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.
Defense
DEF
16 filings
$1.1M 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Brett ThompsonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD, Sen. J. Talent18 filingsthrough 2013
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US Department of Housing and Urban Devel18 filingsthrough 2013
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress17 filingsthrough 2012
Jesse AppletonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Sr. Advisor, US Treasury
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: hp-enterprise-services.
14 filingsthrough 2012
Paul SweetMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: COS, Rep. Vic Fazio9 filingsthrough 2010
Jeffrey L TaylorMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: COS, Rep D McIntosh; LA, Sen Humphrey; HHS9 filingsthrough 2010
Jennifer OlsonMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: LD & LA, Sen. Lindsey Graham; LA, Rep. Kolbe5 filingsthrough 2012
Greg LanklerMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof. Staff Member, House Approps. Committee4 filingsthrough 2012
William LutherMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 9 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
