Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Mts Systems Corporation
Minnesota
6 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2021 · latest filed Jan 19, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$260K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$260K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
4 filings
$160K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$100K 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. 2764 110th CongressConsolidated Appropriations Act, 20084 filingsthrough 2008
- H.R. 5631 110th CongressTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1155 Seminole Trail in Charlottesville, Virginia, as the "Corporal Bradley T. Arms Post Office Building".4 filingsthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Eric Tober Johnston & Associates, LLC4 filingsthrough 2008
- J Bennett Johnston Johnston & Associates, LLC4 filingsthrough 2008
- Clayton Heil Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP DBA Taft Advisors LLC Fka (Taft, Stettinius & HoCovered position: Dep. Staff Dir & General Counsel, Senate Appropriations3 filingsthrough 2021
- MARTIN E EDWARDS iii Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP DBA Taft Advisors LLC Fka (Taft, Stettinius & Ho3 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 1 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: mts-systems-corporation.