9 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2010 · latest filed Jan 20, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$300K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$300K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$300K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
7 filings
$300K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 27 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1451110th CongressQuality Reform Expansion and Savings Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4690111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1619111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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: king-county-washington.
7 filings
$300K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Housing
HOU
5 filings
$200K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
3 filings
$150K on those filings
Veterans
VET
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$50K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
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.
110th Congress
Saving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 2008
2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6364110th CongressPuget Sound Recovery Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7110110th CongressJob Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 760110th CongressFilipino Veterans Equity Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1315110th CongressVeterans' Benefits Enhancement Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2191110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3380110th CongressSaving Energy Through Public Transportation Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 3962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 787111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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 2009
Covered positions · 1 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
