30 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 13, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$460K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$460K
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.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
28 filings
$460K on those filings
Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs
MED
10 filings
$130K 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.
S. 510113th CongressScofield Land Transfer Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 510112th CongressROADS SAFE Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Frankie L TrullPolicy Directions Inc.28 filingsthrough 2015
Stephen MichaelPolicy Directions Inc.17 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: covance-inc.
spend on filings that named this issue
S. 510114th CongressCFPB-IG Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1148110th CongressSafe Food Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3610110th CongressFood and Drug Import Safety Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1332111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 759111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 875111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 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.
5 filingsthrough 2014
William T CroninPolicy Directions Inc.Covered position: Correspondence Mgr.-Sen. George LeMieux, Legislative Assistant - Rep. Joe Walsh4 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 2 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
