50 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2021 · latest filed Nov 5, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2M
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
50 filings
$2M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR
33 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3734111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1843110th CongressSave Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5613110th CongressProtecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008
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-virginia-beach.
CAW
32 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
32 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
28 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Defense
DEF
26 filings
$1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
21 filings
$840K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
21 filings
$840K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
21 filings
$840K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
16 filings
$640K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
15 filings
$600K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
11 filings
$440K 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.
3 filings
through 2008
S. 988110th CongressSave Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 3221110th CongressHousing and Economic Recovery Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 690111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 144111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3232110th CongressTravel Promotion Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 7110110th CongressJob Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
S. 1661110th CongressTravel Promotion Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
S. 2657110th CongressA bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to prescribe regulations to reduce the incidence of vessels colliding with North Atlantic right whales by limiting the speed of vessels, and for other purposes.1 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.
Alcalde & Fay
Covered position: Intern/Congressman Leonard Boswell
8 filingsthrough 2013
Cynthia ColendaAlcalde & Fay7 filingsthrough 2019
Alan M KatzAlcalde & Fay6 filingsthrough 2017
Trace RollerAlcalde & FayCovered position: Intern/Congressman Pete Sessions5 filingsthrough 2009
Hector AlcaldeAlcalde & Fay4 filingsthrough 2008
Isabel LaneAlcalde & Fay3 filingsthrough 2016
Christopher J. MurphyAlcalde & Fay3 filingsthrough 2016
Matt BeckwithAlcalde & Fay2 filingsthrough 2018
Taylor WatsonAlcalde & Fay2 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 4 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
