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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
22 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$175K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4134112th CongressTo 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. 2183110th CongressCommonsense Consumption Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
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-llc-formerly-altria.
FOO
1 filing
$60K 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.
110th Congress
PACT Act
4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1323110th CongressCommonsense Consumption Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1256111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 1147111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1108110th CongressFamily Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2776110th CongressRenewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3963110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6110th CongressEnergy Independence and Security Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 275111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Ed JenkinsPalmetto GroupCovered position: Former Member of Congress - Georgia6 filingsthrough 2009
James DennisPalmetto GroupCovered position: Counsel, Sen Robb & Bingaman, IRS Commission2 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
