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: merchants-payments-coalition-inc.
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.
17 filings
$1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
16 filings
$773K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
9 filings
$670K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$60K 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.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
9 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3156113th CongressResponsible Implementation of Flood Insurance Reform Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 627111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3881118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1838118th CongressCredit Card Competition Act of 20237 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2382111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 414111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3086110th CongressCredit Card Fair Fee Act of 20087 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7531118th CongressSecure Payments Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 8337118th CongressBank Resilience and Regulatory Improvement Act3 filingsthrough 2024
S. 4570118th CongressSecure Payments Act of 20243 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Cynthia Merifield TripodiThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: U.S. Senator Don Nickles, Legislative Assistant32 filingsthrough 2015
Doug BadgerThe Nickles Group, LLCCovered position: EOP, Dep. Asst. for Leg. Aff. / Spec. Asst. for Econ. PolicyUS Senate, Assistant Majority Leader, Chief of StaffUS Senate Rep. Policy Cmte, Staff Director / Asst. Staff Dir21 filingsthrough 2012
Jonathan YarowskySquire Patton Boggs12 filingsthrough 2011
