24 filings from 2 registrants · 2013–2022 · latest filed Feb 2, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$500K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$500K
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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
8 filings
$130K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1693115th CongressStop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
S. 4632116th CongressOnline Content Policy Modernization Act2 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Markham EricksonSteptoe LLP12 filingsthrough 2018
E. Ashley HoyMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Director of Coalitions, Senate Republican Conference, Office of the Vice Chairman; Director of Coalitions, Office of the Minority Whip, Roy Blunt; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Sue Myrick7 filingsthrough 2021
Anderson R HeimanMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Senior Advisor for Technology and Trade, International Competitiveness and Innovation Advisor, Tax Policy Advisor, Tax Policy Analyst, Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Democratic Staff7 filingsthrough 2021
CHARLES STEWART VERDERY jrMonument Advocacy
The filings
The 20 most recent of 24 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: internet-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.
5 filings
$90K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
4 filings
$50K 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.
Covered position: Assistant Secretary and Consultant, Department of Homeland Security; General Counsel, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Don Nickles; Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; Counsel, Senator John Warner; Lead Staffer, Sen. Republicans High Tech Task Force
7 filingsthrough 2021
Erik StallmanSteptoe LLP7 filingsthrough 2014
Thomas Allen HawksMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Minority Staff Director, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Aide, U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS)2 filingsthrough 2021
Joseph B HoeferMonument Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2020
Kathryn Christensen MillsMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, Deputy Assistant Director for Congressional Relations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Senior Legislative Counsel, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)1 filingthrough 2020
James BarnetteSteptoe LLPCovered position: General Counsel, House Energy and Commerce1 filingthrough 2015
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
