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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
32 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$70K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 527113th CongressHelium Stewardship Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
S. 783113th CongressHelium Stewardship Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
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: cree.
2 filings
$70K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
1 filing
$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.
113th Congress
Middle Class CHANCE Act
2 filingsthrough 2013
S. 2374112th CongressHelium Stewardship Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 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.
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LA, Sen. J. Talent; Sr. Advisor, U.S. Treasury15 filingsthrough 2013
Brett ThompsonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD, Sen. J. Talent13 filingsthrough 2013
Paul SweetMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: COS, Rep. Vic Fazio5 filingsthrough 2010
Rodney CapelMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Confidential Assistant; Sen. Shumer, Dep. State Dir4 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 7 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
