Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
American Business Defense Council
District of Columbia
32 filings from 1 registrant · 2015–2023 · latest filed Nov 21, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$691K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$691K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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
30 filings
$642K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
5 filings
$147K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Dick Patten Patten & Associates, LLCCovered position: Federal Estate & Gift Taxes36 filingsthrough 2023
- Howard Segermark Patten & Associates, LLC7 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 1 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 32 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-business-defense-council.