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.
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
9 filings
$420K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
5 filings
$240K on those filings
Health Issues
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: houchens-industries.
HCR
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$40K 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.
115th Congress
An 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
S. 3042115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20181 filingthrough 2018
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
3 filingsthrough 2020
Jeff McmillenAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff dir, H Ways & Means Subcomm on Sel Rev Measures, Mar 01-Mar 04; staff, H Ways & Means Subcom on Oversight, Jun 98-Mar 012 filingsthrough 2017
Brendan DunnAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Staff Mbr and Leg Asst to Sen Hatch Judiciary Comm and Sub-Comm, Apr04-May07, Aug07-May08; Special Counsel to Sen Hatch Fin Comm, Jan 11-Dec 12; Policy Adv and Counsel to Sen McConnell Majority Leader staff, Dec 12-May18.1 filingthrough 2018
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
