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.
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
36 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
36 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Banking
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 28 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1214111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1325111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1365111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1456111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kevin O'NeillSquire Patton Boggs29 filingsthrough 2015
Edward J. NewberrySquire Patton BoggsCovered position: LA/PressSecRepWolf/AssocHAppropr84-9123 filingsthrough 2017
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: american-association-of-responsible-auto-lenders.
BAN
23 filings
$1.3M 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.
through 2010
H.R. 1479111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1608111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1637111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1640111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1705111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1846111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1882111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 627111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 131111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 165111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 235111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 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.
