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: entertainment-software-association-esa.
$710K
fees reported
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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.
TAX
17 filings
$920K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
17 filings
$910K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
14 filings
$740K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
10 filings
$540K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
7 filings
$380K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$260K on those filings
Constitution
CON
4 filings
$230K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
4 filings
$210K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
2 filings
$110K 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.
112th Congress
Foreign Counterfeit Prevention Act
3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1696111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1177114th CongressEvery Student Succeeds Act1 filingthrough 2015
S. 3084114th CongressAmerican Innovation and Competitiveness Act1 filingthrough 2016
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.
Daniel J GansPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: See Registration for Titles
17 filingsthrough 2016
Bryan CunninghamPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: See Registration for Titles17 filingsthrough 2016
Ian S.D. MairThe Smith-Free Group, LLC13 filingsthrough 2016
Summer MersingerThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: DC Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; S Policy Adv, Senate Commerce Committee; Dep Chief of Staff, Sen John Thune; Gen Couns, Sen John Thune; Exec Dir, Sen John Thune; Confidential Assist, OPIC; Exec Assist, Rep John Thune; Staff Assist, Rep John Thune8 filingsthrough 2016
Kevin O'HanlonPolaris Government Relations, LLCCovered position: Rep Sutton: Deputy Chief of Staff/Scheduler8 filingsthrough 2015
Philip G KikoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Acting Dir./Dep.Dir.(Hrgs&Appls),D.O.I.6 filingsthrough 2014
Trevor W. KolegoThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Leg. Director, Rep. John Porter; Leg. Assistant, Rep, Chris Cannon3 filingsthrough 2016
Meredith T WhiteThe Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senate, Office of Senator Claire McCaskill2 filingsthrough 2012
