18 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed Oct 21, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$580K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$580K
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: phorm-inc.
$80K
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.
MIA
12 filings
$500K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
2 filings
$20K 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
Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2011
4 filingsthrough 2012
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.
12 filings
through 2013
Nick KolovosRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: LA Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-California)12 filingsthrough 2013
Jeffery C MortierRyan Mackinnon Vasapoli and Berzok, LLPCovered position: Staff on Energy & Commerce Committee7 filingsthrough 2013
Luke AlbeeRicchetti IncorporatedCovered position: chief of staff to Senator Patrick Leahy3 filingsthrough 2008
Steve RicchettiRicchetti IncorporatedCovered position: deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton2 filingsthrough 2008
Jeff RicchettiRicchetti Incorporated1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
