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
24 filings
$510K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
20 filings
$400K on those filings
Roads/Highway
ROD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 17 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 915111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2410113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20145 filingsthrough 2014
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Fowler WestMercury Public Affairs, LLC13 filingsthrough 2014
Max SandlinMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Member of Congress12 filingsthrough 2014
Ed KutlerMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Asst. Ofc of the Speaker, House Rep. Whip12 filingsthrough 2014
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: martin-county-board-of-county-commissioners.
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.
12 filings
$270K 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.
H.R. 2609113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4800113th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20153 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1245113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 5325112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
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.
Clark & Weinstock
Covered position: Asst. House Republican Whip
11 filingsthrough 2011
Christopher Robert DarcyClark & WeinstockCovered position: LA, Rep. Ron Marlenee8 filingsthrough 2011
Brett ShogrenThe Washington GroupCovered position: Policy Dir, Ofc of the House Majority Leader5 filingsthrough 2008
Paul LoboThe Washington GroupCovered position: Legislative Asst, Congresswoman Susan Molinari5 filingsthrough 2008
Carlos BonillaThe Washington GroupCovered position: Special Asst to President Bush, Economic Policy5 filingsthrough 2008
Susan MolinariThe Washington GroupCovered position: Member of Congress (NY-13)5 filingsthrough 2008
Eugene PatroneThe Washington GroupCovered position: Leg Director, Congressman Vito Fosella5 filingsthrough 2008
James NooneThe Washington Group5 filingsthrough 2008
Marissa MitrovichThe Washington Group5 filingsthrough 2008
Kevin AllenThe Washington Group5 filingsthrough 2008
Kimberley FarmerThe Washington Group5 filingsthrough 2008
Tonya SaundersThe Washington GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Jay Rockefeller, IV5 filingsthrough 2008
Fowler WestThe Washington Group5 filingsthrough 2008
G John O'HanlonThe Washington Group5 filingsthrough 2008
Melissa M EdwardsThe Washington GroupCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Comm on Gov't Affairs5 filingsthrough 2008
G John O'HanlonClark & Weinstock3 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 11 of 20 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
