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
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1232110th CongressFood Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2063110th CongressFood Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2063111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Vin WeberClark & WeinstockCovered position: Member of Congress (MN)7 filingsthrough 2009
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: david-and-denise-bunning.
HCR
4 filings
$200K 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.
1 filing
through 2009
S. 1232111th 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.
7 filingsthrough 2009
Niles GodesClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg Assistant, Sen. Quentin Burdick2 filingsthrough 2009
Christopher Robert DarcyClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg Assistant, Rep. Ron Marlenee2 filingsthrough 2009
Sandra K StuartClark & WeinstockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Vic Fazio2 filingsthrough 2009
Paul SweetMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: COS, REP. VIC FAZIO2 filingsthrough 2008
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: MEMBER OF CONGRESS2 filingsthrough 2008
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; US HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 10 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
