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.
Travel/Tourism
TOU
13 filings
$300K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$300K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3192111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1633111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Ryan SpanglerMonument Advocacy15 filingsthrough 2012
Andrew HowellMonument Advocacy15 filingsthrough 2012
Timothy PunkeMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Communications Director for Intl. Trade and Trade Counsel,Senate Finance Committee; Intl. Economic Policy Advisor,White House NEC; Clerk, Ninth Circuit Court of AppealsField Rep, Senator Al Simpson15 filingsthrough 2012
CHARLES STEWART VERDERY jrMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security; Consultant,Department of Homeland Security; General Counsel, AssistantSenate Majority Leader Don Nickles; Counsel, SenateCommittee on the Judiciary; Legislative Counsel, SenateCommittee on Rules and Administration; Legislative Counsel,Senator John Warner; Outside Consultant, House Committee onOversight; Lead Staffer Sen. Republican High Tech Task Force
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-center-for-asia-pacific-economic-cooperation.
1 filing
$50K 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.
15 filingsthrough 2012
Rich ThomasMonument AdvocacyCovered position: and Legislative Director Rep. Bill Pascrell13 filingsthrough 2012
Jessica Rae Herrera-FlaniganMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Director, House Committee on Homeland Security13 filingsthrough 2012
Jane AlonsoMonument Advocacy10 filingsthrough 2012
E. Ashley HoyMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Administrative Assistant Rep. Sue Myrick6 filingsthrough 2012
Kimberly EllisMonument AdvocacyCovered position: U.S. Trade Representative5 filingsthrough 2012
Colin BortnerMonument Advocacy5 filingsthrough 2011
Lora RiesMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Department of Justice5 filingsthrough 2010
Scott CorleyMonument Advocacy4 filingsthrough 2010
Andrew Channing MeehanMonument AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, House Judiciary Committee; PaidIntern, House Budget Committee2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 8 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
