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: power-and-communications-contractors-association.
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.
21 filings
$353K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
16 filings
$240K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
15 filings
$225K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
15 filings
$225K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$135K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
1 filing
$23K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$23K 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
Support Our Military Caregivers Act
3 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.
3 filingsthrough 2025
David Bruce VitterMercury Public Affairs, LLCCovered position: US Senate 2005-20173 filingsthrough 2025
James MessnerMercury Public Affairs, LLC3 filingsthrough 2025
Ryan SchraderWyman Associates1 filingthrough 2022
Covered positions · 3 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
