32 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jan 23, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2M
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.
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.
Telecommunications
TEC
32 filings
$2M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
2 filings
$220K 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
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 86113th CongressCybersecurity Education Enhancement Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
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: atlantic-tele-network-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1002112th CongressWireless Tax Fairness Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2163112th CongressBroadband Affordability Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 543112th CongressWireless Tax Fairness Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 732112th CongressCell Phone Bill Shock Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2096112th CongressCybersecurity Enhancement Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3606112th CongressJumpstart Our Business Startups2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1040112th CongressBroadband for First Responders Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2105112th CongressCybersecurity Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2151112th CongressSECURE IT2 filingsthrough 2012
S. 74112th CongressInternet Freedom, Broadband Promotion, and Consumer Protection Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
S. 911112th CongressPublic Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act2 filingsthrough 2012
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.
