Ameridream, Inc. — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ameridream, Inc.
Maryland
23 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2010 · latest filed Dec 17, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$110K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$110K
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.
Housing
HOU
10 filings
$100K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$10K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Robert M BrooksEvergreen Associates, Ltd.5 filingsthrough 2009
Lesli Mccollum GoochPotomac Partners DCCovered position: Leg Dir/Sr Adv, Rep Gary Miller/Fin Svc Cmte5 filingsthrough 2009
Richard AlcaldePotomac Partners DC5 filingsthrough 2009
Daniel FelizPotomac Partners DC5 filingsthrough 2009
Teresa Kern BarnesEvergreen Associates, Ltd.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 23 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: ameridream-inc.
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.
4 filings
$10K 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.
H.R. 6694110th CongressFHA Seller-Financed Downpayment Reform and Risk-Based Pricing Authorization Act of 2008
3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3261110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 600111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1852110th CongressExpanding American Homeownership Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2338110th CongressFHA Modernization Act of 20072 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.
4 filings
through 2009
Tim SpellmanEvergreen Associates, Ltd.1 filingthrough 2008
William WeberBaker & Hostetler LLPCovered position: Counsel, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia, Senate Committe on Government Affairs (2001-2003) Legislative Asst. to Sen. Carl Levin (1999-2001)1 filingthrough 2008
Reta Jo LewisEdwards Wildman Palmer LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
