47 filings from 3 registrants · 2014–2023 · latest filed Jan 15, 2024
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$800K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$410K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
46 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
31 filings
$810K 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. 10115th CongressFinancial CHOICE Act of 20171 filingthrough 2017
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.
Clifford RobertiDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Randy Neugebauer; Subcommittee Policy Director for Housing and Insurance, Committee on Financial Services.9 filingsthrough 2017
Steven R PhillipsDla Piper LLP (US)Covered position: Legislative Director, Sen. Jesse Helms.9 filingsthrough 2016
Douglas NappiFederal Hall Policy Advisors, LLCCovered position: General Counsel, Counsel US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs
The filings
The 20 most recent of 47 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: modern-markets-initiative.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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
7 filingsthrough 2020
Christopher MatthiesenFederal Hall Policy Advisors, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Kosmas; LD, Rep. Lampson; Staff Assistant, Minority Leader Pelosi7 filingsthrough 2020
Clifford Nmn RobertiFederal Hall Policy Advisors, LLCCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff, Rep. Randy Neugebauer; Senior Policy Advisor, House Committee on Financial Services; Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Financial Services.7 filingsthrough 2020
Bruce ThompsonDla Piper LLP (US)5 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
