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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1282114th CongressA bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to consider the objective of improving the conversion, use, and storage of carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels in carrying out research and development programs under that Act.3 filingsthrough 2015
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: algenol-llc.
2 filings
$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.
114th Congress
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016
2 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1645114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 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.
Covered position:
1 filingthrough 2015
Karishma Shah PageK&L Gates, LLP1 filingthrough 2015
Mary Burke BakerK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Large Case Team Coordinator, IRS; Motor Vehicle Industry Specialist, IRS; Technical Advisor Mgr, IRS; Mgr, Office of Tax Shelter Analysis, IRS; Tax Staff Prof/IRS Detailee to Senate Finance Committee1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 3 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
