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.
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
20 filings
$140K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
11 filings
$160K on those filings
Transportation
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1512110th CongressTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for compensation to States incarcerating undocumented aliens charged with a felony or two or more misdemeanors.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 5613110th CongressProtecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
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: milwaukee-county.
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.
TRA
8 filings
$110K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Housing
HOU
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
6 filings
$60K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
5 filings
$50K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$50K 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
Restoring the Partnership for County Health Care Costs Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1314111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2209111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2847111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 1386110th CongressChild Support Protection Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 3963110th CongressChildren's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 7110110th CongressJob Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
H.R. 896110th CongressTo amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide for the pass through of all child support collected on behalf of families receiving assistance under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families.1 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.
7 filings
through 2009
Tom JosephParagon Government Relations7 filingsthrough 2009
John HillerMichael Best Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2025
William John MccoshenMichael Best Strategies LLC3 filingsthrough 2025
Covered positions · 1 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
