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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
21 filings
$770K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$540K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 2511113th CongressA bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to clarify the definition of substantial cessation of operations.4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3611114th CongressExport-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorization Act of 20153 filingsthrough 2015
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.
Michael P RalskyGlobalgr LLCCovered position: Senior Advisor, NASA; Associate Director, PPO, EOP; Special Assistant, DoD; LA, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison; LA, Sen. Tim Hutchinson; LA, Sen. government Affairs Committee.15 filingsthrough 2018
Robert C JonesAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Barbara Mikulski; Counsel Senate Approps9 filingsthrough 2013
Billy TauzinAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Member of Congress (LA-3)9 filingsthrough 2013
David HobsonCbd Advisors 1992-2008 Congressman, Ohio
The filings
The 20 most recent of 63 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: navistar-inc.
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.
CAW
7 filings
$220K on those filings
Retirement
RET
6 filings
$210K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
6 filings
$40K on those filings
Defense
DEF
5 filings
$90K on those filings
Automotive Industry
AUT
3 filings
$20K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
2 filings
$120K 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.
Covered position:
9 filingsthrough 2013
Richard ZburLatham & Watkins LLP9 filingsthrough 2012
Eric ShimpAlston & Bird LLP8 filingsthrough 2013
Bill AnayaAlston & Bird LLP8 filingsthrough 2013
David Frazier ThompsonLatham & Watkins LLPCovered position: Senior Field Aide to Senator Barbara Boxer7 filingsthrough 2012
Robert D CobleNexsen Pruet, LLC7 filingsthrough 2011
Robert HolifieldAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Blanche Lincoln5 filingsthrough 2013
Harold AshnerKeightley & Ashner LLP4 filingsthrough 2014
Carolyn E SmithAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Assoc. Dep. COS & Leg. Coun., Joint Cmte on Tax3 filingsthrough 2013
Earl PomeroyAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman (North Dakota)3 filingsthrough 2013
Kyle G MichelKyle Michel Law FirmCovered position: Leg. Asst. Sen. Gore / Spc. Asst. VP Gore3 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 9 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
