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: merced-county-association-of-governments.
fees reported
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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
33 filings
$202K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
29 filings
$166K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
28 filings
$146K on those filings
Housing
HOU
25 filings
$173K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
20 filings
$120K on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
18 filings
$100K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
12 filings
$56K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
10 filings
$64K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
9 filings
$90K on those filings
Education
EDU
9 filings
$56K 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
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013
3 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2322112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2323112th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2465112th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3295112th CongressDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3182110th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 934112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the corporate rate of tax to 18 percent.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5850111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3635111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3644111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3686111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Laura Morgan-KesslerVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Senator Dianne Feinstein16 filingsthrough 2012
H Stewart Van ScoyocVan Scoyoc Associates14 filingsthrough 2012
Christopher TownsendTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: President13 filingsthrough 2023
James PetersonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Director11 filingsthrough 2017
Kristen CarpentierTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate9 filingsthrough 2015
Cindy BoydTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate8 filingsthrough 2015
Jessica FernandezTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate8 filingsthrough 2015
Bryan LanzaTownsend Public Affairs8 filingsthrough 2014
Jonathan B JacksonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate7 filingsthrough 2020
Dana DebeaumontTownsend Public Affairs6 filingsthrough 2013
Samantha MacielTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Sen. Kamala Harris District Representative5 filingsthrough 2024
Joseph MeloTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jerry McNerney, PA3 filingsthrough 2024
Zachary ComminsTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate2 filingsthrough 2018
Justin Maxwell PerkinsVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Staff Asst, Senate Committee on Rules and Admin1 filingthrough 2012
Covered positions · 14 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
