23 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jun 12, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$622K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$622K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Telecommunications
TEC
18 filings
$602K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
13 filings
$570K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5788111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5788110th CongressHalting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 658112th CongressFAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Carl W BiersackBalch & Bingham, LLPCovered position: Leg. Assistant and Leg. Director - Sen. Trent Lott15 filingsthrough 2012
MICHAEL J DAVIS iiBalch & Bingham, LLPCovered position: Field Representative - Sen. Jeff Sessions14 filingsthrough 2012
ERNEST C BAYNARD ivMeridian Hill Strategies Formerly Known as "Ernest C. Baynard IV"Covered position: Comm Dir Reps. Forbes, Honda 1999-20027 filingsthrough 2011
William F StiersBalch & Bingham, LLP Leg. Dir. - Reps. Wm. Dickinson and Terry Everett
The filings
The 20 most recent of 23 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: inflight-passenger-communications-coalition.
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.
COM
12 filings
$550K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
12 filings
$550K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
2 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.
4 filings
through 2012
S. 223112th CongressFAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act4 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Covered position:
4 filingsthrough 2008
Robert ZuckerWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: LD, Rep. Rothman; LA,Rep. Evans (IL); Sen. Lautenberg2 filingsthrough 2016
Carl ChidlowWinning Strategies Washington2 filingsthrough 2016
Alex DelpizzoWinning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: LD/LA, Rep. Ferguson; Transportation and Infrastructure Cmte2 filingsthrough 2010
