41 filings from 2 registrants · 2012–2021 · latest filed Jan 20, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$960K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$960K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Retirement
RET
41 filings
$960K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
41 filings
$960K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1080115th CongressVested Employee Pension Benefit Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2018
Brett ThompsonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Dir., Sen. J. Talent38 filingsthrough 2021
Jesse AppletonBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Ass't, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, US Treasury38 filingsthrough 2021
Matthew BormetBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg. Ass't, Sen. Ron Wyden; Leg. Ass't, US Rep Rick Larsen.25 filingsthrough 2021
Richard HoarBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff Mbr, House Cmte on ED. & the workforce Deputy Chief of Staff & Leg. Dir., U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis
The filings
The 20 most recent of 41 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: carpenters-benefit-plans.
fees reported
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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.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Vested Employee Pension Benefit Protection Act
7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1658114th CongressVested Employee Pension Benefit Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2016
S. 838113th CongressVested Employee Pension Benefit Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3700112th CongressVested Employee Pension Benefit Protection 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.
13 filingsthrough 2019
Luke StrimerBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure, Staff Assistant, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall12 filingsthrough 2021
Sarah Wisner BlackwoodBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Rep. Costello; Prof. Staff, House Transp. & Infr. Cmte11 filingsthrough 2015
Alex MaggosBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff for Senator Mark Kirk6 filingsthrough 2018
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA, Sen. Jim Talent, Sr. Advisor US Treasury6 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 8 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
