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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
24 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Housing
HOU
24 filings
$2.5M 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 — 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.
S. 1217113th CongressHousing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 20147 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1217114th CongressElectric Transmission Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Act4 filingsthrough 2015
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Assistant to Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB26 filingsthrough 2016
Stephen PinkosAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Policy Director/General Counsel, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for IP; Staff Director, House Judiciary Committee15 filingsthrough 2016
Trista RoehlAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LA, Rep. Pat Toomey12 filingsthrough 2014
Sheryl CohenAcg Advocacy
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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: association-of-mortgage-investors.
spend on filings that named this issue
Covered position: Finance Director, Senator Joe Lieberman
12 filingsthrough 2013
DAVID F PEARCE jrAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Representative Amo Houghton; Legislative Counsel, Representative Michael Castle9 filingsthrough 2015
Ian P MusselmanAcg Advocacy8 filingsthrough 2012
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter5 filingsthrough 2011
Karen A StoneAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Sr. LA, LA, LC, Staff Asst - Rep. Steve Israel3 filingsthrough 2012
Joshua F HurvitzAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Sr. LA & LA, Rep. Anthony Weiner3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
