30 filings from 2 registrants · 2012–2018 · latest filed Aug 21, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$740K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$740K
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$740K 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. 1946114th CongressTax Relief Extension Act of 20152 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jonathan TalismanCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy21 filingsthrough 2015
Joseph MikrutCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Legislative Counsel - US Treasury21 filingsthrough 2015
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: entertainment-partners.
Melissa MuellerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Rep. Doggett; Leg Counsel Sen. Reid8 filingsthrough 2014
Michael A. UdellDistrict Economics Group5 filingsthrough 2015
Richard GrafmeyerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, JCT3 filingsthrough 2012
William Reid MckenneyCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Ways & Means Over Sub3 filingsthrough 2012
Christopher JavensCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. Grassley, Sen. Finance Comm.3 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
