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: merrill-lynch.
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.
BUD
4 filings
$604K on those filings
Retirement
RET
4 filings
$604K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$604K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$210K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
3 filings
$454K 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
Climate MATTERS Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 698110th CongressIndustrial Bank Holding Company Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3036110th CongressLieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1766110th CongressLow Carbon Economy Act of 20073 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.
Covered position:
5 filingsthrough 2008
Francis GrabErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
Richard MeltzerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
Steven ShimbergDla Piper LLP (US)5 filingsthrough 2008
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
Jonathon JonesTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Carper5 filingsthrough 2008
Andrea J GrantDla Piper LLP (US)5 filingsthrough 2008
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
Dave KoshgarianErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
John L DoneyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2008
Amy SwongerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Intern - Rep. Walter Jones - Summer 19955 filingsthrough 2008
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Counsel-H.Com. on Natural Resources (87-08)5 filingsthrough 2008
