19 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Jan 18, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$800K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$800K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
18 filings
$780K on those filings
Education
EDU
18 filings
$760K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 42 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 756113th CongressCybersecurity Enhancement Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2013
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: george-mason-university-foundation.
12 filings
$520K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
8 filings
$370K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$90K 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.
113th Congress
Advancing America's Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Act of 2013
5 filingsthrough 2013
S. 21113th CongressCybersecurity and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2096112th CongressCybersecurity Enhancement Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2105112th CongressCybersecurity Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4413111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1353113th CongressCybersecurity Enhancement Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 3674112th CongressPRECISE Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1722111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5116111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5325111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5522111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 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.
