15 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2012 · latest filed Nov 15, 2012
Reported on its behalf
$500K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$500K
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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
14 filings
$500K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
11 filings
$500K 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.
H.R. 1908110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1145110th CongressPatent Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
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: data-treasury-corporation.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 243112th CongressPatent Lawsuit Reform Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 23112th CongressAmerica Invents Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
S. 610111th 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.
10 filings
through 2009
David JonesCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: N/A10 filingsthrough 2009
Wyeth WiedemanBen Barnes Group LPCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Kent CapertonBen Barnes Group LPCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Ben BarnesBen Barnes Group LPCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
Patsy Lee ThomassonBen Barnes Group LPCovered position: N/A6 filingsthrough 2009
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Former Member of Congress, Louisiana 4th ; ; Ranking Member, House Ways and Means Committee ; ; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Taxation5 filingsthrough 2012
