Plaintiffs' Committee — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Plaintiffs' Committee
New York
4 filings from 1 registrant · 2008 · latest filed Jan 16, 2009
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1M
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.
Foreign Relations
FOR
4 filings
$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 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 1944110th CongressJustice for Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act5 filingsthrough 2008
Harriet James MelvinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Professional Staff Rep. Charles Hatcher6 filingsthrough 2008
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)6 filingsthrough 2008
Jeffrey ConnaughtonQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: SpcAsst to Chmn SenJudCom,SpcAsst to WHCoun6 filingsthrough 2008
Catherine GoodeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Commercial Asst, Department of Commerce
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2008
Qga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)
Qga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)
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: plaintiffs-committee.
110th Congress
Libyan Claims Resolution Act
2 filingsthrough 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.
6 filingsthrough 2008
Christopher MccannellQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: CosCrow.CDHoy.PSKanj.SpAsstLaut.SAMitch6 filingsthrough 2008
Kevin D KayesQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: ChfCounSenReid,StaffDirSenCSTCom,AstParlSen6 filingsthrough 2008
John David HoppeQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: StaffDir/CoSSenLott,CoS RepJKemp&SenDCoats6 filingsthrough 2008
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)5 filingsthrough 2008
