24 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed Jan 21, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3M
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.
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.
Railroads
RRR
23 filings
$3M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
4 filings
$670K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 25 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 158112th CongressSurface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 49112th CongressRailroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 233111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Robert SzaboVan Ness Feldman, LLP21 filingsthrough 2013
Richard A AgnewVan Ness Feldman, LLP21 filingsthrough 2013
Ben Lee McmakinVan Ness Feldman, LLP21 filingsthrough 2013
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: consumers-united-for-rail-equity.
4 filings
$670K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$670K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
4 filings
$670K 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.
6 filings
through 2010
S. 146111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 772110th CongressRailroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 20076 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1650110th CongressRailroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2095110th CongressRailroad Safety Enhancement Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2125110th CongressRailroad Competition and Service Improvement Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2701110th CongressTransportation Energy Security and Climate Change Mitigation Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6110th CongressEnergy Independence and Security Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2302110th CongressFood and Energy Security Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
S. 953110th CongressRailroad Competition and Service Improvement Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
S. 158113th CongressA bill for the relief of Dr. Shakil Afridi.4 filingsthrough 2013
S. 2889111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 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.
20 filings
through 2013
Howard Eliot ShapiroVan Ness Feldman, LLP18 filingsthrough 2013
Christopher BohanonVan Ness Feldman, LLP9 filingsthrough 2010
