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.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
13 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
13 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Telecommunications
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
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: nokia-usa-inc-formerly-nokia-inc.
TEC
13 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
2 filings
$200K 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.
Innovation Act
5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1013113th CongressPatent Abuse Reduction Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1720113th CongressPatent Transparency and Improvements Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
S. 2733114th CongressVenue Equity and Non-Uniformity Elimination Act of 20161 filingthrough 2016
H.R. 4763113th CongressTrade Protection Not Troll Protection Act1 filingthrough 2014
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.
16 filingsthrough 2016
Eric ShimpAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Dept. of State15 filingsthrough 2016
Christopher R. ByrnesAlston & Bird LLP7 filingsthrough 2015
Chris HuffakerAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: LD, Rep. Steve Womack (AR-03); LA, Rep. Steve Womack (AR-03)7 filingsthrough 2015
Jeffrey R SuralAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Rep. Vernon Ehlers7 filingsthrough 2014
Michael ParkAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Health Policy Counsel, Senate Finance Committee2 filingsthrough 2015
Theodore SchroederAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Chief Counsel, U.S. Senator Christopher A. Coons1 filingthrough 2016
Robert HolifieldAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: Staff Director, Senate Agriculture Committee ; ; Staff Director, Senate Finance Subcmte on Int'l Trade ; ; Deputy Chief of Staff, CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler ; ; Director of External Affairs, CFTC Acting Chair M. Dunn ; ; Senior Advisor, CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton ; ; Assocoiate Director, Democratic Steering & Outreach Cmte ; ; Office of Majority Leader Harry Reid ; ; Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Blanche Lincoln1 filingthrough 2013
Blanche LincolnAlston & Bird LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator and Congresswoman - Arkansas1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 11 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
