedical Gas Safety Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5660112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the rate of duty on Reactive Red 267.2 filingsthrough 2011
S. 1000112th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
S. 783113th CongressHelium Stewardship Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
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.
through 2012
Kathryn H LehmanHolland & Knight LLPCovered position: 9/02-12/02 Dir.Coalition Outreach, Spker of House1 filingthrough 2011
