23 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2010 · latest filed Jan 15, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.1M
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
20 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$634K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 25 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2990110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make geothermal heat pump systems eligible for the energy credit and the residential energy efficient property credit.6 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5351110th CongressRenewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 20086 filingsthrough 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: climatemaster-inc.
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.
4 filings
$24K 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
Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2314110th CongressGeothermal Heat Pump Development Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3125110th CongressEnergy Independence and Tax Relief Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1698111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 4785111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3079111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 598111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 2776110th CongressRenewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3220110th CongressNew Direction for Energy Independence, National Security, and Consumer Protection Act2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5402110th CongressClimate Change Center and Clearinghouse Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6899110th CongressComprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act2 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.
