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.
Banking
BAN
156 filings
$7.6M 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.
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: rent-a-center.
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.
through 2010
S. 738111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.19 filingsthrough 2010
S. 881112th CongressConsumer Rental-Purchase Agreement Act of 201113 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1012110th CongressConsumer Rental-Purchase Agreement Act of 200711 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3126111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 5928114th CongressExpanding Rent-to-Own Protections Act of 20162 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th 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.
David JonesCapitol Counsel LLC27 filingsthrough 2015
Richard Lyles SullivanCapitol Counsel LLCCovered position: Special Assistant to the House Majority Leader26 filingsthrough 2015
James J ButeraJones Walker, LLP25 filingsthrough 2017
Ryan D IsraelJones Walker, LLP25 filingsthrough 2017
