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.
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
8 filings
$90K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 2895111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 980111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2963111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3381111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Mark Wesley Arthur PhillipsEdwards Associates, Inc.Covered position: President10 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 1 of 1 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: confederated-tribes-of-warm-springs-in-oregon.
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Animals
ANI
1 filing
$10K 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. 607112th CongressCathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 2523111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3514111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 503111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1790111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3752111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3813111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 727111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 797111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 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.
