10 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2010 · latest filed Jan 18, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$210K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$210K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
10 filings
$210K on those filings
Defense
DEF
6 filings
$90K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3635111th 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
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates7 filingsthrough 2010
Katherine VanlandinghamVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: LegAsst/CorrespDir, Senator Sam Brownback7 filingsthrough 2010
Edward LongVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: StaffDir,SenSubcommOnLabor,HHS,Ed Approps7 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: cold-spring-harbor-laboratory.
fees reported
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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.
6 filings
$90K 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.
S. 3800
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
2 filingsthrough 2010
H.Con.Res. 312110th CongressRevising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7110110th CongressJob Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3604110th CongressEconomic Recovery Act, 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3689110th CongressEconomic Recovery Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S.Con.Res. 70110th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th 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
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.
Edward Long
Capitol Associates, Inc.
3 filingsthrough 2008
Brian RobinsonVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: LA/Corr,Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee2 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 3 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
