32 filings from 2 registrants · 2013–2016 · latest filed Jan 19, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.5M
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.
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: digital-4th.
$690K
fees reported
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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.
COM
16 filings
$690K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
16 filings
$690K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
16 filings
$690K 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.
H.R. 983113th CongressOnline Communications and Geolocation Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 607113th CongressElectronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1364113th CongressDigital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 699113th CongressStop the Sequester Job Loss Now Act1 filingthrough 2014
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.
Christina WeaverThe Raben GroupCovered position: Legislative Counsel to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee17 filingsthrough 2016
Michael KatzJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: See prior filing.17 filingsthrough 2016
Darin Lynn GardnerJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Kay Granger; Legislative Director, Rep Kay Granger; Research Associate Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; Leg Correspondent, Sen. Tim Hutchison9 filingsthrough 2016
