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.
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: fortune-brands-home-security-inc.
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.
HOU
4 filings
$60K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$20K 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
Commuter Benefits Equity Act of 2015
9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3913114th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 3935114th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4112113th CongressEqual Rights and Access for the Women of South Sudan Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1792113th CongressGONE Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3913113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3935113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1908112th CongressTo specify the priority of the obligations of the United States Government if the debt ceiling is reached, to provide for an emergency appropriation of funds to pay for certain defense and national security obligations during a gap in funding, and for other purposes.5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1792112th CongressStrengthening Investigations of Sex Offenders and Missing Children Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3913112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3935112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Charles Towner FrenchCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Staff, House Committee on Rules; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pete Sessions; Staff, House Committee on Homeland Security; Staff, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart; and Staff, Rep. Judy Biggert10 filingsthrough 2017
Patrick Galagher MartinCozen O'Connor Public StrategiesCovered position: Legislative Correspondent - Office of Senator Evan Bayh; Special Assistant - Center for Consumer Info and Insurance Oversight, Dept. of HHS7 filingsthrough 2023
