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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
40 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$280K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4173111th 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Thomas J DowneyDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.Covered position: Member of Congress, 1974-199224 filingsthrough 2015
Robert D. LehmanWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: CoS Portman 11-15; CoS OMB 06-07; CoS USTR 05-06; CoS Rep Portman 03-05; CoS Rep Combest 93-03; LD/LA Rep Combest; Lobby Spec. House Clerk 88-8918 filingsthrough 2020
Raymond McgrathDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.Covered position: Member of Congress, 1980-199218 filingsthrough 2014
Sloan RappoportDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc. Sr Policy Advisor, Sec'y of Commerce 2001-2003
The filings
The 20 most recent of 53 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: lazard-group-llc.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Covered position:
17 filingsthrough 2014
John Peter OlingerDowney Mcgrath Group, Inc.8 filingsthrough 2015
Lawrence WillcoxCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Staff Dir., Senate Republican Policy Committee;
Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Sen. Jon Kyl;
Tax Counsel, Rep. Sam Johnson.3 filingsthrough 2018
Christopher JavensCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel, Sen. Grassley, Sen. Finance Comm.3 filingsthrough 2018
Timothy MartinWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: GC/Senior LA Rep. Tipton (14-15); LD Rep. Davis (15-17)3 filingsthrough 2018
Jonathan Raphael YarowskyWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPCovered position: GCHouse Jud. Com. 82-95; SAC Pres 95-983 filingsthrough 2016
Richard GrafmeyerCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: JCT Deputy Chief of Staff;
Sen. Finance Comm. Deputy Staff Dir. (Rep);
Sen. Finance Comm.Tax Counsel (Rep).2 filingsthrough 2017
Jacob L. TrioloCapitol Tax Partners, LLPCovered position: Tax Counsel/Legislative Director, Rep. Todd Young;
Staff Member, Sen. Small Business Comm.;
Staff Asst/Legislative Corresp., Sen. Gordon Smith.2 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 11 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
