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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
26 filings
$1.6M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 16 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 235114th CongressPermanent Internet Tax Freedom Act8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 431114th CongressInternet Tax Freedom Forever Act8 filingsthrough 2016
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-tax-freedom-act-coalition.
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.
113th Congress
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act
8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 31113th CongressPermanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3086113th CongressPermanent Internet Tax Freedom Act6 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1431113th CongressInternet Tax Freedom Forever Act6 filingsthrough 2014
S.Con.Res. 11114th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 644114th CongressTrade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2016
H.J.Res. 130113th CongressMaking further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2014
H.J.Res. 131113th CongressMaking further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes.1 filingthrough 2014
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.
Jerry DriscollForbes-TateCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Max Baucus14 filingsthrough 2016
Jeffrey ForbesForbes-TateCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee ; ; Chief of Staff, Senator Max Baucus ; ; Deputy Asst, Special Asst, Deputy Director EOP14 filingsthrough 2016
Patrick G. HeckCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: House Committee on Ways and Means:Assistant Counsel14 filingsthrough 2016
