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.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
25 filings
$400K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
12 filings
$310K on those filings
Defense
DEF
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 57 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 2708113th CongressUnited States Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 20136 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1183111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1184111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 961
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Steven Richards ValentineK&L Gates, LLP27 filingsthrough 2015
Scott NelsonK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2009
Roger MorseK&L Gates, LLP7 filingsthrough 2009
Margo A DeyK&L Gates, LLPCovered position: LA to General Counsel, Senate Sergeant at Arms5 filingsthrough 2011
EDWARD CHARLES OLIVARES jrK&L Gates, LLP Leg Liaison, USSOCOM
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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: rhodia-inc.
7 filings
$140K 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.
111th Congress
Named in the filings; no matching bill record on file.
6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 962111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.6 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2767110th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a nonrefundable credit for the purchase of energy efficient tires.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3671110th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on glyoxylic acid.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3672110th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on cyclopentanone.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3732110th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on phosphoric acid, lanthanum salt, cerium terbium-doped.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 3751110th CongressFarm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network Act of 20075 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4645110th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on mixtures or coprecipitates of yttrium oxide and europium oxide.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4646110th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on cerium sulfide pigments.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4647110th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on mixtures or coprecipitates of yttrium phosphate and cerium phosphate.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4648110th CongressTo extend the temporary suspension of duty on mixtures or coprecipitates of lanthanum phosphate, cerium phosphate, and terbium phosphate.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 4649110th CongressTo suspend temporarily the duty on Neodymium oxide.5 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.
