32 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2016 · latest filed Jan 19, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$320K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$320K
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.
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
16 filings
$160K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$160K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 20 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3182110th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 2013
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: james-f-mcconnell-esq.
LAW
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
1 filing
$10K 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.
2 filings
through 2013
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3230110th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3258110th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3261110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20092 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2996111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 7322111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3182111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3230111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
