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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
30 filings
$2.3M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kenneth J KiesFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation15 filingsthrough 2021
Don SnyderFederal Policy Group, LLC15 filingsthrough 2021
Jay HeflinFederal Policy Group, LLC11 filingsthrough 2020
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: altaba-inc.
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.
Joshua Ackil
Franklin Square Group, LLC
Covered position: ​ASST-REP GEPHARDT;ASST DIR-SEN STEERING;LEG AFF-PRES CLINTON
Andrew LittmanBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Policy Dir, Sen Barbara Boxer; Chief of Staff, Sen Al Franken; Sr Counselor, HHS Sec Sylvia Matthews Burwell1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 14 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
