38 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2018 · latest filed Dec 12, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$580K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$580K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
37 filings
$580K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
32 filings
$540K on those filings
Foreign Relations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1400110th CongressIran Counter-Proliferation Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 957110th CongressTo amend the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 to expand and clarify the entities against which sanctions may be imposed.4 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: coalition-for-employment-through-exports.
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.
FOR
12 filings
$365K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
8 filings
$145K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
1 filing
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.
H.R. 6828110th CongressExport Control Improvements Act2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7112110th CongressComprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3288110th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3445110th CongressComprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.J.Res. 38111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Edmund B RiceCoalition for Employment Through ExportsCovered position: Staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee
5 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
