11 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2011 · latest filed Mar 31, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$250K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$250K
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.
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$250K on those filings
Education
EDU
4 filings
$110K on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1469111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 913111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1165111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1388111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filings
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-national-mentoring-partnership.
FAM
1 filing
$30K 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.
through 2009
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 277111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 545111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2611110th CongressMentoring America's Children Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 5606110th CongressChild Protection Improvements Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
S. 1812110th CongressMentoring America's Children Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
S. 2756110th CongressChild Protection Improvements Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
S. 3200110th CongressMentoring for All Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
S. 3605110th CongressCriminal History Background Checks Pilot Extension Act of 20081 filingthrough 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.
through 2009
Chris FishMcallister & Quinn, LLC3 filingsthrough 2008
James Christopher ConnerMcallister & Quinn, LLC2 filingsthrough 2011
