9 filings from 2 registrants · 2010–2012 · latest filed Oct 18, 2012
Reported on its behalf
$95K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$95K
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.
Education
EDU
9 filings
$95K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
8 filings
$95K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5116112th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on zinc silicate phosphor.5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2596112th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20123 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: great-lakes-science-center.
8 filings
$95K 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.
112th Congress
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012
3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5116111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5781111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3636111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3729111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 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.
