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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
30 filings
$310K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
18 filings
$364K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3115115th CongressSuperior National Forest Land Exchange Act of 201715 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
David Arthur BiegingMr. David Bieging32 filingsthrough 2019
Gregory M GillVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, Representative Hoyer, Asst. Staff, House Appropriations Committee13 filingsthrough 2022
David BiegingOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC9 filingsthrough 2010
James ReillyVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Advisor, Chief of Staff, Senator Tom Carper7 filingsthrough 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 67 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: poly-met-mining-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.
12 filings
$430K on those filings
Accounting
ACC
1 filing
Advertising
ADV
1 filing
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.
Andy WiessnerMr. Andy Wiessner
7 filingsthrough 2018
ROBERT L SMITH iiVenable LLPCovered position: Legislative Director, U.S. Representative Watkins7 filingsthrough 2018
Bart StupakVenable LLPCovered position: U.S. Representative, 1993-20116 filingsthrough 2018
Brian CareyOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC3 filingsthrough 2010
