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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
19 filings
$190K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
10 filings
$130K on those filings
Transportation
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: House Rules Committee, Staff Director (2009-, 2010); House Rules Committee, Deputy Staff, Director (2007-2008); House of Rep. Select, Committee on Voting Irregularities, General, Counsel, detailed (9/07-9/08); House Committee, on Approp., Profess. Staff (2006-2007); House, Office of the Parliamentarian: Assoc. (2005);, (Assistant 1991-2005); Clerk22 filingsthrough 2018
Gina M VetereCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor to Deputy USTR (2006-08); Director for IP and Innovation (2009-10)10 filingsthrough 2018
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-watch-association.
TRA
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
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.
Covered position: Staff Director & Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Committee; Acting Assistant AG, Office of Leg. Affairs, DoJ; Deputy Assistant AG, Office of Legal Policy, DoJ; Deputy CoS & Leg. Dir., Senator Lamar Alexander, Chief of Staff, Senator Peter Fitzgerald; Sr. Counsel, Senate Government Affairs; Chief Counsel, Senator Arlen Specter
9 filingsthrough 2018
Matthew ShapankaCovington & Burling LLP8 filingsthrough 2018
Marney L CheekCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Assoc. General Counsel - USTR4 filingsthrough 2011
David GraceCovington & Burling LLP4 filingsthrough 2010
George FramptonCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Chairman of the White House Council on, Environmental Quality3 filingsthrough 2013
Emilio G ColladoCollado Associates, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2013
John VeroneauCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Gen. Counsel & Asst USTR for Cong Affairs, Asst Secretary & DAS, Leg Affairs, DOD, Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Legislative Director, U.S. Senator William Frist, Leg Asst, Leg Coun, Leg Dir. Sen. William Cohen2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 7 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
