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.
Health Issues
HCR
12 filings
$680K 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. 4229115th CongressProtecting HOME Access Act of 20175 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Bill PaxonAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Mbr of Cong, 1990-999 filingsthrough 2013
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 019 filingsthrough 2013
Brian Arthur PomperAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Ch Intl Trade Cnsl, Intl Trade Cnsl, Senate Fin9 filingsthrough 2013
Kelly MaxwellAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Borski, Jan 98-Jan 03
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: hoveround.
Covered position:
6 filingsthrough 2013
Geoff VerhoffAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Press aide, ofc of Sen Roth, Nov 00-Jan 01; press aide, S Fin Comm, Aug
99-Nov 005 filingsthrough 2018
Ryan EllisAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld5 filingsthrough 2018
Eli TomarAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld5 filingsthrough 2018
Joel JankowskyAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld3 filingsthrough 2012
John SiracusaAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld2 filingsthrough 2013