27 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2022 · latest filed Oct 20, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$323K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$323K
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.
Transportation
TRA
26 filings
$323K on those filings
Housing
HOU
19 filings
$280K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Richard Allen HarmonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Director19 filingsthrough 2021
Laura KroegerTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate16 filingsthrough 2021
Dana DebeaumontTownsend Public Affairs8 filingsthrough 2012
Jonathan B JacksonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate7 filingsthrough 2020
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 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-merced.
19 filings
$230K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
16 filings
$235K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
16 filings
$230K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
13 filings
$195K on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
10 filings
$150K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
6 filings
$90K 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.
Benjamin GoldeenTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jim Costa LD, LA; Rep. Dennis Cardoza LA
6 filingsthrough 2022
Eric ThronsonTownsend Public Affairs2 filingsthrough 2022
Zachary ComminsTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate2 filingsthrough 2018
Christopher TownsendTownsend Public Affairs1 filingthrough 2009
Jennifer Marie ThompsonTownsend Public Affairs1 filingthrough 2009
Liisa Lawson StarkTownsend Public Affairs1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 5 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
