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.
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: altria-client-services-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.
30 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Torts
TOR
15 filings
$865K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
4 filings
$320K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
4 filings
$280K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
1 filing
$70K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Retirement
RET
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.
112th Congress
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that any person who, for a commercial purpose, makes available for consumer use a machine capable of producing tobacco products, is a manufacturer of tobacco products.
5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3162110th CongressChildren's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
S. 450114th CongressTobacco Tax Equity Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5140110th CongressEconomic Stimulus Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5689110th CongressSmuggled Tobacco Prevention Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2140110th CongressA bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Francis Collins, in recognition of his outstanding contributions and leadership in the fields of medicine and genetics.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1562114th CongressCraft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1676111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Jeff Mackinnon
Ryan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLP
Covered position: LD & LA Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)
29 filingsthrough 2015
Nick KolovosRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: LA Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-California)23 filingsthrough 2015
Gordon Hunter Hunter BatesRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellLegal Counsel, Office of Senator Mitch McConnellChief Counsel for Senate Rules Committee18 filingsthrough 2016
Robert JonesArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP18 filingsthrough 2013
Jeffery C MortierRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: Prof Staff on E&C Cmte and LA Rep Whitfield17 filingsthrough 2015
Lauren O'BrienRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: Intern, Office of Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner13 filingsthrough 2016
Geoff DavisRepublic Consulting, LLCCovered position: U.S. Representative11 filingsthrough 2016
