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.
Minting/Money/Gold Standard
MON
27 filings
$3.4M 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1101113th CongressEvery Child Ready for College or Career Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3305113th CongressCurrency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act5 filingsthrough 2014
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Assistant to Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB30 filingsthrough 2017
Sheryl CohenAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Christopher Dodd; Political Director, Senator Christopher Dodd; Finance Director, Senator Joe Lieberman28 filingsthrough 2017
Trista RoehlAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Representative John Shadegg; Legislative Assistant, Representative Chris Cox; Legislative Assistant, Pat Toomey17 filingsthrough 2015
Stephen Pinkos
The filings
The 20 most recent of 27 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: dollar-coin-alliance.
112th Congress
Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act
4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2049112th CongressCurrency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3305114th CongressEINSTEIN Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 5196114th CongressAmericans Giving Care to Elders (AGE) Act of 20161 filingthrough 2015
S. 1101114th CongressMEDTECH Act1 filingthrough 2015
S. 2049113th CongressTransparency in Assertion of Patents Act1 filingthrough 2013
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.
Acg Advocacy
Covered position: Policy Director/General Counsel, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for IP; Staff Director, House Judiciary Committee
14 filingsthrough 2016
David J UrbanAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter14 filingsthrough 2015
Julie PhilpAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Rep. John Campbell; LA/Senior LA, Rep. Gil Gutknecht; LA and Scheduler, Rep. Michael Burgess; LA, Scheduler, Rep. Connie Morella; LA, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen10 filingsthrough 2017
Alex HoffbergAcg Advocacy8 filingsthrough 2017
Patrick C. GrantAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Counsel, U.S. Senate Committe on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Counsel and Legislative Assistant, Senator Christopher Dodd; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Joseph Lieberman4 filingsthrough 2017
Mary O'Dea Ahearn AllenAcg Advocacy4 filingsthrough 2016
Karen A StoneAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Sr. LA, LA, LC, Staff Asst - Rep. Steve Israel4 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 8 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
