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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$260K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$120K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
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: marcellus-shale-coalition.
BUD
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
1 filing
$30K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
1 filing
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.
114th Congress
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016
1 filingthrough 2015
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.
Ned Rauch-ManninoRidge Policy Group
4 filingsthrough 2014
Rebekah CorbyRidge Policy GroupCovered position: May 2015 - Sept. 2015 Intern US House of Rep3 filingsthrough 2016
Robert K DawsonDawson & Associates, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2012
Don T RileyDawson & Associates, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2012
Joseph Richard CapkaDawson & Associates, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2012
Frank GraeffRidge Policy Group1 filingthrough 2011
Covered positions · 4 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
