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-visalia-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.
TRA
28 filings
$580K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
13 filings
$280K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
11 filings
$230K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$210K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
6 filings
$110K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
5 filings
$110K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
3 filings
$60K 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.
110th Congress
FAA Reauthorization Act of 2007
4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1300110th CongressAviation Investment and Modernization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2874115th Congress21st Century Flood Reform Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3285115th CongressSustainable, Affordable, Fair, and Efficient (SAFE) National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1368115th CongressSustainable, Affordable, Fair, and Efficient (SAFE) National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1571115th CongressNational Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2353114th CongressBiodiesel Tax Incentive Reform and Extension Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20143 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. 24110th CongressSan Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3768110th CongressSan Joaquin River Settlement Water Management Goal Implementation Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4074110th CongressSan Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act3 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
7 filingsthrough 2015
Laura Morgan-KesslerVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Dianne Feinstein7 filingsthrough 2011
Guneev SharmaThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Legislative Corespondent: Sen. Heitkamp;6 filingsthrough 2020
Mary Scott HardwickThorn Run Partners5 filingsthrough 2019
THOMAS R DONNELLY jrJefferson Government Relations, L.L.C.5 filingsthrough 2009
Mary Scott HardwickVan Scoyoc Associates4 filingsthrough 2018
Jeanne L MorinJefferson Government Relations, L.L.C.4 filingsthrough 2009
Daniel J SheehanJefferson Government Relations, L.L.C.3 filingsthrough 2008
Carmen OjedaThorn Run PartnersCovered position: Intern, Rep. Rick Larsen2 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 6 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
