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.
Accounting
ACC
63 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
51 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.12 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4318110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the penalty on the understatement of taxpayer's liability by tax return preparers.12 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1564113th CongressAudit Integrity and Job Protection Act
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: pricewaterhousecoopers-llp.
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.
TAX
12 filings
$550K on those filings
Education
EDU
5 filings
$300K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$220K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV
1 filing
$60K 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.
5 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1526113th CongressAudit Integrity and Job Protection Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 977111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1375110th CongressEarmark Accountability and Reform Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3359110th CongressMobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 607111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3606112th CongressJumpstart Our Business Startups2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3997110th CongressDefenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7190110th CongressFair Value Accounting Standards Reform Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3213112th CongressSmall Company Job Growth and Regulatory Relief Act of 20111 filingthrough 2012
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.
Marc LampkinQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)Covered position: Staff/CounE&LCom,GCounHRC,ConSecCvrdll11 filingsthrough 2012
Todd Matthew WeissDentons US LLPCovered position: Sr. Pol Advisor to Sen. Hutchison (R-AR) ; ; LD to Sen Santorum (R-PA) ; ; Prof Staff, House International Relations Committee10 filingsthrough 2013
Alexander David LurieDentons US LLPCovered position: COS to Sen. Stabenow (D-MI) ; ; COS to Sen. Lautenberg (D-NJ) ; ; Dep. Staff Dir. Senate Budget Committee10 filingsthrough 2013
Gary L GoldbergDentons US LLPCovered position: LD and Counsel to Rep. Sherman (D-CA) ; ; LD and Counsel to Rep. Waters (D-CA) ; ; LD to Rep. Carrie Meek (D-FL)10 filingsthrough 2013
Mathew LapinskiDentons US LLP10 filingsthrough 2013
Manuel OrtizQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)10 filingsthrough 2011
Michael ThompsonRich Feuer AndersonCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Office of Sen. Brownba10 filingsthrough 2010
David LugarQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)9 filingsthrough 2010
Wayne BermanOgr8 filingsthrough 2012
Gordon TaylorOgr8 filingsthrough 2012
Justin Daniel DalyOgrCovered position: Counsel-Banking,FinSer,Fossella & Solomon8 filingsthrough 2012
JOHN J O'NEILL jrOgr8 filingsthrough 2012
Tara W FoscatoRich Feuer AndersonCovered position: Special Asst, Fed. Res. Bd; Leg. Asst, Rep. Fowler7 filingsthrough 2013
Vin WeberClark & WeinstockCovered position: Member of Congress (MN)7 filingsthrough 2010
Jonathan SchwantesClark & WeinstockCovered position: General Counsel, Senate Judiciary Cmte (Kohl)7 filingsthrough 2010
Ed KutlerClark & WeinstockCovered position: Assistant, House Republican Whip7 filingsthrough 2010
Michael HusseyQga Public Affairs (Formerly Quinn Gillespie & Associates)6 filingsthrough 2012
Erin BookDentons US LLP5 filingsthrough 2011
Jimmy WilliamsDentons US LLPCovered position: Sr Advisor to Sen. Durbin (D-IL) ; ; Sr Advisor to Sen Schumer (D-NY) ; ; Majority Staff Dir., Senate Banking subcom on econ policy ; ; Sr. Advisor, Sen Biden (D-DE)5 filingsthrough 2011
Sandra K StuartClark & WeinstockCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Vic Fazio5 filingsthrough 2010
Margaret McglinchClark & WeinstockCovered position: Leg Aide, Sen. Daniel Moynihan5 filingsthrough 2010
