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.
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-pismo-beach-ca.
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.
ENV
8 filings
$100K on those filings
Railroads
RRR
8 filings
$100K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
8 filings
$80K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$40K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
3 filings
$40K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
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.
113th Congress
Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014
3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5325112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2465112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5972112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2322112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3216112th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3635111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3182110th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 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.
Nathaniel Jameson Potter
Van Scoyoc Associates
Covered position: Staff Assistant, Congressman Jay Inslee
6 filingsthrough 2015
Mary Scott HardwickThorn Run Partners5 filingsthrough 2019
Mary Scott HardwickVan Scoyoc Associates4 filingsthrough 2018
Howard MarloweMarlowe & Company3 filingsthrough 2008
