27 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2015 · latest filed Oct 16, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$660K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$660K
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.
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: norman-regional-health-system.
fees reported
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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.
5 filings
$210K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
2 filings
$40K 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.
112th Congress
Further Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011
H.R. 1473112th CongressDepartment of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 20111 filingthrough 2011
H.R. 3074111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3293111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 6072111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 1789111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 3686111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
S. 3708111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
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.
Gary HoitsmaCarmen Group IncorporatedCovered position: Covered Official8 filingsthrough 2010
Aron GriffinCarmen Group IncorporatedCovered position: Prof. Staff, House Education and Labor7 filingsthrough 2010
David KeeneCarmen Group Incorporated6 filingsthrough 2009
William Alan SignerCarmen Group Incorporated2 filingsthrough 2009
Julia EhrgoodCarmen Group IncorporatedCovered position: Intern, Senate Finance Committee2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
