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.
Homeland Security
HOM
23 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
5 filings
$250K 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 — 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.
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: alclear-llc.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
Risk-Based Security Screening for Members of the Armed Forces Act
2 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.
Covered position: Sr. Policy Adv., House Maj. Leader, Steny Hoyer ; ; Sr. Policy Adv., House Dem Whip, Steny Hoyer ; ; Sr. Policy Advisor, Congressman Calvin Dooley ; ; Leg. Director, Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. ; ; Legislative Asst., Congressman Tim Roemer
5 filingsthrough 2012
Michael B LevyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Sr. Advisor to the Secretary - U.S. Treasury Dept. ; ; Deputy Under Secretary/Asst. Secretary - U.S. Treasury Dept. ; ; Staff Economist - Congressional Joint Economics Committee ; ; Admin. Asst/Chief of Staff - Senator Lloyd Bentsen5 filingsthrough 2010
