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.
S. 2835115th CongressPRINT Act3 filingsthrough 2018
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.
LOUIS HENGEN jrBalch & Bingham, LLPCovered position: Aide to Senator Trent Lott13 filingsthrough 2016
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: kruger-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.
8 filings
$260K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
3 filings
$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.
Covered position:
5 filingsthrough 2019
Brian BallardBallard Partners4 filingsthrough 2018
Brian D SmithCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Assistant to the Special Counsel, Office of Counsel to the President, White House3 filingsthrough 2018
Peter LichtenbaumCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; Acting Undersecretary of Commerce for Industry and Security; Acting Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade3 filingsthrough 2018
Shara AranoffCovington & Burling LLPCovered position: U.S. International Trade Commission, Commissioner and Chairman; U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Senior International Trade Counsel to Senator Max Baucus (D-MT); Office of the General Counsel, U.S. International Trade Commission, Attorney Advisor3 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 7 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
