19 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Dec 31, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$860K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$860K
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.
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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
16 filings
$850K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
16 filings
$850K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20144 filingsthrough 2013
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: ihs-inc.
12 filings
$660K on those filings
Defense
DEF
12 filings
$570K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
7 filings
$410K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$260K 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.
113th Congress
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2014
4 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1197113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20144 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1429113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3216112th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4310113th CongressReady to Work Act2 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 5855113th CongressTo require a report on procurement supply chain vulnerabilities within the Department of Defense.2 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3216113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3254113th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3516111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1947113th CongressFederal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs 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.
Dennis HastertDickstein Shapiro LLPCovered position: Speaker of the House (1999-2007)4 filingsthrough 2014
Albert WynnDickstein Shapiro LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman (1992-2008)3 filingsthrough 2013
Mark PaolettaDickstein Shapiro LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Robert MaplesDickstein Shapiro LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Robert MangasDickstein Shapiro LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff for Senator Wendell Ford (1995-1998)LD, Counsel, and Leg Asst for Sen. Wendell Ford (1987-1994)1 filingthrough 2009
Kelli TomasuloThe Pma Group1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
