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: cbs.
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.
TEC
22 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
19 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$750K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
7 filings
$525K on those filings
Pharmacy
PHA
4 filings
$300K on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
2 filings
$100K 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.
112th Congress
Next Generation Television Marketplace Act
8 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2008112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
S. 912113th CongressTelevision Consumer Freedom Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3101111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 848111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3304111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3720113th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 134113th CongressViolent Content Research Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1680113th CongressConsumer Choice in Online Video Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1528112th CongressConsumer Privacy Protection Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1841112th CongressData Accountability and Trust Act (DATA) of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20125 filingsthrough 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.
through 2015
Ken InouyeThe Fritts GroupCovered position: Did not lobby Senate20 filingsthrough 2013
Susan C BuckThe Fritts Group16 filingsthrough 2019
JOHN B SIMPSON jrWiley Rein LLP11 filingsthrough 2013
Shawn Andrew BoneWiley Rein LLP10 filingsthrough 2012
Hap RigbyWiley Rein LLPCovered position: Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (2011-2017); Legislative Assistant, Senator Jim DeMint (2005-2010).9 filingsthrough 2019
Kathleen M RamseyThe Fritts Group7 filingsthrough 2010
Peter KrugWiley Rein LLP6 filingsthrough 2014
Bruce CoxThe Fritts Group6 filingsthrough 2011
Douglas S WileyWiley Rein LLP4 filingsthrough 2014
John LivelyThe Fritts Group4 filingsthrough 2008
Joseph WilliamsWiley Rein LLP3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 3 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
