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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
10 filings
$415K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$160K 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.
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Regina VargoGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Assistant USTR for the Americas6 filingsthrough 2010
Steven J MulderGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Alfonse D'Amato5 filingsthrough 2009
Ira S ShapiroGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Trade Ambassador, Office of the USTR5 filingsthrough 2009
Roger MurryAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg assist, Rep Tauscher; leg asst, Rep Napolitano
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: dole-food-company-inc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
4 filingsthrough 2010
Scott ParvenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Leg asst, Rep Mavroules4 filingsthrough 2010
Francine E FriedmanAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld3 filingsthrough 2010
