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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$380K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
6 filings
$380K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3754110th CongressTo authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to accept, as part of a settlement, diesel emission reduction Supplemental Environmental Projects, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2146110th CongressA bill to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to accept, as part of a settlement, diesel emission reduction Supplemental Environmental Projects, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3754
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Gabe RozsaBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Paul BrownBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Keith SmithBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
M B OGLESBY jrBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
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: cummins-engine-company-earth-university.
6 filings
$380K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$380K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$380K 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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 2146111th 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.
Becky B WeberBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
R Scott PastrickBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Stefan BaileyBksh & AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Director, Cong. Nick Rahall6 filingsthrough 2009
