8 filings from 1 registrant · 2014–2015 · latest filed Jan 19, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$120K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$120K
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
7 filings
$120K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
7 filings
$120K 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 — 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.
Andrew HowellMonument Advocacy8 filingsthrough 2015
Rich ThomasMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Asst, ; ; and Legislative Director Rep. Bill Pascrell8 filingsthrough 2015
Kimberly EllisMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Brady; Deputy Executive Sec ; ; and Confidential Asst, Office of U.S. Trade Representative8 filingsthrough 2015
Katharine ListerMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of ; ; Commerce; Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of ; ; Staff, and Communications Director, Sen. Maria ; ; Cantwell; Communications Director, Rep. ; ; Adam Smith; Staff Assistant, Sen. John Kerry
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: fileright.
spend on filings that named this issue
113th Congress
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015
3 filingsthrough 2014
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act1 filingthrough 2014
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.
8 filingsthrough 2015
E. Ashley HoyMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Director of Coalitions, Senate Republican Conference Office ; ; of the Vice Chairman; Director of Coalitions, Office of the ; ; Minority Whip; Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, ; ; Legislative Correspondent, and Administrative Assistant, ; ; Rep. Sue Myrick8 filingsthrough 2015
John MulliganMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director and Chief of Staff, Rep. Adam ; ; Smith8 filingsthrough 2015
CHARLES STEWART VERDERY jrMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security; Consultant, ; ; Department of Homeland Security; General Counsel, Assistant ; ; Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles; Counsel, Senate ; ; Committee on the Judiciary; Legislative Counsel, Senate ; ; Committee on Rules and Administration; Legislative Counsel, ; ; Senator John Warner; Outside Consultant, House Committee on ; ; Oversight; Lead Staffer Sen. Republican High Tech Task Force8 filingsthrough 2015
Jessica Rae Herrera-FlaniganMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Trial Attorney and Senior Counsel, Computer Crime & ; ; Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, U.S. DOJ ; ; Counsel, Deputy Staff Director, GC, Staff Director House ; ; Cmte Homeland Sec.;Special Asst Attorney,US Attorney'sOffice7 filingsthrough 2015
Ryan SpanglerMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Deputy Scheduler, Senator Joseph Biden6 filingsthrough 2015
Jane AlonsoMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Director and Legislative Assistant, Sen. Susan ; ; Collins; Professional Staff Member, Senate Governmental ; ; Affairs Committee; Political Section Intern, Department of ; ; State; Legislative Correspondent, Sen. Bob Graham ; ; Scheduler and Executive Assistant, Rep Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ; ; Staff Assistant, Rep. John Mica6 filingsthrough 2015
Stephanie MartzMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senator Charles Schumer; Special Assistant and Senior Counsel to the President, Office of White House Counsel1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 10 of 15 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
