5 filings from 1 registrant · 2013–2014 · latest filed Jan 20, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$270K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$270K
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$190K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$190K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4429113th CongressPermanent Active Financing Exception Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4438113th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
Hazen MarshallThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Staff Director ; ; Ofce of the Asst. Majority Leader (Sen. Nickles), Dpty CofS ; ; Ofce of the Asst. Majority Leader (Sen. Nickles), Economist ; ; U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant5 filingsthrough 2014
Donald KentThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, Chief of Staff ; ; DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, Assistant Secretary ; ; DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Deputy Assistant Secretary ; ; U.S. Senate Budget Committee, Policy Adv ; ; Office of the Asst. Maj. Leader (Sen. Nickles), Policy Adv. ; ; U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant5 filingsthrough 2014
Jeff ChoudhryThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: House Small Business Committee, Intern4 filingsthrough 2014
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: case-new-holland-inc-and-its-affiliates.
3 filings
$160K 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
America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2014
3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4464113th CongressPermanent CFC Look-Through Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4718113th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify and make permanent bonus depreciation.3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2786113th CongressCorporate Inverters Earnings Stripping Reform Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5021113th CongressHighway and Transportation Funding Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 5771113th CongressTax Increase Prevention Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
S. 1859113th CongressTax Extenders Act of 20131 filingthrough 2014
S. 2709113th CongressExport-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
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.
Don NicklesThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Senator1 filingthrough 2013
Emily PorterThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: Ofce of Spkr (Rep.Boehner), Asst to Spkr for Policy ; ; Ofce of Min. Leader (Rep.Boehner), Policy Adv. ; ; Ofce of the Maj. Leader (Rep. Boehner), Policy Adv ; ; Cmte on Education & the Wrkfrc (Rep.Boehner), Coalitions ; ; (continued) Dir. for Education Policy ; ; Rep. Trent Franks, Sr. Leg. Asst. ; ; Rep. Tom Tancredo, Leg. Asst.1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 5 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
