39 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2018 · latest filed Jan 22, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$990K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$990K
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
31 filings
$990K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
15 filings
$520K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2098111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5019111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
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: guardian-industries-inc.
ENV
5 filings
$160K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$30K 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
To update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4853111th 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.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Covered position: Intl trd asst for pol, S Fin Comm, 2002-05
10 filingsthrough 2016
Paul Gerard ScoleseAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld9 filingsthrough 2010
Bill PaxonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld6 filingsthrough 2014
John GillilandAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: asst to Sen Lincoln, Jun 01-Feb 032 filingsthrough 2013
