31 filings from 3 registrants · 2009–2015 · latest filed Oct 14, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$469K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$990K
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.
Vin WeberMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress13 filingsthrough 2014
Deirdre StachMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Leg Director, Leg Correspondent, Leg Asst Hon Robert Walker ; ; Budget Analyst, House Science Committee13 filingsthrough 2014
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress12 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: educational-credit-management-corporation.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
12 filings
$620K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$440K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
4 filings
$220K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
3 filings
$150K 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
Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights
5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1873113th CongressProtect Student Borrowers Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.Con.Res. 112112th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2013 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2014 through 2022.4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1102112th CongressFairness for Struggling Students Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1949113th CongressImproving Postsecondary Education Data for Students Act3 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3393113th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to consolidate certain tax benefits for educational expenses, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make improvements to the child tax credit, and for other purposes.3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2281113th CongressNet Price Calculator Improvement Act3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3295112th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.Con.Res. 25113th CongressEstablishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.1 filingthrough 2013
H.Con.Res. 76113th CongressRecognizing the significance of the anniversary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowship program, and reaffirming the commitment to support the use of science in governmental decisionmaking through such program.1 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.
through 2014
Ed KutlerMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: .12 filingsthrough 2014
Vin WeberClark & WeinstockCovered position: Member of Congress9 filingsthrough 2011
Sandra K StuartClark & WeinstockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Vic Fazio9 filingsthrough 2011
Ed KutlerClark & WeinstockCovered position: .9 filingsthrough 2011
