City of Seattle — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
City of Seattle
Washington
24 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2014 · latest filed Oct 20, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$530K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$530K
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.
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-seattle.
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.
MAR
13 filings
$280K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
4 filings
$130K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
4 filings
$70K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
$40K 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.
2 filings
through 2009
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3644111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3258110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3261110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3261111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 7324110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20091 filingthrough 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.
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates4 filingsthrough 2008
Jennifer E McgeeMarc Associates, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2008
Patrick HoltzVan Scoyoc Associates4 filingsthrough 2008
