6 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2010 · latest filed Jan 20, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$150K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$150K
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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$150K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$150K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1550111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 159111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1606111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filing
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Steven R PhillipsDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Jesse Helms4 filingsthrough 2010
Andrew D EskinDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Richard Byran4 filingsthrough 2010
Evan M MigdailDla Piper LLP (US)3 filingsthrough 2009
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: carmax.
ENG
2 filings
$60K 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.
through 2009
H.R. 1768111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1808111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 384111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 520111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 550111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 247111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 333111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3684111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3737111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 384110th CongressTo include Nelson County, Virginia, in the Appalachian region for purposes of the programs of the Appalachian Regional Commission.1 filingthrough 2008
S. 3684110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction against individual income tax for interest in indebtedness and for State sales and excise taxes with respect to the purchase of certain motor vehicles.1 filingthrough 2008
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.
Dla Piper LLP (US)
Covered position: Member of Congress
2 filingsthrough 2008
Jean CampbellDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: District Director, Rep. Richard Armey2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
