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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
72 filings
$7.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
8 filings
$930K on those filings
Telecommunications
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 35 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1283114th CongressSongwriter Equity Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
S. 662114th CongressSongwriter Equity Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 848111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Harriet James MelvinThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Professional Staff, Rep. Charles Hatcher47 filingsthrough 2026
Jessie Howe BrairtonThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Senior Legislative Asst/Legislative Asst, Rep. Lamar Smith; LC/Asst, Senate Special Aging Committee27 filingsthrough 2023
Charles B. ThomasThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Senior Legislative Asst, Legislative Asst, Legislative Aide, Staff Asst; Rep. Robert Pittenger22 filingsthrough 2023
Harriet James MelvinThe Capitol Group
The filings
The 20 most recent of 72 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-society-of-composers-authors-and-publishers-ascap.
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.
TEC
6 filings
$720K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$420K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
2 filings
$210K 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
S. 379111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4706115th CongressMusic Modernization Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2060110th CongressInternet Radio Equality Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4279110th CongressPrioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4789110th CongressPerformance Rights Act4 filingsthrough 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.
18 filings
through 2014
Gary PalmquistThorn Run PartnersCovered position: LegDir-Dennis Cardoza,Bob Clement,Ken Bentsen11 filingsthrough 2018
James FrenchCapitol Dome AdvocacyCovered position: Counsel, House Judiciary Committee3 filingsthrough 2026
Michael O'Shea MccarthyThorn Run Partners2 filingsthrough 2023
Kyle Brandon SandersThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Special Assistant for Economic Development/Deputy Chief of Staff, Sen. Thom Tillis; Legislative Counsel/Legislative Director & Counsel, Rep. David Rouzer; Legislative Correspondent/Legislative Aide, Rep. Andy Harris2 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
