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.
Homeland Security
HOM
13 filings
$810K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 1111th 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
John SimmonsAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld11 filingsthrough 2011
Christopher John GoodeAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld11 filingsthrough 2011
Ian ShavitzAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Intrn to Sen. Sarbanes, Jan-May 19929 filingsthrough 2011
David CarlinAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld6 filingsthrough 2011
Vic FazioAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: kansas-bioscience-authority.
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.
1 filing
$140K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$140K 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.
6 filings
through 2011
Ryan VaartAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld5 filingsthrough 2009
L Andrew ZausnerDickstein Shapiro LLP4 filingsthrough 2009
