29 filings from 1 registrant · 2010–2017 · latest filed Jan 19, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$810K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$810K
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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
29 filings
$810K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
24 filings
$660K on those filings
Intelligence
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 684113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 201310 filingsthrough 2014
S. 698114th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20159 filingsthrough 2016
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: rila.
INT
12 filings
$300K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
12 filings
$300K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$120K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$40K 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.
113th Congress
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013
9 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 4173112th CongressPrevent Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons and Stop War Through Diplomacy Act6 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3217112th CongressStartup Act 2.06 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3179112th CongressMarketplace Equity Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1832112th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 3217111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 2609113th CongressMarketplace and Internet Tax Fairness Act2 filingsthrough 2014
S. 336113th CongressMarketplace Fairness Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
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.
11 filingsthrough 2016
Nathan J MillerPublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Legislative Aide7 filingsthrough 2016
Thomas Wayne NaglePublic Strategies Washington, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Tom Udall; Chief of Staff, U.S. Representative Tom Udall; Associate Staff, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations3 filingsthrough 2017
