12 filings from 2 registrants · 2021–2023 · latest filed Oct 8, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$890K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$890K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
11 filings
$890K 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. 4130117th CongressAmerican Music Fairness Act of 20223 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 791118th CongressAmerican Music Fairness Act of 20232 filingsthrough 2023
Matthew CuttsSquire Patton Boggs8 filingsthrough 2022
David SchnittgerSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Dep. Chief of Staff, Speaker Boehner, 2006-2015; Press Secr., Rep. John Boehner 1994-2001; Communications Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce 2001-20058 filingsthrough 2022
Callie Fuselier HickoxSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Sen. Breaux staff 99-04, Sen. Reid staff 04-058 filingsthrough 2022
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: musicfirst.
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.
118th Congress
American Music Fairness Act
2 filingsthrough 2023
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.
Perrin BrownSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Aug. 2016-Dec. 2016, Press Intern to Sen. Joe Manchin
8 filingsthrough 2022
Matthew CuttsDentons US LLP6 filingsthrough 2023
Joe CrowleyDentons US LLPCovered position: Member of the United States House of Representatives, 1999-20196 filingsthrough 2023
Callie FuselierDentons US LLPCovered position: Staff of Senators John Breaux and Harry Reid6 filingsthrough 2023
Elaine HillgroveDentons US LLP6 filingsthrough 2023
Joe CrowleySquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 1999-2019, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives5 filingsthrough 2022
Rodney P EmerySquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2001-2003:COS to Rep. Diane E. Watson; 2009-2010:Dir, Cong Affairs, ITA; 2010-2013: Assoc Admin, GSA; 2013-2014 COS to Rep. Steven Horsford4 filingsthrough 2022
Bill ShusterSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2001-2019, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives3 filingsthrough 2022
Rebekah SungalaSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019: Leg. Assist., House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee; Sept. 2017-Jan. 2019: Scheduler/Executive Assistant; Congressman Bill Shuster; Nov. 2012-Aug. 2017: Sr. Field Rep., Congressman Bill Shuster3 filingsthrough 2022
Thomas S AndrewsSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2009-2013:SA/LC and Sr SA, Rep. John Boehner; 2013-2015:SA to Speaker John Boehner; 2015-2018: Dir of Member Services, Speaker Paul Ryan; 2018- 2021: SA to President for Leg Affairs, White House2 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 10 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
