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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$140K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
9 filings
$140K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 43 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1083111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 690111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
M Victoria CramBall Janik LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant Rep. John Seiberling9 filingsthrough 2010
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: city-of-bellevue-wa.
COM
9 filings
$140K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
9 filings
$140K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$140K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$140K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
9 filings
$140K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
9 filings
$140K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
5 filings
$60K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$80K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$10K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 753111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 760111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 895111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 144111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 43111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 787111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1262111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1077110th CongressInternet Consumer Protection Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1195110th CongressSAFETEA-LU Technical Corrections Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2421110th CongressClean Water Restoration Act of 20074 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.
2 filingsthrough 2010
Mark MarkBall Janik LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 4 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
