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.
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: business-software-alliance.
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.
TRD
88 filings
$29.7M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
72 filings
$23.1M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
49 filings
$17.5M on those filings
Defense
DEF
46 filings
$15.3M on those filings
Intelligence
INT
41 filings
$16.2M on those filings
Education
EDU
36 filings
$14.7M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
35 filings
$14M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
9 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
9 filings
$490K 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.
114th Congress
Law Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad Act
27 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1137114th CongressPATENT Act24 filingsthrough 2016
S. 356114th CongressElectronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 201524 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1770114th CongressData Security and Breach Notification Act of 201521 filingsthrough 2016
S. 153114th CongressI-Squared Act of 201521 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 200719 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 200718 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3326114th CongressDefend Trade Secrets Act of 201513 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1890114th CongressDefend Trade Secrets Act of 201613 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2290110th CongressCyber-Security Enhancement Act of 200712 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4175110th CongressPrivacy and Cybercrime Enforcement Act of 200712 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2500116th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 202011 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Covered position:
28 filingsthrough 2015
Aaron CooperBusiness Software AllianceCovered position: Sr. Counsel, Senate Judiciary; Counsel, Sen Sarbanes; LA, Rep. Andrews; LC, Sen. Lautenberg26 filingsthrough 2019
Jared WeaverAlpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)22 filingsthrough 2015
Jennifer OlsonTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Lindsey Graham ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Jim Kolbe21 filingsthrough 2019
John HasselmannBusiness Software Alliance21 filingsthrough 2013
Katherine B McguireBusiness Software AllianceCovered position: Sen.HELP Cmte St Dir; Leg Dir, Sen. Enzi, Prof St, Sen. Ag. Cmte; Leg Asst, Sen. Simpson21 filingsthrough 2013
Brandon ConsolvoBusiness Software AllianceCovered position: Staff Assistant-Senator Bill Frist Staff Assistant-Office of Legislative Affairs, The White House Legislative Correspondent-Senator John Ensign Senior Policy Advisor-Representative Kevin McCarthy19 filingsthrough 2022
Lindsey LedwinTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Prof. Staff, Permanent Subcomm. on Investigations14 filingsthrough 2019
James HeimbachTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Special Asst to the President, The White House/CoS Senator Sherrod Brown/FCC - CSB and Congressional Affairs/OLA, The White House13 filingsthrough 2019
Justin MccarthyTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Thomas Ewing ; ; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Thomas Ewing ; ; Assist. USTR, Intergovernmental and Pub. Affairs ; ; Assistant USTR, Congressional Affairs ; ; Special Assistant to the President, Leg. Affairs9 filingsthrough 2016
Jeffrey ShapiroTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Lee Terry ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Adrian Smith9 filingsthrough 2016
ROBERT W HOLLEYMAN iiBusiness Software Alliance9 filingsthrough 2009
Scott Douglas Cameron MorrisonBusiness Software AllianceCovered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Aide, Legislative Assistant; Sen. Evan Bayh8 filingsthrough 2018
Jared RaglandBusiness Software AllianceCovered position: Director, Office of IP & Innovation (2007-2012) USTR8 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 26 of 55 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
