50 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2021 · latest filed May 25, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$503K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$503K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
43 filings
$449K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$27K 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
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Romano RomaniParry, Romani, Deconcini & SymmsCovered position: N/A33 filingsthrough 2021
Thaddeus E StromParry, Romani, Deconcini & SymmsCovered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Strom Thurmond: 1987 to 1988 ; ; Gen. Coun./Staff Dir., Sen. Cmte. on the Judciary: 1988-1991 ; ; Chief Coun/Staff Dir, Sen Cmte on the Judiciary:1991-1993 ; ; ChfCoun/StfDir, SenCmteonAntitrust,BusRghts,Etc: 1994-199728 filingsthrough 2020
Edward H BaxterParry, Romani, Deconcini & SymmsCovered position: Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Senate Judiciary ; ; Committee's Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights ; ; and Trademarks: 1987 to 199021 filingsthrough 2014
The filings
The 20 most recent of 50 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: research-corporation-technology.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Safe Skies Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 515111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.8 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1260111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1013115th CongressGigabit Opportunity Act1 filingthrough 2017
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.
Steve Symms
Parry, Romani, Deconcini & Symms
Covered position: U.S. Senator: 1981 - 1993
7 filingsthrough 2010
James RockParry, Romani, Deconcini & SymmsCovered position: Staff Asst., U.S. House Committee on Budget: 1985 to 20007 filingsthrough 2010
Dennis DeconciniParry, Romani, Deconcini & Symms6 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
