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.
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
12 filings
$360K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$270K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: cuyahoga-county.
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
5 filings
$30K on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
4 filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Housing
HOU
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$30K 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.
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.
Emma Vahey
Squire Patton Boggs
Covered position: Sept 2015-May 2016: Intern to Rep Jim Hines; Jan-May 2018: Intern to Sen Chris Murphy
2 filingsthrough 2021
Victoria CramSquire Patton Boggs2 filingsthrough 2020
Phillip BianchiSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: August 2008-January 2009: Intern for Senator Arlen Specter2 filingsthrough 2020
Nicole GoldenSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Jan. 2019 - Aug. 2019: Legislative Intern to Rep. Juan Vargas1 filingthrough 2022
Margaret GilleySquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2005-July 2010: LA and Senior PA, Cong. Jack Kingston1 filingthrough 2020
Kathryn NovariaSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Aug. 07-Dec 08-SA, Rep. Joe Knollenberg; Jan 09-Dec 10-SA/Press Assist, Rep. Fred Upton; Jan.11-March '13-Legis.Clerk, House Com. on Energy and Commerce;April '13-Feb. '16- Pro. Staff Member, House Com. Energy and Commerce, Sub. on Health1 filingthrough 2020
Covered positions · 5 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
