15 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2009 · latest filed Nov 18, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$830K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$660K
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.
H.R. 1498110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters.8 filingsthrough 2008
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: mattel-inc.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
TAX
7 filings
$500K 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.
110th Congress
Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act of 2007
8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 321110th CongressCurrency Harmonization Initiative Through Neutralizing Action Act of 20058 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 782110th CongressFair Currency Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1607110th CongressCurrency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1677110th CongressCurrency Reform and Financial Markets Access Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2045110th CongressCPSC Reform Act of 20078 filingsthrough 2008
S. 571110th CongressA bill to withdraw normal trade relations treatment from, and apply certain provisions of title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 to, the products of the People's Republic of China.8 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2138110th CongressInvestment in America Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7060110th CongressRenewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3335110th CongressJobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
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.
5 filingsthrough 2009
THOMAS F ST MAXENS iiST.MAXENS & Company5 filingsthrough 2009
David E JohnsonTiber Creek Group4 filingsthrough 2008
Peter MadiganTiber Creek Group4 filingsthrough 2008
Jeffrey PeckTiber Creek Group4 filingsthrough 2008
Michael BolandTiber Creek Group1 filingthrough 2008
Leonard SwinehartTiber Creek Group1 filingthrough 2008
Cristina KrasowTiber Creek Group1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
