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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
35 filings
$1.5M 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 880114th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 942113th CongressEnsuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act of 20138 filingsthrough 2014
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 99-01 Press Secretary/Deputy Director Communications SFC; 01-04 Public Affairs Specialist, Treasury; 05 Communications Director Presidents Advisory on Fed Tax Reform35 filingsthrough 2017
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)26 filingsthrough 2015
Weston CoulamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)24 filingsthrough 2017
Stephen Adam FrancisErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 96-00 Hon.JohnR. Kasich,Leg. Dir,Leg.Asst Intern
The filings
The 20 most recent of 36 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2018
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
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: r-d-credit-coalition-informal-coalition.
H.R. 4438113th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20142 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1115th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.1 filingthrough 2017
H.R. 1113th CongressTax Reform Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 5771113th CongressTax Increase Prevention Act of 20141 filingthrough 2014
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20121 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.
17 filings
through 2017
Francis GrabErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)13 filingsthrough 2012
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2011
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2011
Labrenda Garrett-NelsonErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Dave KoshgarianErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
John L DoneyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Amy SwongerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Intern Rep. Walter Jones (Summer 1995)11 filingsthrough 2010
Jeffrey Paul PetrichErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Counsel-H.Com. on Natural Resources (87-08)11 filingsthrough 2010
Tim UrbanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
William HeynigerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Holly A BodeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Sen. Aging Com., LC 1985-19938 filingsthrough 2011
Richard MeltzerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)6 filingsthrough 2009
Jeffrey LeveyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)5 filingsthrough 2010
Heather MeadeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2010
Daniel EsquibelErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)4 filingsthrough 2010
Bruce GatesErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 24 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
