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.
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
12 filings
$480K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2868111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3258111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3618111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4380111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Charles BarnettAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Blanche Lincoln12 filingsthrough 2011
James Dean MassieAlpine Group Partners, LLC.12 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 1 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
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: arch-chemicals-inc.
TRD
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$40K 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. 2115111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2116111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2117111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2620111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2996111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4444110th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Acrylate.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4445110th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Diol #1.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4446110th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Triol.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4447110th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Diol #2.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4843110th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on mixtures containing n-butyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one (Butyl benzisothiazline) and application adjuvants.4 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.
