36 filings from 2 registrants · 2015–2020 · latest filed Oct 20, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$1.9M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.9M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative Hefley, Legislative Aide; U.S. Representative Watkins, Legislative Director20 filingsthrough 2018
Daris MeeksVenable LLPCovered position: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Counsel; Director of Domestic Policy, Office of the Vice President19 filingsthrough 2020
William R NordwindVenable LLPCovered position: House Telecommunications Subcommittee, Counsel; Representative Upton, Legislative Director, Counsel, Deputy Chief of Staff; Representative Pryce, Legislative Director and Counsel; Representative Upton, Legislative Director and Counsel
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: franklin-advisers-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.
GOV
5 filings
$240K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
5 filings
$240K 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.
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.
16 filingsthrough 2017
RALPH W. HARDY jrVenable LLP13 filingsthrough 2020
Andrew OlmemVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Chief Counsel, Senior Counsel, Counsel; Senator George Voinovich, Counsel10 filingsthrough 2017
Thomas Moers MayerKramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP9 filingsthrough 2018
Bart StupakVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative, 1993-20117 filingsthrough 2020
Nicholas D ChoateVenable LLPCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director, Sen. Claire McCaskill; Legislative and Communications Assistant, Rep. Karen McCarthy; Legislative Assistant/Press Secretary, Rep. Dan Boren; Legislative Director, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Director, Rep. Bart Stupak7 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
