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.
Manufacturing
MAN
31 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
25 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 26 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 949113th CongressInvest in American Jobs Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5538114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20174 filingsthrough 2016
Carolina L MederosSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Jan. 1988--Dir. of Programs and Evaluation, DOT, Chair, Secretary's Safety Review Task Force; Jan. 1988-Nov 1989--Dep. Assist. Sec. for Safety, Dep. Assist. Sec. for Policy and Int'l Affairs; Nov. 1989-Feb. 1990-Sr. Policy Adv.47 filingsthrough 2022
Natasha HammondSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Oct. 2015-Nov 2015: Assist. for Policy to the Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan; Sep. 2006-Oct. 2015: Asst. for Policy, Speaker John Boehner; Legis. Dir., Legis. Asst, Legis. Correspondent; SA, Intern, Rep. John Boehner.13 filingsthrough 2019
Frank SamolisSquire Patton Boggs10 filingsthrough 2015
Jared FleisherSquire Patton Boggs
The filings
The 20 most recent of 48 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: california-steel-industries-inc.
TRD
24 filings
$2.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
19 filings
$2M on those filings
Utilities
UTI
5 filings
$410K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$570K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
2 filings
$180K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$150K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$50K 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.
113th Congress
Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014
4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5726112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on Lanthanum phosphate for use in the production of fluorescent lamps.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 6091112th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20134 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2822114th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20163 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5303114th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4923113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5171113th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20152 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2997115th Congress21st Century AIRR Act1 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 3387115th CongressDrinking Water System Improvement Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 5538115th CongressTo amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the inclusion of certain additional periods of active duty service for purposes of suspending charges to veterans' entitlement to educational assistance under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs during periods of suspended participation in vocational rehabilitation programs.1 filingthrough 2017
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.
David StewartSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Nov '15-Apr '18, Maj. SD Ways and Means; June '13-Nov '15, Pol Dir, Speaker Boehner; Dec '08-Jan '11: Pol Adv, Rep Boehner; Jan '11-June '13, Asst for Policy, Rep Boehner; Apr '07-Dec '08 Dep COS and LD, Rep English3 filingsthrough 2018
Phillip BianchiSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: August 2008-January 2009: Intern for Senator Arlen Specter2 filingsthrough 2020
David LesstrangSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1996 -2001: Dep. COS and LD, Rep. Jerry Lewis; Jan. 2005- Jan. 2007: Dep. Staff Dir., Com. on Approps; Jan. 2007-Jan. 2011: Professional Staff, House Com.on Approps; Jan. 2011-Aug. 2018: Clerk, Sub. on Interior, Environ. and Related Agencies.2 filingsthrough 2018
Rory MurphySquire Patton BoggsCovered position: July-Dec 2007: S.A., Sen. Finance Com.; Feb. '09-Jan. '13: Intern'l Trade Analyst, Sen. Finance Com.; Jan. '13-Feb. '14: Intern'l Trade and Nominations Advisor, Sen. Finance Com.,;Feb. '14-May '15:Policy Analyst, Ex-Im Bank.1 filingthrough 2021
Pablo Enrique CarrilloSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Feb. '00-Feb.'03: Maj. Coun., House Com. Govt Ref. and Oversight; Feb. '03-Jan. '07:Chief Invest. Counsel, Sen. Com. Indian Affairs, Sen. Commerce Com; Jan. '07-Jan. '13: Min. GC, Sen. Com. Armed Services Jan '13-Sept 17-COS, Sen McCain1 filingthrough 2019
Jim MathesonSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2001-2015, Congressman-U. S. House of Representatives1 filingthrough 2016
John KingstonSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1993-2015, Congressman-U.S. House of Representatives1 filingthrough 2016
Gregory M LouerSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: PlcyDir,Rp.Norwood,03-07;PlcyDir,Rp.Blackburn07-091 filingthrough 2015
Marek GootmanSquire Patton Boggs1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 12 of 17 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
