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.
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM
29 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$890K 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 — 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. 707114th CongressRestoration of America's Wire Act9 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1668114th CongressRestoration of America's Wire Act5 filingsthrough 2016
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: rational-entertainment-enterprises-on-behalf-of-pokerstars.
$320K
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.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
Internet Gambling Prohibition, Poker Consumer Protection, and Strengthening UIGEA Act of 2011
5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2267111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5393114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2837114th CongressCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20172 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2268111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1597111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Gregory CarnrickGephardt Group Government Affairs1 filingthrough 2016
Scott BrennerGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Director of Comm, House T&I Committee1 filingthrough 2012
Thomas O'DonnellGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff, House Majority Leader1 filingthrough 2010
Janice O'ConnellGephardt Group Government AffairsCovered position: Prof Staff, Senate Bnkg and For Relations Comms1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 6 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
