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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
69 filings
$4.3M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 65 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1287113th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to raise the limitation on the election to accelerate the AMT credit in lieu of bonus depreciation for 2013.6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 516112th CongressBring Jobs Back to America Act6 filingsthrough 2012
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: delta.
112th Congress
Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act
6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 19112th CongressAmerican Liberty Restoration Act6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 20112th CongressAmerican Job Protection Act6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 359112th CongressComprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
S. 72112th CongressSmall Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1859113th CongressTax Extenders Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3123112th CongressAmerican Job Creation and Investment Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4196112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the allowance for bonus depreciation for certain business assets.4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1873112th CongressBonus Depreciation and Small Business Expense Extension Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5974112th CongressInvest in America Now Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Covered position:
28 filingsthrough 2015
Christopher JavensCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel,Sen. Grassley, Sen. Finance Comm.27 filingsthrough 2015
Joseph MikrutCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Legislative Counsel - US Treasury24 filingsthrough 2014
Jacob L. TrioloCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Rep. Todd Young; Staff Member, Sen. Small Business Comm.; Staff Asst/Legislative Corresp., Sen. Gordon Smith.15 filingsthrough 2026
