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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
48 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
35 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.2 filingsthrough 2017
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: motion-picture-association-of-america-inc.
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.
TAX
19 filings
$843K on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
4 filings
$23K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
4 filings
$23K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$23K on those filings
Banking
BAN
4 filings
$23K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
4 filings
$23K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$23K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
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.
114th Congress
Conserving Our Reefs and Livelihoods Act of 2016
2 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1946114th CongressTax Relief Extension Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2260114th CongressLong-Term SCORE Act2 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 5771113th CongressTax Increase Prevention Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
S. 2260113th CongressEXPIRE Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
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:
18 filingsthrough 2017
Stephen ReplogleCove StrategiesCovered position: Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Dept of CommerceSenior Policy Advisor, Senate Republican Conference18 filingsthrough 2017
