23 filings from 1 registrant · 2015–2020 · latest filed Jan 21, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
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.
Health Issues
HCR
23 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
23 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 100 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1854116th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
S. 9116th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20198 filingsthrough 2020
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: itg-brands-llc.
19 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
15 filings
$940K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
5 filings
$130K 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.
115th Congress
FDA Deeming Authority Clarification Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 563115th CongressUnaffordable Care Act8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 294115th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 2339116th CongressProtecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 20207 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1848114th CongressTo amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit employment of children in tobacco-related agriculture by deeming such employment as oppressive child labor.7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2423114th CongressTo amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to valid scientific evidence.7 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 25114th CongressFairTax Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 662114th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 919114th CongressCHIP Extension and Improvement Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1129114th CongressTobacco Tax and Enforcement Reform Act7 filingsthrough 2016
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:
10 filingsthrough 2017
Tim HutchinsonGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator (1997-2003), U.S. Congressman (1993-1997)9 filingsthrough 2018
Robert MangasGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff (1995-1998) & Counsel (1987-1994), Senator Wendell Ford5 filingsthrough 2016
Robert MaplesGreenberg Traurig, LLP5 filingsthrough 2016
