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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
44 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
44 filings
$1.9M 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. 3350115th CongressTransparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act6 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 4706115th CongressMusic Modernization Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
Elizabeth W FrazeeTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Legislative Director and Counsel to Rep. Bob Goodlatte and Press Secretary to the House Energy and Commerce Committee46 filingsthrough 2026
Debra DixonTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Chief of staff to Rep. Xavier Becerra, legislative director to Rep. Becerra, legislative counsel to Becerra, Chief of Staff, Office of Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Education, Immigration Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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-innovation-consumers-coalition-mic.
spend on filings that named this issue
115th Congress
Music Modernization Act
2 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1551115th CongressOrrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act1 filingthrough 2018
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.
19 filingsthrough 2021
Sarah Dumont-MerchakTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Senate Banking Committee professional staff member, Rep. Bill McCollum, senior banking associate, Rep. Bob Barr, deputy legislative director, House Banking and Financial Services staff member11 filingsthrough 2018
Nicholas OrnsteinTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Thompson, Staff Assistant, Rep. Mike Thompson6 filingsthrough 2023
Alexandria FullingTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Clerk, House Committee on Energy and Commerce; Staff Asst., Rep. Fred Upton6 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
