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: carfax-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
17 filings
$109K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
4 filings
$65K on those filings
Insurance
INS
4 filings
$65K 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.
115th Congress
AV START Act
1 filingthrough 2018
S. 1449112th CongressMariah's Act1 filingthrough 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.
Barry LasalaAvoq, LLCCovered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee4 filingsthrough 2013
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud Cmte, S/C on Juv Jus ; ; Legal Extern, H. Jud Cmte, Subcmte Crime/Crim Jus ; ; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid ; ; Leg Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid ; ; Chief Counsel, Flr Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem Ldr/Whip4 filingsthrough 2013
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Exec. Asst., Sen. Adams; Admin. Asst., Rep. Eckart ; ; Admin., Asst., House Majority Leader ; ; Deputy COS and COS, House Minority Leader4 filingsthrough 2013
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Senator Baucus4 filingsthrough 2013
