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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
8 filings
$280K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
8 filings
$150K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6124110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20082 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Scott ParsonsDelta Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, CFTC; LA, Congressman Pickering12 filingsthrough 2011
Graham HarperDelta Strategy GroupCovered position: LA, Ag Cmte; LA, Approps Cmte; Liason, CFTC6 filingsthrough 2011
Jim NewsomeDelta Strategy GroupCovered position: Chairman, CFTC5 filingsthrough 2011
David LugarQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)4 filingsthrough 2008
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: mf-global.
$200K
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
Harriet James MelvinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Professional Staff Rep. Charles Hatcher3 filingsthrough 2008
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)3 filingsthrough 2008
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)3 filingsthrough 2008
Kevin D KayesQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: ChfCounSenReid,StaffDirSenCSTCom,AstParlSen3 filingsthrough 2008
John David HoppeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: StaffDir/CoSSenLott,CoS RepJKemp&SenDCoats3 filingsthrough 2008
Marc LampkinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Staff/CounE&LCom,GCounHRC,ConSecCvrdll3 filingsthrough 2008
Jeffrey ConnaughtonQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: SpcAsst to Chmn SenJudCom,SpcAsst to WHCoun2 filingsthrough 2008
