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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
10 filings
$560K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
7 filings
$380K 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.
H.R. 2221111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1456111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
Marc LampkinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Staff/CounE&LCom,GCounHRC,ConSecCvrdll10 filingsthrough 2011
David LugarQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)9 filingsthrough 2010
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)8 filingsthrough 2011
Kevin D KayesQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: ChfCounSenReid,StaffDirSenCSTCom,AstParlSen8 filingsthrough 2011
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2011
Qga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)
Qga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)
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: first-data-corp.
H.R. 958110th CongressData Accountability and Trust Act1 filingthrough 2008
S. 1260110th CongressData Security Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
John David HoppeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: StaffDir/CoSSenLott,CoS RepJKemp&SenDCoats7 filingsthrough 2011
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)6 filingsthrough 2010
Nicolas MadurosQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: AsstHRDoorkeeper,InternLehman,InternEOP6 filingsthrough 2010
Jack QuinnQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Counsel Pres Clinton, CoS Vice Pres Gore4 filingsthrough 2010
Harriet James MelvinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Professional Staff Rep. Charles Hatcher3 filingsthrough 2008
