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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$150K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
4 filings
$90K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3354115th CongressMake America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 20182 filingsthrough 2017
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.
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: lehigh-hanson-inc.
fees reported
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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.
BUD
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
2 filings
$20K 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.
3 filingsthrough 2020
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ; General Counsel/LD, Senator Smith3 filingsthrough 2020
Luke JohnsonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: ​SenPolicyAdv Sen Robert Bennett; Dep Dir of Policy&Programs BLM; ChfofStaff BLM; ChfofCong/Leg Affrs Bur of Reclamation; LegAst Sen Robert Bennett; LegStaff Hs Nat Res Comm; LegAst Rep James Hansen;LegCorr Sen Robert Bennett; Intern Rep James Hansen3 filingsthrough 2020
William McgrathBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Staff Dir., House Oversight and Gov Reform Subcomm on Interior, Energy and Environment3 filingsthrough 2020
James T WalshK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman3 filingsthrough 2017
W Dennis StephensK&L Gates, LLP2 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
