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.
Defense
DEF
48 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
38 filings
$770K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 30 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 4196112th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the allowance for bonus depreciation for certain business assets.6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 5856112th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20136 filingsthrough 2012
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: raytheon.
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
14 filings
$410K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
8 filings
$130K on those filings
Retirement
RET
3 filings
$80K on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI
3 filings
$20K 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.
112th Congress
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the allowance for bonus depreciation for certain business assets.
6 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 942112th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1577112th CongressGROWTH Act5 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2237112th CongressSmall Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act5 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1960113th CongressNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20144 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2397113th CongressDepartment of Defense Appropriations Act, 20144 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 4438113th CongressAmerican Research and Competitiveness Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4464113th CongressPermanent CFC Look-Through Act of 20143 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3216112th CongressDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3521112th CongressFamily and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3001110th CongressDuncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20093 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.
Mark Van De WaterBaker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & BerkowitzCovered position: Senate Appropriations Committee
14 filingsthrough 2013
Denny M MillerDenny Miller Associates14 filingsthrough 2013
Mark BakerDenny Miller Associates12 filingsthrough 2013
Gordon L MerrittG.L. Merritt & Associates, Inc.12 filingsthrough 2011
James H EnglishJim English Consulting LLCCovered position: Asst. Secy of the Senate; Staff, Sen. Approp. Cmte11 filingsthrough 2010
Brian DiffellThe Washington Tax & Public Policy GroupCovered position: Special Assistant to the Chief Deputy Whip7 filingsthrough 2015
Ethan CooperHaka6 filingsthrough 2018
John C CulverArentfox Schiff LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
Bill ShusterSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: 2001-2019, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2020
Rebekah SungalaSquire Patton BoggsCovered position: Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019: Leg. Assist., House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee; Sept. 2017-Jan. 2019: Scheduler/Executive Assistant; Congressman Bill Shuster; Nov. 2012-Aug. 2017: Sr. Field Rep., Congressman Bill Shuster4 filingsthrough 2020
Will StoneDenny Miller Associates3 filingsthrough 2009
Dan RenbergArentfox Schiff LLPCovered position: Member, Board of Directors, Ex-Im Bank; Leg., Dir. and Dep. Chief of Staff, Sen. Arlen Specter3 filingsthrough 2009
