20 filings from 3 registrants · 2010–2021 · latest filed Jan 20, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$440K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$440K
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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
13 filings
$340K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.4 filingsthrough 2021
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.
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: national-alliance-of-forest-owners-nafo.
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.
TAX
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 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.
Rachel Strong
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
3 filingsthrough 2021
Crystal CoonCoffee Group3 filingsthrough 2017
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)2 filingsthrough 2021
Stephen Adam FrancisErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 2001-11 Deputy Chief of Staff to Rep. Pat Tiberi2 filingsthrough 2021
ROGER MARTELLA jrSidley Austin LLPCovered position: General Counsel, U.S. Environ Protection Agency1 filingthrough 2010
James ColemanSidley Austin LLPCovered position: N/A1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 5 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
