13 filings from 2 registrants · 2014–2016 · latest filed Jan 18, 2017
Reported on its behalf
$240K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$240K
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: poker-players-alliance-ppa.
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.
8 filings
$230K 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.
113th Congress
Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2013
4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4301113th CongressRestoration of America's Wire Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 266113th CongressJustice for Victims of Confidential Informant Crime Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2888114th CongressInternet Poker Freedom Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
S. 2159113th CongressRestoration of America's Wire Act2 filingsthrough 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.
4 filingsthrough 2015
Ed BarronGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Staff, Sen. Environment & Public Works Cmte.; Deputy ChiefCounsel, Sen. Agriculture Cmte; Chief of Staff, Sen.Agriculture Cmte.4 filingsthrough 2014
