Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
City of Pharr
Texas
31 filings from 2 registrants · 2010–2014 · latest filed Jul 21, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$790K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$790K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
20 filings
$515K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
18 filings
$515K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 933 113th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20138 filingsthrough 2013
- H.R. 7 112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20128 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Sarah Groothuis Vilms Squire Patton BoggsCovered position: CongKennelly90-91;SenLieb9214 filingsthrough 2013
- Thomas C Downs Squire Patton BoggsCovered position: LARSabo85-87;LAHochbrueckner87-91;CS91-9514 filingsthrough 2013
- BALTAZAR R SERNA jr Mr. Baltazar Serna, Jr.14 filingsthrough 2013
- Penelope S Farthing Squire Patton Boggs12 filingsthrough 2013
- Philip Saul Kaplan
The filings
The 20 most recent of 31 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-pharr.