24 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2021 · latest filed Jan 12, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$220K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$220K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
6 filings
$210K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
6 filings
$210K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Muftiah MccartinCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: ​House Rules Committee, Staff Director, Deputy Staff Director; General Counsel (Detailed), House Select Committee on Voting Irregularities; House Committee on Appropriations, Professional Staff, House Office of Parliamentarian, Assoc., Asst., Clerk8 filingsthrough 2021
Gabriel NevilleCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Representative Joe Pitts, Chief of Staff, Communications Director, and Special Assistant8 filingsthrough 2021
Layth Sami ElhassaniCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: White House Off. Leg. Aff., Sp. Assist. to the President; Off. of Sen. Bennet, Leg. Dir.; House Comm. on Small Business, Oversight Counsel; Off. of Rep. Velazquez, Leg. Dir.; Off. of Sen. Cantwell, Leg. Counsel; Off. of Sen. Hollings, Legal Counsel8 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: basic-american-inc.
fees reported
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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.
3 filings
$10K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$10K 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.
through 2021
William WichtermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush (2008-2009); Sr. Policy Advisor, Senate Majority Leader Frist (2003-2005); Chief of Staff, Rep. Joseph Pitts (1997-2002); Chief of Staff, Rep. Bill Baker (1994 -1997)6 filingsthrough 2021
Irene RingwoodBall Janik LLP3 filingsthrough 2010
Wade AckermanCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Sr. FDA Counsel, US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions2 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
