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
36 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 422112th CongressTo amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure that schools have physical education programs that meet minimum requirements for physical education.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 783112th CongressThomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
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: caterpillar.
112th Congress
Autonomy for Psychologists and Social Workers Act of 2011
6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 422113th CongressChildren's Hope Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 783113th CongressPrevent Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons and Stop War Through Diplomacy Act5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 37113th CongressForest Jobs and Recreation Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 422111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 783111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 37111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1023110th CongressTo repeal the imposition of withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1509110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the subpart F exemption for active financing income.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2138110th CongressInvestment in America Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3996110th CongressTax Increase Prevention Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 41110th CongressResearch Competitiveness Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 940110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the subpart F exemption for active financing income.4 filingsthrough 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.
Federal Policy Group, LLC
8 filingsthrough 2010
Andrew W ShoyerSidley Austin LLPCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
Richard M BelangerSidley Austin LLPCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
Alice Slayton ClarkSidley Austin LLPCovered position: N/A3 filingsthrough 2008
Pat RaffanielloFederal Policy Group, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Congressman Bill Brewster2 filingsthrough 2008
James F CarlisleFederal Policy Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
