30 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jun 4, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$680K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$680K
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.
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.
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: icf-international.
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.
3 filings
$110K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$70K on those filings
Education
EDU
2 filings
$70K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
2 filings
$70K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
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.
4 filingsthrough 2009
John J JaskotJones Walker, LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Paul Ferrier CambonJones Walker, LLPCovered position: Former COS to Congressman Jefferson4 filingsthrough 2008
R Christian JohnsenJones Walker, LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Richard A LegendreThe Livingston Group, LLCCovered position: Frmr Dist. Dir., Cong. Livingston4 filingsthrough 2008
