City of Las Vegas — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
City of Las Vegas
Nevada
55 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2024 · latest filed Jan 20, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$2.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.4M
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.
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.
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
53 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
48 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Transportation
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 36 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 567117th CongressSouthern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 567118th CongressRichard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 20236 filingsthrough 2024
David LesstrangSquire Patton Boggs 1996 -2001: Dep. COS and LD, Rep. Jerry Lewis; Jan. 2005- Jan. 2007: Dep. Staff Dir., Com. on Approps; Jan. 2007-Jan. 2011: Professional Staff, House Com.on Approps; Jan. 2011-Aug. 2018: Clerk, Sub. on Interior, Environ. and Related Agencies.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 55 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: city-of-las-vegas.
TRA
39 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
38 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
26 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
13 filings
$520K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
11 filings
$440K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$360K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$240K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
4 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.
117th Congress
Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act
6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2015113th CongressLas Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 974113th CongressLas Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2146114th CongressStop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3931116th CongressMaking appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 530116th CongressAccelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 20194 filingsthrough 2019
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:
4 filingsthrough 2020
Amy DavenportSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: June-Aug 2009: Intern, Sen. George Voinovich3 filingsthrough 2013
Kameron SimmonsSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Jan.-May 2016: Intern, Sen. Orrin Hatch; Aug. 2014- Jan. 2015: Intern, Cong. Rob Bishop; Aug. 2010-Jan. 2011: Page, U.S. House of Representatives1 filingthrough 2017
Covered positions · 4 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
