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: cke-restaurants-inc.
$320K
fees reported
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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.
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$50K 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
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014
4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1244113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2112112th CongressConsolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 20124 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4800113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2389113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2375112th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2017115th CongressRetirement Inflation Protection Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
S. 2217115th CongressFUTURE of Artificial Intelligence Act of 20172 filingsthrough 2017
H.R. 3409114th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude payments received under the Work Colleges Program from gross income, including payments made from institutional funds.2 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1800114th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5973112th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20132 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2112113th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 787 State Route 17M in Monroe, New York, as the "National Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency NCS Officer Gregg David Wenzel Memorial Post Office".1 filingthrough 2013
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.
13 filingsthrough 2013
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US Dept. of Labor, HUD13 filingsthrough 2013
Richard HoarBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff & Leg. Dire., U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis12 filingsthrough 2017
Samantha Sheehan BilottaBanner Public Affairs, LLC6 filingsthrough 2014
Paul SweetMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: COS, Rep. Vic Fazio4 filingsthrough 2010
Kevin GundersenBanner Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Sr. Staff, House Homeland Security Cmtee.; Staff Dir., Subcmtee. on Counterterrorism & Intel.3 filingsthrough 2014
Greg LanklerMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD, Rep Bill Young3 filingsthrough 2012
Jennifer OlsonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD & LA, Sen. Lindsey Graham, LA Rep. Kolbe3 filingsthrough 2012
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 11 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
