Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Gatx Rail
Illinois
13 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2012 · latest filed Apr 19, 2012
Reported on its behalf
$390K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$390K
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.
Railroads
RRR
13 filings
$390K 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
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1789 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
- H.R. 1806 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
- H.R. 233 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
- H.R. 272 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- WILLIAM FERGUSON jr The Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a13 filingsthrough 2012
- WILLIAM ANDREW SETH iii The Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a12 filingsthrough 2011
- James David Nichols The Ferguson GroupCovered position: n/a3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: gatx-rail.