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.
Howard W WaltzmanMayer Brown LLPCovered position: 04-06: Chief Counsel, Telecom and Internet91-92: Staff Asst Press Secy, Cong Gary Franks95-96: Leg Asst, Comm Director, Cong. Sam Brownback96-01: Gen Counsel, Sen Sam Brownback01-04: Tel Counsel, US House Comm, Energy/Commerce14 filingsthrough 2014
Tim KurthHeartland Strategies LLCCovered position: Policy Advisor, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert14 filingsthrough 2014
Sharon RingleyTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff - Former Rep. Rick Boucher8 filingsthrough 2014
Elizabeth W FrazeeTwinlogic Strategies, LLP
The filings
The 20 most recent of 41 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: motorola-mobility.
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.
TRD
12 filings
$480K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
7 filings
$310K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
3 filings
$110K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
1 filing
$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.
113th Congress
Patent Abuse Reduction Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2639113th CongressPatent Litigation and Innovation Act of 20135 filingsthrough 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: Leg Counsel - Rep. Goodlatte/Press Sec House E&C
