Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
New Jersey State Funeral Directors Association
New Jersey
29 filings from 1 registrant · 2013–2021 · latest filed Mar 24, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$250K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$250K
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
26 filings
$250K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
20 filings
$190K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- S. 1714 114th CongressMiners Protection Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2016
- S. 1614 114th CongressCourt-Appointed Guardian Accountability and Senior Protection Act1 filingthrough 2016
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 A Merola Winning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: Deputy CoS, Sen. Torricelli28 filingsthrough 2020
- Chelsey Penrod Hickman Winning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: CoS, Rep. Kay Granger; LA Sen. Larry Craig21 filingsthrough 2020
- Charla Penn Winning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: LA, Rep. Pascrell; SA/LC/LA, Rep. Boyd7 filingsthrough 2015
- Robert Zucker Winning Strategies WashingtonCovered position: LD, Rep. Rothman; LA,Rep. Evans (IL); Sen. Lautenberg
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 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: new-jersey-state-funeral-directors-association.