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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
30 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
30 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Advertising
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 60 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1174114th CongressLaw Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad Act9 filingsthrough 2016
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: oath-inc-and-various-subsidiaries-formerly-known-as-yahoo-inc.
ADV
24 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
23 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
23 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
16 filings
$800K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
15 filings
$750K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
11 filings
$550K 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.
114th Congress
Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act
H.R. 2639113th CongressPatent Litigation and Innovation Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 624113th CongressCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 845113th CongressSaving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 983113th CongressOnline Communications and Geolocation Protection Act7 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1013113th CongressPatent Abuse Reduction Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 418113th CongressDo-Not-Track Online Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
S. 607113th CongressElectronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 20137 filingsthrough 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.
14 filingsthrough 2014
Debra DixonTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Chief of staff to Rep. Xavier Becerra, legislative director to Rep. Becerra, legislative counsel to Rep. Becerra, chief of staff, Office of Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Education, Immigration Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice12 filingsthrough 2019
Sarah Dumont-MerchakTwinlogic Strategies, LLPCovered position: Senate Banking Committee professional staff member, Rep. Bill McCollum, senior banking associate, Rep. Bob Barr, deputy legislative director, House Banking and Financial Services staff member12 filingsthrough 2018
