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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
24 filings
$1.3M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4912110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the treatment of prepaid derivative contracts.3 filingsthrough 2008
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: nyse-euronext.
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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.
H.R. 4853
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
1 filingthrough 2010
H.R. 977111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 272111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Covered position: Counsel, Senate Small Business Committee
17 filingsthrough 2014
James RyanAvoq, LLCCovered position: LaFollette Law Fellow, S. Jud. Cttee, Subctte On Juv. Just. ; ; Legal Extern, H. Jud. Cttee, Subcttee Crime/Crim. Just. ; ; Legal Counsel, Sen. Reid ; ; Legis. Dir. & General Counsel, Sen. Reid ; ; Chief Counsel, Floor Pol. Dir., Asst. Dem. Leader/Whip17 filingsthrough 2014
Steven ElmendorfAvoq, LLCCovered position: Exec. Asst, Sen. Adams; Admin. Asst, Rep. Eckart ; ; Admin. Asst, House Majority Leader ; ; Deputy COS and COS, House Minority Leader17 filingsthrough 2014
Patrick BouslimanAvoq, LLCCovered position: Leg Correspondent, Senator Baucus10 filingsthrough 2014
Richard Y RobertsMckinnon Group, LLC8 filingsthrough 2010
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
