11 filings from 3 registrants · 2011–2021 · latest filed Jan 20, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$275K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$275K
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.
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: mentor.
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.
LAW
8 filings
$230K 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
Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2013
3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2323112th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1094113th CongressStrengthening America's Schools Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
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.
4 filingsthrough 2021
Sarah Koch NealRasky Partners, Inc.4 filingsthrough 2021
Michael McsherryMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US Department of Labor, HUD3 filingsthrough 2013
Alan EliasMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: Prof Staff Sen Homeland Sec & Gov Affs3 filingsthrough 2013
Jonathan SchwantesMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: General Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee3 filingsthrough 2012
Jonathan SchwantesClark & Weinstock3 filingsthrough 2011
Deirdre StachClark & WeinstockCovered position: Budget Analyst, House Science CommitteeLegislative Director, Hon. Robert WalkerLegislative Assistant, Hon. Robert WalkerLegislative Correspondent, Hon. Robert Walker3 filingsthrough 2011
Sandra K StuartClark & WeinstockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Hon. Vic Fazio3 filingsthrough 2011
Covered positions · 9 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
