Bass Enterprises Production Company — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Bass Enterprises Production Company
Texas
36 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2018 · latest filed Jan 22, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$1.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.8M
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
36 filings
$1.8M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 436111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC38 filingsthrough 2018
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: bass-enterprises-production-company.
through 2015
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Cmte Member, Joint Committee on Taxation21 filingsthrough 2015
Denise Henry MorriseyCapitol Counsel LLC17 filingsthrough 2013
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Staff, House Committee on Homeland Security; Staff Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart; and Staff Rep. Judy Biggert16 filingsthrough 2018
Aaron CohenCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff & Leg Assistant, Sen. John Ensign; Legislative Aide, Sen. Richard Bryan; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Richard Bryan13 filingsthrough 2018
David OlanderCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Wally Herger; Tax & Policy Counsel, Rep. Thomas Reynolds; Tax Counsel & Chief Tax Counsel, House Committee on Ways and Means.12 filingsthrough 2018
Tucker ShumackCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Tax & Finance Counsel, Sen. Cmte on Small Business ; ; LA, Sen. Johnny Isakson ; ; LA, Sen. Paul Coverdell10 filingsthrough 2012
Bradley MolletCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff & Research Assistant, Sen. Tim Johnson; Legislative Assistant, Cong. Jim Matheson; and Legislative Director, Congw. Betsy Markey6 filingsthrough 2016
Zahra BuckCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Bennie Thompson ; ; Professional Staff, House Homeland Security Cmte4 filingsthrough 2010
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Leg. Director, Rep. Nick Smith2 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 12 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
