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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
10 filings
$500K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
10 filings
$500K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1705112th CongressTransparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2401112th CongressTransparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
DANIEL C TATE jrCapitol SolutionsCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Dept. of EnergyLegislative Director, Rep. W.J. Billy TauzinLegislative Assistant, Rep. W.J. Billy Tauzin11 filingsthrough 2012
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: generators-for-clean-air-gca.
5 filings
$260K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$70K 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.
4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2729111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 482112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S.J.Res. 26111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 910112th CongressEnergy Tax Prevention Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 493112th CongressSBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2011
S. 2995111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1833112th CongressFair Compliance Act of 20111 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 2998111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 2877111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3072111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 3 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
