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.
Transportation
TRA
24 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
13 filings
$720K on those filings
Housing
HOU
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 3400115th CongressRecreation Not Red Tape Act4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1633115th CongressRecreation Not Red-Tape Act4 filingsthrough 2018
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: recreation-vehicle-industry-association-rvia.
8 filings
$530K on those filings
Travel/Tourism
TOU
5 filings
$380K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
5 filings
$310K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
4 filings
$200K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
4 filings
$100K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
3 filings
$300K 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.
114th Congress
FAST Act
3 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 6110th CongressEnergy Independence and Security Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1073111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3854111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5297111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2869111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 410111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4830110th CongressFEMA Accountability Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2382110th CongressFEMA Accountability Act of 20082 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
Dentons US LLP
4 filingsthrough 2009
Ronald L PlattDentons US LLP2 filingsthrough 2009
Mathew LapinskiDentons US LLP2 filingsthrough 2009
Adam Lorenzo ChristopherDentons US LLP1 filingthrough 2010
Erin BookDentons US LLP1 filingthrough 2009
Mary Pat LawrenceDentons US LLP1 filingthrough 2009
Michael ZolandzDentons US LLP1 filingthrough 2009
Peggie RiceDentons US LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Mary Beth StantonDentons US LLP1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 2 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
