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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
45 filings
$235K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
16 filings
$40K on those filings
Small Business
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4973113th CongressSTEM for STEM Act9 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: exxel-outdoors.
SMB
2 filings
$20K 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
SALTS Act
9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4318115th CongressMiscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2108115th CongressMiscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4973112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the rate of duty on certain sleeping bag carry cases.3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5940111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 998114th CongressAmerican Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4974112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on certain nonwoven polypropylene zippered sleeping bag carry cases, not under 77.5 cm in circumference and not exceeding 127.7 cm in circumference.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4975112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on man-made shells used in the manufacture of sleeping bags.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 913112th CongressFree and Fair Trade Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 308112th CongressTrade Extenders Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 433112th CongressFree and Fair Trade Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
H.R. 4973114th CongressInvesting in Older Americans Act of 20161 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 4974114th CongressMilitary Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20171 filingthrough 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.
WILLIAM HENRY HOUSTON iiiSorini Strategic Advisors F/K/A Sorini, Samet, & Associates, LLCCovered position: Ambassador, Chief Textile Negotiator, USTR4 filingsthrough 2010
Jackson Richard HouseSorini Strategic Advisors F/K/A Sorini, Samet, & Associates, LLC3 filingsthrough 2026
Andrew SametSorini Strategic Advisors F/K/A Sorini, Samet, & Associates, LLCCovered position: Deputy Under Secretary, Department of Labor2 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 4 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
