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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
13 filings
$730K on those filings
Banking
BAN
5 filings
$390K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 2834110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services.4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1624110th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the exception from the treatment of publicly traded partnerships as corporations for partnerships with passive-type income shall not apply to partnerships directly or indirectly deriving income from providing investment adviser and related asset management services.4 filingsthrough 2008
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Martin FrostPolsinelli PC5 filingsthrough 2009
Jonathon JonesTiber Creek Group5 filingsthrough 2009
Jeffrey PeckTiber Creek Group5 filingsthrough 2009
Drew CantorTiber Creek GroupCovered position: Sr. Comms. Advisor, Sen. Republican Conference5 filingsthrough 2009
Sheila MurphyTiber Creek GroupCovered position: LD, Senator Klobuchar
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: private-equity-council.
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
5 filings
$390K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
3 filings
$130K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
1 filing
$30K 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.
H.Con.Res. 312110th CongressRevising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.
3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 6049110th CongressEnergy Improvement and Extension Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2886110th CongressAlternative Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act of 20083 filingsthrough 2008
S.Con.Res. 70110th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.3 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.Con.Res. 312111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 6049111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 2886111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 344111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S.Con.Res. 70111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 3996110th CongressTax Increase Prevention Act of 20071 filingthrough 2008
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.
