20 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Jan 21, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$105K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$105K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
13 filings
$70K on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
9 filings
$50K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: makah-tribal-council.
MAR
8 filings
$40K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$35K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$20K on those filings
Education
EDU
4 filings
$20K on those filings
Defense
DEF
4 filings
$20K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$15K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
3 filings
$15K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$10K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
2 filings
$10K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
2 filings
$10K 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
A bill to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.
1 filingthrough 2012
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 725111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3636111th 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.
Judith HafnerDenny Miller Associates
1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
