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: online-publishers-association.
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.
ADV
10 filings
$320K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
5 filings
$85K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
3 filings
$60K 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.
113th Congress
Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2013
6 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1707112th CongressData Accountability and Trust Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1841112th CongressData Accountability and Trust Act (DATA) of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 799112th CongressCommercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 913112th CongressDo-Not-Track Online Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1895112th CongressDo Not Track Kids Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2577112th CongressSAFE Data Act4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1151112th CongressPersonal Data Privacy and Security Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1223112th CongressLocation Privacy Protection Act of 20124 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.
7 filingsthrough 2014
Sarah Groothuis VilmsSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: CongKennelly90-91;SenLieb925 filingsthrough 2013
Eric S KesslerDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Hon. John D. Dingell5 filingsthrough 2009
Kenneth D SalomonDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLC5 filingsthrough 2009
Stephen C SayleDow Lohnes Government Strategies LLCCovered position: Majority Counsel, House Energy and Commerce C5 filingsthrough 2009
