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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Housing
HOU
6 filings
$268K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
3 filings
$78K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2009
S. 253111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2009
S. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2009
S. 1230111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Timothy P HechtHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & AssocCovered position: Deputy Counselor and Special Assistant to the Secretary of ; ; Commerce [1989-1991]; Deputy Political Director, The White ; ; House [1992-1993]3 filingsthrough 2009
William H HechtHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc3 filingsthrough 2009
Walter D HuddlestonHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc3 filingsthrough 2009
Stuart SpencerHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & Assoc3 filingsthrough 2009
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: fix-housing-first-coalition.
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.
2 filings
$68K on those filings
Banking
BAN
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.
H.R. 1119111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1245111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 384111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 740111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
FRANKLIN C PHIFER jrHecht Latham Spencer & Associates, Inc., Formerly Known as Hecht Spencer & AssocCovered position: Professional Staff member; Subcommittee on Trade, House ; ; Committee on Ways & Means[1989-94]; Counsel to the Acting ; ; Chairman House Committee on Ways & Means [1994] ; ; Minority Counsel House Committee on Ways & Means [95-97].3 filingsthrough 2009
Kenneth GearKenneth Gear3 filingsthrough 2009
THOMAS HALE BOGGS jrSquire Patton Boggs2 filingsthrough 2009
