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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
16 filings
$900K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
9 filings
$480K 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.
H.R. 890112th CongressHolocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 466112th CongressRestoration of Legal Rights for Claimants under Holocaust-Era Insurance Policies Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Thomas CrawfordC2 Group, LLC17 filingsthrough 2013
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrC2 Group, LLC14 filingsthrough 2012
Lesley ElliottC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Secretary of the Senate11 filingsthrough 2012
Michael HansonC2 Group, LLC10 filingsthrough 2010
Jefferies MurrayC2 Group, LLC10 filings
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: axa-financial-equitable-life-assurance.
spend on filings that named this issue
5 filings
through 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2205110th CongressRetirement Security for Life Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1624110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the exception from the treatment of publicly traded partnerships as corporations for partnerships with passive-type income shall not apply to partnerships directly or indirectly deriving income from providing investment adviser and related asset management services.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1746110th CongressHolocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3970110th CongressTax Reduction and Reform Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4351110th CongressAMT Relief Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1880111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 4853111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 788111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
through 2010
John ClineC2 Group, LLC10 filingsthrough 2010
G Hunter BatesC2 Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2010
Scott StylesC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions3 filingsthrough 2012
Andrea SynborskiC2 Group, LLCCovered position: Staff Assist. & Leg. Correspondent to Sen. Gregg2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 3 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
