49 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Oct 20, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$1.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.8M
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.
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-coal.
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.
TAX
9 filings
$290K on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
6 filings
$120K 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.
Caring for Coal Miners Act
6 filingsthrough 2014
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.
Elizabeth Dee MartinBracewell LLP25 filingsthrough 2016
Jack Steven HartWilliams and Jensen, PLLC10 filingsthrough 2015
Joel OswaldWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Prof. Staff, Senate Banking; LA, Sen. Enzi10 filingsthrough 2015
David A StarrWilliams and Jensen, PLLC10 filingsthrough 2015
Christopher W HatcherWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: Sch. C, Treasury.; LD, Rep. Scott McInnis10 filingsthrough 2015
Curtis BeaulieuBracewell LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel Sen. Finance Committee (2011-2014); Tax Counsel, Sen. Hatch (2008-2011); Tax Counsel, Rep. McCrery (2007-2008); Counsel, Sen. Johnson (2006-2007); Leg. Correspondent Sen. Vitter (2005-2006)6 filingsthrough 2016
George A RamonasThe Advocacy Group6 filingsthrough 2009
Eric WashburnBracewell LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Daschle (2001-03); Staff Director, Senate EPW (Reid) (2001); Legislative Director, Sen. Daschle (1997-2001); Legislative Assistant, Sen. Daschle (1993-1997)5 filingsthrough 2016
Michael BeerWilliams and Jensen, PLLCCovered position: LA, Rep. Dave Hobson5 filingsthrough 2014
Tess IllosWilliams and Jensen, PLLC1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 7 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
