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: earthlink-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.
CPT
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
2 filings
$40K 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.
113th Congress
Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act
3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5353110th CongressInternet Freedom Preservation Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1738110th CongressPROTECT Our Children Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1769110th CongressSame Number Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
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.
Capitol Resources, LLC
Covered position: COS to Rep Chip Pickering, LA Sen Trent Lott
10 filingsthrough 2014
Chip PickeringCapitol Resources, LLCCovered position: Staffer to Senator Trent Lott9 filingsthrough 2013
Paul William KenefickEarthlink, Inc6 filingsthrough 2009
Patrick H WilliamsThe Cormac Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
