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
68 filings
$2.7M 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. 3905111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4514111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2242112th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4213111th Congress
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Joseph MikrutCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Legislative Counsel - US Treasury64 filingsthrough 2025
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: hallmark-cards.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5486111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5450110th CongressModernize Our Bookkeeping In the Law for Employee's Cell Phone Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3049110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the capital gains and dividends rate permanent and to provide estate tax relief and reform, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3284110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the estate tax as in effect in 2009, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 filingthrough 2025
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 1105114th CongressDeath Tax Repeal Act of 20151 filingthrough 2015
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 4853111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3793111th 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.
17 filingsthrough 2013
William Reid MckenneyCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Ways & Means Over Sub17 filingsthrough 2013
Richard GrafmeyerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, JCT10 filingsthrough 2011
Christopher JavensCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. Grassley, Sen. Finance Comm.9 filingsthrough 2011
James DennisCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen Robb - Counsel, Sen Bingaman4 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
