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.
Housing
HOU
11 filings
$540K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 600111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2338110th CongressFHA Modernization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 600112th CongressFor the relief of Enrique Soriano and Areli Soriano.2 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Kenneth J KiesFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation13 filingsthrough 2011
Matt DolanFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senator David Durenberger13 filingsthrough 2011
John GodfreyFederal Policy Group, LLC9 filingsthrough 2010
Jay HeflinFederal Policy Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2011
Pat Raffaniello
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: ameridream.
through 2011
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.
Federal Policy Group, LLC
Covered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster
3 filingsthrough 2008
James F CarlisleFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: N/A2 filingsthrough 2008
Brant ImperatoreBgr Government AffairsCovered position: S. Coun., H. Bank. Comm.; Counsel, H. Comm. on Fin. Services1 filingthrough 2009
Morris ReidBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Aide to Commerce Secretary; Aide to HUD Secretary1 filingthrough 2009
Edward RogersBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Dep. Asst to Pres and Exec. Asst. W.H. Ch. of Staff1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
