16 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2014 · latest filed Oct 20, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.1M
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.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
16 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
$940K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3097113th CongressCongressional Tribute to Constance Baker Motley Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3240113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3936
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Alexander David LurieDentons US LLPCovered position: COS, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)13 filingsthrough 2014
Meredith Garrett IrvinDentons US LLP11 filingsthrough 2012
Mary Pat LawrenceDentons US LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Senate Intelligence Committee7 filingsthrough 2014
Margeaux PlaistedDentons US LLPCovered position: Assistant, Assistant to the Pres., Leg Affairs, EOP7 filingsthrough 2014
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: hillshire-brands-corporation.
12 filings
$820K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$680K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
4 filings
$240K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3097112th CongressRenewable Fuel Standard Flexibility Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4432113th CongressSafe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5209111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2749112th CongressNanotechnology Advancement and New Opportunities Act1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 3936112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on Acid Yellow 137.1 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 4173112th CongressPrevent Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons and Stop War Through Diplomacy Act1 filingthrough 2011
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.
Kathryn L AndersonDentons US LLP6 filingsthrough 2014
Erin BookDentons US LLP6 filingsthrough 2011
Gary L GoldbergDentons US LLPCovered position: LD, U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek (D-FL) ; ; LD and Counsel, U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) ; ; LD and Counsel, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)6 filingsthrough 2011
Mike McnamaraDentons US LLP6 filingsthrough 2011
Michael ZolandzDentons US LLP6 filingsthrough 2011
Mathew LapinskiDentons US LLP4 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 4 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
