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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$248K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
2 filings
$90K on those filings
Bankruptcy
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1106111th 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.
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: fortress-investment-group-llc.
$90K
fees reported
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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.
BNK
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$30K 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.
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2010
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2010
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2010
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2010
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2010
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2010
Dave KoshgarianErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2010
John L DoneyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2010
Amy SwongerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Intern Rep. Walter Jones (Summer 1995)10 filingsthrough 2010
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Counsel-H.Com. on Natural Resources (87-08)10 filingsthrough 2010
Tim UrbanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2010
William HeynigerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)10 filingsthrough 2010
Holly A BodeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Prof. Staff/LC - Sen. Aging Com. (85-93)6 filingsthrough 2010
Jeffrey LeveyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2010
Richard MeltzerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2009
Heather MeadeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2010
Daniel EsquibelErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2010
