35 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jan 6, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$750K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$750K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
28 filings
$690K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
21 filings
$470K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3222110th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20082 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1922110th CongressTSA Acquisition Reform Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
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: international-copper-association.
fees reported
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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.
15 filings
$500K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
15 filings
$210K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
15 filings
$210K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
12 filings
$180K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
12 filings
$180K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
12 filings
$180K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
12 filings
$180K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
12 filings
$180K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
12 filings
$180K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
12 filings
$180K 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.
Ted KinghornKinghorn, Hilbert & Associates
12 filingsthrough 2011
Scott OwensLne Group10 filingsthrough 2016
Jason M SmithLne Group9 filingsthrough 2016
Nathen CausmanLne Group9 filingsthrough 2016
Joshua KramerLne Group9 filingsthrough 2016
Justin WeissLne Group7 filingsthrough 2016
Justin R MccaulleyLne Group7 filingsthrough 2014
Julia RegnerKinghorn, Hilbert & Associates7 filingsthrough 2009
