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.
Housing
HOU
52 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Veterans
VET
40 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 698114th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2775114th CongressRemote Transactions Parity Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
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: ca-state-assembly.
34 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
31 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
29 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
29 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Defense
DEF
17 filings
$680K on those filings
Banking
BAN
17 filings
$680K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
15 filings
$600K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
14 filings
$560K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
13 filings
$520K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
11 filings
$440K 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.
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1832112th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5456114th CongressFamily First Prevention Services Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2609113th CongressMarketplace and Internet Tax Fairness Act3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 743113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4072112th CongressConsolidating Veteran Employment Services for Improved Performance Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Bryan Vickers
Pace, LLP (Formerly Pace-Capstone)
21 filingsthrough 2016
Margaret Kay WernckePace, LLP (Formerly Pace-Capstone)6 filingsthrough 2013
