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.
Immigration
IMM
48 filings
$1.8M 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.
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 76 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4088110th CongressSAVE Act of 20077 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1751111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 729111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3113111th Congress
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Patricia FirstThe Raben GroupCovered position: Deputy Assistant Attorney General in DOJs Office of Legislative Affairs Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy33 filingsthrough 2018
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-immigration-forum.
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.
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2366110th CongressSAVE Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2368110th CongressSAVE Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1842112th CongressDREAM Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2161112th CongressIDEA Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3119112th CongressProtecting American Families and Businesses Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4271112th CongressViolence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1546112th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Authorization Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1925112th CongressViolence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1986112th CongressSTEM Visa Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 952112th CongressDREAM Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5515110th CongressNew Employee Verification Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
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 2009
Joshua F HurvitzAcg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Sr. LA & LA, Rep. Anthony Weiner7 filingsthrough 2009
Christina WeaverThe Raben GroupCovered position: Legislative Counsel to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee6 filingsthrough 2013
Grisella M MartinezNational Immigration Forum5 filingsthrough 2011
Mary GiovagnoliNational Immigration Forum5 filingsthrough 2009
Danielle BurrTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Director of External Affairs, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy; Whip Liaison, Office of Republican Whip, Senator Jon Kyl4 filingsthrough 2017
