21 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jan 20, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$940K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$940K
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.
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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
21 filings
$940K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2046111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4978113th CongressBottled Water Quality Information Act4 filingsthrough 2014
S. 601113th CongressWater Resources Development Act of 20134 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jeremy RabinovitzMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant & Chief of Staff, Rep. Stephen Solarz24 filingsthrough 2014
Kevin Michael KappelMl Strategies, LLC12 filingsthrough 2013
David LeiterMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Prin Dep Asst Sec Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy-DOE11 filingsthrough 2011
Robert Neal MartinMl Strategies, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, U. S. Senator Max Cleland10 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 21 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: nestle-waters-north-america-inc.
TRD
3 filings
$120K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
1 filing
$50K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
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.
through 2014
H.R. 3202111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2848111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3080113th CongressWater Resources Reform and Development Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2749111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 510111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 765113th CongressWater Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
S. 1508113th CongressWater Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 1799111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3475110th CongressBottled Water Safety and Right to Know Act of 20081 filingthrough 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.
