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
28 filings
$660K 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. 4706115th CongressMusic Modernization Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2334115th CongressMusic Modernization Act of 20186 filingsthrough 2018
Dan RenbergArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: Member, Board of Directors, Ex-Im Bank; Leg. Director and26 filingsthrough 2018
Paul FaklerArentfox Schiff LLP20 filingsthrough 2018
Philip EnglishArentfox Schiff LLP5 filingsthrough 2018
Paul FaklerOrrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP4 filingsthrough 2018
Brian RonholmArentfox Schiff LLP Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture (2011 - 2017); Legislative Assistant, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (2006 - 2011)
The filings
The 20 most recent of 38 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: music-choice.
fees reported
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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.
115th Congress
Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act
4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2823115th CongressMusic Modernization Act4 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4079113th CongressSongwriter Equity Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1836115th CongressFair Play Fair Pay Act of 20172 filingsthrough 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.
Covered position:
2 filingsthrough 2018
Alex ManningArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: Staff Dir., Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection & Sec Tech Subcomm, House Homeland Sec Comm (2013-2015); Leg. Dir., Rep. McCaul (2007-2011); Staff, House Govt Reform Comm (2006-2007); Leg. Corr., Leg. Asst., Leg. Dir., Rep. McCotter (2004-2006)1 filingthrough 2018
Sonja NesbitArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: Deputy Staff Director, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means (2009-2013); Professional Staff, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means (2002-2009)1 filingthrough 2018
