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.
Education
EDU
12 filings
$540K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
12 filings
$540K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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-of-urban-serving-universities.
11 filings
$480K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$300K 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.
through 2010
H.R. 4690111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5814111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5897111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3686111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2098112th CongressPromise Neighborhoods Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 5567112th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4605 Tutu Park Mall in St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, as the "Kenneth Leslie Harmon Post Office".1 filingthrough 2011
S. 1004112th CongressPromise Neighborhoods Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 426112th CongressDIPLOMA Act1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 1388111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3081111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
5 filingsthrough 2011
Rich StombresVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Dep Dir, House Committee on Ed & Workforce5 filingsthrough 2009
VICTOR F KLATT iiiVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: DepCOS&Press Sec, Congressman Fred Upton5 filingsthrough 2009
