39 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2012 · latest filed Oct 2, 2012
Reported on its behalf
$1.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.7M
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.
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: kraft-foods-global-inc.
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.
13 filings
$275K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
12 filings
$540K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
11 filings
$495K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$480K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
1 filing
$45K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
1 filing
$45K 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.
through 2012
H.R. 763112th CongressSafe and Efficient Transportation Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 25112th CongressSUGAR Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 685112th CongressFree Sugar Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3970110th CongressTax Reduction and Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 747112th CongressSafe and Efficient Transportation Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3705111th 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 2011
Jonathan TalismanCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy11 filingsthrough 2011
