77 filings from 8 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jan 23, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$4.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$4.2M
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.
H.R. 1315112th CongressTo amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act to strengthen the review authority
of the Financial Stability Oversight Council of regulations
issued by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection,
to rescind the unobligated funding for the FHA
Refinance Program and to terminate the program, and
for other purposes.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jay Henry BrownJay H. Brown, Ltd.19 filingsthrough 2015
Elizabeth GreerForbes-TateCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Allen Boyd13 filingsthrough 2015
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus ; ; Deputy Asst, Special Asst, Deputy Director EOP13 filingsthrough 2015
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: community-financial-services-association.
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.
CSP
12 filings
$785K on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
5 filings
$260K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$55K 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.
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4014112th CongressTo amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act with respect to information provided to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2099112th CongressA bill to amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act with respect to information provided to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4014113th CongressTo amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit former Members of Congress from engaging in lobbying contacts.1 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 6139113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2013
S. 2099113th CongressSound Regulation Act of 20141 filingthrough 2013
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.
through 2015
John BuscherForbes-TateCovered position: LC, Sen. Alan Dixon; LA Sen Carol Moseley-Braun11 filingsthrough 2015
Wesley Ryan WelchForbes-TateCovered position: LD, LA, LA Sen. Richard Shelby11 filingsthrough 2015
Todd Matthew WeissDentons US LLPCovered position: Sr Pol Advisor to Sen. Hutchinson (R-AR)LA/LD to Sen. Santorum (R-PA)11 filingsthrough 2013
Mathew LapinskiDentons US LLP10 filingsthrough 2013
