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.
Arts/Entertainment
ART
4 filings
$40K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2643110th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1696110th CongressDepartment of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20083 filingsthrough 2008
Nicolas MadurosQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: AsstHRDoorkeeper,InternLehman,InternEOP4 filingsthrough 2009
John David HoppeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: StaffDir/CoSSenLott,CoS RepJKemp&SenDCoats4 filingsthrough 2009
Harriet James MelvinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Professional Staff Rep. Charles Hatcher3 filingsthrough 2008
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2009
Qga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)
Qga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)
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: creative-coalition.
110th Congress
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th 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.
3 filingsthrough 2008
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)3 filingsthrough 2008
Rochelle BehrensQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Intern, Executive Office of the President3 filingsthrough 2008
Kevin D KayesQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: ChfCounSenReid,StaffDirSenCSTCom,AstParlSen3 filingsthrough 2008
Marc LampkinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Staff/CounE&LCom,GCounHRC,ConSecCvrdll3 filingsthrough 2008
Jeffrey ConnaughtonQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: SpcAsst to Chmn SenJudCom,SpcAsst to WHCoun2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 11 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
