37 filings from 3 registrants · 2010–2015 · latest filed Feb 13, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$2.8M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
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.
H.R. 1573112th CongressTo facilitate implementation of title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, promote regulatory coordination, and avoid market disruption.6 filingsthrough 2012
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: lch-clearnet-group-limited.
$220K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
CDT
16 filings
$960K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
4 filings
$130K 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.
112th Congress
Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act
4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4413113th CongressCustomer Protection and End User Relief Act1 filingthrough 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.
John A AndersonRich Feuer AndersonCovered position: Sr. Pol. Advsr, Sen. Crapo; Leg. Asst, Rep. Metcalf9 filingsthrough 2014
Robert GrinerRich Feuer AndersonCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. David Phelps8 filingsthrough 2012
Michael K TorreyTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: LA for Senators Kassebaum, Dole and Frahm ; ; Asst. to Commissioner David Spears, CFTC ; ; Dpty. Asst. Secretary, Congressional Affairs, USDA ; ; Dpty. Chief of Staff, Secs Veneman and Johanns, USDA7 filingsthrough 2014
Rory CunninghamLCH.CLEARNET Group Limited7 filingsthrough 2013
Sarah Elizabeth HubbartTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)6 filingsthrough 2014
Christy SeyfertTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Senior Professional Staff, Senate Ag Committee ; ; Professional Staff, House Ag Committee ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff and L.D., Rep. Max Burns ; ; Subcommittee Staff Dir. & Legislative Staff, House ; ; Legislative assistant, Rep. Saxby Chambliss ; ; (no Senate lobbying contacts until ban expired)5 filingsthrough 2013
Tara SmithTorrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)3 filingsthrough 2014
Michael ThompsonRich Feuer AndersonCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Office of Sen. Brownba2 filingsthrough 2010
Mitchell FeuerLCH.CLEARNET Group Limited1 filingthrough 2015
Peter RichLCH.CLEARNET Group Limited1 filingthrough 2015
John AndersonLCH.CLEARNET Group Limited1 filingthrough 2015
Natasha Clare De TeranLCH.CLEARNET Group Limited1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 8 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
