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.
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: newspaper-association-of-america.
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.
TAX
16 filings
$330K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
14 filings
$480K on those filings
Postal
POS
11 filings
$240K on those filings
Constitution
CON
5 filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$20K 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.
110th Congress
A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership.
9 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 340113th CongressProtecting Financial Aid for Students and Taxpayers Act8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 923113th CongressSay No to Drug Ads Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 528113th CongressProtecting Financial Aid for Students and Taxpayers Act8 filingsthrough 2014
S. 987113th CongressFree Flow of Information Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 985111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.J.Res. 79110th CongressDisapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership.7 filingsthrough 2008
S. 448111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1267110th CongressFree Flow of Information Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2577112th CongressSAFE Data Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 722112th CongressSay No to Drug Ads Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1151112th CongressPersonal Data Privacy and Security Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1408112th CongressData Breach Notification Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
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.
JOHN B SIMPSON jr
Wiley Rein LLP
10 filingsthrough 2013
Shawn Andrew BoneWiley Rein LLP9 filingsthrough 2011
Raymond MorrisseyEvans Capitol Group6 filingsthrough 2009
Kristen HenehanEvans Capitol Group6 filingsthrough 2009
