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.
Transportation
TRA
30 filings
$2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$600K on those filings
Natural Resources
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3082111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3082112th CongressBiennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: U.S. Dept. of Labor, HUD38 filingsthrough 2020
Greg LanklerMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof Staff, House Approp Def Sub, LA Bill Young31 filingsthrough 2017
Vin WeberMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress (D-MN)28 filingsthrough 2020
Denny R RehbergMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US Congress; 2001-2013
The filings
The 20 most recent of 116 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: cemex.
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.
NAT
7 filings
$270K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
6 filings
$200K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
4 filings
$280K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$40K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
2 filings
$131K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
2 filings
$131K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
1 filing
$70K 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.
25 filingsthrough 2020
Ed KutlerMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Asst. Ofc. of the Speaker, House Rep. Whip17 filingsthrough 2015
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress14 filingsthrough 2014
Erick C. MullenMercury Public Affairs, LLC9 filingsthrough 2015
Brett ThompsonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD, Sen. J. Talent9 filingsthrough 2013
Richard SandersonDawson & Associates, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2009
Robert K DawsonDawson & Associates, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2009
Joseph Richard CapkaDawson & Associates, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2009
Vincent FrilliciMercury Public Affairs, LLC6 filingsthrough 2015
Alan EliasMercury Public Affairs, LLC5 filingsthrough 2014
