64 filings from 22 registrants · 2008 · latest filed Jan 21, 2009
Reported on its behalf
$2.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.1M
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.
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: freddie-mac.
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.
BAN
11 filings
$225K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Insurance
INS
1 filing
$60K 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.
110th Congress
Credit CARD Act of 2007
5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3777110th CongressProtecting Access to Safe Mortgages Act5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2346110th CongressPROMISE Act5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2391110th CongressGSE Mission Improvement Act5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1100110th CongressFederal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 190110th CongressA bill to provide a technical correction to the Pension Protection Act of 2006.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2895110th CongressNational Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3838110th CongressTo temporarily increase the portfolio caps applicable to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, to provide the necessary financing to curb foreclosures by facilitating the refinancing of at-risk subprime borrowers into safe, affordable loans, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2036110th CongressProtecting Access to Safe Mortgages Act2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2114110th CongressAmerican Home Ownership Preservation Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2169110th CongressPROMISE Act2 filingsthrough 2008
H.Con.Res. 244110th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.1 filingthrough 2008
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.
Katherine Childress
Katherine Childress
4 filingsthrough 2008
Brett ShogrenThe Washington GroupCovered position: Policy Dir, Ofc of the House Majority Leader3 filingsthrough 2008
