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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
29 filings
$900K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1224114th CongressFreddie Mac REMIC Reform Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3530113th CongressJustice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 20148 filingsthrough 2014
Michael B LevyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Sr. Advisor to the Secretary - U.S. Treasury Dept. ; ; Dep. Under Sec./Asst. Sec.-U.S. Treasury Dept. ; ; Staff Economist-Congressional Jt. Econ. Comm ; ; Admin. Asst/Chief of Staff - Sen. Lloyd Bentsen30 filingsthrough 2018
David Phillip CohenBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Prof. Staff-House Comm on Banking & Fin Svcs16 filingsthrough 2015
Edward AmbroseBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Fellow - Senator Rick Santorum2 filingsthrough 2011
Norman Brownstein
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 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: chotin-group.
113th Congress
Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2014
4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3530112th CongressFreddie Mac Debt Reduction Act of 20114 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.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
1 filingthrough 2011
Regina E MahonyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Sr. Policy Adv., House Maj. Leader, Steny Hoyer ; ; Sr. Policy Adv., House Dem Whip, Steny Hoyer ; ; Sr. Policy Advisor, Congressman Calvin Dooley ; ; Leg. Director, Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. ; ; Legislative Asst., Congressman Tim Roemer1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 4 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
