51 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Oct 10, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$4.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$4.2M
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.
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: central-puget-sound-regional-transit-authority.
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.
TAX
24 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Railroads
RRR
9 filings
$810K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
2 filings
$180K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$60K 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.
114th Congress
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017
3 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2844114th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5771113th CongressTax Increase Prevention Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3439111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1341111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 6003110th CongressPassenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6052110th CongressSaving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3651114th CongressPositive Train Control Enforcement and Implementation Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3644111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3997110th CongressDefenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 20072 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.
Covered position:
7 filingsthrough 2010
Christy GullionWashington2 AdvocatesCovered position: NW Washington Director, Senator Murray7 filingsthrough 2008
Rick DesimoneSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, US Senate5 filingsthrough 2009
Julie HrdlickaSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Director, Office of the Asst. Secretary for Govt. Affairs, US Department of Transportation; Dem. Staff Asst., Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation; Staff Asst., Senator Mark Dayton1 filingthrough 2019
Holland PattersonSignal Group Consulting, LLC1 filingthrough 2010
