28 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 15, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$649K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$649K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
27 filings
$627K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
20 filings
$469K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1009113th CongressChemical Safety Improvement Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1837112th CongressSacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act6 filingsthrough 2012
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: california-state-department-of-justice.
FIR
8 filings
$182K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$115K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$113K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$90K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
4 filings
$90K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$45K on those filings
Banking
BAN
1 filing
$23K 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
PACE Assessment Protection Act of 2011
6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 822112th CongressNational Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 697114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act4 filingsthrough 2015
S. 725114th CongressAlan Reinstein and Trevor Schaefer Toxic Chemical Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2567113th CongressREDEEM Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1422111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 4109111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
6 filings
through 2009
John McallisterMcallister & Quinn, LLC6 filingsthrough 2009
