25 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2015 · latest filed Oct 19, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$501K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$501K
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.
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.
Banking
BAN
20 filings
$389K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$278K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
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: ebay-inc-formerly-filed-under-paypal-inc.
CSP
6 filings
$104K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$90K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$45K 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
CLEAR Relief Act of 2013
7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2701112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1452112th CongressMain Street Fairness Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 698110th CongressIndustrial Bank Holding Company Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2578114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20162 filingsthrough 2015
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.
