22 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2012 · latest filed Jan 18, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$510K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$510K
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.
Banking
BAN
12 filings
$60K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
8 filings
$450K 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 — 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. 1214111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2563111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3245111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Edwin W JohnsonMcnair Law Firm, P.A.12 filingsthrough 2012
John GreenCrossroads Strategies, LLCCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff/Leg Aide, Sen Trent Lott10 filingsthrough 2011
Stewart HallCrossroads Strategies, LLC10 filingsthrough 2011
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-of-america.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
H.R. 1608111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1640111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2009
S. 500111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2009
S. 566111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2009
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 582111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1846111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2309111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 257111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 414111th 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.
