44 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2019 · latest filed Jan 21, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$2.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.4M
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
17 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
7 filings
$430K on those filings
Banking
BAN
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 743113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
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: hilton.
6 filings
$420K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$150K 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
Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1354113th CongressJOLT Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1479111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1728111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
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
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.
15 filingsthrough 2014
Thomas H QuinnVenable LLP11 filingsthrough 2011
Jeffrey KurzweilVenable LLP11 filingsthrough 2011
Michael J FerrellVenable LLP11 filingsthrough 2011
EARL RAY BEEMAN iiiVenable LLPCovered position: Legislation Counsel, Joint Committee on Taxation8 filingsthrough 2011
Wallace E ChristnerVenable LLP6 filingsthrough 2010
Birch E BayhVenable LLP6 filingsthrough 2010
William J DonovanVenable LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
Suzanne F GarwoodVenable LLP4 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 5 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
