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.
Small Business
SMB
70 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
70 filings
$1.1M 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 — 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
The 15 most-cited of 24 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 3330116th CongressTaxpayer Protection and Preparer Proficiency Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1192116th CongressTaxpayer Protection and Preparer Proficiency Act of 20197 filingsthrough 2020
Thaddeus W IngeVan Scoyoc AssociatesCovered position: Assoc Admin, Cong and Leg Affairs, Small Business Administration (SBA); Deputy Assoc Admin, Cong and Leg Affairs, SBA; Asst Chief Counsel for Cong Affairs, Office of Advocacy, SBA; Research Analyst,US Sen Comm on Small Business and Entrepreneurship19 filingsthrough 2026
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: padgett-business-services.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Small Business Healthcare Relief Act
6 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1697114th CongressSmall Business Healthcare Relief Act6 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6201116th CongressFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act4 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1761118th CongressRed Tape Reduction Act of 20233 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4213111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5047111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5716111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1219111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3215111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5716110th CongressTaxpayer Bill of Rights Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1219110th CongressTaxpayer Protection and Assistance Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6323119th CongressTaxpayer Protection and Preparer Proficiency Act2 filingsthrough 2026
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.
H Stewart Van Scoyoc
Van Scoyoc Associates
14 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 1 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
