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: coalition-to-preserve-dshea.
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.
AGR
9 filings
$449K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$428K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$197K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
3 filings
$146K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
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.
through 2010
S. 425111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
S. 641111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 815111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3002111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 934111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3406111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1269111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 429111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1107110th CongressDietary Supplement and Healthy Meal Replacement Tax Parity Act of 20075 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.
Covered position:
8 filingsthrough 2010
James RockParry, Romani, Deconcini & SymmsCovered position: Staff Asst, US House Committee on Budget - 1985 to 20007 filingsthrough 2010
Julia ChaneyFidelis Government Relations6 filingsthrough 2010
Thaddeus E StromParry, Romani, Deconcini & SymmsCovered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Strom Thurmond: 1987 to 1988 ; ; Gen. Coun./Staff Dir, Sen Cmte on the Judiciary: 1988-1991 ; ; Chief Coun/Staff Dir, Sen Cmte on the Judiciary: 1991-1993 ; ; Chief Counsel/Staff Dir., Sen. Cmte. on Antitrust, ; ; Business Rights and Competition: 1994 to 19976 filingsthrough 2010
Edward Baxter1994 GroupCovered position: Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Senate JudiciaryCommittee's Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrightsand Trademarks: 1987 to 19905 filingsthrough 2009
James Rock1994 Group5 filingsthrough 2009
Thaddeus Strom1994 GroupCovered position: Gen. Coun./Staff Dir., Sen. Cmte. on the Judciary: 1988-1991Chief Coun/Staff Dir, Sen Cmte on the Judiciary:1991-1993Chief Counsel/Staff Dir., Sen. Cmte. on Antitrust,Business Rights and Competition: 1994-19975 filingsthrough 2009
Edward Long1994 GroupCovered position: Staff Director LHHS Appropriations SubcommitteeSenate Appropriations Committee5 filingsthrough 2009
