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
41 filings
$827K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
33 filings
$715K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1002112th CongressWireless Tax Fairness Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 543112th CongressWireless Tax Fairness Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
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-emeryville.
LAW
25 filings
$572K on those filings
Housing
HOU
22 filings
$490K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
17 filings
$383K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
11 filings
$248K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$132K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$132K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
1 filing
$25K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
1 filing
$15K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$15K 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.
113th Congress
Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2013
1 filingthrough 2013
S. 543113th CongressVISN Reorganization Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
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.
Christopher TownsendTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: President13 filingsthrough 2014
Kristen CarpentierTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate11 filingsthrough 2015
Cindy BoydTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate9 filingsthrough 2015
James PetersonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Director8 filingsthrough 2017
Jonathan B JacksonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate7 filingsthrough 2020
Joseph MeloTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jerry McNerney, PA5 filingsthrough 2025
Bryan LanzaTownsend Public Affairs4 filingsthrough 2014
Jessica FernandezTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate4 filingsthrough 2014
Joseph Cole HansenTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Field Rep., Rep. Barbara Lee2 filingsthrough 2026
Zachary ComminsTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate2 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 12 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
