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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
376 filings
$78.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
349 filings
$79.5M on those filings
Agriculture
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 219 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 200817 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2834110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services.15 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
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: managed-funds-association.
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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.
AGR
89 filings
$68.6M on those filings
Banking
BAN
70 filings
$3.2M on those filings
Bankruptcy
BNK
43 filings
$11.2M on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
21 filings
$630K on those filings
Retirement
RET
13 filings
$13.1M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
10 filings
$410K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
9 filings
$400K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
5 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
3 filings
$50K 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.
14 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1068111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.13 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1935111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.13 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3970110th CongressTax Reduction and Reform Act of 200712 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2199110th CongressOffshore Deferred Compensation Reform Act of 200712 filingsthrough 2008
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 2018.11 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3933111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.11 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.11 filingsthrough 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.
James Ryan
Avoq, LLC
46 filingsthrough 2022
Thomas J KeatingThe Ob-C Group, LLC46 filingsthrough 2020
Robert G StevensonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Bill Frist Communications Director46 filingsthrough 2020
Robert H MarshThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Spec.Asst.to Pres.Geo.W.Bush, Leg.Affair46 filingsthrough 2020
Patricia A NelsonThe Ob-C Group, LLCCovered position: Former Staffer, Committee on Ways & Means46 filingsthrough 2020
Lawrence F O'Brien, IiiThe Ob-C Group, LLC46 filingsthrough 2020
David M LandersManaged Funds AssociationCovered position: LA, Rep. Elton Gallegly44 filingsthrough 2020
