Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Packaging Corporation of America
Illinois
16 filings from 3 registrants · 2015–2018 · latest filed Apr 20, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$490K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$490K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
6 filings
$250K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$60K on those filings
Manufacturing
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- S. 891 114th CongressLeveling the Playing Field Act2 filingsthrough 2015
- H.R. 2523 114th CongressAmerican Trade Enforcement Effectiveness Act1 filingthrough 2015
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Michael Wessel The Wessel Group IncorporatedCovered position: General Counsel, House Dem. Leader Richard Gephardt6 filingsthrough 2016
- Stephen Koplan The Wessel Group Incorporated6 filingsthrough 2016
- Kevin Swanson Michael Best Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2018
- Denise Bode Michael Best Strategies LLC4 filingsthrough 2018
- Sarah Helton Michael Best Strategies LLC
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: packaging-corporation-of-america.