47 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed Jan 22, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$677K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$641K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$36K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
40 filings
$677K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$110K 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 — 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
The 15 most-cited of 29 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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-family-business-institute.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
110th Congress
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish an independent panel to assess the homeland security needs of the National Capital Region.
8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 8110th CongressReserved for Speaker.8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 420110th CongressA bill for the relief of Jacqueline W. Coats.8 filingsthrough 2008
S. 988110th CongressSave Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 64112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent corporations from exploiting tax treaties to evade taxation of United States income.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20126 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2242112th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 20126 filingsthrough 2012
S. 988112th CongressLand-In-Trust Schools and Local Governments Equitable Compensation Act6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5970111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 64111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 8111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 420111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5970112th CongressProtecting In-Home Care from Government Intrusion Act5 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Carrie E SimmsAmerican Family Business InstituteCovered position: Chief Financial Officer & Chief of Staff
9 filingsthrough 2010
Palmer SchoeningAmerican Family Business InstituteCovered position: Director of Federal Affairs5 filingsthrough 2012
Howard SegermarkAmerican Family Business InstituteCovered position: Senior Consultant5 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
