National Federation of Independent… — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
National Federation of Independent Business
District of Columbia
49 filings from 5 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Feb 10, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$3M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$3M
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.
Health Issues
HCR
23 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
20 filings
$980K on those filings
Small Business
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 763113th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 603113th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act8 filingsthrough 2014
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-federation-of-independent-business.
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.
SMB
7 filings
$430K 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.
112th Congress
To repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
7 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3367113th CongressTo amend section 9010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to delay the application of the health insurance provider annual fee until 2016 and to provide a process to return to consumers any amounts attributable to the expected application of the annual fee to 2014 or 2015.5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1880112th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 928114th CongressTo repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.4 filingsthrough 2015
S. 183114th CongressJobs and Premium Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2015
S. 1049112th CongressSmall Business Health Relief Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2795110th CongressSHOP Act3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2676112th CongressSmall Business Health Relief Act of 20112 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 9112th CongressSmall Business Tax Cut Act2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3590111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 4872111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 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.
Wayne Berman
Ogr
11 filingsthrough 2012
Elena TompkinsOgrCovered position: Senior Legislative Officer, Labor Dept11 filingsthrough 2012
Julie DammannOgrCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Christopher S. Bond7 filingsthrough 2010
