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
7 filings
$320K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
5 filings
$250K 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
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1908111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4112111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1792111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
James GouldCapitol Counsel LLC7 filingsthrough 2011
John D RaffaelliCapitol Counsel LLC7 filingsthrough 2011
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-inc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
through 2010
H.R. 5019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3913111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3935111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 4853112th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on Methoxycarbonyl-terminated perfluorinated polyoxymethylene-polyoxyethylene.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 5019112th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on Gallery.1 filingthrough 2011
S. 1792112th CongressStrengthening Investigations of Sex Offenders and Missing Children Act of 20111 filingthrough 2011
S. 3913112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2011
S. 3935112th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2011
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.
through 2011
JAMES O MCCRERY iiiCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Ranking Member, House Ways & Means Cmte5 filingsthrough 2011
Andrew L WoodsLiberty Partners Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2010
Dena BattleCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Rep. Nick Smith1 filingthrough 2011
