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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
51 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
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
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2834110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
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-association-of-publicly-traded-partnerships.
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
110th Congress
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the exception from the treatment of publicly traded partnerships as corporations for partnerships with passive-type income shall not apply to partnerships directly or indirectly deriving income from providing investment adviser and related asset management services.
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.
9 filings
through 2014
Robert A RussellThe Ingram Group LLC9 filingsthrough 2014
Kyle SimmonsThe Ingram Group LLC9 filingsthrough 2014
Patrick Joseph HoltenWhite & Case LLP5 filingsthrough 2010
Aron GriffinCarmen Group IncorporatedCovered position: Prof. Staff, House Education and Labor4 filingsthrough 2010
David KunzCarmen Group IncorporatedCovered position: Chief Counsel, PHMSA, US DOT3 filingsthrough 2010
Geoffrey B LanningWhite & Case LLP3 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
