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
25 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
22 filings
$1M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 862114th CongressYou Own Devices Act9 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 905115th CongressYou Own Devices Act8 filingsthrough 2018
Darin Lynn GardnerJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Kay Granger; Legislative Director, Rep Kay Granger; Research Associate Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; Leg Correspondent, Sen. Tim Hutchison
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: owners-rights-initiative.
CSP
4 filings
$180K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$85K 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
You Own Devices Act
1 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.
James JochumJst Strategies LLC (Jochum Shore & Trossevin PC)Covered position: Assistant Secretary for Import Admin, Department of Commerce; Assistant Secretary for Export Admin, Department of Commerce; Trade Counsel/Legislative Director, Senator Charles Grassley; Trade Counsel, Senate Banking Committee2 filingsthrough 2018
