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: alcoa.
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.
20 filings
$1M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
18 filings
$920K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
18 filings
$920K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
18 filings
$840K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
17 filings
$850K on those filings
Banking
BAN
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
2 filings
$100K 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.
112th Congress
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5136111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5658110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3001110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2454113th CongressAaron's Law Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3800111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 2609113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 4435113th CongressHoward P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20151 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 4870113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20151 filingthrough 2014
S. 1197113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20141 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.
Mercury Public Affairs, LLC
Covered position: Member of Congress
13 filingsthrough 2014
GEORGE MATTHEW BERNIER iiiVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Representative Rick Santorum12 filingsthrough 2014
Alan EliasMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof Staff Sen Homeland Security & Gov Affs10 filingsthrough 2014
Vincent FrilliciMercury Public Affairs, LLC7 filingsthrough 2015
Daniel FellenbaumMercury Public Affairs, LLC6 filingsthrough 2016
Greg LanklerMercury Public Affairs, LLC5 filingsthrough 2016
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA Sen Jim Talent, Sr Adv US Treas5 filingsthrough 2013
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLC3 filingsthrough 2016
Paul LoboMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof Staff House Public Works & Transp Comm.3 filingsthrough 2012
Vin WeberClark & WeinstockCovered position: Member of Congress (MN)3 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan SchwantesClark & Weinstock3 filingsthrough 2011
Deirdre StachClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg Director, Corresp. and Asst. Hon. Robert Walker3 filingsthrough 2011
Niles GodesClark & WeinstockCovered position: Dir of Economic Dev. Sen. Kent ConradLeg. Asst. SEn. Quentin Burdick3 filingsthrough 2011
Christopher Robert DarcyClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg. Director, Hon. Richard PomboLeg. Asst. Hon. Ron Marlenee3 filingsthrough 2011
Sandra K StuartClark & WeinstockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Hon. Vic Fazio3 filingsthrough 2011
Paul LoboClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg. Assistant, Hon. Susan MolinariProf. Staff House Public Works and Transp. Committee3 filingsthrough 2011
Fowler WestClark & Weinstock3 filingsthrough 2011
James NooneClark & Weinstock3 filingsthrough 2011
Ed KutlerClark & WeinstockCovered position: Asst. House Republican Whip3 filingsthrough 2011
Brian MillerVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: District Dir/Sr Policy Advisor, Rep. Jeb Bradley3 filingsthrough 2008
James DyerClark & WeinstockCovered position: Budget Consultant, Dept. Navy (DOD)2 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 17 of 26 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
