14 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2013 · latest filed Oct 21, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$270K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$270K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
10 filings
$230K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
6 filings
$140K on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1036110th CongressTo authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey a parcel of real property to the Alaska Railroad Corporation.4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2881110th CongressFAA Reauthorization Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
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: puerto-rico-ports-authority.
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.
MAR
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$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.
110th Congress
A bill to restore the traditional day of observance of Memorial Day, and for other purposes.
4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 7110110th CongressJob Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 20082 filingsthrough 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.
4 filingsthrough 2008
Paul WeissBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
JAMES C HEALEY jrBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A4 filingsthrough 2008
Stefan BaileyBksh & AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Director, Cong. Nick Rahall3 filingsthrough 2008
Paul BrownBksh & AssociatesCovered position: N/A2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
