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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$190K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
5 filings
$190K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 19 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1265112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1957112th CongressSmall Business Tax Equalization and Compliance Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
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: jcpenney.
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Apparel/Clothing Industry/Textiles
APP
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
1 filing
$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.
112th Congress
Work Opportunity Credit Improvements Act
3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3630112th CongressMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1832112th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 687112th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 7112th CongressAmerican Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3617111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1498111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1631111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3278111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
through 2010
Lesley ElliottC2 Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2010
ROLAND NELSON LITTERST jrC2 Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2010
G Hunter BatesC2 Group, LLC1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 1 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
