Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Karsten Mfg
Arizona
40 filings from 1 registrant · 2013–2022 · latest filed Jan 16, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$190K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$190K
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.
Manufacturing
MAN
15 filings
$160K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
13 filings
$135K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 4923 114th CongressAmerican Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
- H.R. 2708 113th CongressUnited States Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20133 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Michael Pieper Michael PieperCovered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. House20 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 1 of 1 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 40 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: karsten-mfg.