28 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 12, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$530K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$530K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
28 filings
$530K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
10 filings
$230K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5857112th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3241112th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
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-foundation-for-aids-research.
3 filings
$110K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$100K 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
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013
2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 179111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 5501110th CongressTom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6680110th CongressCommunity AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Act2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2486110th CongressHIV Nondiscrimination in Travel and Immigration Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6114th Congress21st Century Cures Act1 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3081111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.Res. 1064111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.Res. 1335111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 178110th CongressJUSTICE Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 1943110th CongressStop AIDS in Prison Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
8 filings
through 2010
James Spenser FitzellaDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 1 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
