30 filings from 1 registrant · 2009–2017 · latest filed Jan 19, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$240K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$240K
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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
29 filings
$230K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
29 filings
$230K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 208 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
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: fashion-accessories-shippers-association.
LBR
28 filings
$220K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
27 filings
$210K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
25 filings
$190K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
23 filings
$170K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
16 filings
$100K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
13 filings
$70K on those filings
Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles
APP
1 filing
$10K 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.
114th Congress
Temporary Duty Suspension Process Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1276113th CongressCurrency Reform for Fair Trade Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2715113th CongressBTU Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 432113th CongressTo prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in Nevada except by express authorization of Congress.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 937113th CongressAmerican Textile Technology Innovation and Research for Exportation (ATTIRE) Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 169113th CongressI-Squared Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1295114th CongressTrade Preferences Extension Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1314114th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2146114th CongressDefending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2576114th CongressFrank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 644114th CongressTrade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 20157 filingsthrough 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.
14 filingsthrough 2015
David LapidusAmerican Apparel & Footwear Association12 filingsthrough 2015
Kurt CourtneyAmerican Apparel & Footwear Association6 filingsthrough 2012
