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.
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
17 filings
$390K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
17 filings
$390K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 47 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1908115th CongressInvesting In America: Unlocking the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3152115th CongressHarbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
Demetrius G McdanielGreenberg Traurig, LLP20 filingsthrough 2019
K Laurie MckayGreenberg Traurig, LLP18 filingsthrough 2019
Graham MathewsGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor, Senator Byrd (86 -94); Assistant Clerk Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee (89-94); Senior Advisor & Minority Appropriations Clerk, Senator Mikulski (94-96)16 filingsthrough 2019
Alan SlomowitzGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Borski; Professional Staff, House Transportation Committee7 filingsthrough 2017
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: port-houston-authority-of-harris-county-tx.
9 filings
$190K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
9 filings
$190K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
8 filings
$200K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
5 filings
$100K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
4 filings
$80K 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
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Reform Act of 2017
8 filingsthrough 2018
S. 595115th CongressAnti-Border Corruption Reauthorization Act of 20177 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1892115th CongressBipartisan Budget Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3548115th CongressBorder Security for America Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3551115th CongressC-TPAT Reauthorization Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3824115th CongressTexas Flood Accountability Act of 20173 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.
Charles F. BassGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman ('95-'07) & ('11-'13)2 filingsthrough 2017
Patrick AndersonGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: Legislative Assistant to Rep. Bonilla; Staff Assistant to the Senate Banking Committee2 filingsthrough 2015
Tim HutchinsonGreenberg Traurig, LLPCovered position: U.S. Senator (97-03); U.S. Congressman (93-97)2 filingsthrough 2015
Covered positions · 5 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
