18 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2016 · latest filed Oct 17, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$990K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$990K
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.
Shawn H SmeallieAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Assistant to President Bush for Legislative Affairs; Special Assistant to Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB21 filingsthrough 2016
Stephen PinkosAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Policy Director/General Counsel, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy; Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for IP; Staff Director, House Judiciary Committee14 filingsthrough 2016
DAVID F PEARCE jrAcg AdvocacyCovered position: Legislative Counsel, Representative Amo Houghton; Legislative Counsel, Representative Michael Castle8 filingsthrough 2015
Carlyle Thorsen
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: paulson-company-inc.
fees reported
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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.
17 filings
$900K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
14 filings
$690K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
14 filings
$690K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
14 filings
$690K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
2 filings
$100K 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.
110th Congress
HOMES Act
1 filingthrough 2008
S. 2136110th CongressHelping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Act of 20081 filingthrough 2008
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.
