28 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 7, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$630K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$630K
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.
Banking
BAN
21 filings
$630K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
21 filings
$630K on those filings
Housing
HOU
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: barclays-plc.
7 filings
$210K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Retirement
RET
1 filing
$30K 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.
112th Congress
Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6334110th CongressIncreasing Transparency and Accountability in Oil Prices Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 627111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6604110th CongressCommodity Markets Transparency and Accountability Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1217113th CongressHousing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 20141 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 1081112th CongressConsumers Payment System Protection Act1 filingthrough 2011
S. 575112th CongressDebit Interchange Fee Study Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 782112th CongressEconomic Development Revitalization Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 3639111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
8 filingsthrough 2014
Michael ThompsonRich Feuer AndersonCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Office of Sen. Brownba8 filingsthrough 2010
Robert GrinerRich Feuer AndersonCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. David Phelps6 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
