35 filings from 3 registrants · 2017–2022 · latest filed Oct 20, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
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.
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: petsmart-inc.
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.
TAX
15 filings
$910K on those filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
14 filings
$840K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
7 filings
$710K on those filings
Animals
ANI
7 filings
$710K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
$710K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
4 filings
$420K 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.
115th Congress
Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5472115th CongressFairness to Pet Owners Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1607116th CongressFairness to Pet Owners Act of 20192 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 3587116th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the effective date for the modification to net operating loss deductions in Public Law 115-97.2 filingsthrough 2019
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.
7 filingsthrough 2019
Cathy KochErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Tax Chief, Senate Finance Committee (2007-2010); Chief Advisor Tax and Economicsto Sen. Reid (2012-2015)4 filingsthrough 2020
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2020
Andrew SametSorini Strategic Advisors F/K/A Sorini, Samet, & Associates, LLCCovered position: Dep. Under Sec., Dep of Labor3 filingsthrough 2017
Covered positions · 5 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
