4 filings from 1 registrant · 2008 · latest filed Jan 6, 2009
Reported on its behalf
$40K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$40K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$40K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 6081110th CongressHeroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3996110th CongressTax Increase Prevention Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: morgan-lewis.
110th Congress
Defenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 2007
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.
through 2008
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Dave KoshgarianErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
John L DoneyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Amy SwongerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Intern Rep. Walter Jones (summer 1995)4 filingsthrough 2008
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Counsel-H.Com Natural Resources (87-08)4 filingsthrough 2008
Tim UrbanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
William HeynigerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2008
Bruce GatesErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 18 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
