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.
Transportation
TRA
7 filings
$320K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
7 filings
$320K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 25 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2453110th CongressEnd Discriminatory State Taxes for Automobile Renters Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2881110th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20074 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-business-travel-association.
7 filings
$320K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
7 filings
$320K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
7 filings
$320K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
7 filings
$320K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
7 filings
$320K on those filings
Banking
BAN
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$70K 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.
110th Congress
FAST Redress Act of 2008
4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1300110th CongressAviation Investment and Modernization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2345110th CongressAmerican Infrastructure Investment and Improvement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1095111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 559111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 846111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 915111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 133111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 321111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 463111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2972110th CongressAviation Investment and Modernization Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1586111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
through 2010
Jessica Rae Herrera-FlaniganMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Director, House Committee on Homeland Security5 filingsthrough 2010
Lora RiesMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Department of Justice4 filingsthrough 2010
Jane AlonsoMonument Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2010
Scott CorleyMonument Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2010
Colin BortnerMonument Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2010
Andrew Channing MeehanMonument Advocacy2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 3 of 11 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
