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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
14 filings
$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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1159111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1389111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3166111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
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-equitable-treatment-for-victims-of-massive-financial-theft.
112th Congress
A bill to renew the temporary suspension of duty on Pigment Yellow 175.
2 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 1159112th CongressTo repeal certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act relating to the limitation on the Medicare exception to the prohibition on certain physician referrals for hospitals and to transparency reports and reporting of physician ownership or investment interests.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1389112th CongressGlobal Online Freedom Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3548111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 598111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 350111th 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.
8 filingsthrough 2011
William Reid MckenneyCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Ways & Means Over Sub8 filingsthrough 2011
Jonathan TalismanCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy8 filingsthrough 2011
