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: lorillard-tobacco-company.
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.
18 filings
$11.9M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$3.2M 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.
113th Congress
Stop Tobacco Smuggling in the Territories Act of 2013
7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 389113th CongressTransparency in Tobacco User Fees Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 792113th CongressTraditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 194113th CongressTobacco Tax Equity Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 39113th CongressHeLP America Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1578113th CongressTo amend section 1101 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide additional funds to permit additional individuals to enroll under the preexisting condition insurance program and expand eligibility, to be funded through a temporary increase in the cigarette tax, and for other purposes.6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1933113th CongressLet's Grow Act of 20136 filingsthrough 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.
Katie Phillips ReedDickstein Shapiro LLP
21 filingsthrough 2014
Tim HutchinsonDickstein Shapiro LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator20 filingsthrough 2014
