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
14 filings
$520K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
7 filings
$170K 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. 2145112th CongressTo amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that agencies may not deduct labor organization dues from the pay of Federal employees, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3606112th CongressJumpstart Our Business Startups2 filingsthrough 2012
Francis GrabErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 95-96 Leg Fellow to Sen. Lautenberg ; ; 96-97 LA to Rep. Gerald Kleczka ; ; 97-98 LA to Rep. Xavier Becerra ; ; 98-01 Tax Counsel to Rep. Robert Matsui17 filingsthrough 2013
Robert M RozenErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 85-94 LA/LC to Senator George Mitchell16 filingsthrough 2013
John David PorterErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 89-92 Spec Asst to Asst Sec. Dept of Labor16 filingsthrough 2013
Amy SwongerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2014
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: real-estate-investment-securities-association-formerly-tenant-in-common-assn.
spend on filings that named this issue
112th Congress
Investment Adviser Oversight Act of 2012
2 filingsthrough 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.
Covered position: 1995 Intern to Rep. Walter Jones ; ; 01-02 LA to Senate Maj/Min Leader Trent Lott ; ; 03-04 Fl Asst to Sen Maj Whip McConnell ; ; 04-06 Dep Asst for Leg Aff to VP Dick Cheney ; ; 2007 Whip Liaison to Sen Min Whip Trent Lott
16 filingsthrough 2013
William HeynigerErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)16 filingsthrough 2013
John L DoneyErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 8895 Asst Sec to Minority, Senate ; ; 95-96 Asst Sec to Majority, Senate15 filingsthrough 2013
Donna S FlynnErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 88 94 LD to Rep. Bill Archer ; ; 95-98 Staff Dir, W&M SCmte on Oversight13 filingsthrough 2012
Nick GiordanoErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)13 filingsthrough 2011
Tara BradshawErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 99-01Press Sec/Dep Dir Comm SFC ; ; 01-04 Pub Aff Spclt, Treasury ; ; 05 Com Dir Pres Advisory on Fed Tax Reform12 filingsthrough 2013
Dave KoshgarianErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2011
Tim UrbanErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)12 filingsthrough 2011
Labrenda Garrett-NelsonErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Gary GasperErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Kurt RitterpuschErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)11 filingsthrough 2010
Anne Elizabeth PhelpsErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)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
Holly A BodeErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: Sen. Aging Com., LC 1985-19937 filingsthrough 2010
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
Weston CoulamErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 93-98 Leg. Asst., Office of Director, Sen. Hatch ; ; 03-06 Staff Dir. Senate Cmte on Small Business3 filingsthrough 2013
Stephen Adam FrancisErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)Covered position: 96-00 LD to Rep. John Kasich ; ; 01-11 Deputy CoS to Rep. Tiberi2 filingsthrough 2012
Bruce GatesErnst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young)1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 11 of 24 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
