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.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
8 filings
$330K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jeffrey R SuralAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, DHS ; ; Assistant Administrator for Legislative Affairs, TSA ; ; Legislative Counsel, Rep. Vernon Ehlers12 filingsthrough 2014
Robert J DoleAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator (Kansas)5 filingsthrough 2013
Robert C JonesAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Barbara Mikulski; Counsel Senate Approps5 filingsthrough 2013
Earl PomeroyAlston & Bird LLP U.S. Congressman (North Dakota)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 56 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: airport-shoppes-corp.
1 filing
$50K 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.
Covered position:
5 filingsthrough 2013
Billy TauzinAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman (Louisiana)5 filingsthrough 2013
Robert SigginsAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff for Congressman Earl Pomeroy5 filingsthrough 2013
Robert HolifieldAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Agriculture Cmte ; ; Staff Director, Sen. Finance Subcmte on Int'l Trade ; ; Dep. Chief of Staff, CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler ; ; Dir. External Affairs, CFTC Acting Chair. M. Dunn ; ; Senior Adv'r, CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton ; ; Assoc. Dir., Dem. Steering & Outreach Cmte ; ; Office of Majority Leader Harry Reid ; ; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Blanche Lincoln5 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 7 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
