8 filings from 3 registrants · 2008 · latest filed Oct 20, 2008
Reported on its behalf
$390K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$390K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Homeland Security
HOM
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
5 filings
$330K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6062110th CongressPersonal Lines of Insurance Fairness Act of 20082 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
John BlountCapitol Hill Consulting Group4 filingsthrough 2008
JAMES TUCKER jrAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld3 filingsthrough 2008
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: choicepoint.
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.
LAW
3 filings
$240K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$160K on those filings
Insurance
INS
2 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.
