60 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2025 · latest filed Oct 16, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$3.6M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3.6M
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
60 filings
$3.6M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.9 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1114th CongressReserved for the Speaker.8 filingsthrough 2016
Richard GrafmeyerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: JCT Deputy Chief of Staff; Sen. Finance Comm. Deputy Staff Dir. (Rep); Sen. Finance Comm.Tax Counsel (Rep).
The filings
The 20 most recent of 60 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-templeton-investments.
114th Congress
Permanent CFC Look-Through Act of 2015
4 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 4464113th CongressPermanent CFC Look-Through Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2261113th CongressTax Technical Corrections Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2091112th CongressUnited States Job Creation and International Tax Reform Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4337111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5528113th CongressTax Technical Corrections Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3521112th CongressFamily and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 1113th CongressTax Reform Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
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.
