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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
24 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$700K on those filings
Foreign Relations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1265111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 506111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1265112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.5 filingsthrough 2012
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Robert WalkerWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: Former Member, US House of Representatives9 filingsthrough 2013
ROBERT CRAMER jrWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: Former Member, US House of Representatives8 filingsthrough 2013
Rd FolsomWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLC8 filingsthrough 2013
Timothy Farrell HanneganWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: GAO
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2014
Wexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLC
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: hong-kong-trade-development-council.
$370K
fees reported
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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.
FOR
5 filings
$370K 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.
S. 506112th CongressSafe Schools Improvement Act of 2011
5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1607110th CongressCurrency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1923113th CongressTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the eligibility of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for designation for participation in the visa waiver program for certain visitors to the United States.3 filingsthrough 2013
S. 744113th CongressBorder Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act3 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 1265113th CongressTo require the continuation of tuition assistance programs for members of the Armed Forces for the remainder of fiscal year 2013.1 filingthrough 2013
S. 506113th CongressVolunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
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.
7 filings
through 2012
Ronna A FreibergLegislative Strategies, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
Larry E SmithLegislative Strategies, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2009
Chad WolfWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLCCovered position: US Senate; DHS/TSA; DOT/TSA2 filingsthrough 2013
Anne WexlerWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2008
Anne L WalkerWexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLC1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 4 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
Wexler | Walker, a Unit of HILL+KNOWLTON Strategies, LLC
