24 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2014 · latest filed Jan 13, 2015
Reported on its behalf
$600K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$600K
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.
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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
21 filings
$600K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
12 filings
$350K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 28 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 1069112th CongressAffordable Footwear Act of 20116 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5423113th CongressCertainty in Enforcement Act of 20145 filingsthrough 2014
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: payless-shoesource.
CPT
11 filings
$330K 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.
112th Congress
Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act
5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2697112th CongressAffordable Footwear Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 730111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5423112th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on footwear for men with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics, covering the ankle, other than work footwear.4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1905111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3523112th CongressInnovative Design Protection Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1708113th CongressAffordable Footwear Act of 20132 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2697113th CongressAirline Pilot Pension Fairness Act2 filingsthrough 2013
S. 1069113th CongressEvery Child Deserves a Family Act2 filingsthrough 2013
S. 3728111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2511113th CongressFederal Land Freedom Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
H.R. 5424113th CongressMade-in-America Bank Act1 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 5425113th CongressTo prohibit the use of Federal funds for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.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.
