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
10 filings
$470K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 55 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1083111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1560111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 627111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Mark DedrickBall Janik LLPCovered position: Senior LA Rep. Rush Holt10 filingsthrough 2011
M Victoria CramBall Janik LLPCovered position: Staff Assistant Democratic Study Group10 filingsthrough 2011
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-portland-or.
ECN
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Housing
HOU
9 filings
$450K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Education
EDU
4 filings
$200K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 690111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 753111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 760111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 895111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 144111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 235111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 43111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 787111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1262111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1728111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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.
3 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 4 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
