23 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jan 20, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$710K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$710K
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.
Computer Industry
CPI
23 filings
$710K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
8 filings
$240K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 31 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 845113th CongressSaving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes 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: emc-corp.
BUD
6 filings
$180K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$90K 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
Patent Abuse Reduction Act of 2013
7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 866113th CongressPatent Quality Improvement Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1770113th CongressFAIR Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2195111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4061111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4507111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5548111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3193111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 773111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1685110th CongressData Security Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2124110th CongressFederal Agency Data Breach Protection Act3 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.
Covered position:
13 filingsthrough 2012
Kathleen BlanchardBlank Rome Government Relations11 filingsthrough 2014
Shimon SteinBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Intern, Congressman Robert Aderholt10 filingsthrough 2014
Stephen PeranichBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Gene Taylor7 filingsthrough 2014
Katherine Scontras AndersonBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Senator Susan Collins5 filingsthrough 2013
Cynthia BrownBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ron Kind3 filingsthrough 2014
Tony CorwinBlank Rome Government RelationsCovered position: Legis. Asst. to the Commandant of Marine Corps3 filingsthrough 2011
